Romance novelist Nancy Brophy testifies in murder trial | Live stream 

You should seek help for that.

I agree that I rewatch this testimony. It’s so surreal that she’s up there laughing and cackling and having a great time. It’s so very odd.

I watch it a lot also and fall asleep on it. I don’t know why.

I'm with Aimee and Jupiter, Cuddlesworth! Here it is 2am, after Thanksgiving, and I'm enjoying the mess of her direct. In trials I almost always skip directs and go to crosses, that's where the drama begins, but oh no, not Nancy! Her lawyers should carry a sign: *spoiler alert* we're going to show you, in advance, how guilty our client is.

@@leapinglaura7343 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

She clearly doesn't own a mirror. She could possibly get away with that cute shit if she were 40 years younger and 120 lbs lighter but damn... insufferable she IS.

😂😂

She looks more like the Quaker Oats dude to me.

Lol😅😂

I'm also seeing Mr Drummond from Different Strokes.

I'm seeing the amalgamation between Winston Churchill and a pumpkin.

Seriously, very odd. I’m not buying it whatsoever. Funny how She just doesn’t remember leaving her house and driving around in the area the day of the murder.

Agreed!

She wasn't as happy the next day when the prosecution got their shot lol

Congratulations on your appearance in Dreading's video about this case! It's called "The Case of Dan Brophy| dreading" and your shoutout is at 32:00 timestamp.

she got life. I'm sure she's not laughing anymore.

Lol

Don't forget Jussie Smollet. With a noose around his neck so the police can see.

Jodi Arias was at such whole new level!

And her repeating “job” was so weird. It went from “cracking with emotion”, which could come across as genuine, to take 3 of “job” which just seems weird and rehearsed.

You are so right!

I just noticed your comment regarding a Saturday Night Live Skit .. Apparently we are on the same page

And "we were a team".

Sounds like it. Remember she was called "management". No wonder they were struggling financially.

I'm pretty sure Dan was being sarcastic when he called her "management" especially with his dry sense of humor

It's not up to them. If she insisted on testifying they can't do anything about it. I'm sure they recommended she not.

@@shellos8 ^ This. Just like Chandler Halderson's lawyers begged him to take a plea deal, but the cocky little manchild refused.

She is a classic narcissistic person who thinks she can talk her way out of anything

@@shellos8 it's almost certain that she insisted. My understanding is that testifying on your own behalf in your trial is probably the worst decision you could make beyond going pro se.

She may very well have gotten away with the murder if she had stayed off the stand. Her kind always think they can talk themselves out of anything.

yes you did I caught that too and I was like WTF woman did she even hear herself.. pretty twisted to me. but then again I think her brain is wired in knots actually.. she shot her husband then got rid of the slide (evidence)

That’s the first thing to pop out at me… 🤥

Classic narcissistic psychopath IMO

Yep

I really thought at first I heard her wrong or because she was acting up on the stand and really bad that maybe my mind mixed it up. I know I listened to that clip like 10 times after I made my comment. I still dont get why ppl that are guilty as sin always seem to get up on the stand, maybe to relive that moment in time? To share what happened to hurt the ppl that did care? Sometimes I wish I knew but thankful I dont, I couldnt image how one can live knowing what they did. Just like Anthony Todt he was beyond disgusting. Ppl compared him or Michael Jones to Chris Watts, to me they are both worse than that monster. Anyways, sorry about the long rant Hope you have a blessed weekend 🙏

She sure doesn't let a pesky little thing like a murder trial get in the way of social hour with her gal pal defense attorneys. I'm just surprised she didn't stop halfway through one of her ramblings to ask the court for an iced tea with a slice of lemon and a pillow to prop her feet up on.

@@green_tea0985 lol!

THAT and the confidence and the intricacy and the excitement with which she's telling these completely irrelevant and boring af stories. Fucking infuriating. That sht works if you're, I dunno... A WAR HERO? Not if you ended with an unaccounted gun and no alibi for a dead husband.

I think you are going down a rabbit hole here.

@@janpeterson6851 If you mean the rabbit hole where she's found guilty, then yes, l guess so. She got a sentence of life with the possibility of parole after 25 years...she will be 96 years old before she sees a parole board...if she lives that long. So, yeah, sure...if you're ever on trial for murder, by all means, whoop it up like it's 1999 while you're on the stand. See how that works out for you...?

