Happily Never After: Dan & Nancy and audio "comfort food"
the true crime that's worth your time
The crime
On the morning of June 2, 2018, students arrived at the Oregon Culinary Institute to find their instructor, Chef Dan Brophy, dead of two gunshot wounds. His widow, Nancy Crampton-Brophy, was a romance novelist, ish, who juuuust so happened to have written a blog post several years prior called "How to Murder Your Husband."
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The story
Wondery's latest true-crime offering, the six part Happily Never After: Dan & Nancy, drops today after making its Wondery Plus debut last month, and there's not a single unexpected thing here, good or bad…which got me thinking: do we need a phrase like "hotel TV," but for true-crime podcasts or audiobooks?
