Anyone else come back and watch this train wreck of a testimony again and again? It's fascinating seeing someone get caught out so badly by their own words.
Same here, sometimes I listen to it while cooking (for my family) in case I ever get on the cross and I don't have to proudly proclaim that I never cooked a meal in 20 years. ...just saying or her blabbering puts me to sleep
Also… in one of the book “ how to kill your husband” she wrote a list . She wrote…. “ she has a hard time remembering her lies”….. that was the most truthful thing she said all trial
Maybe one of the best I've ever seen. He let's Nancy talk herself into oblivion and doesn't interrupt or confront her directly when she rattles off something incriminating or obviously deceptive. This guy knows his craft.. he's trusting his jury to be smart enough to see what he sees without him having to badger the witness or call her out on the stand. Brilliant prosecutor.
I actually gasped when she said that Dan's students were "just crying for themselves". I mean, forget the fact it's an extremely nasty thing to say about kids who are mourning their teacher, that's just a horrendous thing to say PERIOD about the impact of your husband's death when you're on trial for his murder... This testimony is one of a kind and utterly out there
I did the same thing at 2:34:17 when Nancy jerked back in disgust at the mere mention that Clarinda Perez was traumatized by seeing Chef Dan die before her very eyes.
46:42 this part cracks me up: your honor if council is going to be aggressive i ask he doesn’t have a gun. The judge says hold on now I’m going to allow him to hold the gun.😂
Her laugh makes me so on edge. She's up there wisecracking and cackling at her own jokes even though NO ONE else finds it funny. Her smile is hideous, to boot.
Her bizarre contempt for the girl who tried to save her beloved husbands life is one of the strangest things I’ve ever seen. She goes on and on and has no idea how callous and batshyt insane she sounds.
So strange. As I puzzle over it, I think she was jealous 😵💫. How dare the jury feel bad for Clarinda, they're supposed to sympathize for _Nancy!_ It was selfish of "that girl" to steal her thunder. This is consistent with reports of her exasperation when others thought highly of her writer friends' books.
@@leapinglaura7343 Yeah, you're probably right. "Wretched little minx, she's manipulating the jury with her crocodile tears." Projection of the highest degree.
@@heathernikki5734 Gosh thanks, Heather. I confess I enjoy commenting. Uh oh... does this mean I enjoy the sound of my thoughts the way Nancy enjoys the sound of hers? (Nervously checks mirror that I carry with me everywhere... 😉 ;))
@@leapinglaura7343 Lol I'm the same, I keep coming back and every time I get so angry I just have to say something. I have never seen such an insufferable woman in all my life!
Mrs. Brophy really talked herself straight into a guilty verdict. She honestly thought she was the smartest person in the room and could explain away everything. This lady did not act like she was on trial for the murder of her husband and it's crazy to watch!
Isn't it glorious? Especially towards the end, where she freely admits that she regularly thinks about murder, and constantly wishes bodily harm on people she's mad at. Yikes.
I love how the prosecutor rarely cuts her off. He lets her ramble and ramble her way into a hole...every new sentence being a new possible contradiction for the jury to catch on to. Brilliant.
Also I love how he DOES cut her off at the tail end of cross. He's rushing through his questions because she's been up there blabbering for literally two full days. She veers off on yet ANOTHER pointless, long-winded, completely unimportant story about herself, and he interrupts her, shuts her up and tells her to just answer the damn question 😂
Just imagine. Dan saw his killer, and she didn’t even flinch and shot him a second time. What a cold, cutting woman. She tries to portray bumbling old woman who was in love. Evil, evil and she likely has a caveat on that.
LOL good one 😂 She clearly thought he was smarter than everyone in the room. She didn't count on the prosecution being so good, nor did she think through any of her responses. She thought "I'm a writer, I'm smarter than this guy, I can weave a tapestry of words that will make me look innocent as a baby lamb". She's so arrogant!
She has so much distain for the poor “Spanish woman” who tried saving her husband’s life! She criticizes her for crying but not actually caring about Dan? WTF! I’m actually shocked!
Yup. She claims to be left-leaning, but like most white boomers, that doesn't mean much. She specifically singled out the one Hispanic girl, the other students who testified all cried on the stand too, but Nancy aimed her venom straight at her. Then she casually drops the word "foreigners", and there's a third thing she said that made me side-eye, but I can't remember what it was after watching *_six friggin' hours_* of her testimony. Seriously, how can one person talk THAT much?!
That was shocking yes. I'm going over this myself after watching and listening to analysis on true crime RUclipss that completely omitted that part of her testimony. I feel it is the most demonstrative of who she really is.
@@WobblesandBean I have a hunch that the successful true crime vloggers receive cues or talking points from some sort of "central casting" source, or just through networking with contacts who have connections to law & crime channel, court TV etc - eg this is what the big dogs are highlighting, so you can get more views by keeping discussion within certain parameters.
It’s funny how the prosecutor completely ignored Nancy’s attorney’s objection about him holding the gun and was going on with his questioning as if nothing was said 😂then the judge chimes in so nonchalantly and says “Ok wait a minute, I’m gonna allow him to hold the gun” 🤣🤣🤣
The judge is an odd one, he doesn't seem to ever acknowledge objections at all. During direct, Nancy's lawyer was blatantly leading her, even spoon feeding her the correct answers. Defense objected, but the judge didn't react at all and she just kept on going without missing a beat. I guess Mr Overstreet was expecting more of the same.
Lol yup. Nancy thought she was soooo smart, it's infuriating watching her try to avoid answering certain questions she has no excuse for. But he knew just what buttons to press and make her so mad she dropped her mask completely, exposing her true nasty self. Love that for her.
I bet she had this court case planned out in her head to be part of her final greatest work. Just after her death a completed masterpiece is found in a secret compartment in her desk .A story about a brilliant “fictional” writer who outsmarted everybody and got away with the perfect murder . Did this once in a generation romantic crime writer write her final masterpiece as an autobiography instead of a novel?! The great question of did she kill her husband in real life is perhaps solved by our protagonist finally revealing that last piece of elusive evidence which had baffled the public for decades.”in a brilliant twist where art perhaps imitates real life the reader is left amazed, shocked, astonished, ambivalent and struggling with thier concscience. we don’t know wether to be over awed or appalled by this polorazing but undoubtably brilliant figure but one things for sure Nancy transcended the old dull who dunit and we instead are left pondering a far deeper question ;did her talent infact justify her crime?”…….. instead she’s being gang raped in a concrete room while her face is the pussy cushion for the whole cell block. She should have written comedy instead lol at least now the stench of cheese will have a good reason for hanging around her
It gives me great joy seeing her looking over at her defence team and begging for them to save her on the stand. But they let the prosecution murder her and rip apart her stupid for-my-story story. How poetic.
Lol yup. She keeps looking over trying to signal to them with her eyebrows, begging for them to intervene but there's nothing objectionable that the prosecutor has done. She thinks she's being stealthy, but she's as subtle as a car accident. The entire jury read her intentions loud and clear. 😂
@@annacahill5394 She could have at one or two places. She didn't because during direct, she asked Nancy a TON of leading questions, and the defense didn't object to that, either. She knows her hypocrisy would harm her case greatly if she'd spoken up.
"Happy days - I was wrong" Nancy is nuts!! Who on earth thinks it's ok to tell someone their son is dead (without knowing for sure) and then saying Whoopsy 😂😂😂 The mind boggles!!!
Did you notice how when she would talk about the people who were _ACTUALLY_ affected by his death (family, etc.), she would start to cry, as if she felt bad for what she did, but... when she would talk about the people on the stand who she didn't _CLEARLY_ give a flying "F" about, she would get really ticked off & rude (like the girl who cried on the stand- and had given Dan CPR). Really makes you wonder if she's upset with that woman, because she tried to SAVE Dan's life, versus taking it! Nancy is EXTREMELY abrasive and thinks he sh*t doesn't stink. I'm soooo glad she took the stand!
@@goose7574 Nancy was angry with "the Spanish girl" for taking so much attention away from her by attempting CPR on Dan NANCY is the clever wonderful one! Unbelievable
If nothing else (and there’s plenty of other things), this is the most telling statement she makes that signs her life in prison ticket for me. Nobody announces someone’s death without certainty, especially not to the mother of the deceased.
She said that those students’ lives did not stop when Dan was murdered was the coldest thing I ever watched. The poor woman who tried to save Dan’s life was truly distraught. Did Nancy ever cry for Dan?
I'm glad she said that, because she showed everyone her true colors in that moment. "I'M the real victim, not THEM! They're selfish and are only crying for themselves. I'm the only one not being selfish." Gag.
@@WobblesandBean oh yeah… me too. She’s unbelievable., and honestly there’s so many words to describe her I can’t pick one… but I’m happy she took the stand. She was so confident and “smart” that she thought she would pull one over on everyone. Even if she didn’t… all the evidence points to her but amazingly she thought it was a good idea. 🤦♀️ she dug her own grave
Nope she didn’t, but let me put a caveat on that, she cried with the Brophy’s and his real friends because their lives changed. If this woman isn’t afflicted with a type of psychopathy then the MPI3 needs revision. The instant she went off on that tangent about being near OCI for and hour before Dan arrived was not a slip. It’s as if she just could not resist the urge anymore to proudly proclaim yeah I did it you just can’t find the toy gun thingy to prove it. In my humble opinion.🤔
Her one tactic was "If I stay calm and answer calmly it will look like honesty and I'll get away with it" But that "sweet old lady" routine really started to wobble when the prosecution got started He made her look so obviously guilty just by guiding his questions skillfully Someone who obviously has spent her life being the one who does all the manipulation it was great to see her given a taste of her own medicine
@@halimak625 even cornered she thought she could lie her way out of it right up to the wire Unbelievable It was a really brutal murder of someone completely innocent too she's horrible
I love the prosecutor, he's very on point with her silly excuses and politely pushes her into a corner where realises he's no pushover, great work Sir.
I especially love the way he pauses every time she says something REALLY s†upid. He just lets her own words hang there in awkward silence for her to stew in, and you KNOW Nancy is screaming internally every time he does it 😂
Yes he’s exceptional. His whole approach is quiet, polite, understated, but this hides the fact that he’s sharp as a tack and more than a match for Nancy’s nonsense.
