(CNN) Unlike the antagonists in her steamy romance thrillers, author Nancy Crampton-Brophy did not get away with murder. Crampton-Brophy, who once wrote a notorious essay titled, "How to Murder Your Husband," showed no visible emotion as the verdict was read in a Portland, Oregon, courtroom. Nancy Crampton-Brophy was arrested in September 2018, three months after her husband's killing. Investigators also discovered she was the beneficiary of "numerous" life insurance policies taken out on her husband, prosecutors said. "If the murder is supposed to set me free, I certainly don't want to spend any time in jail," Crampton-Brophy wrote.

Source: CNN May 27, 2022 03:44 UTC