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Mar 2025
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Daniel Brophy - 612

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June 2, 2018, Portland, OR. Dan Brophy was found dead at the Oregon Culinary Institute from two gunshots. His wife and amateur romance novelist, Nancy Brophy, wrote a blog post titled “How to Murder Your Husband” years before and had purchased a gun just months before. Did she attempt to live out one of her novels, or was she innocent?


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