Oregon romance novelist grilled on amnesia claim on crucial day in her murder trial

Prosecutors drilled down into the amnesia defense, missing gun barrel and the emotional temperament of Nancy Crampton Brophy as the Oregon romance writer’s trial in the killing of her chef husband reached a crescendo Tuesday.

Senior Deputy District Attorney Shawn Overstreet confronted Crampton Brophy about her explanation for why security camera footage captured her minivan outside the Oregon Culinary Institute about 7:28 a.m. June 2, 2018.

That was within minutes of instructor Daniel Brophy’s murder in one of the school’s classrooms, investigators testified.

Crampton Brophy and a psychologist called by the defense said she suffered retrograde amnesia from the later trauma of learning her husband had been killed. The condition erased Crampton Brophy’s memory that she had driven on streets directly adjacent to the school at the time, they said.

How then, Overstreet asked Crampton Brophy, could she be sure she didn’t shoot her husband and then simply forget that, too?

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