What is going on to crime fans? I'm your host Tee. And I'm your host Daphne. And you're listening to Going West.

Hello everybody. Thank you for tuning in to yet another episode of Going West. Yes, thank you guys so much for joining us.

It is good to be here and I just want to give a very quick shout out to Tiffany for recommending today's case.

I can't believe I didn't hear of this before especially because it's not far from where we live in Portland.

But it this case is insane. Yeah, it's crazy and just the connections and the irony of it all.

You guys will see when we get into it. This is I'm surprised this isn't a bigger story right now because I feel like maybe a lot of people outside of Oregon don't really know about this story.

But it is so crazy just the way it unraveled and as you guys will see I mean it just mind blowing and so terrible and senseless and just wow.

Yeah, and also apologies for the sound quality. We are currently under construction in our new studio.

So we're trying to get it all together, but we haven't quite got everything put together yet. So we're doing our best here.

We are in Los Angeles and it's good to be here. It's good to be back home. But yeah, we're building our new studio and it is just crazy.

So how many times am I going to say crazy in this episode?

A few more times.

Alright guys, this is episode 206 of Going West. So let's get into it.

In 2018, a chef and instructor at the Oregon Culinary Institute was murdered in his classroom before a Saturday morning course.

After investigators looked into his wife, who was a romantic suspense novelist, they caught her in multiple lives and uncovered that she had previously written an essay titled How to Murder Your Husband.

This is the story of Daniel Brophy.

Daniel Craig Brophy, who went by Dan, was born on June 27th, 1954, to parents Karen and Jack Brophy in Valley City, North Dakota, which is a small city that's just an hour west of the much larger city of Fargo, North Dakota, which I'm sure many of you have heard of.

Yes, I'm sure you guys have probably seen the movie or TV show.

Growing up, Daniel had a lot of passions that included cooking and marine biology, but cooking was really his forte and true love.

So after graduating high school in 1972, Daniel headed off to the University of Sioux Falls and then began working in kitchens to kind of perfect his craft.

Around this same time, Daniel married his first wife and they had a son named Nathaniel, but after Daniel and his wife's divorce in 1994, he became quote, largely estranged from their son.

But things would get better between them later, which we will get into.

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