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68-year-old Nancy Crampton Brophy was arrested last Wednesday for the murder of her husband with a firearm and the illegal use of a weapon on the death of her husband, Daniel Brophy, according to the police bureau from Portland.
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68-year-old Nancy Crampton Brophy was arrested last Wednesday for the murder of her husband with a firearm and the illegal use of a weapon when her husband, Daniel Brophy, died, according to Portland police .
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San Antonio is one of the oldest cities in Texas. So it should not be surprising that S.A. also has a dark history of heinous crimes. Here are 17 murderers whose crimes against children, city leaders and others will not faint from memory for the city of Alamo. Source: San Antonio Express-News Archives; Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Less
San Antonio is one of the oldest cities in Texas. So it should not be surprising that S.A. also has a dark history of heinous crimes. Here are 17 murderers including crimes against children, city leaders and … more
Photo: BOB OWEN, San Antonio Express News
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Tommy Lynn sells
Sells, a serial killer linked to the death of more than a dozen people, pleads guilty to strangling Mary Beatrice Perez, a 9-year-old girl he kidnapped at a Fiesta Event in 1999. Sells was killed in April 2014 for stabbing the death of a 13 year old Del Rio girl killed in December 1999.
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Tommy Lynn sells
Sells, a serial killer linked to the death of more than a dozen people, pleads guilty of strangling 9-year-old Mary Beatrice Perez, whom he abducted at a Fiesta event in 1999. Sells
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Photo: BOB OWEN, San Antonio Express News
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Joe Ball
Known as the "Alligator Man" and the "Elmendorf Butcher", Ball kept alligators behind his belongings during the Great Depression and fed them with live dogs to "entertain the customers" , according to the archives of Express-News. Manuel Ruiz Ibanez, a longtime Express-News reporter who died in 1995, accompanied a Texas Ranger who was trying to serve Ball with a warrant – not to feed his dog gators, but the bar waitresses who were disappearing. Ball immediately fired a gun under the bar and shot himself.
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Joe Ball
Known as "The Alligator Man" and the "Elmendorf Butcher", Ball kept alligators behind his belongings during the Great Depression and fed them live dogs to "entertain customers", according to
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Joe Estrada Jr.
Estrada, the neighbor of Viola Barrios, was surprised to have shot the famous restaurateur to the head with an arrow as she burgled her house in April 2008. Estrada was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of her parole for his horrific murder and is currently at Robertson Unit in Jones County.
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Joe Estrada Jr.
The city of Alamo was stunned by Estrada, the neighbor of Viola Barrios, accused of shooting the famous restaurateur with an arrow as she burgled her house in April.
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Ronnie Joe Neal and Pearl Cruz
In November 2004, Neal and her 15-year-old daughter, Cruz, were surprised by the credit cards of Diane Tilly, a teacher from the beloved Alamo Heights School District who did not show up for work. His home was ransacked, his car burned in a field, the case captivated San Antonio and made headlines across the country. His remains were discovered nearly two weeks later in the rural county of northeastern Bexar. Neal was sent to death row for the crime in 2006, but committed suicide in his cell in 2011. Cruz was sexually assaulted by his father and gave birth to his child behind bars. and was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
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Ronnie Joe Neal and Perle Cruz
In November 2004, Neal and her 15-year-old daughter, Cruz, were surprised by the credit cards of Diane Tilly, a beloved teacher from the Alamo Heights School District, who did not show up at the school.
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Photo: San Antonio Express-News
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Robert "Beaver" Perez
Perez was really one of the most notorious killers of San Antonio. While the Mexican mafia boss was being tried for the murders of Jose Travieso and James Robert Rivas, he was linked to more than a dozen others – including the infamous assassination of West French Place. sentenced to death in 1999. Perez was executed in March 2007.
