The author of "How to murder your husband" is found guilty of killing her partner in the US

• Crime The author of 'How to murder your husband', accused of murdering hers

The author of the essay

was found

this Wednesday in a trial in the United States.

The jury deliberated the verdict in eight hours and concluded that

, Daniel Brophy.

Writer of an English-language series called

, Crampton Brophy denies the allegation.

Recorded by the security cameras at the crime scene, she affirms that she was

for her next works.

He also says that the weapon that is missing, and that the police believe was used for the crime, was also purchased as

for a novel, and denies that the hundreds of thousands of dollars that corresponded to him for the various

were a motive to murder him.

Lawyers for the 71-year-old woman said they will appeal the Portland, Oregon, trial ruling, according to The Oregonian.

"We were hoping [the jury] might see this as 'could have been, should have been, would have been,'" attorney Lisa Maxfield said.

"But it was not like that".

Prosecutors said the writer had

before shooting her husband twice in the heart in June 2018.

The crime occurred at a cooking institute where he worked.

His students found him on the floor of a classroom.

Daniel Brophy was 63 years old.

His wife was arrested in September of the same year and has remained in custody ever since.

Prosecutor Shawn Overstreet claims that the author plotted the husband's murder.

"It's not just about the money. It's about the lifestyle that Nancy wanted that Dan couldn't give her," he said during the trial.

Before the jury, Crampton Brophy said that his financial problems had been solved long ago.

"I'm doing better financially with Dan alive than with Dan dead," he said.

"Would I ask you where the motivation is? An editor would laugh and say 'I think you need to do more work on this story, you have a big hole in it,'" he added.

Facing the possibility of

, the sentence has not yet been announced.

The essay "How to Murder Your Husband," available on a blog, addresses methods and motives for getting rid of an unwanted partner.

Among them, financial gain and the use of firearms, despite considering them "noisy, dirty and require some skill."

"But what I know about murder is that every one of us carries it within us when pushed hard enough," he says.

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