Her attorney objecting with “If counsel is going to be aggressive I ask that he not have a gun” is HILARIOUS. What a nutcase, who the hell would ever hire her. What’s the prosecutor going to do, shoot the witness with an unloaded gun in the courtroom? Total clown.
Her attorney probably knew she was guilty hence the lack of objections during cross. The gun thing was just for show. She has to appear supportive of her client in order to avoid being labeled as inadequate counsel.
@@johnchaulk It's weird, she kept asking a ton of leading questions during direct as well, yet the prosecution only objected once and the judge remained silent. Makes me wonder if they both kept quiet because they knew the judge wouldn't do anything.
Think about it .. I bet noone wanted to represent her... This attorney probably did it for the publicity, she didn't help her out during the cross examination at all 🤣🤣. But after watching this numerous times.. its probably because she's literally admitting guilt at times without saying the actually words, " i did it" like when she kept saying she doesn't research numerous times. Then when she's being asked about the gun, she researched everything. When she had to say yes. Which showed guilt, she added " with a caveat"
I have a suspicion Nancy put the water on the floor deliberately trying to get Dan to slip. Just like the week before she unalived him, the shower door just happened to shatter? Really?
Overstreet’s little nod when she blurts out that the slide and barrel from the gun kit didn’t fit the complete Glock. “And you knew it didn’t fit, right?” He drew that out of her like a surgeon. Boom 💥 Got her
OMG Right! I was like wow. But if you listen close to her testimony, she slips up alot and quickly tries to catch herself. I was so glad she was found guilty. The jury seen though all her BS.
Her murdered husband sold small quantities of expensive spices and other items so that his students could afford to buy them for their cooking. He was a kindhearted, generous man, and yet she calls his effort "crap on the cart." That statement shows her true feelings toward her husband. She was with him all those years because she is a lazy, selfish bum, and he was nothing more to her than a meal ticket. When she realized that she had spent every cent they had, and Dan was going to find out, she started planning his murder to set herself up financially. She is a narcissistic sociopath, and poor Dan deserved better than her. It makes me feel good to know that she will never have another cup of Starbucks as long as she lives. I bet she wishes Dan were still alive now!
@@corlisslee7156 This. She robbed Dan of all he had. She changed his life insurance policies so that his son got nothing. She even stole the van she used to do the deed from Dan's parents!
She is one of the most interesting crosses' I've ever seen and it keeps getting better the next day. A typical example of how if a person is telling the truth the story stays the same but when lying they get all mixed up forgetting what they said before, it's classic.
Right? She was so disrespectful and resentful of the things Dan loved, simply because they didn't bring in the money she wanted. Chef Dan sold his produce for cheap so his students could afford to work with fresh ingredients without having to go broke. It was a labor of love he undertook simply to spread the joy of cooking. And all she can do is call it "crap".
I can watch this case again and again and still notice something new about her mannerisms that read in to what is going on in her mind.. The fact she thought she could get away with this!?!? The narcissism in her speaks for itself!!
No jokes and cackling today. Instead we got abrasive, unhinged and someone who I could definitely see getting into a physical altercation with a fellow inmate in jail or going on a rampage. If defense is reading this, I hope that you had the good sense to at least try everything in your power to dissuade your client from taking the stand and she simply ignored your best legal advice. Wow.
@@workingmemory LMAO Yes, first thing I noticed! And yep, as we surmised, defense reads here. Watching Nancy answer questions when she's not lounging around is quite entertaining!
17:22 when he pulls the slide in barrel out from that gun kit case... she literally gasped out loud... then he walks away she looks at her lawyers, shrugged he shoulders🤣🤣🤣 this cross is amazing!
Yeah. And, she's like, "I don't know, there's so many parts." Shortly followed by Mr. Overstreet's Perryason moment when she suddenly knows very much about that part and how it doesn't fit.
The dupers delight at 2:26:50 right after he says” and is now mysteriously missing” is so telling, it literally made my hairs stand on end. She’s vile in every way conceivable 🤮I just can’t understand what Dan saw in this creature.
@@blueneptune825 it’s not duper’s delight. She’s smiling because she’s caught and is trying to minimize the accusation by basically saying - it’s laughable. She won nothing here.
@@ecalose6785 I dunno, the way she smirked at that moment was unlike any other smile she made. Her face was dripping with contempt, and she only smirked once he mentioned that the gun slide had "mysteriously disappeared". She was so smug and downright evil looking! It could be DD or something else, I think either is equally likely.
"I have eggs and flour in my pantry, but that isn't an omelette either until you put it together" 😂😂😂 no wonder Nancy hasn't cooked in 24 years!! Who puts flour in an omelette 😂😂 I'm waiting for my chef boyfriend to wake up so I can tell him this line 😁
@Miriam Felice 53:23. The bailiff says "all rise" and even though you can't see her, Nancy's mic picks up her saying "Why do _I_ need to stand?" She's shocked that court decorum is to show the jury the utmost respect. She clearly views them as being beneath her in importance.
@@jborrego2406 You're welcome! This stream is full of little moments like that I only catch on repeat viewings 😂 It's so satisfying to see her crack under the pressure.
I'm writing a story that has a train in it. If anyone has an old locomotive for sale, please let me know. I need to buy it now for research purposes for the two paragraphs that will feature the train. Which i'm not ready to start yet.
I know a couple train collectors, but I'm sure you'd rather spend your retirement savings money buying the train first; you can talk to actual train experts later on down the line, once you've finished your current book about horseshoes.
The eye roll and sigh at 46:07 tell you she’s a shameless, vapid narcissist. This prosecutor has the power to put your flat broke ass in prison for the rest of your life and this is how you choose to behave on the stand? SMFH.
She does the same exasperated sigh and eye roll just moments before at 45:26. What a messy person she is, it's as if this is the first time she was ever pressed to complete her "stories" in a timely manner and she is obviously ill equiped and unprepared for the line of questioning. She is as sloppy a story teller in court as she was on paper.
@@trixiemcfly8584 She also does it during the morning cross too, when the prosecutor points out her math was wrong. It's astounding to me that she's fighting for her life up there, but she acts so casual during direct and so rude and hostile during cross!
Wow. During cross, Nancy took her gun kit, assembled it, put bullets in, held it to her head, and pulled the trigger, without any help from the prosecutor. All he had to do was not talk.
Nancy thought she was so much smarter than him, but he deftly maneuvered her into contradicting her own story a dozen times over, called her out on her blatant lies with evidence, and got her so worked up her mask completely slipped off and she showed her true, nasty self right at the end, there. Absolutely brilliant 😂
The missing slide and barrel is the killer (so to speak). As Mr. Overstreet pointed out, she could have just removed the one from her complete G17, which was exactly like the extra set that she purchased. Why buy another? She even admitted to removing the slide and barrel (which she said was difficult). Why then didn’t she remove the zip tie, which was there only because required by the gun show? Because her plan had been to present the purchased handgun as being in unused condition. There is only one reasonable explanation for buying a second slide and barrel for a new handgun, then “losing” it. I expect the jury will see through her contrived explanation.
Right? Seems like she and the defense team would’ve made it their mission to hunt down that barrel, get it tested, and prove it was all just an innocent purchase - a toy - to help make her writing more authentic sounding? And NOT a match to ballistics - so law enforcement could get back out there and find the “real” killer.
I didn't know about the zip tie part. Wow. She really thought she could fool the investigators! Why did she admit she took off the slide and barrel during cross? It's not like she isn't lying her butt off anyway. Is she seriously that dumb?
"The $200 plus, but not much plus" "That wasn't jealousy, that was proud." "The old laptop you can't read the screen because it's become lines acrossed it." "One thing I knew ahead of strong thing" A career writer, ladies and gentlemen.
@@martinharris2400 if she hadn't made that call I think they would have caught her anyway but that certainly shortened the investigation by at least a month they probably got off the phone and said "it's the wife"
I'm starting to listen again and two minutes in I realize she has an objectionable attitude. Her arrogance blows my mind. It might just be me but she seems to want to control the questioning.
I love him too. He totally mops the floor with her. He has this amused undertone in his voice because he knows how ridiculous, absurd, and evil she is. He’s fantastic!
2:47:00 I love this, after six hours of Nancy yapping he finally gets sick of her shi† and won't let her start off on another one of her insufferable monologues 😂
She has not controlled her narrative at all. She should not have testified because there may have been a bit of uncertainty about the CC of the van driving around OCI. Her testimony admits it was her. There’s no need for a lying rebuttal witness. NB talked herself right into a guilty verdict today.
@@hoppy6141 Several times she said that she did not kill Dan. She cries about Dan. I could see some people having doubt that she did it. It's still 'only' circumstantial.
"we heard from a few of your writer friends who are quite successful, lots of published books and make a decent living. um, that's not true for you though, right?"🤯
The shocking horrible comments NB made about the woman trying to rescue her husband turns my gut into ice cubes. This is what makes me know she is cold, heartless and very capable of this crime. See 2:36 testimony. Give me a G for great job scrolling through a couple days to reflect back on this moment. It showed in a nutshell who this woman is...and it's just haunted me since.
She couldn't even say "Hispanic" or "Latina" she called the young lady "Spanish". How crazy is that? It shows you where her thought process is... racist.
@@frankyzee Actually, since we have a lot of Hispanics here, they do prefer the term Mexican. Just like Native Americans on the reservations; they like to be called Indians. Contrary to popular belief.
@Tour de Dogue She also said earlier that the reason to have a gun is because the country is more diversified now than it used to be. Translation: more non-whites. So, yeah, she's clearly racist.
On top of just thinking it, she thought it was okay to say it out loud to someone. Was that person as disgusted as we are ? Did that person share Nancy’s feelings ? So many glowing reviews by her character witnesses is stunning , considering the true Nancy can make such disgusting comments and murder her husband.
She clearly loves the sound of her own voice. If she hadn't insisted on taking the stand, maybe this would end in an acquittal. The evidence is all circumstantial, and if she'd kept her mouth shut, she might've had a chance. But no, she's so arrogant she just HAD to tell her story, and dug her own grave in the process. And I love the hit of schadenfreude watching her crash and burn 😂
I lost my husband at 29 . He took his own life. I was destroyed. I always referred to when he 'died'. I didnt want to have to repeat that horrible reality over and over. I guess with Nancy she didnt want to repeat the horrible reality that she killed Dan.