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Robert "Beaver" Perez
Perez was really one of the most notorious killers of San Antonio. While the head of the Mexican Mafia was being tried for the murders of Jose Travieso and James Robert Rivas, he was linked to more than
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Photo: Charles Barksdale, San Antonio Express-News
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Brian Vaughn
After the famous criminal trial lawyer, Leslie Vaughn, was found dead in November 1998 at his home in northwestern Bexar County, his son, Brian, told Express-News: Two months later , the police, believing that Brian had also shot with the gun, awarded a warrant for arrest against him. Brian was convicted at a trial in January 2000 based on the statement he had given to the police, according to which prosecutors did not match the evidence found at the scene. Brian, who was only 16 at the time of the murder, was sentenced to 33 years in prison. He is currently housed at the Hamilton Unit in Bryan, Texas.
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Brian Vaughn
In November 1998, after one of the well-known criminal trial lawyers, Leslie Vaughn, was found dead dead in bed in his northwestern county of Bexar County, his son, Brian, said:
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Photo: Kin Man Hui, San Antonio Express News
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Charles Harrelson
The father of the actor Woody Harrelson, Harrelson was a contract killer who murdered San Antonio federal judge John H. Wood Jr. in May 1979 in front of the judge's home. It was the first murder of a federal judge in the 20th century. Harrelson, a professional gambler who, according to the trial's testimony, was paid $ 250,000 for the coup, received two life sentences. He died of a heart attack behind the bars of the "Supermax", a federal prison in Colorado, in March 2007.
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Charles Harrelson
The father of the actor Woody Harrelson, Harrelson was a contract killer who murdered San Antonio federal judge John H. Wood Jr. in May 1979 in front of the judge's home. This was the first
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Angel Maturino Resendiz
The Mexican drifter, known as the Railroad Killer, confessed in September 2001 that he had killed three people in the San Antonio area – Michael White, a Jane Doe whose body has not yet been identified, and a Cuban whose the body will probably never be found. In total, the serial killer was linked to the killings of at least 15 people in six states during the 1980s and 1990s. Resendiz was put to death in June 2006 for the brutal murder of a Houston doctor in December 1998 .
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Angel Maturino Resendiz
The Mexican drifter, known as "Railroad Killer", confessed in September 2001 that he had killed three people in the San Antonio area – Michael White, a Jane Doe whose body has not been found yet.
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Ira Attebury
Attebury was responsible for the darkest Fiesta ever recorded, opening fire on the parade of the battle of flowers in April 1979. The PCP addict killed two people, Amelia Castillo and Ida Dollard, and injured at least 50 at the time. 39, intersection of Broadway and East Grayson Street. before committing suicide in his Winnebago bunker.
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Ira Attebury
Attebury was responsible for the darkest Fiesta ever recorded, opening fire on the parade of the battle of flowers in April 1979. The PCP addict killed two people, Amelia Castillo and Ida Dollard, and was wounded
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Photo: Al Guzman, Photo of San Antonio Light
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Richard McFarland
McFarland was the main suspect after his wife, Susan, was last seen at the Central Market in November 2002. Susan's body was found two months later at a farm in Bexar County, southeast. The mountain of evidence found in the home of McFarlands' Terrell Hills, a nearby house and a stolen car involving Richard would never be revealed in a lawsuit; A few minutes before the start of the jury selection, McFarland knocked out the courtroom by pleading guilty, leaving the prosecution to defend itself. He was sentenced to 40 years in prison in February 2004. Mr. McFarland is currently detained at Ellis Unit in Walker County and will be eligible for parole in January 2023.
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Richard McFarland
McFarland was the main suspect after his wife, Susan, was last seen at the Central Market in November 2002. Susan's body was found two months later at a farm in Bexar County, southeast. the
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Emma Burgemeister
You may not know his name, but Burgemeister was tried for the murder of Otto Koehler, president and CEO of the San Antonio Brewing Association, in November 1914. One of the largest employers in Alamo City at the time, the SA Brewing Association will later become the Pearl Brewery. Burgemeister, who admitted to shooting Koehler during a dispute over his attempted recovery, jumped on bail and escaped to New York soon after the crime. More than three years later, she returned to San Antonio for trial and was acquitted of murder.
