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Cult Liter with Spencer Henry

The Nancy Brophy Story

Cult Liter with Spencer Henry

Spencer Henry | Morbid Network

Society & Culture, Comedy, True Crime

4.9 • 5.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

This week we are discussing the murder of Dan Brophy and the media circus that ensued when the main suspect became his wife, Nancy, an author who penned such works as; How To Murder Your Husband.  Buy my book: prh.com/obitchuary Come see me on tour: obitchuarypodcast.com  Write me: spencer@cultliter.com Spencer Henry PO Box 18149 Long Beach CA 90807  Follow along online: instagram.com/cultliterpodcast instagram.com/spencerhenry Join our patreon: Patreon.com/cultliter Check out my other show OBITCHUARY wherever you’re listening now!  Sources:  https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6878934-STATE-of-OREGON-vs-NANCY-LEE-CRAMPTON-BROPHY https://archive.ph/D1s2X#selection-171.0-310.0 https://allthatsinteresting.com/nancy-brophy https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/06/14/how-to-murder-your-husband-life-sentence/ https://www.courttv.com/news/or-v-crampton-brophy-romance-novelist-murder-trial/ https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/18/us/husband-murder-trial-nancy-brophy.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/25/us/novelist-nancy-brophy-murder-husband.html

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The show you're about to listen to may contain themes of violence, occult activities, strong

0:10.6

language, and other sensitive material, with an emphasis on Colt's murder and other sensitive material.

0:12.6

With an emphasis on cult's murder and other adult matters,

0:15.2

listener discretion is advised.

0:17.0

On cult leader, I strive for telling stories in a truthful matter,

0:19.6

though press media and other resources cannot always be verified. sources can be found in the show notes. Oh, yeah. I was not. Hello and today we're talking about an author.

0:58.0

Hello and welcome back to Colt Leader. I'm your Colt Leader Spencer Henry and today we're talking about an author.

1:02.0

No, not myself nor Madison, although we do have a book hitting the shelves in a few months,

1:06.7

August, to be exact, obituary the Big Hot Book of Death, which you can pre-order now at PRH.com

1:13.0

obituary.

1:14.0

But that's a whole nother story.

1:17.0

You see what I did?

1:18.0

Okay.

1:19.0

We are diving into the story of a romance thriller writer

1:22.0

today whose imaginative escapism led to a real life

1:25.6

suspenseful plot twist for her husband driven by a desperate attempt to escape

1:30.4

financial ruin. Come with me cult cult babes, back to June of 2018, we are in a peaceful suburb of Portland, Oregon that was

1:38.6

rocked by the brutal murder of Daniel Brophy, a beloved chef and instructor at the Oregon Culinary Institute, which is coincidentally where his body was found.

1:48.0

He was found shot twice in the back kitchen of the Institute.

1:51.0

His death remained a mystery until the arrest of his wife. of the not only due to its shocking nature, but also because of Nancy's previous writings,

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