Yup. Guilty people frequently do that to try and distance themselves from what they did. Chris Watts did the same exact thing when referring to his wife and children he dumped out in the oil fields.
Holy, she seems so ANGRY on this cross. It's not a good look because the prosecutor is actually being really calm and kind in his questioning ... it's like she's having a one sided argument where she's the only one yelling.
Narcissists do not like to be questioned, as they are used to creating their own version of reality. And most of the time, in social situations, that's fine because nobody cares enough, really, to cross them over stupid stuff. But in a court of law? Truth stands up under scrutiny. A skilled lawyer, like this one that is examining her, can easily pick apart the contradictions and self-serving statements. He patiently ignores her self-indulgent remarks she makes, designed to make her look clever, or designed to make her look smart - they simply don't matter. This lawyer has no personal relationship with her, he is interested only in drilling down to what happened and when. She almost implodes, she simply isn't used to it.
It is delightful watching her really start to fall apart at around the 2 hour mark. What an unrepentant asshole she is. Love that she just couldn’t stop her babbling mouth and her idiot attorneys didn’t stop her.
Yuuuuuup. She clearly thought the jury was on her side after the insufferable endurance test that was her direct questioning, and figured the cross examination would be a victory lap. She's so hostile towards prosecutor Overstreet, and figured (at least at first) that the jury would hate him, too. "How dare that man hassle that poor little old lady!" 🙄
After the plethora of witnesses who painted Nancy as a wonderful, generous woman & part of the Dream Team couple with Dan, I was starting to think this could be tough for the jury . When Chatty Cathy , aka Nancy, started testifying like she was at a reunion , talking and laughing and catching up with all her friends & family, I really started thinking this was going to be even harder for the jury to convict this woman. All her excuses for being in various places could even be plausible enough to create some doubt. Then she adds this whack-a-doodle story of being downtown ( at the very window of time that Dan was killed ) without remembering it , except for the things she does remember & the things she’s sure she would & would not do . Nancy just talked herself into a probable guilty verdict & she did it with no bra and no phone.
@@tourdedogue4952 so many admissions - I posted she said the case was solved at 27 m …when she was arrested. The gun issue also makes no sense buying another slide/barrel when the gun show gun was complete …nonsense reason. Still listen as I decided it was so nice here in PDX today that I’d do some much needed potting today. Much more enjoyable than listening to her continual excuses.
@@nycat1485 Have the closing arguments been done- maybe not til Monday. I think it's too early for you to make a verdict. But, I don't think any of us, nor the jury, suffer fools.
Yup. She's absolutely vile. She fake cries right after being questioned why she hasn't shown any emotion during the trial (how convenient), but she's about as good an actor as she is a writer.
And this nasty evil woman had the nerve to say (in Her own words ) “ the Spanish girl who cries on cue” … Speaking on a jail call about aStudent .. this girl tried saving ( her husband) Dan’s life and was probably traumatized seeing what she saw and did CPR until the first responders arrived. Apparently, in Nancy’s eyes , this girl wasn’t effected by this horrific event . Smh 🤦🏼♀️
@@gwenintexas4080 well hello Qwen! I actually have a sister named Gwen! Lol Hope your having a wonderful day! (This Brophy woman is a lying story teller lol)
2:15:33 Now that she realizes she's "remembering" _too_ much for that morning (when she said that she _couldn't_ remember ANYTHING that morning in defense of NOT having killed her husband), she has to change things. VERY VERY IRONIC that she _only_ "FORGETS" the time she went to murder her husband, and NOTHING else. 🙄
2:33:15 WOW! The way her demeanor changes and gets mad, when she's talking about the woman who LITERALLY tried to save her husband's, life is jarring! This woman is a real B!
2:35:52 This is so disgusting! _"crying on cue"???_ She didn't cry when she talked with you, because she was LIKELY trying to not get emotional with you! That's a NORMAL response for people who are TRYING to be sympathetic towards somebody who "went" they something.
Here's a transcription of her last answer, where she tells on herself and "fills in the hole" in her own story. It was part financial, but it was mostly anger and rage. The question remains though, why was she so angry? Did Dan find out how much money she was wasting on excessive life insurance? Did he buy more chickens? Did he not bring her a Starbucks that morning? I need to know!! (2:51:40) Prosecutor: My last question to you, Mrs Brophy, is if there was one thing that you know about murder, is it that anyone is capable of doing it? Nancy: I absolutely believe that. And I believe that because, once again, if it's your child or the person in front of you, 10 to 1 you will find yourself capable of murder. I think most people don't murder for flimsy reasons. I think people get pushed into a corner where they have no other options. I think people murder because they're protecting somebody they love. I think people murder, well there's some mercy killings perhaps, where people murder to save the person they love pain, but I think that's rare. I think people murder in rage. I don't think people murder because they say, "Well, you know, we'll just sneak down, and do this quickly," you know. I think if you're gonna murder somebody, 10 to 1 that person knows that you are not happy with them. You know, I don't think that should come as a mystery. You know, to anybody. I don't think people murder willy-nilly out of the, just because, you know? Yeah, financial reasons is a big reason. But going back to my case, there's not enough financial reason there to make it. I do better with Dan alive, financially, than I do with Dan dead. There's no financial gain here. You know, we had solved our problems. If I turned a book in to an editor, and I said, "Well, they had a problem here in October of 2017, but they had solved it, but then she murdered him in 2018 when they'd solved their financial problem." Where is the motivation, I would ask you? You know, an editor would laugh and say, "I think you need to work harder on this story. You have kind of a big hole in it." You know, I think people murder out of anger more than anything else.
Basically, Mr. Overstreet was able to work in Brophy’s “How to Murder Your Husband” blog post without saying that she wrote one and thus defying the court’s ruling. From the blog: “I find it is easier to wish people dead than to actually kill them,” she wrote, according to an archived version of the post. “I don’t want to worry about blood and brains splattered on my walls. And really, I’m not good at remembering lies. But the thing I know about murder is that every one of us have it in him/her when pushed far enough.”
She was “going out in the field” for 3 months out of the year to sell Medicare yet she was “beating up a computer” to the point of needing replacement annually lmao yeah right 😂 she was probably fully depreciating them every year on her taxes
I like how the prosecutor didn't even challenge nonsense like that, he gave the jury enough credit that they'd notice how incredibly dumb she sounded claiming she bought a new laptop every year. It's so obviously not true, and anyone who's owned a laptop would know it was a lie immediately.
02:13:00 to 02:16:00 -ish Watch her body language as she has to *on the spot* _(while trying to remember if she said_ *the same thing to the officers at the police station* _which she knew was recorded)_ *make sure she doesn’t contradict her testimony from previous days.* The prosecutor *is fantastic❗️* because he asks questions in a way that doesn’t offend her _and more specifically_ people, like the judge and members of the jury, who might think that you should never aggressively interrogate a grandma.
26:50 Nancy, the researcher and suspense writer, would know that communication with police works both ways. Instead of calling the police to say 'hey detective, I've got my murdered husband phone, laptop and a ghost gun kit... when and where can I drop these off so you can analyze it all. Maybe it holds clues". Instead she packs it up and labels the boxes? She never called or followed up with the police? I'd be calling weekly for updates. And if I annoyed them with calls I'd ask for email addresses. I'd make sure police hadn't forgotten about my husband. I'd keep them to task to get my family justice.
2:05:50 "I wouldn't have driven past OCI without going in to say hi to Dan." 2:07:00 "I obviously drove past OCI without going in, I wouldn't interrupt Dan at work."
Lol she tries to defend the fact that publishers don't want her awful books by saying "publishing changed" and then saying she didn't wanna be published, anyway. 😂
And every book she had in print she spent $ on self publishing. So she contradicted herself there even lol I might buy one on eBay just to read for laughs, she also wrote the short story “How to Murder your Husband and get away with it”, you can find that one on the internet, they didn’t allow the story into evidence unfortunately
"No one bought my pissant books bc publishing changed! How did everyone in my writing group become successful, even those who started after me? Well, I have a caveat."
How about her diminishing Ms Perez’s attempt to save his life and her saying she was crying for herself and not to mention, on cue! That she thinks that this woman wouldn’t suffer a life time after trying and failing to save a human life. I guess she wouldn’t know because she only knows how to take
To me, it showed how cruel and harsh she could be. She has revealed her true self several times this morning that she is NOT the Pollyanna that she wants everyone to think.
42:41 Her response to this one question is all that is needed to realize she is guilty. The stuttering and the way she starts the sentence and then changes midway through indicates she is formulating a lie.
Her 2 major tells are saying "you know" and closing her eyes. "Dan kept a buttload of cash at the house, you know?" "Did you kill Dan?" "**eyes closed** No, I did not."
Nancy is smirking through the whole section where Overstreet asks about where the slide and barrel is. All the searches they did: the appliances, the walls, Sarah's basement....
The slide and barrel Nancy! Wouldn’t a person make it their life’s mission to come up with that slide and barrel to prove it was NOT part of the murder since that’s what authorities wanted so badly? It’s another awfully convenient fact that the exact part that matches the murder weapon happens to be missing from the prime suspect who was seen right next to the murder scene right during the critical time.
Also she talks about waiting for the police to come ask her for stuff, but wouldn't you be trying to give them everything so they could solve your husband's murder?? This attitude of, oh I figured they knew what they were doing, is not what you would do if you were innocent. It's what a guilty person does while hoping the police aren't very good at their job. I would be calling everyday and offering everything I had to help them catch the killer.
When she’s asked about her brother and other family members deaths her voice gets SO soft, almost bearable to listen to-as soon as they ask anything about Dan she reverts back to that loud screech
@BrenAndBruiser, I’m so glad someone (like myself) noticed Nancy’s obnoxious, shrill ear drum bursting high pitched lispy voice attempting, & miserably failing at a sense of humor using southern charm. U can easily see why DB lived a separate life from this selfish witch. Imagine hearing that voice day in and day out going on & on about her books and stories..
