The Case Against Nancy Crampton Brophy

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 7 June 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Beloved chef Daniel Brophy is found shot to the death in the kitchen of the culinary institute where he works. There is no sign of forced entry at the Oregon Culinary Institute Instructor, in fact, the door is locked. Students coming into class that day say it's normal for Brophy to come in early, set up the day's instruction, then open the door to students. On this day, that didn't happen. Another instructor had to open the door and that's when Brophy is found shot twice. Who killed Dan Brophy, and why? Ultimately, police build a circumstantial case against Nancy Crampton Brophy, the chef's wife. Where's the proof?

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0:00.0	We're body bags with Joseph Scott Morgan.
0:19.8	Being a New Orleans native, one of the things that I put a lot of stock in is fine food.
0:26.5	You go a lot of places and you know you measure that location by the cuisine they serve.
0:32.4	I've been around a lot of chefs over the course of my life.
0:36.8	The story I want to tell you today has to do with a man that spent nearly 50 years, not
0:43.3	just working in the kitchen as a chef, but teaching others, not just how to cook, but things
0:49.5	like forging from mushrooms.
0:52.8	You've got to set a kitchen up, how to make a living with your hands, following those
0:58.4	things that you really, really love.
1:01.5	The day I want to talk about the murder, Dan Broffey.
1:09.6	Jackie Howard's with me, the executive producer of Cron Stories, with Nancy Grace.
1:15.9	Jackie would we have relative to Dan Broffey in his life.
1:20.2	Dan Broffey was a beloved chef and instructor.
1:23.5	His students spoke highly of him.
1:26.1	He worked for the Oregon Culinary Institute in Southwest Portland.
1:30.5	He had been there since 2006.
1:34.1	Students came into the school early one morning and found Daniel Broffey dead, shot in the
1:41.2	kitchen, did not appear to be any forced entry.
1:44.8	The assumption was made that it was a robbery or attempted robbery, but it took some time
1:50.7	for police to come up with the idea of what they think actually happened.
1:55.8	Daniel Broffey was married to a romance novelist, Nancy Crampton Broffey.
2:01.4	One of the stories that she was credited with writing is called How to Murder Your Husband,
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