[4] 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.
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.
[4] Nancy Crampton-Brophy was indicted for her husband's murder and was put on trial in April 2022 before the Multnomah County Circuit Court.
For motive, prosecutors alleged that Crampton-Brophy was in financial distress and killed her husband for several life insurance policies totaling around $1.4 million as well as sole ownership of the $300,000 house.