Researching Her Way To Jail

She wrote an essay about killing her husband, then she did

Edward Anderson
CrimeBeat
Published in
5 min readMay 27, 2022

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Nancy and Daniel Brophy in happier times. Picture from Facebook

The tragic love story of Nancy Crampton and Daniel Brophy begins in the early 1990s. He was teaching culinary skills at the Oregon Culinary Institute in Portland, and she was one of his new students. While not love at first sight, the pair certainly were beguiled with one another.

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Edward Anderson
CrimeBeat

Edward has written hundreds of acclaimed true crime articles and has won numerous awards for his short stories. His most recent book is Barbenheimer.