How (Not) to Murder Your Husband: Inside the Story of Nancy Brophy
Killer Psyche
Audible | Treefort Media
4.6 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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In today’s Headlines, Candice is joined by novelist Heidi Tretheway, who was formerly a member of Brophy's writing group, and currently hosts the new Wondery limited series Happily Never After: Dan and Nancy. Together, they discuss possible reasons why Brophy committed such a horrible crime, and take a closer look at her behavior before and after the murder.
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| 0:00.0 | Wunderry Plus subscribers can listen to Killer Psyche early and ad free right now. |
| 0:06.5 | Join Wundery Plus in the Wundery app or on Apple Podcast. |
| 0:19.0 | A listener note, this episode contains adult content and is not suitable for everyone. Please be advised. romance novelist Nancy Brophy focused her books on women who kill their abusive husbands |
| 0:36.1 | and then find happiness elsewhere. |
| 0:38.8 | Those self-published novels and a 2011 blog post she wrote titled |
| 0:43.3 | How to Murder Your Husband proved to be a thorn in Nancy's side |
| 0:48.2 | when she was put on trial for the murder of her husband Dan. |
| 0:52.3 | When Dan was murdered in 28. for the murder of her husband Dan. |
| 0:53.3 | When Dan was murdered in 2018 at his place of work, |
| 0:56.8 | suspicion immediately turned toward Nancy, |
| 1:00.4 | not just for her works of fiction, but also an incredible amount of circumstantial evidence. |
| 1:07.0 | Today's headline is courtesy of K-O-I-N-6 News, Portland. |
| 1:13.6 | Beaverton romance novelist and convicted murderer Nancy Crampton Brophy |
| 1:17.9 | has been sentenced to life in prison. |
| 1:20.6 | In 2018, Daniel Brophy was found shot to death in his classroom at the Oregon Culinary Institute. |
| 1:27.0 | A jury found Crampton Brophy guilty of second-degree murder last month saying she had killed her husband. |
| 1:34.0 | On this week's killer psyche, we go into depth about Dan's murder and Nancy's |
| 1:39.2 | psyche. Today we are talking with Heidi Treethaway, a Portland Oregon-based novelist who narrates the new |
| 1:46.6 | Wundery Podcast, Happily Never After, Dan and Nancy. |
| 1:52.2 | Heidi was in the same writing group as Nancy |
| 1:55.0 | and has the unique perspective of knowing her |
| 1:58.0 | before she committed murder. |
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