Betty Broderick on her wedding day.
Posted on 05/10/2026 3:15:17 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
Elisabeth “Betty” Broderick, who in 1989 infamously murdered her ex-husband and his new bride as they slept in the bedroom of their California home, has died at 78 while serving a life sentence.
Broderick died on Friday at the California Institution for Women of natural causes, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation confirmed to People.
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Betty Broderick on her wedding day.
If anyone deserves Hell...
Sounds like the husband deserves it, as well.
Definitely! Although acute and ongoing mental distress can culminate in premeditated murder. She lost her friends, husband, children, home, financial security, legal counsel, and mind way before she killed them.
a law and order episode
Good grief, I think you are right. He was trying to get her to kill herself. He carefully arranged the entire divorce. He even got other attorneys in the area not to represent her. As a lawyer he arranged to take the house, the kids and the money so he could run off with a former flight attendant who was 17 year younger. Nice guy.
There must be something in the water in La Jolla. Dr. Seuss lived their with his first wife but he got her to commit suicide so he could marry. Their stories are similar except for the outcome. The second wife was a piece of work.
https://www.goalcast.com/dr-seuss-wife-helen-palmer-audrey-geisel/
Thank you for the clarity among all the man hate going on.
The NYTimes did a very “interesting” piece about the second Mrs.Geisel
The Times article is behind a paywall but you can read some of the “good” parts here
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/dr-seuss-affair-wife-suicide/
Here’s a link to a very funny reddit thread about Dr. Seuss and even grammar nazis. In the thread a woman claims Audrey Seuss donated many books to her sorority and raised the literacy rate. lol
I don’t know if she got any money for the TV movies, but it was certainly good business to make one movie where she was the victim of constant abuse and another where she was the crazy perp.
According to her.
...and she was the same one who murdered him and another woman.
So... to you, infidelity is grounds for murder.
Knowing women cheat far, far more often, they, like the jury, may disagree with you.
The law of Karma sucks.
nIts simple dependet origination, the way the world works. Conduct sets the conduct of others in motion.Yes, by his conduct he caused Broderick to murder him and his young wife.We all live under the same law of karma, like igt or not.
When karma ripens, like fruit it falls from the tree to the ground of action and its result.
Karma is like gravity.....unavoidable.
He earned his own death by causal conduct.
If anyone deserves hell? I will always let GOD decide who deserves hell. The Ten Commandments are all equal in sin.
You shall not kill. (She did).
You shall not commit adultery. (He did)
You shall not steal. (He stole her home, children, and her life’s purpose)
You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. (Or husband which the new wife did)
You shall not covet your neighbor’s goods. (Which the new wife did)
Yup. The only other trial that held my interest was the OJ trial. A lot of women identified with Betty as the victim. Her first trial ended up with a hung jury. She almost got away with it.
He was a pig. She couldn’t get good legal representation because of his status in the system. All attorneys were afraid to cross him.
Again ... He was a pig in so many ways tormenting and taunting her to cross The Line.
He probably didn’t deserve to die, though.
Yes. He dumped her ass for a younger chickie after she sacrificed her life to get him educated.
“I listened to the heart breaking victim’s impact statement from the new wife’s family, it was terrible.”
Boo frickin’ hoo. They shouldn’t have raised a home-wrecking whore.
Yes. She deserved an award. Maybe she got one I don’t know.
I might be wrong, but I think there was a sequel to the original movie, which had her in n the main role.
“He was trying to get her to kill herself.”
The same has been said about RFK Jr. And she did.
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