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Emma Burgemeister
You may not know his name, but Burgemeister was tried for the murder of Otto Koehler, president and CEO of the San Antonio Brewing Association, in November 1914. One of the cities of Alamo
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Richard Steven Merla
In a crime that shocked the boxing community of San Antonio and beyond, Merla, a member of the Bandidos biker gang, stabbed San Antonio's first boxing world champion, Robert Quiroga, in August 2004. He was sentenced to 40 years in prison after pleading without challenging the murder. In 2007, Merla pled guilty to a murder committed in 2002 in Atascosa County. Merla is currently housed at the Galveston County Galveston Unit Hospital and will be eligible for parole in April 2027.
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Richard Steven Merla
In a crime that shocked the boxing community of San Antonio and beyond, Merla, a member of biker group Bandidos, stabbed San Antonio's first boxing world champion, Robert Quiroga,
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Genene Jones
Jones, nicknamed "the killer nurse," was working in a San Antonio hospital in the early 1980s, where dozens of babies died during her tenure. Although the allegations stole, Jones was convicted of killing a child, 15-month-old Chelsea McClellan, in Kerr County with an injection of muscle relaxant and sentenced to 99 years in prison. She is eligible for an automatic release in March 2018, but officials in Bexar and other Texas counties could try to get a new conviction to keep her behind bars.
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Genene Jones
Jones, nicknamed "the killer nurse," was working in a San Antonio hospital in the early 1980s, where dozens of babies died during her tenure. Although the allegations stole, Jones was found guilty of killing
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Otty Sanchez
Sanchez, a new mother with a history of schizophrenia, easily admitted to using a steak knife to stab, decapitate and mutilate her three-week-old son, Scott, telling the police that the devil had him killed in July 2009. A year later, Sanchez was found not guilty by reason of insanity and confined to a maximum security psychiatric center.
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Otty Sanchez
Sanchez, a new mother with a history of schizophrenia, easily admitted to using a steak knife to stab, decapitate and mutilate her 3-week-old son, Scott, telling police on the scene that the devil
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Tessie McFarland and Joshua Maxwell
After killing a man and shopping in Indianapolis, Maxwell and McFarland traveled to Texas, where they shot down the sheriff of the Bexar County Sheriff. Rudy Lopes II headed in October 2000, leaving his body behind a North Side mall before escaping to California. It took a jury three hours to sentence Maxwell to death in March 2002; he was executed in March 2010. McFarland pleaded guilty to the June 2003 murder and was jailed for life. She is currently housed in the Coryell County Brain Treatment Unit and will be eligible for parole in November 2040.
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Tessie McFarland and Joshua Maxwell
After killing a man and shopping in Indianapolis, Maxwell and McFarland traveled to Texas, where they shot down the sheriff of the Bexar County Sheriff. Rudy Lopes II in
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68-year-old Nancy Crampton Brophy was arrested last Wednesday for the murder of her husband with a firearm and the illegal use of a weapon on the death of her husband, Daniel Brophy, according to the police bureau from Portland.
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68-year-old Nancy Crampton Brophy was arrested last Wednesday for the murder of her husband with a firearm and the illegal use of a weapon when her husband, Daniel Brophy, died, according to Portland police .
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Photo: Photo via the Portland Police Office
A novelist who wrote about "How to murder your husband" accused of the murder of her husband
Nancy Crampton Brophy seemed to have the gift of writing about spousal murder.
The Portland-based love novelist wrote books on relationships that were "bad" but "never so well felt", often with men shirtless on the cover. In "The Wrong Cop", she wrote about a woman who "spent every day of her marriage fantasizing about killing" her husband ".
In "The Wrong Husband", a woman tried to flee a violent husband by simulating his death.
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And in "How to Kill Your Husband" – an essay – Crampton Brophy wrote on how to get out of it.
She wrote the post on the blog "See Jane Publish" in November 2011, describing five main motifs and a number of murder weapons that she would choose if her character was to kill a husband in a romance novel. . She advised against hiring a handyman to do the dirty work – "an incredible number of hit men hit you the police" – and against hiring a lover. "Never a good idea." Poison? Not advised either. "Who wants to go out with a sick husband?"
"After all, Crampton Brophy wrote in the post, which was made private after Washington Post investigations to site administrators," If the murder is supposed to free me, I certainly do not want to spend time in jail. "
In real life, she seemed to follow some of her own advice, at least according to the police. Rather than hiring a touched man, she would have pulled the trigger herself.
