(Portland, OR) -- Proceedings continue today in the murder trial against a romance novelist accused of murdering her husband in Portland. Nancy Crampton-Brophy is accused of shooting and killing her husband and popular Oregon Culinary Institute teacher and chef Daniel Brophy in June of 2018. During opening statements yesterday, the prosecution contended the couple were in financial distress and that Crampton-Brophy took out ten life insurance policies on her husband worth one-point-four million dollars. The defense attorney says Daniel died too young and that the policies would have been worth more later. Before Brophy's killing, Crampton-Brophy wrote an essay titled "How To Murder Your Husband." The judge ruled the essay could not be admitted in court. The trial is expected to last about a month.