Romance novelist who ‘murdered her chef spouse’ accidentally ADMITTED to shooting him, trial hears 

A romance novelist who wrote an essay entitled ‘How to Murder Your Husband’ accidentally admitted to shooting dead her chef spouse to a cellmate, a court heard.

Prosecutors in Portland, Oregon claimed Tuesday that Nancy Crampton Brophy, 71, accidentally let slip that she’d shot chef husband Daniel Brophy, 63, dead at the Oregon Culinary Institute in June 2018.

She’s said to have made the accidental admission while chatting to former cellmate Anndrea B Jacobs at the Inverness low security jail in Portland in September 2018.

‘Ms. Brophy held her arms apart, like a wingspan, and said “I was this far away when the shooting happened,” Multnomah County Senior Deputy District Attorney Shawn Overstreet said of the alleged conversation.

‘She then corrected herself,’ Overstreet continued, and said…