Crampton Brophy, 68, was arrested last Wednesday for the murder of her husband with a firearm and the illegal use of a weapon on the death of her husband, Daniel Brophy, according to the Portland Police Bureau. But what has not been revealed, that is the alleged motive.
She was arrested Thursday, appears in blue detainees' clothing and was sentenced to jail without bail, according to court records. She has not yet filed a plea and her lawyer declined to comment during her contact with The Post.
The puzzling police who kill and those close to Daniel Brophy from the beginning. Brophy, a 63-year-old chef, was fatally shot at his workplace at the Oregon Culinary Institute on the morning of June 2nd. The students were just starting to enter the building when they found him bleeding. reported. The police had no description of the suspect.
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Two days later, Crampton Brophy wrote an emotional post on Facebook.
"For my family and my Facebook friends, I have sad news to tell," wrote Crampton Brophy. "My husband and best friend, Chief Dan Brophy was killed yesterday morning For those of you who are close to me and feel that it deserves a phone call, you're right, but I have a hard time understanding that now."
Brophy was a beloved chef at the Culinary Institute of Oregon. His colleagues regarded him as "the encyclopedia of resident knowledge" of the institute, which had a "creative approach to teaching" and a "quirky sense of humor", as they wrote in memory. He sometimes asked cooks who had forgotten their hats to wear hard hats or helmets, reported the Portland Tribune. And he liked to lead student groups on "experimental excursions" in the forests, in perpetual search for new ingredients.
Hundreds of people came to celebrate and cry on June 4th during a candlelight vigil in front of the Oregon Culinary Institute. Crampton Brophy has also come.
But over the weeks, neighbors told the Oregonian that Crampton Brophy seemed to have something. Don McConnell, his six-year-old neighbor, told the Oregonian that earlier this summer he had a conversation with Crampton Brophy about Brophy's death, wondering what could have been the reason for the tragedy.
"I said, are [the police] stay in touch with you? "McConnell remembers asking him.
"She said," No, I'm a suspect, "McConnell told the Oregonian. "I thought she was to be a hard-to-manage woman as she did."
On Thursday, prosecutors and defense attorney Crampton Brophy said little because the accused had been brought before a judge to hear the charges against her. A judge made the unusual decision to seal a sworn affidavit in the Crampton Brophy case at the prosecutors' request, a spokesman for the Multnomah County Attorney's Office told the Washington Post. The police refused to answer the Post's questions about the evidence justifying the arrest of Crampton Brophy or what led the police to suspect her, citing an ongoing investigation.
Crompton Brophy's lawyer also declined to comment.
"It's a big shock – it's a big shock," said Brophy's mother, Karen Brophy, at the arrest post of her daughter-in-law. "But we do not make any statement."
The couple had been married for 27 years, according to court documents. Crampton Brophy wrote on her website, where she promoted her paperbacks. The one wore the title "The Wrong Husband", about a woman who flees a violent husband and who falls in love with his rescuer.
Crampton Brophy and her husband "have had some ups and downs," she wrote on her author's page, but there was "more good times than bad". She said that she knew that she had fallen in love with him one evening when she was taking a bath and asked her to join her.
"His answer convinced me that he was Mr. Right," she wrote about her bio author. She remembered him saying, "Yes, but I'm out of work.
"Can you imagine spending the rest of your life without a man like that?"
She frequently wrote about their marriage on the Internet, sometimes with a sense of dark humor that her readers seemed to find amusing.
In a 2011 article on "Seeing Jane Publish" that provoked readers' laughter, she wrote: "My husband and I are both on our second (and last – believe me!) Marriage. We swore, before saying "that we would not end up with a divorce. We should not, I should not say, exclude a tragic shot or a suspicious accident. "
At the end of the post, she said that she liked "the way he can make me laugh when I'm really angry" and "how, when I least expect it, he can tell the perfect thing ".
"Mais un dernier mot de prudence", a-t-elle écrit, "si jamais je fais un plongeon de cygne dans un haut bâtiment, enquêtez. Faites une enquête. Enquêtez."