Yeah that was scary….. literally one extreme to the other so quickly, the crying was fake just because he said you ve not shown any emotion suddenly she cries 😂 does she think the public and jury are stupid, when your watching from a distance its so obvious to see how narcissistic she is
The prosecutor also got in there that Nancy isn't a writer. She just calls herself one. She only had one item she didn't self-publish: an essay in 2005 (?).
There’s no way Dan would be living out in Vernonia while still teaching at OCI, let alone the Abamer job to supplement their precarious finances. It’s too far for someone who has that kind of job. And when would he have time to garden?
Dan is always prepared…. Next breath she says she took things to OCI 3-4 times a month because he forgot it at home . This is the way her whole testimony went , contradicts the first explanation with the next .Her counsel did a terrible job preparing her for cross . I have a feeling she would have beat these charges if she didn’t take the stand . I wonder if she realizes that ? Probably not
2:51:58 “I think most people don’t murder for flimsy reasons. I think they get pushed into a corner where they feel they have no other options.” OMG anyone who has experienced the homicide of a close loved one, especially a spouse is typically so traumatized by the IDEA of murder, that the very MENTION of it is deeply emotional and disturbing. I can’t believe she has no idea how bad this sounds. Only a murderer would say these things in a discussion about her own husband this way!
For sure, she’s actually sitting there listing off all the types of acceptable reasons for murder, she’s trying to downplay it, almost sounds like she’s trying to insert an alternative plot line? Mercy killing?? Murder to save their loved one pain???? I don’t think people murder willy nilly. I DO BETTER WITH DAN ALIVE THEN I DO WITH HIM DEAD.
Anyone else come back and watch this train wreck of a testimony again and again? It's fascinating seeing someone get caught out so badly by their own words.
I do. I like the prosecutor, Nancy met her match 🤣
I watched it 4 times now lol
Same here, sometimes I listen to it while cooking (for my family) in case I ever get on the cross and I don't have to proudly proclaim that I never cooked a meal in 20 years. ...just saying or her blabbering puts me to sleep
I have watched it almost every day since the trial, it’s like watching a train wreck in slow motion, but so satisfying to see her fail so miserably
I watch this, Stephanie Lazarus, Sarah Boone, and any That Chapter repeatedly.
So soothing to watch bad guys on their way to justice.
2:28:53 “I do not know how to defend myself against the truth” what a telling and fascinating statement.
Also… in one of the book
“ how to kill your husband” she wrote a list . She wrote…. “ she has a hard time remembering her lies”….. that was the most truthful thing she said all trial
@@angelaburroughs4584 that sums her up in a nutshell
Literally read this comment as she said it... weird. Love how that just hung for a moment in the silence afterward
You can just imagine the lawyer praising his good luck and thinking "oh that line right there is the perfect thing to end my closing statement"
She was probably proud of herself when she said it, what a profound statement she made that left everybo
I really appreciate this prosecutor. He's balanced, determined and so smoothly sarcastic.
He’s perfect. Clever no hubris.
@@jenmdawg Agree. Masterful cross. I loved his sarcasm.
I love him! His pauses are spot on. Great job.
Maybe one of the best I've ever seen. He let's Nancy talk herself into oblivion and doesn't interrupt or confront her directly when she rattles off something incriminating or obviously deceptive. This guy knows his craft.. he's trusting his jury to be smart enough to see what he sees without him having to badger the witness or call her out on the stand. Brilliant prosecutor.
Right!
I actually gasped when she said that Dan's students were "just crying for themselves". I mean, forget the fact it's an extremely nasty thing to say about kids who are mourning their teacher, that's just a horrendous thing to say PERIOD about the impact of your husband's death when you're on trial for his murder... This testimony is one of a kind and utterly out there
I did the same thing at 2:34:17 when Nancy jerked back in disgust at the mere mention that Clarinda Perez was traumatized by seeing Chef Dan die before her very eyes.
@@WobblesandBean
I know, that recoil! It's as if he'd said, "You'd agree with me that all Starbucks should be torn down, wouldn't you?"
Leaping...LOL
@@leapinglaura7343 LOL right! "But where will I get my overpriced low quality coffee now??"
Shows her true character
46:42 this part cracks me up: your honor if council is going to be aggressive i ask he doesn’t have a gun. The judge says hold on now I’m going to allow him to hold the gun.😂
😂😂😂😂
What an stupid thing to say, he wasn’t being remotely aggressive
It's obviously not loaded too
Never trust a woman who says she puts flour in an omelette.
Hahahaha 😂
HahaaaA!
I came to comment on exactly that. 🤣🤣🤣
I yelled, "you monster!"
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Lol!!
Pro Tip: When you're on the stand testifying in your husband's murder trial, cackling like a homicidal maniac is probably a bad idea.
Evil
Ugh, I can't stand that cackle of hers. She's up there squawking, basking in the attention she's receiving. She *_loves_* it.
Her laugh makes me so on edge. She's up there wisecracking and cackling at her own jokes even though NO ONE else finds it funny. Her smile is hideous, to boot.
The shade he was throwing lol 😂
“ your friends are successful writers, but not so much for you “? ?? That hurts….
Great line.
Lol yup! He knows Nancy is a narcissist, and Prosecutor Overstreet knows exactly what buttons to off to make her angry 😂
Time stamp?😊
Time stamp?
I liked her response … ppl don’t come up to her and say ….hey .. I recognize you . Hilarious moment .
I always put this on when I’m about to fall asleep in my bed. It’s great 😊
Same or as background noise at work
❤❤❤ every single night 🌙 😴 😊
I thought I was the only one 😂
@@juliana76310😂😂😂 nope
You too?? In not the only one 😊
Her bizarre contempt for the girl who tried to save her beloved husbands life is one of the strangest things I’ve ever seen. She goes on and on and has no idea how callous and batshyt insane she sounds.
So strange. As I puzzle over it, I think she was jealous 😵💫. How dare the jury feel bad for Clarinda, they're supposed to sympathize for _Nancy!_ It was selfish of "that girl" to steal her thunder.
This is consistent with reports of her exasperation when others thought highly of her writer friends' books.
@@leapinglaura7343completely agreed, I’ve enjoyed reading your comments on this by the way.
@@leapinglaura7343 Yeah, you're probably right. "Wretched little minx, she's manipulating the jury with her crocodile tears." Projection of the highest degree.
@@heathernikki5734
Gosh thanks, Heather.
I confess I enjoy commenting. Uh oh... does this mean I enjoy the sound of my thoughts the way Nancy enjoys the sound of hers? (Nervously checks mirror that I carry with me everywhere... 😉 ;))
@@leapinglaura7343 Lol I'm the same, I keep coming back and every time I get so angry I just have to say something. I have never seen such an insufferable woman in all my life!
Mrs. Brophy really talked herself straight into a guilty verdict. She honestly thought she was the smartest person in the room and could explain away everything. This lady did not act like she was on trial for the murder of her husband and it's crazy to watch!
Within the first 3 minutes of listening to her, (my very first time) I could tell that she’s a narcissist.
Isn't it glorious? Especially towards the end, where she freely admits that she regularly thinks about murder, and constantly wishes bodily harm on people she's mad at. Yikes.
she's a writer, remember? I'm not sure if she made it clear.
@@TMckenny59 narcissist is too strong a word for her, i think she was just arrogant.
@@mpazinambao2938 I disagree
I love how the prosecutor rarely cuts her off. He lets her ramble and ramble her way into a hole...every new sentence being a new possible contradiction for the jury to catch on to. Brilliant.
Lol yup. He knows that if you keep letting a narcissist talk, they will eventually expose themselves.
Also I love how he DOES cut her off at the tail end of cross. He's rushing through his questions because she's been up there blabbering for literally two full days. She veers off on yet ANOTHER pointless, long-winded, completely unimportant story about herself, and he interrupts her, shuts her up and tells her to just answer the damn question 😂
@@WobblesandBean"lets not get lost in the weeds" lol I love this prosecutor's style!
haha and then he says 'are you done' lol
@@cv6442 "Never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake".
“Yes with a caveat” is the best way to get around a yes or no question 😂
Just imagine. Dan saw his killer, and she didn’t even flinch and shot him a second time. What a cold, cutting woman. She tries to portray bumbling old woman who was in love. Evil, evil and she likely has a caveat on that.
He didn’t because she shoot him from up close, he didn’t even hear her sneaking up on him..
@@shopmycloset4273 did he tell you? How do you know?
@@LisatheGreatest "caveat" hahaha, she had one for every story she told!
Caveat 😂
LOL good one 😂 She clearly thought he was smarter than everyone in the room. She didn't count on the prosecution being so good, nor did she think through any of her responses. She thought "I'm a writer, I'm smarter than this guy, I can weave a tapestry of words that will make me look innocent as a baby lamb". She's so arrogant!
She has so much distain for the poor “Spanish woman” who tried saving her husband’s life! She criticizes her for crying but not actually caring about Dan? WTF! I’m actually shocked!
She has disdain for everyone but herself. Imagine having her as a parent or grandma. Yikes
Yup. She claims to be left-leaning, but like most white boomers, that doesn't mean much. She specifically singled out the one Hispanic girl, the other students who testified all cried on the stand too, but Nancy aimed her venom straight at her. Then she casually drops the word "foreigners", and there's a third thing she said that made me side-eye, but I can't remember what it was after watching *_six friggin' hours_* of her testimony.
Seriously, how can one person talk THAT much?!
That was shocking yes. I'm going over this myself after watching and listening to analysis on true crime RUclipss that completely omitted that part of her testimony. I feel it is the most demonstrative of who she really is.
@@Jessica.Rachel Right? Every last true crime RUclipsr totally ignored the most damning parts of her cross examination! Why would they do that?
@@WobblesandBean I have a hunch that the successful true crime vloggers receive cues or talking points from some sort of "central casting" source, or just through networking with contacts who have connections to law & crime channel, court TV etc - eg this is what the big dogs are highlighting, so you can get more views by keeping discussion within certain parameters.
I’m waiting for her to reply:
Prosecutor: “Did you kill your husband?