She loves an audience, doesn't she? So much so that she thinks she's doing stand-up comedy?

Downright jovial!

I lost my husband a little over a year ago. I've learned to smile and laugh again, but it feels like there is a filter, or a cloud, over my joy. But to laugh if I was on trial for his murder...to relive that memory...and cackle? No. She is unbelievable

Yes, Nancy's arrogance is astonishing. More extreme than I had anticipated. I find her unwatchable.

@@sleuththewild exactly what I anticipated, and unwatchable is understatement

@@CrimeAuditors she's delusional, a legend in her own mind

She has no filter. This "funny" behavior worked for her before and she probably thinks it will make her likeable to the jury as well. smh

@@barbaragrove6097 Yep, heroine of her own novel. It's terrifying that everyone played along.

Lol 😂 If we had a dollar for how many times she laughs, during her testimony of her husbands murder trial , we would all be rich!

Can you imagine what her parents and Nathanial think, sitting in the front row?

@@tourdedogue4952 Nancy's parents are still alive??

@@Patricia-kb5qv Thank you! Error - HIS parents.

I thought the same thing.. she would be better off keeping it on.. better yet just not murdering somebody

@@Who_knows_me Exactly 💯💯

I don't think she did. She took him for granted. Alot of women would've appreciated Dan. He could've done so much better. He was interesting!

@@sheinFL He wasn't perfect, he was a hoarder and he'd been unfaithful to his first wife. I know I couldn't live with a hoarder, no matter how much I loved him. But yeah, he just seemed like such a nice guy, plus he was a great cook! Most women would kill for a guy like him!

I'm not sure he was a hoarder. He kept it out back and in the garage. Most guys do. He needed a man hut to get away from Nancy. Lol

​@@WobblesandBeanI wonder how he could hoard when he worked 7 days a week an did all the cooking an clean not much time to shop unlike Nancy who's home all day not cleaning but shopping an going out to lunch an trips

They all thought what we thought. GUILTY

"He loved me almost as much as I love myself"

hahahaha - Nancy could not WAIT to testify. You see it in her enthusiasm. She's crazy.

Just a day in the park for this cold blooded murderer. Appalling demeanor on the witness stand for the prime and only suspect in her husband’s murder. She’ll do fine in prison among like monsters.

You hit the nail on the head… literally like she is a motivational speaker . 🙄

To me it seems like she is angry, furious even, because she is innocent and can't believe the police did not even look for other possible suspects. Her arrogance comes across to me as evidence for her innocence. The case against her is so weirdly amateur and full of holes, her arrogance seems like a response to that.

@@enwardy so you believe the homeless guy walking down the street did it? Right…

@@enwardy we are lucky you are not on the jury

Facts

She is guilty - I think when the Prosecution get to her she won’t be able to get away with this nonsense. I hope the prosecution are very tough with her. Note : so far the Defence has not even started asking questions about the day of the murder

I agree with Tom!

She seems incredulous that anyone would question her reasoning. Her attorneys are spending more time making a record for the appellate court than they are on an actual defense to sway THIS jury.

Nice analysis. And, I agree, she seems to be enjoying her life in the spotlight. Curious about finding the will. How would that throw people off who were helping look for it. She seemed to be the tidy one in the house and took care of finances; I assume that means filing also. Why wouldn't she have placed their wills somewhere safe?

This is great, @diedre ware. She was indeed hell bent on finding that will. Dan leaving everything to Nathaniel would have foiled her plot. And, until just before she murdered him, Nancy wasn't entitled to anything (in a divorce, either), because they weren't married.

@@sleuththewild oh..ahh. Now I see the picture more clearly. Sleuth - you're very good.

@@sleuththewild How do you know she wasn't entitled to anything in the divorce? If anything, she was a common-law wife for 24 yrs and there are rights with that. (Sorry to inject but, unlike Amber Heard married for 18 months and demands 24mm., or whatever. ) I believe you have it wrong on her right to entitlement of property.

@@tourdedogue4952 I didn't hear this testimony, but I'm thinking Dan was changing his mind, or had hidden it, or she hid it and he randomly moved the box... IMO he told her to leave. There was a marital status piece happening as a baseline to their lives together. Estate benefits could have been impacted by marital status.

