Lifetime’s ‘How To Murder Your Husband: The Nancy Brophy Story’ Stars Cybill Shepherd

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Lifetime’s latest Ripped From The Headlines movie is How To Murder Your Husband: The Nancy Brophy Story. This movie is based on a recent true story. This movie is about Nancy Crampton-Brophy. She is the romance-thriller novelist who was convicted of killing her husband. Brophy also wrote an essay called “How To Murder Your Husband.”

Starring in How To Murder Your Husband is Cybill Shepherd (Psych, Moonlighting), Steve Guttenberg (The Goldbergs, 3 Men And A Baby), Lisa Durupt (Time For Them To Come Home For Christmas, Kite Festival Of Love), Camille Mitchell (A Dickens Of A Holiday!, A Glenbrooke Christmas), Hilary Jardine (Fire Country, Family Law), Serge Houde (Five More Minutes, So Help Me Todd), Rylea Neveah Whittet (Maid), Aaron Craven (Legends Of Tomorrow, Dolemite Is My Name), Jason O. Johnson (Mythic Heroes, Firefly Lane), Camille Hollett-French (Big Sky, One Day), Kate Mitchell (Resident Alien, The Weight), Sandy Minh Abley (Beast, The Good Doctor), and Kevin Osea (Charmed, Prom Pact).

Stephen Tolkin (House Of Chains, Doomsday Mom) wrote and directed (Conrad & Michelle: If Words Could Kill, Carolina Moon) this Lifetime movie.

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How To Watch How To Murder Your Husband: The Nancy Brophy Story

According to the Lifetime synopsis, “Based on a true story, Nancy Crampton-Brophy  (Shepherd), seemed to have a knack for writing about murder. The Portland-based romance-thriller novelist authored books about relationships that were tumultuous while using seductive men on the covers to lure in her readers. Often, her books featured women protagonists who fantasized about killing their own husbands or fleeing their husbands and faking their own deaths. And then, in 2022 in a shocking turn of events, Brophy was convicted of killing her own husband.”

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When Can You Watch How To Murder Your Husband: The Nancy Brophy Story

The premiere of How To Murder Your Husband: The Nancy Brophy Story is on Saturday, January 14, at 8 p.m., Eastern, on Lifetime.

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Don’t Miss Lifetime’s Chris Watts: Confessions Of A Killer

On Saturday, January 14, at 6 p.m., Eastern, on Lifetime, is another Ripped From The Headlines movie, Chris Watts: Confessions Of A Killer. This stars Sean Kleier, Ashley Williams, Brooke Smith, April Telek, and Chloe Van Landschoot.

According to the Lifetime synopsis,  when Shannan Watts and their two young daughters went missing, Chris Watts went on television begging people to help find them. Shannan was pregnant with their son. They were the perfect family. Moreover, people around the country were actively looking for the pregnant mother and her two daughters.

However, as police started to search for the three missing persons, some dark secrets were revealed. When Chris failed a lie detector test, everything came out.

Watts brutally murdered all three. In addition, he was having a secret affair. This was a shock to the family. No one could imagine killing his family in this brutal way.

Georgia Makitalo

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