Listen Now: Happily Never After: Dan & Nancy

Crime Analyst

Laura Richards

True Crime

4.9 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Nancy Brophy fills her novels with romantic betrayals and murder. It’s a far cry from her quiet life in the suburbs, where she and her chef husband, Dan, are living out their golden years. But when Dan is shot dead, Nancy finds herself at the center of a murder case that could be ripped from the pages of her novels. From Wondery, this is a story about what happens when the line blurs between fiction and reality. Listen to Happily Never After: Dan & Nancy on the Wondery App or wherever you get your podcasts. You can binge episodes early and ad-free on Wondery+. Join Wondery+ in the Wondery App or on Apple Podcasts. Start your free trial by visiting http://wondery.fm/HNA_CA now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Every great romance story has a happily ever after.
0:04.0	Two people meet, fall in love and end up together for the rest of their days.
0:09.0	Nancy and Dan Brophy were one of those couples. Dan was a chef who taught at Portland Culinary School.
0:17.0	Nancy was a romance writer who filled her novels with sexy fantasies, betrayals and murder.
0:24.4	When Dan ends up dead, details of his murder that could have been ripped from the pages of
0:29.3	Nancy's novels become clues and Nancy becomes a main suspect. So this isn't a romance story.
0:38.0	It starts with a happily ever after but it doesn't end with one. Was Nancy just researching her next novel or was she
0:46.4	planning a murder? This is a story about what happens when the lines blur
0:51.6	between fiction and reality?
0:54.0	I'm about to play a clip from Happily Never After, Dan and Nancy.
0:59.0	Follow Happily Never After, Dan and Nancy, on the Wundry app or wherever you get your podcasts. Nicole Herman was lounging on a beach in Croatia with a perfect view of the ocean.
1:25.0	It looks a lot like Oregon with the exception that the water is like turquoise.
1:30.0	It was nice and sunny, exactly how Nicole pictured her honeymoon.
1:36.4	Nicole's new husband got up to take a swim,
1:39.8	but she didn't join him.
1:41.6	She was in the middle of a novel. The man on the book cover had a
1:46.2	square jaw and a come-hither stare. All day, Nicole had just been waiting to get back to him.
1:55.0	He sat on the floor and gestured for her to sit between his legs.
2:02.0	He showed her how every gun worked. for her to sit between his legs.
2:02.9	He showed her how every gun worked,
2:05.5	then loaded and unloaded each of them.
2:08.4	Are you showing me this so I can kill my husband?
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