Pre meditated murder

She'd have to split the proceeds of what the mortgage paid for 50/50. And the property wasn't worth enough for two people to retire on. But going down the insurance/murder scheme was meant to net her 100% of a much larger sum. The only way defaulting on the mortgage to pay those premiums could make financial sense (to her) was if her murder scheme was a deliberate and long-term plan. Her financial decisions prove her guilt.

🎯

Now American taxpayers' money are her retirement plan.

Best comment of the day award xD

Fiction story teller indeed. Nancy is having fun. She's clueless.

FAB comment.

@@barbaragrove6097 She's loving the attention.

@@sleuththewild can't wait for Overstreet to get her talking. She indicts herself left & right. She can't help herself.

She didn't even write. She self-published some junk one year and calls herself a "Writer".

@@sleuththewild just like Chad daybell. Although he owned the publishing company tonpublish his garbage.

Just tge fact that she refers to housekeepers as maids is very telling. B!tch!

He certainly must have been visually impaired!

Love is blind. So sad. He seemed like he as such a good man

Unfortunately, he loved a woman who was a sociopath! Poor Dan!😢

​@@corlisslee7156I wonder if Dan really loved her or just didn't know what to do except try to get along,do whatever pleased her to keep peace? Trying to do the honorable thing since he promised, keep his word? Didn't know how to get out of it! Really didn't realize how dangerous she really was!

@vernareed2692 I believe that Dan did love Nancy. She was able to fool him and hide her true character from him for many years. He obviously knew she was lazy since he did everything for her, and she never had a real job her entire life. However, I think he was so focused on his career as a chef instructor that he appreciated the fact that Nancy took over all of the financial issues in their marriage. She paid all of the bills, handled the money, and made it appear that he could focus on his career without having to worry about household issues. Unfortunately, he didn't realize that she was overspending and putting them into serious debt. He also did not know that she had not paid the home mortgage for 6 months, even though she was spending over 1 thousand dollars a month on life insurance policies in his name. He was basically a very kind and trusting man who could not imagine that anyone could be as evil as his wife. He also had a very bad first marriage and divorce, and he did not want to go through that again. He was a man whom most women would love to have, but he made the big mistake of marrying a full-blown sociopath. So sad!

Only to kill some time I have gone back to this case . It seems Nancy had a lot of overnight guests, even a niece that stayed for some time . I wonder if the nights Dan and Nancy “ sat in the hot tub” if Nancy asked Dan if it would be ok for all these guests to come . I bet not. Niece Susan was selling insurance with Nancy , I wonder if she contributed to the household while she stayed there or even helped with chores around the house . Again, I bet not. Which makes me think she was as lazy as her aunt . According to testimony her room was left a mess and according to Nancy she had to box up all of Susan’s stuff. Susan shows as much in terms of appreciation for the free room and board as Nancy. Nancy’s whole family sounds like they grew up with privilege and entitlement certainly not the” work for what you want “ethic the Broohy’s seem to have

And Sebastian Burns is the same. Seriously, must see!!!!

Which crime channel? I love watching these.

@@VickieVale367 I’m not sure. I think I saw it on Dateline honestly. But just search his name and Ratif who was the son of the parents they murdered. You’re bound to find lots. If you can find where Sebastian Burns is speaking to the courts AFTER he’s been found guilty, that’s the strangest and most narcissistic shot you e ever seen! Sorry I couldn’t help more.

@@VickieVale367 Also, there’s a new trial - Yasir Said who murdered both of his teenage girls in the back of his cab while they were on the phone with 911. I think WFFA is the channel but just search his name as it’s happening live. He was on the run for 15 years I think and he’s finally standing trial now. It was an “honour killing”. Enjoy!!

@@shannonp9871 thanks!

Or was she poisoning him?

I find this comment disturbing.

@@enwardy why are you disturbed by the comment, I am curious to know

@@Patricia-kb5qv I am not sure if you are American yourself, but many folks from outside America have noticed a negative culture around true crime and criminals. Many innocent people are wrongfully convicted in the USA based on pseudoscience and circumstantial evidence. First, we don’t know for certain that Nancy is guilty. Imagine if she is an innocent wife grieving her husband and this is they was her fellow citizens treat her? If she is innocent then is it right? Perhaps that is part of what can be upsetting about these comments. Even if she is guilty, is there something grotesque about rejoicing in the suffering of murderers? Is it on that same spectrum of evil? Lastly is it ever appropriate to make fun of someone due to their weight/obesity issues?

