A romance writer once wrote an essay titled How to Murder Your Husband.

Years later, her husband, a beloved culinary instructor, was found shot inside his classroom.

Clues left behind included insurance policies, gun parts, and a shaky timeline.

Hey guys, and welcome to the Moms and Mysteries podcast, a true crime podcast featuring myself, Mandy, and my dear friend Melissa. Hi, Melissa. Hi, Mandy. How are you? I'm doing well. How are you? I am great. Thank you. I am looking forward to cooler days, which are,

they are a coming. They are a coming. There's parts of Florida that are going to be like

freezing potentially this coming week. It's crazy. I know. So when this comes out,

actually it will have already happened. So maybe we'll be frozen. Not like actually frozen, but maybe we'll get some fake snow-ish things. I wanted to snow again in Florida. I was just about to say it. I was just about to say, was it last year that you went and drove to see snow? Yes, this year. January. Oh, yeah. Oh, my daughter's 16th birthday. Yeah. That's right. It was so cool. Yeah. I mean, yeah, I mean, snow is cool. Yeah, I agree. It's cool. So now I just like, I'm kind of like, well, it could happen. So I don't think anyone wants it to happen but me. But yeah, it is exciting just to get, just to get in the holiday spirit, which I can't even talking about. The cooler weather does help.

Yeah. And we're just a couple weeks away now from Thanksgiving. And that's one of, it really is one of my favorites because I just enjoy cooking and being in the kitchen. And, you know, everybody's kind of hanging out and talking. And I love that. So my family and I are actually

hopefully going to Houston for Thanksgiving to spend it with my grandfather. That is if we can fly

there. I don't know exactly what's been going on in terms of like flights not potentially going

off. And the one that I'm really worried about is, yeah,

the one that I'm really worried about is our return flight home, which is supposed to be on

Friday after Thanksgiving, which is already like the business travel day of the years. So, yeah,

my husband was like, we were taking a walk this morning or the other morning and he was like,

I just want you to be prepared that this might be like the worst flying experience, travel

experience we've ever had. And I was like, yeah, I know. I do appreciate that your husband

does something similar to me, like to go ahead and put it out there. So everybody knows the vibes as

we go into something. Yeah. Because you can prepare mentally to know like this is going to go terrible. So every moment that goes right, you'll be like, whoa. Yeah. This is great. Yeah. I know. I know. Well, you know, I always like to approach everything with optimism. I'm like, well, maybe we'll just get there and it'll just be no, right? It'll just be easy and quick. Not for this. Not for this.

You go to the depths of the worst things that could happen and then you just everything.

The toilet didn't overflow on me. This is wonderful. And it'll just be those kind of steps that

will get you through. Yeah, I'll keep that in mind for sure. All right. So this week, we are in Portland, Oregon, where we meet

Daniel or Dan Brophy. He was born June 27, 1954, in Valley City, North Dakota to his mother

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