Killer Grandma Thinks She Outsmarted Everyone

She looked like everyone's favorite grandmother—but behind the warm smile lurked a cold and calculating killer. Nancy Crampton Brophy, an Oregon romance novelist, wrote an essay titled "How to Murder Your Husband" years before she shot her spouse of 26 years dead at his culinary school . Her best friend described them as "giggling all the time," but financial desperation and a $1.4 million insurance payout exposed a sinister motive . She bought the murder weapon alone, lied to detectives, and even asked for help claiming the policy while playing the grieving widow . Her story proves that evil can wear the face of a doting grandma . This is the case that shocked the nation .