Brophy: “Yes……with a caveat.” 🙃
😅😅😅 sweet god this is hilarious
😂😂😂😂😂😂
😀
Hahaha
It’s funny how the prosecutor completely ignored Nancy’s attorney’s objection about him holding the gun and was going on with his questioning as if nothing was said 😂then the judge chimes in so nonchalantly and says “Ok wait a minute, I’m gonna allow him to hold the gun” 🤣🤣🤣
The judge is an odd one, he doesn't seem to ever acknowledge objections at all. During direct, Nancy's lawyer was blatantly leading her, even spoon feeding her the correct answers. Defense objected, but the judge didn't react at all and she just kept on going without missing a beat. I guess Mr Overstreet was expecting more of the same.
@@WobblesandBeanthat sounds accurate. I don’t particularly dislike that style, as long as it’s fair.
He lost his cool though. You hear him shoving it back in case. Then her looking at her lawyer!! I rewatch it a lot
love how the prosecutor was very intelligent with how he was able to walk Nancy right into her guilt..
Lol yup. Nancy thought she was soooo smart, it's infuriating watching her try to avoid answering certain questions she has no excuse for. But he knew just what buttons to press and make her so mad she dropped her mask completely, exposing her true nasty self. Love that for her.
Her next book: The Wrong Cellmate
Hahhahahah
"The Wrong Alibi"
🙂👍
I bet she had this court case planned out in her head to be part of her final greatest work. Just after her death a completed masterpiece is found in a secret compartment in her desk .A story about a brilliant “fictional” writer who outsmarted everybody and got away with the perfect murder . Did this once in a generation romantic crime writer write her final masterpiece as an autobiography instead of a novel?! The great question of did she kill her husband in real life is perhaps solved by our protagonist finally revealing that last piece of elusive evidence which had baffled the public for decades.”in a brilliant twist where art perhaps imitates real life the reader is left amazed, shocked, astonished, ambivalent and struggling with thier concscience. we don’t know wether to be over awed or appalled by this polorazing but undoubtably brilliant figure but one things for sure Nancy transcended the old dull who dunit and we instead are left pondering a far deeper question ;did her talent infact justify her crime?”……..
instead she’s being gang raped in a concrete room while her face is the pussy cushion for the whole cell block. She should have written comedy instead lol at least now the stench of cheese will have a good reason for hanging around her
The wrong prison pocket 🕳️
She’s a monster. Her husband is the one who needs an award for living with that never-ending talk. She buried herself in her cross.
Guilty
Yes, she did. I can't see the jury not finding her guilty after that
Oh my gosh..he was an abused man.. he fed her, did all the laundry, got her Coffee in bed daily.. unbelievable..
@@shamukek4805 Defense psychologist testing showed a HEALTHY relationship!!!!!
Never-ending irrational, incoherent, delusional web of lies + fairy tales
This prosecutor is amazing! I'm going to try to find him try another case and watch him in action.
It gives me great joy seeing her looking over at her defence team and begging for them to save her on the stand. But they let the prosecution murder her and rip apart her stupid for-my-story story. How poetic.
Great comment. She is truly repulsive.
Lol yup. She keeps looking over trying to signal to them with her eyebrows, begging for them to intervene but there's nothing objectionable that the prosecutor has done.
She thinks she's being stealthy, but she's as subtle as a car accident. The entire jury read her intentions loud and clear. 😂
Agree the defense could have objected to some of the questioning and they let it go.
@@annacahill5394 She could have at one or two places. She didn't because during direct, she asked Nancy a TON of leading questions, and the defense didn't object to that, either. She knows her hypocrisy would harm her case greatly if she'd spoken up.
@@WobblesandBean you seem to know a little more about practicing law than I do. Lol. Good point.
"Happy days - I was wrong" Nancy is nuts!! Who on earth thinks it's ok to tell someone their son is dead (without knowing for sure) and then saying Whoopsy 😂😂😂 The mind boggles!!!
Isn’t she ever nuts, absolute whacko
The idea that Nancy and Dan’s mom would laugh about it forever if Nancy was wrong about Dan being dead…. This is sick.
Did you notice how when she would talk about the people who were _ACTUALLY_ affected by his death (family, etc.), she would start to cry, as if she felt bad for what she did, but... when she would talk about the people on the stand who she didn't _CLEARLY_ give a flying "F" about, she would get really ticked off & rude (like the girl who cried on the stand- and had given Dan CPR). Really makes you wonder if she's upset with that woman, because she tried to SAVE Dan's life, versus taking it!
Nancy is EXTREMELY abrasive and thinks he sh*t doesn't stink. I'm soooo glad she took the stand!
@@goose7574 Nancy was angry with "the Spanish girl" for taking so much attention away from her by attempting CPR on Dan
NANCY is the clever wonderful one!
Unbelievable
If nothing else (and there’s plenty of other things), this is the most telling statement she makes that signs her life in prison ticket for me. Nobody announces someone’s death without certainty, especially not to the mother of the deceased.
She said that those students’ lives did not stop when Dan was murdered was the coldest thing I ever watched. The poor woman who tried to save Dan’s life was truly distraught. Did Nancy ever cry for Dan?
I'm glad she said that, because she showed everyone her true colors in that moment. "I'M the real victim, not THEM! They're selfish and are only crying for themselves. I'm the only one not being selfish." Gag.
@@WobblesandBean oh yeah… me too. She’s unbelievable., and honestly there’s so many words to describe her I can’t pick one… but I’m happy she took the stand. She was so confident and “smart” that she thought she would pull one over on everyone. Even if she didn’t… all the evidence points to her but amazingly she thought it was a good idea. 🤦♀️ she dug her own grave
@@WobblesandBean also I can see that her mouth is her worst enemy
Nope she didn’t, but let me put a caveat on that, she cried with the Brophy’s and his real friends because their lives changed. If this woman isn’t afflicted with a type of psychopathy then the MPI3 needs revision. The instant she went off on that tangent about being near OCI for and hour before Dan arrived was not a slip. It’s as if she just could not resist the urge anymore to proudly proclaim yeah I did it you just can’t find the toy gun thingy to prove it. In my humble opinion.🤔
@@angelaburroughs4584 "Insufferable" is the word I keep coming back to. She is putrescent, arrogant, and just plain ugIy, both inside and out.
Her one tactic was "If I stay calm and answer calmly it will look like honesty and I'll get away with it"
But that "sweet old lady" routine really started to wobble when the prosecution got started
He made her look so obviously guilty just by guiding his questions skillfully
Someone who obviously has spent her life being the one who does all the manipulation it was great to see her given a taste of her own medicine
Agreed!
Stephanie Lazarus
@@halimak625 "it was a million years ago!"
@@grai im watching her right now SL
@@halimak625 even cornered she thought she could lie her way out of it right up to the wire
Unbelievable
It was a really brutal murder of someone completely innocent too
she's horrible
How dare she say that the woman who tried to save his life wasn’t effected by that!!!! She’s such a narcissist
I honestly can't understand how such a moronic person can think they're smarter than everyone else seriously, any thoughts?
Amen
Yup most murders are
I agree. She didn’t have to say anything about that lady. Nancy fell into that trap on her own.
@@JustMe-px9qy she literally thought she was safe when she decided to take the stand… all the laughing. She thought people thought she was cute….
'Let's not get lost in the weeds here'.... I love this lawyer !
"Does that make sense?"
"Not really, no."
This guy's awesome 😂
You are now entering: THE NANCY DIMENSION@@WobblesandBean
I would say this case is a piece of cake for him.
I am LOVING this cross-examination. The prosecutor is kicking a**!!
Right? She absolutely loses it towards the end, and crumbled on the stand. And it is glorious to see 😈
I love the prosecutor, he's very on point with her silly excuses and politely pushes her into a corner where realises he's no pushover, great work Sir.
I especially love the way he pauses every time she says something REALLY s†upid. He just lets her own words hang there in awkward silence for her to stew in, and you KNOW Nancy is screaming internally every time he does it 😂
Yes he’s exceptional. His whole approach is quiet, polite, understated, but this hides the fact that he’s sharp as a tack and more than a match for Nancy’s nonsense.
@@WobblesandBean qqqqq
Her attorney objecting with “If counsel is going to be aggressive I ask that he not have a gun” is HILARIOUS. What a nutcase, who the hell would ever hire her. What’s the prosecutor going to do, shoot the witness with an unloaded gun in the courtroom? Total clown.
Her attorney probably knew she was guilty hence the lack of objections during cross. The gun thing was just for show. She has to appear supportive of her client in order to avoid being labeled as inadequate counsel.
@@johnchaulk It's weird, she kept asking a ton of leading questions during direct as well, yet the prosecution only objected once and the judge remained silent. Makes me wonder if they both kept quiet because they knew the judge wouldn't do anything.
That's what I was thinking... Like wtf does she think he's going to do....
There are so many comically absurd moments throughout you almost forget how horrific the whole thing is. It’s nuts
Think about it .. I bet noone wanted to represent her... This attorney probably did it for the publicity, she didn't help her out during the cross examination at all 🤣🤣. But after watching this numerous times.. its probably because she's literally admitting guilt at times without saying the actually words, " i did it" like when she kept saying she doesn't research numerous times. Then when she's being asked about the gun, she researched everything. When she had to say yes. Which showed guilt, she added " with a caveat"
Prosecutor: How did you know it was late at night?
Nancy: Because there was water on the floor.
Like ???????
I have a suspicion Nancy put the water on the floor deliberately trying to get Dan to slip. Just like the week before she unalived him, the shower door just happened to shatter? Really?
Overstreet’s little nod when she blurts out that the slide and barrel from the gun kit didn’t fit the complete Glock. “And you knew it didn’t fit, right?”
He drew that out of her like a surgeon.
Boom 💥
Got her
So smooth. The walk away, he got her hook line and sinker
Wow...she actually said " it's hard to defend yourself against the truth" !
Freudian slip.
I came here to make this same point! The only true words she has spoken in this trial.
I caught that too; and I thought the prosecutor was going to say something about that.
@@asamatteroffact9247 he probably figured the smart jury would catch that because he knew she would do her explaining away crap
OMG Right! I was like wow. But if you listen close to her testimony, she slips up alot and quickly tries to catch herself. I was so glad she was found guilty. The jury seen though all her BS.
