It’s now the subject of Wondery podcast Happily Never After: Dan And Nancy, which unravels a tale stranger than any fiction Nancy ever wrote.
SITTING down at her computer in the four-bedroom house she shared with her husband Dan, Nancy Brophy looked every inch the genteel romance novelist – big round cheeks, curly grey hair, glasses.
Seven years later, Nancy, now 74, would indeed go on to murder her husband in an elaborate scheme to pocket more than $1million in life insurance policies.
They never had children, but Nancy – who had long dreamed of being a writer – often described on her blog how much she loved Dan and how healthy their sex life was.
Called to the scene by police, Nancy took the news of her husband’s death calmly, though officers surmised she must have been in shock.
