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The romance novelist who wrote a blog post titled How to Murder Your Husband has just been found guilty of – wait for it – murdering her husband.

Nancy Crampton Brophy, obsessed with betrayal and spousal murder, has been on trial for the brutal murder of her husband, Dan Brophy, who she shot at close range in 2018.

In the tongue-in-cheek blog post published in 2011, Nancy justified that “if you married for money, aren’t you entitled to all of it?” and explained that to get away with mariticide, “you have to be organized, ruthless and very clever”.

In June 2018, her 63-year-old husband was found with a gunshot wound in his back and one in his chest, lying on the kitchen floor of the Oregon Culinary Institute where he worked.

Prosecutors believe Nancy killed him for the large life insurance policy payout that she immediately set out to obtain after his death.

The Independent notes how she argued that money was not a motivation to kill her husband as she said that their financial problems had largely been solved by cashing in a chunk of Brophy’s retirement savings plan.

Her niece had defended the couple’s love, testifying that she “personally observed” Nancy “grieving, crying, sobbing, breaking down many times,” after Dan’s death.

Credit: Courtesy Brophy Family

But Nancy was spotted driving around in her van near the institute on traffic cameras the day of the murder, which prosecutors pointed out, noting how the author had lied about where she was that fateful morning.

There’s also the fact that she was researching and buying ghost guns, which she argued was for inspiration for a future novel, PEOPLE reported:

[sources:people&independent]