
In her 2011 essay “How to Murder Your Husband,” romantic-thriller author Nancy Crampton Brophy listed five possible reasons why a wife might kill her spouse.
No. 1. It was money. He was “a cheating, lying bastard,” she said. She continued that he had “fell in Love with Someone else”. As she described it, fourth was abuse. Nancy added, “It’s your profession,” which means you possess both knowledge and skill, and have the moral ambiguity required to perform it.
Prosecutors said No. 1 was the motive for Nancy when she shot and killed her husband of 27 years, Daniel BrophyIn 2018, It was, in 2018.
Nancy wrote her famous essay, “I spend much of my time thinking about murder, and consequently about police procedural,” a self-published author. After all, even if murder was supposed to free me, I don’t really want to spend time in prison.