"Your friends were successful writers. Not so much you."
Jeez now there's two murderers in that court room.
"It's only bc Amazon has a bunch of actual good authors to pick from!"
“Dan runs a cash business, he sells eggs,
He sells CRAP on the cart.” Mhmm tell on yourself Nancy.
I had to replay that “.crap” part. Unbelievable
Her murdered husband sold small quantities of expensive spices and other items so that his students could afford to buy them for their cooking. He was a kindhearted, generous man, and yet she calls his effort "crap on the cart." That statement shows her true feelings toward her husband. She was with him all those years because she is a lazy, selfish bum, and he was nothing more to her than a meal ticket. When she realized that she had spent every cent they had, and Dan was going to find out, she started planning his murder to set herself up financially. She is a narcissistic sociopath, and poor Dan deserved better than her. It makes me feel good to know that she will never have another cup of Starbucks as long as she lives. I bet she wishes Dan were still alive now!
@@corlisslee7156 This. She robbed Dan of all he had. She changed his life insurance policies so that his son got nothing. She even stole the van she used to do the deed from Dan's parents!
She is one of the most interesting crosses' I've ever seen and it keeps getting better the next day. A typical example of how if a person is telling the truth the story stays the same but when lying they get all mixed up forgetting what they said before, it's classic.
"Did you literally just say you marked it for the police's benefit?"
"He sells crap on the cart."
You can see how Nancy really looks at Dan's lifestyle with these slips of her true personality
Well , he did sell manure…. but yeah, she could have used any word other than crap
@@Scent_Library He sold herbs and vegetables on the cart he took to the school
Right? She was so disrespectful and resentful of the things Dan loved, simply because they didn't bring in the money she wanted. Chef Dan sold his produce for cheap so his students could afford to work with fresh ingredients without having to go broke. It was a labor of love he undertook simply to spread the joy of cooking. And all she can do is call it "crap".
So sad this man suffered with an unsupportive spouse.
@@WobblesandBeanpeople like Dan give so much to the community are a part of. He sounded like such an interesting guy!
2:30:27 Love how she instantly gets “emotional “ as soon the prosecutor calls her out on laughing and joking throughout the trial. 😅😂
I think he meant March 17th. Prosecution lawyer is phenomenal!
I love the prosecuter Mr Overstreet. Very intelligent and a lot of humanity.
I agree completely, through his superb questioning he allowed her to talk herself into a lengthy prison sentence.
@@SugarTots24 Absolutely!
I can watch this case again and again and still notice something new about her mannerisms that read in to what is going on in her mind.. The fact she thought she could get away with this!?!? The narcissism in her speaks for itself!!
I’m rewatching it also, totally agree with you she really did believe she would get away with killing him.
No more lounging on the chair like it's a sofa and you're having drinks with friends.
I really think you're right that they are reading these youtube comments. She's trying her damndest to sit up stiff as a board lol
No jokes and cackling today. Instead we got abrasive, unhinged and someone who I could definitely see getting into a physical altercation with a fellow inmate in jail or going on a rampage. If defense is reading this, I hope that you had the good sense to at least try everything in your power to dissuade your client from taking the stand and she simply ignored your best legal advice. Wow.
@@workingmemory LMAO Yes, first thing I noticed! And yep, as we surmised, defense reads here.
Watching Nancy answer questions when she's not lounging around is quite entertaining!
@@arwenfarrey Yep - dirty eyes. Black eyes.
Ahhh Nancy! Now you remember that you were driving around the culinary school and writing 😂😂😂 another plot hole in your plan!!
17:22 when he pulls the slide in barrel out from that gun kit case... she literally gasped out loud... then he walks away she looks at her lawyers, shrugged he shoulders🤣🤣🤣 this cross is amazing!
Yeah.
And, she's like, "I don't know, there's so many parts."
Shortly followed by Mr. Overstreet's Perryason moment when she suddenly knows very much about that part and how it doesn't fit.
The dupers delight at 2:26:50 right after he says” and is now mysteriously missing” is so telling, it literally made my hairs stand on end. She’s vile in every way conceivable 🤮I just can’t understand what Dan saw in this creature.
Then she squares her shoulders, looks down her nose at him, and haughtily answers the question. What a piece of work.
I read your comment and watched her display of duper's delight and it's friggin chilling!!😳Thank goodness she is in prison.
@@blueneptune825 it’s not duper’s delight. She’s smiling because she’s caught and is trying to minimize the accusation by basically saying - it’s laughable. She won nothing here.
No one can see one good trait about this woman.She looks like George Washington and the sound of her voice is vile.
@@ecalose6785 I dunno, the way she smirked at that moment was unlike any other smile she made. Her face was dripping with contempt, and she only smirked once he mentioned that the gun slide had "mysteriously disappeared". She was so smug and downright evil looking! It could be DD or something else, I think either is equally likely.
"I have eggs and flour in my pantry, but that isn't an omelette either until you put it together" 😂😂😂 no wonder Nancy hasn't cooked in 24 years!! Who puts flour in an omelette 😂😂 I'm waiting for my chef boyfriend to wake up so I can tell him this line 😁
@timonzaa sims I was thinking the identical about flour in an omelette. Gag.
all her blah, blah. blah makes no sense...the prosecutor is letting her hang herself...
Haha! I thought the exact same thing..what a disgusting dish that would be!🤪
😂😂😂😂😂
eggs in pantry?
My God I feel sorry for the person who gets her as a cellmate 😂😂😂
I knew her cross was going to be bad, but not this bad. Yikes.
“I don’t even know how to defend myself against the truth.” 2:28:40 Is that what she said? Did I hear that correctly?
I thought I heard that too! In spite of herself, the truth came out.
That’s how I hear it. It didn’t fit with what she had said just prior. She was a little bit rattled, I think.
I heard that too Oh dear.
Did you hear how shocked she was that SHE had to stand up for the jury too ?? This woman is unbelievable.
@Miriam Felice 53:23. The bailiff says "all rise" and even though you can't see her, Nancy's mic picks up her saying "Why do _I_ need to stand?" She's shocked that court decorum is to show the jury the utmost respect. She clearly views them as being beneath her in importance.
@@WobblesandBean u have good ears lol thanks for pointing that out
@@jborrego2406 You're welcome! This stream is full of little moments like that I only catch on repeat viewings 😂 It's so satisfying to see her crack under the pressure.
Omg same and I’m glad I’m not the only one rewatching 😂
@@juliana76310 Dude I watch this all the time, it's great 😂
I'm writing a story that has a train in it. If anyone has an old locomotive for sale, please let me know. I need to buy it now for research purposes for the two paragraphs that will feature the train. Which i'm not ready to start yet.
😂😂😂😅😅😊
Research
I know a couple train collectors, but I'm sure you'd rather spend your retirement savings money buying the train first; you can talk to actual train experts later on down the line, once you've finished your current book about horseshoes.
The eye roll and sigh at 46:07 tell you she’s a shameless, vapid narcissist. This prosecutor has the power to put your flat broke ass in prison for the rest of your life and this is how you choose to behave on the stand? SMFH.
This! 🙌🏽
She does the same exasperated sigh and eye roll just moments before at 45:26. What a messy person she is, it's as if this is the first time she was ever pressed to complete her "stories" in a timely manner and she is obviously ill equiped and unprepared for the line of questioning. She is as sloppy a story teller in court as she was on paper.
@@trixiemcfly8584 She also does it during the morning cross too, when the prosecutor points out her math was wrong. It's astounding to me that she's fighting for her life up there, but she acts so casual during direct and so rude and hostile during cross!
The eye rolling was VERY CONTEMPTUOUS !
She's gonna be able to write bad prison novels with her solid research inside prison.
Wow. During cross, Nancy took her gun kit, assembled it, put bullets in, held it to her head, and pulled the trigger, without any help from the prosecutor. All he had to do was not talk.
Hahaha best comment
Very best comment! 😂😂
truth
Mr. Overstreet, thank you. You totally rock.😘
Nancy thought she was so much smarter than him, but he deftly maneuvered her into contradicting her own story a dozen times over, called her out on her blatant lies with evidence, and got her so worked up her mask completely slipped off and she showed her true, nasty self right at the end, there. Absolutely brilliant 😂
@@WobblesandBean yes, agreed
The missing slide and barrel is the killer (so to speak). As Mr. Overstreet pointed out, she could have just removed the one from her complete G17, which was exactly like the extra set that she purchased. Why buy another? She even admitted to removing the slide and barrel (which she said was difficult). Why then didn’t she remove the zip tie, which was there only because required by the gun show? Because her plan had been to present the purchased handgun as being in unused condition.
There is only one reasonable explanation for buying a second slide and barrel for a new handgun, then “losing” it. I expect the jury will see through her contrived explanation.
Right? Seems like she and the defense team would’ve made it their mission to hunt down that barrel, get it tested, and prove it was all just an innocent purchase - a toy - to help make her writing more authentic sounding? And NOT a match to ballistics - so law enforcement could get back out there and find the “real” killer.
I'm pretty sure she threw it away to prevent just that.
@@michellev7113Obviously.
I didn't know about the zip tie part. Wow. She really thought she could fool the investigators! Why did she admit she took off the slide and barrel during cross? It's not like she isn't lying her butt off anyway. Is she seriously that dumb?
@WobblesandBean yes.
"The $200 plus, but not much plus"
"That wasn't jealousy, that was proud."
"The old laptop you can't read the screen because it's become lines acrossed it."
"One thing I knew ahead of strong thing"
A career writer, ladies and gentlemen.
“I knew that I had a book on Glocks, and in order for it to work, it had to work the right way.”
This is just too much fun.
You know? 😂
@@PallasAndDove Ahhh...you know? Ahhhh....aaahhhh...
@@PallasAndDove Thats one of my favorite and most obvious on-the-spot lies from her, hahaha
@@juliana76310
And such a well worded lie.
@dormiebasne3578me too. I thought about ordering one of her books, used, of course.
If you listen to this woman’s testimony a second time you then realise how guilty she is
Why did it take a second time lol
When she asked the cop to clear her so she can get life insurance, was when I realized
@@martinharris2400 if she hadn't made that call I think they would have caught her anyway but that certainly shortened the investigation by at least a month
they probably got off the phone and said "it's the wife"
I'm starting to listen again and two minutes in I realize she has an objectionable attitude. Her arrogance blows my mind. It might just be me but she seems to want to control the questioning.
