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When the news broke in June 2018 that a beloved chef had been fatally shot at the Oregon Culinary Institute where he taught, local romance novelist Heidi Joy Tretheway didnt pay much attention.

It may have been a blip on my radar, she told HuffPost about the death of Dan Brophy, 63, but I wasnt focused on the news at that time.

That all changed three months later, when Brophys wife, Nancy who had once written an essay titled How To Murder Your Husband was arrested and charged with his murder .