@@miriamhart2864 in ur country do u hug murders or ur not happy when a murder is found out an put in jail Now coffee comment might seem silly but these ppl in debt an husband worked hard an she wasting money on coffee every day an eating out

Also no more $hitty romance novels.

She not normal! I'd be scared too. She acts like she's outsmarted them and can lie her way out.

@@sheinFL right?!

Yes!! Plus I'd be aware the jury thought this was a serious damn thing, having sat through all the other testimony. And if my horrendous lawyer thought she was putting me on the stand for comic relief, I'd look at her in horror, and let the jury see how inappropriate I thought that was.

The airports were grounded between 9/11 and 9/14. Maybe she was referring to that.

Ridiculous statement. She doesn't want to admit she failed in her busines. She's classic narc. Everyone/thing else's fault but Her!

Omg I can’t wait for the rest of cross examination tomorrow!!

Which part makes you think she is lying?

@@enwardy That was a month ago so I can't remember the specific parts :)

@@enwardy all if her testimony

I can't believe she said that.

I think she truly believes that

Extremely telling. No self awareness.

What I would tell you is ...

Yep - I noticed it. Shaking her head No when she's saying yes.

I couldn't agree more. She doesn't even realize just how much she talks about herself.

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I don’t like her.

I can’t figure out how she managed to keep so many friends who would go to bat for her in a murder trial. The idea of being in a car with her on a road trip makes me nauseous, yet she has all these women who claim to have enjoyed her company . SMH

@@justanothersmith6012 MANIPULATION at its finest... I would say that her true colors & demeanor came out on the stand, likely more that hour she is in "real" life. When she in a more calm/controlled environment, she has the time to think and come across charming, calm, etc., but when _MOST_ people are on the stand, they end up not being able to do that at some point.

Did she really say it that way? I remember thinking ?? Did she say that the way she was trying to say it..?

@@laradesautel3013 No, I think she didn't mean to say it that way but she did - it's right at the beginning of her testimony

​@@laradesautel3013 44:56. I had to go back and watch.

​@@tinyraymond Freudian slip?

Yes, the infamous "folder." 🤣

@@diedreware2412 a purple one

@@Traceishere 🤣

Someone should've paid Dan to put up with her! Her cackle alone drives me nuts and yeah, she put him down alot in subtle ways.

But most of it’s the airbase. Don’t forget that.

Your comment is spot on. Sums up the entire defense rather well😊

@@PinkyakaAyannaj lol thanks

I can't stand her lisp!!! Particularly the way she says "Yeash" instead of yes. That and her constantly saying "ya know" every 5 seconds is driving me crazy!!!

Or Nancy wouldn’t take no for an answer despite her attorneys suggestion..she is so self centred she probably thought testify like a nice old woman..but she is not! Horrible woman 🪦 RIP Dan

Well she could do with revisiting the plot line on how to kill your husband. Apparently forgetting about cameras and buying guns in secret isn't a great defence, neither is lying when you've been caught on said cameras. Maybe she should have done a few more writer retreats to work out if it's viable

That's Winemiller for me.

@@barbaragrove6097 Yup. Her too

Both annoy me AND the Judge.

Nancy’s voice is worse than all of them. And the tone doesn’t match the content. She’s all easy breezy exactly when she shouldn’t be.

Life is just a party and I'm pulling the best con job that I can. "I'm working here." 😂 Body language - look at her face when she laughs, her eyes are cold and calculating watching for your reaction (whoever she is talking to. It's an empty laugh.) 🤔

That's exactly what she thinks. Well said!

I’d love to know too. I doubt she’d ever be offered a prison interview. Call me crazy, but I looked up where she’s being held and went through all their facilities on their website … I even looked up how to send her a letter 😂 but I don’t know if I’d ever have the courage to ask a murderer questions from their cell.. lol

@@juliana76310 - what prison is she in??

@@JustMe-px9qy You'll love the name. It's "Coffee Creek" Correctional facility. Do you think it reminds her of her precious starbucks? 😂😂

@@juliana76310 - 🤣

She said it herself" I'm not a saver" whew!! Fur lined handcuffs?? She's bat sheet crazy...