Didn’t take me more than a few minutes to realize she’s guilty AF
I love this prosecuter, it's so funny to me when he sighs loudly with fustration.😂😂😂
I love him too. He totally mops the floor with her. He has this amused undertone in his voice because he knows how ridiculous, absurd, and evil she is. He’s fantastic!
2:47:00 I love this, after six hours of Nancy yapping he finally gets sick of her shi† and won't let her start off on another one of her insufferable monologues 😂
The more I look at her the more I see George Washington. Lol
I just choked on my tea 😂
Ohh too funny 😂
Did she actually say “ I don’t know how to defend myself against the truth”? 2:28:45 That’s one hell of Freudian slip.
Wow!!! I missed that.
She has not controlled her narrative at all. She should not have testified because there may have been a bit of uncertainty about the CC of the van driving around OCI. Her testimony admits it was her. There’s no need for a lying rebuttal witness. NB talked herself right into a guilty verdict today.
@francesca Great observation. Nancy does seem to make Freudian slips on a regular basis. I Think other commenters noticed 2 others in this cross.
@@hoppy6141 Several times she said that she did not kill Dan. She cries about Dan. I could see some people having doubt that she did it. It's still 'only' circumstantial.
She opened the door for rebuttal from the bunkie.
"we heard from a few of your writer friends who are quite successful, lots of published books and make a decent living. um, that's not true for you though, right?"🤯
Haha shes so delusional she had a book signing and nobody showed up.
Perfect. Really annoyed Nancy.
@@joemamma416I’d have paid good money to see that. 😂
The shocking horrible comments NB made about the woman trying to rescue her husband turns my gut into ice cubes. This is what makes me know she is cold, heartless and very capable of this crime.
See 2:36 testimony.
Give me a G for great job scrolling through a couple days to reflect back on this moment.
It showed in a nutshell who this woman is...and it's just haunted me since.
She couldn't even say "Hispanic" or "Latina" she called the young lady "Spanish". How crazy is that? It shows you where her thought process is... racist.
@@frankyzee Actually, since we have a lot of Hispanics here, they do prefer the term Mexican. Just like Native Americans on the reservations; they like to be called Indians. Contrary to popular belief.
Spanish is if you're really trying hard not to be racist. If that makes sense.
@Tour de Dogue She also said earlier that the reason to have a gun is because the country is more diversified now than it used to be. Translation: more non-whites. So, yeah, she's clearly racist.
On top of just thinking it, she thought it was okay to say it out loud to someone. Was that person as disgusted as we are ?
Did that person share Nancy’s feelings ?
So many glowing reviews by her character witnesses is stunning , considering the true Nancy can make such disgusting comments and murder her husband.
“I have a book on Glocks and for it to work…it has to work correctly.”
Thank you Nancy… That was very useful information.
She so confidently incriminates herself.
When she said, “Because I believed I didn’t kill my husband, I didn’t think I was a suspect”, I felt like that was a slip.
Right?! One would think if they killed someone..or didn't they would absolutely know it...
She clearly loves the sound of her own voice. If she hadn't insisted on taking the stand, maybe this would end in an acquittal. The evidence is all circumstantial, and if she'd kept her mouth shut, she might've had a chance.
But no, she's so arrogant she just HAD to tell her story, and dug her own grave in the process. And I love the hit of schadenfreude watching her crash and burn 😂
Yes, it WAS! She must be so mad at her Narcissistic Self for putting it that way. Lol 🤣
@@WobblesandBean She is insufferable! Bless his heart! Who knows how many times that man rolled his eyes to himself. I feel so sorry for his family!
@@catbishop27 right?! And the slip she made.... I can't defend myself against the truth....that one blew my mind...wow
I also think it interesting she never talks about being wrongly incarcerated and also she says " When Dan died" instead of "when Dan was murdered"
I lost my husband at 29 . He took his own life. I was destroyed. I always referred to when he 'died'. I didnt want to have to repeat that horrible reality over and over. I guess with Nancy she didnt want to repeat the horrible reality that she killed Dan.
Yup. Guilty people frequently do that to try and distance themselves from what they did. Chris Watts did the same exact thing when referring to his wife and children he dumped out in the oil fields.
@@lauraditchburn1857that’s horrible, I hope life is better now
Holy, she seems so ANGRY on this cross. It's not a good look because the prosecutor is actually being really calm and kind in his questioning ... it's like she's having a one sided argument where she's the only one yelling.
Narcissists do not like to be questioned, as they are used to creating their own version of reality. And most of the time, in social situations, that's fine because nobody cares enough, really, to cross them over stupid stuff. But in a court of law? Truth stands up under scrutiny. A skilled lawyer, like this one that is examining her, can easily pick apart the contradictions and self-serving statements. He patiently ignores her self-indulgent remarks she makes, designed to make her look clever, or designed to make her look smart - they simply don't matter. This lawyer has no personal relationship with her, he is interested only in drilling down to what happened and when. She almost implodes, she simply isn't used to it.
She wasn't finished shopping either!!!
It is delightful watching her really start to fall apart at around the 2 hour mark. What an unrepentant asshole she is. Love that she just couldn’t stop her babbling mouth and her idiot attorneys didn’t stop her.
@@sh236 fantastic comment. Very insightful.
Yuuuuuup. She clearly thought the jury was on her side after the insufferable endurance test that was her direct questioning, and figured the cross examination would be a victory lap. She's so hostile towards prosecutor Overstreet, and figured (at least at first) that the jury would hate him, too. "How dare that man hassle that poor little old lady!" 🙄
After the plethora of witnesses who painted Nancy as a wonderful, generous woman & part of the Dream Team couple with Dan, I was starting to think this could be tough for the jury .
When Chatty Cathy , aka Nancy, started testifying like she was at a reunion , talking and laughing and catching up with all her friends & family, I really started thinking this was going to be even harder for the jury to convict this woman.
All her excuses for being in various places could even be plausible enough to create some doubt.
Then she adds this whack-a-doodle story of being downtown ( at the very window of time that Dan was killed ) without remembering it , except for the things she does remember & the things she’s sure she would & would not do .
Nancy just talked herself into a probable guilty verdict & she did it with no bra and no phone.
omg - well said! And, you are humorous.
agreed, well put....she's guilty as sin
@@tourdedogue4952 so many admissions - I posted she said the case was solved at 27 m …when she was arrested. The gun issue also makes no sense buying another slide/barrel when the gun show gun was complete …nonsense reason. Still listen as I decided it was so nice here in PDX today that I’d do some much needed potting today. Much more enjoyable than listening to her continual excuses.
@@nycat1485 Have the closing arguments been done- maybe not til Monday. I think it's too early for you to make a verdict. But, I don't think any of us, nor the jury, suffer fools.
@@hoppy6141 I'm fascinated what her story is and who is going to decide her fate. It's a very public story, even Int'l.
What a nutcase - I don't think she ever loved him. All she cares about is herself!
Raging narcissist.
@@barbaragrove6097 I think it's Sociopath. Narc is so overused.
2:32:20 - the switch from weeping to scolding is instant and total. What an intensely creepy woman.
Yup. She's absolutely vile. She fake cries right after being questioned why she hasn't shown any emotion during the trial (how convenient), but she's about as good an actor as she is a writer.
😮
Like Chris Watts, she only decided try to cry when the prosecution wonders why she did not have any emotional response. Sick.
Listening to this woman is like, nails down a chalkboard. She actually believes that people are buying her “story”.
And this nasty evil woman had the nerve to say (in Her own words ) “ the Spanish girl who cries on cue” … Speaking on a jail call about aStudent .. this girl tried saving ( her husband) Dan’s life and was probably traumatized seeing what she saw and did CPR until the first responders arrived. Apparently, in Nancy’s eyes , this girl wasn’t effected by this horrific event . Smh 🤦🏼♀️
Hey KJ! I’m one of your “silent subscribers”. I love your channel!🥰
@@gwenintexas4080 well hello Qwen! I actually have a sister named Gwen! Lol Hope your having a wonderful day! (This Brophy woman is a lying story teller lol)
@@KJintheRAY Well, tell your sister I said hello!😃 Yeah, Nancy Brophy is lying like a rug!! She would have been better off not testifying at all!
@@chickenhead33 Yes, such a hateful comment!
Imagine being so naive like this fool that you talked yourself into a guilty verdict and now behind bars and still believe you fooled everyone.
2:15:33
Now that she realizes she's "remembering" _too_ much for that morning (when she said that she _couldn't_ remember ANYTHING that morning in defense of NOT having killed her husband), she has to change things. VERY VERY IRONIC that she _only_ "FORGETS" the time she went to murder her husband, and NOTHING else.
🙄
2:26:02
Hmmmmm......
Isn't that _extremely_ ironic?
🤔
2:28:05
WOW! This woman is really showing her true colors here
2:28:49
Uhmmm...
_"I don't know how to defend myself against THE TRUTH!"_
Why would you need to defend yourself _AGAINST_ the truth?
2:33:15
WOW!
The way her demeanor changes and gets mad, when she's talking about the woman who LITERALLY tried to save her husband's, life is jarring!
This woman is a real B!
2:35:52
This is so disgusting!
_"crying on cue"???_
She didn't cry when she talked with you, because she was LIKELY trying to not get emotional with you! That's a NORMAL response for people who are TRYING to be sympathetic towards somebody who "went" they something.
Here's a transcription of her last answer, where she tells on herself and "fills in the hole" in her own story. It was part financial, but it was mostly anger and rage. The question remains though, why was she so angry? Did Dan find out how much money she was wasting on excessive life insurance? Did he buy more chickens? Did he not bring her a Starbucks that morning? I need to know!!
(2:51:40)
Prosecutor: My last question to you, Mrs Brophy, is if there was one thing that you know about murder, is it that anyone is capable of doing it?
Nancy: I absolutely believe that.
And I believe that because, once again, if it's your child or the person in front of you, 10 to 1 you will find yourself capable of murder.
I think most people don't murder for flimsy reasons.
