Murder of Daniel Brophy

Nancy Crampton-Brophy was indicted and was put on trial for her husband's murder in April 2022. Crampton-Brophy was the author of several self-published novels including The Wrong Husband and an online essay titled "How to Murder Your Husband", which increased public and media interest in her husband's murder.

Nancy Crampton-Brophy was convicted of second degree murder on May 25, 2022. She received a sentence of life imprisonment on June 14, 2022.

Crampton-Brophy had told investigators during the initial investigation that she had walked the dogs and had a shower on the morning of the incident. In 2020, investigators found traffic camera footage that showed her driving to and then departing from the culinary school during a 13-minute window when the homicide happened. Crampton-Brophy amended her story and said she had no memory of such a drive, and that she was likely on a coffee run that she forgot about due to the stress of the day's events.

On the morning of June 2, 2018, Daniel Brophy left for work at the Oregon Culinary Institute, where he was a teacher. Students arrived later and found his body in a kitchen, dead from two gunshots. The death was investigated as a homicide.

Daniel Craig Brophy (June 27, 1954 – June 2, 2018) was an American chef and culinary instructor who was found murdered at the Oregon Culinary Institute in Portland, Oregon. On May 25, 2022, his wife, Nancy Crampton-Brophy, was found guilty of second-degree murder for his death. She was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Suspicion later fell on his wife Nancy Crampton-Brophy (born June 16, 1950). Crampton-Brophy, the daughter of two lawyers, was born and raised in Wichita Falls, Texas, and a graduate of the University of Houston. She met Daniel Brophy after moving to Oregon in the early-1990s and attending the Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Portland, where he worked as an instructor.