Let’s be real here. Many men use and abuse their wives, tearing them down emotionally and mentally (sometimes physically). He pushed her to have four children even though though it almost killed her. He cheated, he lied, and felt entitled to control her even after he moved on with someone else. We all have limits. Treat others the way you want to be treated. If he had done that, he’d still be alive. Oh well, another selfish cruel asshole bites the dust.
Dan used Betty's body like a children's factory and wasn't very pleased with her decision to actually do something else than just having children. He also used her as a training buddy during his college years to help him pass his exams. He used her confidence in him to go out and build his business. He used her good taste to finely decorate his offices. He used her motherly skills to raise children that didn't become thugs or drug addicts. Basically he sucked a lot out of her and she had no reason to believe that would one day collapse. He and the kids were her main support system. It seems her parents were rather critical most of the time. Dan really took everything from her quite happily so. She had absolutely no more support system. Once I was told: "never enter into a fight with someone that has absolutely nothing to lose". Dan took everything that made her a balanced person, so she became that person that found herself having nothing more to lose. You never know what you are capable of until someone pushes you so far that you snap like never before. Think you know yourself? Well you don't, really.
No excuse for murdering people but when you are a high profile lawyer and you have the local judges and lawyers on your side you don't stand a chance. I think they drove her over the edge.
The young lady Dan married pretty much dug her own grave when she started messing around with a married man with 4 children. Though I am not condoning nor justifying Betty's behavior killing Dan and Linda. It's reality.... Fooling around with married people is playing with fire... you get burned... sometimes burned to death.
Call her what you will but Betty didn’t start off a killer, crazy, vindictive. Behind every crazy women there’s a man who made her that way. Don’t use and mistreat people.
Why is this woman still in jail?? Just goes to show she was absolutely right. Unbelievable how several higher profile cases allowed very obviously guilty murderers walk free. Quite sickening.
I’m reading the book “Until the Twelth of Never” and what Dan and Linda did to Betty would have driven any woman mad. He abused his power as a prominent attorney to do whatever it took to push Betty to the limit where she saw no other way to end her suffering. She was fighting a losing battle constantly, the whole legal system was on his side. I’m sorry they died but they were an evil couple.
Dan Broderick used Betty! used her for support while he pursued HIS life dream, a cook, a cleaning lady, a baby factory, sex, money...then he dumped her, and took everything away from her using his legal power, then kept digging the knife in. No wonder this woman snapped. She's paid her dues!
Betty Broderick and the infamous San Diego murders