I think people get pushed into a corner where they have no other options.
I think people murder because they're protecting somebody they love.
I think people murder, well there's some mercy killings perhaps, where people murder to save the person they love pain, but I think that's rare.
I think people murder in rage.
I don't think people murder because they say, "Well, you know, we'll just sneak down, and do this quickly," you know.
I think if you're gonna murder somebody, 10 to 1 that person knows that you are not happy with them.
You know, I don't think that should come as a mystery. You know, to anybody.
I don't think people murder willy-nilly out of the, just because, you know?
Yeah, financial reasons is a big reason.
But going back to my case, there's not enough financial reason there to make it.
I do better with Dan alive, financially, than I do with Dan dead.
There's no financial gain here. You know, we had solved our problems.
If I turned a book in to an editor, and I said,
"Well, they had a problem here in October of 2017, but they had solved it, but then she murdered him in 2018 when they'd solved their financial problem."
Where is the motivation, I would ask you?
You know, an editor would laugh and say, "I think you need to work harder on this story. You have kind of a big hole in it."
You know, I think people murder out of anger more than anything else.
Basically, Mr. Overstreet was able to work in Brophy’s “How to Murder Your Husband” blog post without saying that she wrote one and thus defying the court’s ruling.
From the blog: “I find it is easier to wish people dead than to actually kill them,” she wrote, according to an archived version of the post. “I don’t want to worry about blood and brains splattered on my walls. And really, I’m not good at remembering lies. But the thing I know about murder is that every one of us have it in him/her when pushed far enough.”
@@arwenfarrey Oh wow, I was wondering how he knew that she was going to absolutely blast off to that question. Sick find!
@@arwenfarrey and yeah, she is REALLY NOT GOOD at remembering lies lolol
Hard to believe she went into that long discussion of murder. I wonder what her attornies were thinking.
@@workingmemory Yeah, she was absolutely telling the truth on that point. 😂
She was “going out in the field” for 3 months out of the year to sell Medicare yet she was “beating up a computer” to the point of needing replacement annually lmao yeah right 😂 she was probably fully depreciating them every year on her taxes
I like how the prosecutor didn't even challenge nonsense like that, he gave the jury enough credit that they'd notice how incredibly dumb she sounded claiming she bought a new laptop every year. It's so obviously not true, and anyone who's owned a laptop would know it was a lie immediately.
02:13:00 to 02:16:00 -ish Watch her body language as she has to *on the spot* _(while trying to remember if she said_ *the same thing to the officers at the police station* _which she knew was recorded)_ *make sure she doesn’t contradict her testimony from previous days.*
The prosecutor *is fantastic❗️* because he asks questions in a way that doesn’t offend her _and more specifically_ people, like the judge and members of the jury, who might think that you should never aggressively interrogate a grandma.
I busted laughing when I read the word "grandma". On point! 😂😂😂😂😂
26:50 Nancy, the researcher and suspense writer, would know that communication with police works both ways. Instead of calling the police to say 'hey detective, I've got my murdered husband phone, laptop and a ghost gun kit... when and where can I drop these off so you can analyze it all. Maybe it holds clues".
Instead she packs it up and labels the boxes? She never called or followed up with the police? I'd be calling weekly for updates. And if I annoyed them with calls I'd ask for email addresses. I'd make sure police hadn't forgotten about my husband. I'd keep them to task to get my family justice.
The detective emails and phones are public info, and there’s a public tipline. So, yeah, Nancy could easily contact Merrill to volunteer information.
That's a good point.
Heeelllooooo!!!! Yes yes and yes
32:03 “mr. overstreet my husband just died I was barely coherent!”
35:26 “mr overstreet I tell long stories even if after my husband died!”
2:05:50 "I wouldn't have driven past OCI without going in to say hi to Dan."
2:07:00 "I obviously drove past OCI without going in, I wouldn't interrupt Dan at work."
Lol she tries to defend the fact that publishers don't want her awful books by saying "publishing changed" and then saying she didn't wanna be published, anyway. 😂
And every book she had in print she spent $ on self publishing. So she contradicted herself there even lol
I might buy one on eBay just to read for laughs, she also wrote the short story “How to Murder your Husband and get away with it”, you can find that one on the internet, they didn’t allow the story into evidence unfortunately
"No one bought my pissant books bc publishing changed! How did everyone in my writing group become successful, even those who started after me? Well, I have a caveat."
How about her diminishing Ms Perez’s attempt to save his life and her saying she was crying for herself and not to mention, on cue! That she thinks that this woman wouldn’t suffer a life time after trying and failing to save a human life. I guess she wouldn’t know because she only knows how to take
To me, it showed how cruel and harsh she could be. She has revealed her true self several times this morning that she is NOT the Pollyanna that she wants everyone to think.
It proves that she’s evil even more.
She said Ms Perez could cry on cue. Prosecutor should have asked her if she could cry on cue.
@@desulliv9 wish he would’ve!
That's SO bad, I cringed! wow - this is her chapter, splayed out for all to see. My jaw has detached from my mouth.
I love how the prosecutor patiently allowed her to ramble and dig her own hole. A fascinating cross.
Her "family" attorney and team did so much work, only to have Nancy Brophy burn up everything on the stand!!! 😮😅
“I believed I didn’t kill my husband” maybe it’s just semantics but that was an odd statement.
So is "I don't know how to defend myself against the truth" 😂
It sounds like she was trying to avoid a perjury charge. They could never prove what she believed at that moment.
She is a knucklehead and beyond outrageous. And singularly unlikeable. Props to the prosecutor.
42:41 Her response to this one question is all that is needed to realize she is guilty. The stuttering and the way she starts the sentence and then changes midway through indicates she is formulating a lie.
"I knew it wouldn't work cuz I read in a book that said in order for it to work it had to work the right way." YOU DON'T SAY?
Her smirk to her attorney after saying "I wasn't done shopping either"...just shows her true colors
Her 2 major tells are saying "you know" and closing her eyes.
"Dan kept a buttload of cash at the house, you know?"
"Did you kill Dan?"
"**eyes closed** No, I did not."
The gun didn’t protect Dan because his wife had it pointed at him while his back was turned…
“Yes with a caveat” needs to be on a T-shirt. She put herself in a cell with that witty attitude she thinks so highly of.
I want one that says, "I like Vernonia!"
Nancy is smirking through the whole section where Overstreet asks about where the slide and barrel is. All the searches they did: the appliances, the walls, Sarah's basement....
The slide and barrel Nancy! Wouldn’t a person make it their life’s mission to come up with that slide and barrel to prove it was NOT part of the murder since that’s what authorities wanted so badly? It’s another awfully convenient fact that the exact part that matches the murder weapon happens to be missing from the prime suspect who was seen right next to the murder scene right during the critical time.
Great point!!
Also, where’s the nightshirt Nancy?
........ and who lied about her whereabouts at that critical time 🤔😉.
Also she talks about waiting for the police to come ask her for stuff, but wouldn't you be trying to give them everything so they could solve your husband's murder?? This attitude of, oh I figured they knew what they were doing, is not what you would do if you were innocent. It's what a guilty person does while hoping the police aren't very good at their job. I would be calling everyday and offering everything I had to help them catch the killer.
it's *so obvious* the slide barrel is at the bottom of the nearest river
When she’s asked about her brother and other family members deaths her voice gets SO soft, almost bearable to listen to-as soon as they ask anything about Dan she reverts back to that loud screech
I caught that, too...
@BrenAndBruiser, I’m so glad someone (like myself) noticed Nancy’s obnoxious, shrill ear drum bursting high pitched lispy voice attempting, & miserably failing at a sense of humor using southern charm. U can easily see why DB lived a separate life from this selfish witch. Imagine hearing that voice day in and day out going on & on about her books and stories..
I haaaaaate her voice, it's so grating! How many friggin' times can she say "you know?"
@@WobblesandBean 😂 I know....ya know?!
@@dudelebowski483 Dan is finally free from her mean, nagging, obnoxious voice and evil, selfish personality in Heaven.
The way she goes from tearful to aggressive is telling
Yeah that was scary….. literally one extreme to the other so quickly, the crying was fake just because he said you ve not shown any emotion suddenly she cries 😂 does she think the public and jury are stupid, when your watching from a distance its so obvious to see how narcissistic she is
Tears no tears I saw
I watch this to make me feel less bad about my life. Then I remember I’ve got to pay bills, pay for food, pay for my entire existence. She doesn’t. 😮
2:15:00 “That’s almost always a prelude to getting coffee.” Isn’t getting dressed and going downstairs a prelude of most everything?
It's a prelude to murder in Nancy's foggy narc mind
The prosecutor also got in there that Nancy isn't a writer. She just calls herself one. She only had one item she didn't self-publish: an essay in 2005 (?).
Nice point.
It's time for Amazon to remove her books that it has up for sale.
@@Patricia-kb5qv Yes! Good idea!
There’s no way Dan would be living out in Vernonia while still teaching at OCI, let alone the Abamer job to supplement their precarious finances. It’s too far for someone who has that kind of job. And when would he have time to garden?
Dan is always prepared…. Next breath she says she took things to OCI 3-4 times a month because he forgot it at home . This is the way her whole testimony went , contradicts the first explanation with the next .Her counsel did a terrible job preparing her for cross . I have a feeling she would have beat these charges if she didn’t take the stand . I wonder if she realizes that ? Probably not
2:51:58 “I think most people don’t murder for flimsy reasons. I think they get pushed into a corner where they feel they have no other options.” OMG anyone who has experienced the homicide of a close loved one, especially a spouse is typically so traumatized by the IDEA of murder, that the very MENTION of it is deeply emotional and disturbing. I can’t believe she has no idea how bad this sounds. Only a murderer would say these things in a discussion about her own husband this way!
For sure, she’s actually sitting there listing off all the types of acceptable reasons for murder, she’s trying to downplay it, almost sounds like she’s trying to insert an alternative plot line? Mercy killing?? Murder to save their loved one pain???? I don’t think people murder willy nilly. I DO BETTER WITH DAN ALIVE THEN I DO WITH HIM DEAD.
@@yeetdontknow
Very good point. Her answer could be entitled, "In Defense of Murderers."