'How To Murder Your Husband' Author Convicted For Slaying Hubby After Confessing To Cellmate

A romance novelist who wrote an essay titled "How to Murder Your Husband" has been convicted of fatally shooting her real-life husband after she accidentally confessed to her cellmate about the killing.

Nancy Crampton Brophy, 71, was accused of murdering her 63-year-old husband Daniel Brophy, in June 2018, for collecting a hefty life insurance payout. Nancy was convicted on Wednesday of second-degree murder after a five-week-long trial by a Multnomah County jury, NY Post reported.

During Nancy's trial, her cellmate, Anndrea Jacobs testified in court that Nancy had accidentally slipped up and confessed to her how she fatally shot Daniel. Jacobs stretched out her arms and showed how Nancy detailed to her the distance at which she shot her husband. "She told me that he was shot two times to the heart and that … she showed me the distance," Jacobs told the court on May 18.

Daniel, who was shot twice on June 2, 2018, was found dead inside the kitchen at Oregon Culinary Institute in Portland where he worked as a chef and instructor.

During interrogation, Nancy initially denied being in the vicinity of the crime scene. However, surveillance footage from the neighboring building showed Nancy's van driving in the area at the time around which her husband was murdered.

The prosecutors argued in court that Nancy could have obtained a significant amount of life insurance money from her husband's death and multiple witnesses testified in court that the couple was facing financial issues at the time of the murder.

Nancy researched and bought a "ghost gun" kit online before she purchased a Glock 17 handgun from the Portland Gun Expo. She later purchased a separate slide and barrel designed to fit the weapon and swapped the barrel to make it harder to trace, prosecutors said.

"(I’m) just very, very thankful that everything has turned out the way it has. It’s been a long three and a half years," Daniel's mother, Karen Brophy, said after the guilty verdict was read in court, as reported by KGW8.

In her essay "How to Murder Your Husband" Nancy details that a wife who kills her husband must be "organized, ruthless and very clever" as she would become the prime suspect.

"Or if you married for money, aren't you entitled to all of it? The drawback is the police aren't stupid. They are looking at you first. So you have to be organized, ruthless, and very clever," People reported.

Nancy's other self-published works include "The Wrong Husband." "The Wrong Co," "The Wrong SEAL" and "Hell on the Heart."