I wonder if Dan was sick of it and wanted a divorce to garden in peace and not have to work 7 days a week? She knew it and that's why she offed him? Poor Dan....

Plus it was $4k/yr she spent on Starbucks.

Shows an incredible lack of empathy

I'm going to watch it again too, for the 2nd time. I so agree with you. And, according to their Chef friend, they travelled often and planned on doing more. I don't think she ever made actual money. Dan made it all while she spent freely and nilly-willy wrote books that never sold. What a life she had. Dan working 2-3 jobs. Yeah, no - her idea of having money 'coming in' doesn't seem to be present in her head. Scattered - or in denial - or feeling entitled that she's owed all these luxuries. I think they serve freeze-dried Instant coffee in jail. (I'm not poor but I would never waste my money on a daily Starbucks!)

I'm thinking the jail offers decaf instant Maxwell House.

Nancy also borrowed $50k from Dan's parents that she never paid back. They also gave her the van. They gave it to her with the promise she would put it in her name, since she had a lot of parking tickets. Instead, she put it in Dan's name. Yep, she made sure Dan was on the hook for her parking tickets.

@@sleuththewild That’s right !! I hope the jurors remember. This has been dragging out for so long.

@@sleuththewild Taster's Choice!

I also think the shattered shower door was an important detail. She volunteered it during the death notification, and all the other stories she offered at that time were butt-covers for something she'd done that might look odd. I think she might have pushed Dan through the shower door. Do shower doors shatter like car windshields? This wouldn't create a hand slice. I also think she went after him with a knife; thus the slice on his hand. I also think there was something hinky going with water on the floor and wet towels. Nancy called it a leak, but her story kept changing. Overstreet brought this up on cross, so I'm thinking prosecution is suspicious about this detail, too.

@@sleuththewild I thought the same. I’ve never heard of a shower glass shattering.

Wsit. She committed murder by loosening a shower door and just hoping and praying it would shatter and hopefully cut him so badly he would die? Please tell me I'm misunderstanding. I might have to go ahead and watch this entire trial when there's nothing else good to watch because I'm confused.

@@shellos8 I speculate that Nancy slashed at Dan with a kitchen knife. This created the gash on his hand that Nancy was joking about in the death notification. The shattered shower door may not actually have existed. Just my guess.

@@Debs440606 wtf lol it's glass of course it shatters. If she loosened the bolts on the shower door and he pulls the door open, it's going to fall on the floor with him and most likely shatter everywhere, he could easily get a cut on his hand from the broken glass. Shower glass isn't bullet proof 😂

Yes, and she said losing Dan was like losing an arm. He was an appendage, a thing that is attached to something larger or more important.

It’s been about 5X of watching this for me. Each time I’m more amazed.

Same! Every expression she’s showing when it comes to Dan is so off compared to when she is talking about other topics, like her writing, or when her uncle died. I keep coming back to rewatch and still find new things. Her acting is so terrible. I feel like sometimes she wants to come across as a bumbling old grandma, and others a smart witty author. Same for Dan. He was either incredibly smart and punctual, or forgetful and in need of a “cheerleader,” depending on her current narrative in the testimony…

​@@juliana76310 Well put, Julian. All of it is crafty, all is agenda driven, and it's transparent af. She never says something because it's true, or simply because she feels it strongly. None of it is to enlighten the jurors about anything, because the less they know, the better.

@@leapinglaura7343 Good point Laura. I'm sure she could get away with this kind of manipulating in day-to-day short interactions with people, but in the scrutiny of the court, she had the audacity to think she could TALK her way out of prison. I think she assumed the "endearing" way she spoke about dan would be enough to sway opinions on her. It really was a case of "the less you think about it the more it makes sense" for her defense 😅

​​​@@juliana76310 Yes, (to your last sentence), it's like the defense putting vaseline on the lens ~ "I'm ready for my closeup, Mr Demille." (Delusional old Gloria Swanson with her dreams of stardom, in a musty ol mansion/half acre in Beaverton.) And oh, the cracking of the defense lawyer's voices, with pathos and poignancy, when speaking of their fabled "love affair!" 🤮🤮 but... 1. History is replete with passionate lovers killing one another. 2. There _IS_ no such thing as a perfect love.

Lolololol