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Johanna Chisholm

Prosecutor says ‘How to Murder Your Husband’ novelist confessed to killing real-life husband

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The romance novelist who penned the infamous essay titled, “How to Murder Your Husband”, and who stands accused of fatally shooting her own husband in 2018, allegedly confessed to murdering him to a cellmate, the prosecution said in an Oregon courtroom last week.

Nancy Crampton-Brophy, 71, was arrested in September 2018, just three months after her chef husband of more than 20 years, Daniel Brophy, was found dead at the Oregon Culinary Institute, where he taught, with a gunshot wound in his back and one in his chest.

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