Episode 288: How to Murder Your Husband: The Murder of Daniel Brophy

Inhuman: A True Crime Podcast

Inhuman Podcast

True Crime

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Nancy Brophy self-published an essay titled “How to Murder Your Husband”… then 7 years later, her husband was murdered. Daniel Brophy was shot to death in his classroom at the Oregon Culinary Institute. After 3 months of investigation, the romance author became a suspect. Why was Daniel Brophy killed, who killed him, and how did investigators catch his killer?

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0:00.0	What's up you guys? I'm Haley and I'm Andrea and this is Inhuman a true crime
0:05.2	podcast. Oh, Welcome back.
0:29.0	Welcome back.
0:30.0	Happy whatever day of the week it is you are listening to this.
0:34.0	Happy week.
0:36.0	Happy week.
0:37.0	That's I think our new saying, happy week.
0:40.0	But today I have a case for you guys that I don't want to say much about it.
0:47.0	Let's just get into it.
0:48.0	All right. Sounds good.
0:50.0	How to get away with murder. Murder She Wrote. A Good Girls Guide to Murder, Anatomy of a Murder,
0:55.6	Murder on the Orient Express. These are all media and books that are well known today
1:01.9	and titles we hear or see and don't really have a second thought about.
1:07.0	The same was true for Nancy Brophy's self-published essay How to Murder Your Husband. It seemed innocent. But when her husband was murdered seven years after she published the work, it was a little too much of a coincidence to not be investigated.
1:24.0	Yeah.
1:25.0	So this is the story of the murder of Daniel Brophy.
1:30.0	Nancy Crampton was born on June 16, 1950 in Wichita Falls, Texas.
1:35.6	She graduated from a local high school and then went on to attend the University of Houston,
1:40.4	which she married
1:44.0	graduated from college, she married a police officer
1:47.5	and their marriage didn't last too long,
1:49.7	but it's not exactly clear why their marriage fell apart.
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