i was born and raised in san diego, and i passed that house plenty of times, its in a hoity toity part of town, very expensive but its beautiful! i didnt know that it had been that house until i read about it on FAD!
i was so exited when i found out.
Cue the Twilight Zone music!
Abused wife or cold blooded killer.....I think she was a cold blooded killer not to mention a loon.
I am watching the movie now and didnt see a thread..sorry if i missed it
Cold blooded killer and the biggest bitch I've ever seen. Man..what a mouth on her! Her ex was no angel and he should have seen it coming. I think I would have. Taunt a rabid dog, they're gonna kill.
I think Betty was unstable--whether Dan drove her to it or not is beside the point to me. LOTS of spouses are mistreated in unspeakable ways, but that never (IMHO) justifies homocide, outside of self defense. We may all find his behavior repugnant and cruel, but he didn't deserve to be blown away in his bed while he was sleeping--in the safety of his own home! Betty needed professional help to work through her rage, but didn't seek it. It wasn't Dan's responsibility to get her to a shrink! And the cruelest thing of all was that she took the children's father away from them.
My personal verdict: cold blooded killer.
I watched this show a couple of times. I think ole Dan was one cruel person, and he underestimated just how much crap he could dump on Betty. She snapped, and he and his trophy wife are gone forever. Karma is a bitch!
i love the betty broderick movies~ i have always been on the fence when it comes to this case~
[SIZE=3]I don't feel sorry for any of them,except the kids.Can you imagine living in that hellish situation as long as they did?[/SIZE]
I agree with all that. Those poor children! I understand the drive to get revenge on the man, but she clearly lost sight of what should have been her priority: their children. Her best revenge would have been to get her head back on straight, through therapy and maybe short term meds, if needed, and get on with her life. Given his track record, she probably could have said "told you so" to the new wife in a few years when he traded _her_ in for a younger model!
Betty is a hard call as I have seen the movies and done the books ect. At the begining your like "you go girl" fighting back and all against a man that took all she had then threw her away for a younger bimbo. But then their came a time of course when Mrs Wacky crossed the line and all sympathy went out the door for her. As for Dan I think he was as big of an ass as she was at the end. Did they deserve to die absolutely not, should someone have straight jacketed Betty absolutely. I also think the only victims in this sad case were the children. Incidently I did see pictures of her sons recently don't remember where if I can find them again I 'll post the link, but both the boy's are very nice lookin.
Also anyone else think the resemblence between Betty and Merideth Baxter was just freakin freaky OMG coulda been twins!!!!!
I totally agree. Both of them were wrong in things they done and said - especially when it came to using the children to fight. Betty absolutely went above and beyond.........leaped off the deep end.
Have you seen this link?
http://bettybroderick.com/
Last edited by Darrianne; 10-25-2007 at 08:37 AM.
Found this picture of Rhett Broderick, the youngest son, on Oprahs website....
http://www2.oprah.com/presents/2005/..._350_305.jhtml
Oh yea have gone through that website, she's still in the land of the Wacko's. At the end of the day she took two human beings lifes and should be punished no matter how she justify's it. I guess in a way I can see how the emotions and loss of her life and family just as life was getting good for her could push someone over the edge. But boy did she sure jump off that edge big time!!!!
That would be the picture I saw of the son, nice looking boy and does seem to have adjusted and moved on......to bad wacky Betty didn't try that aproach first.
I never have been able to summon much sympathy for Betty....she may have been wronged....but that is no reason to become a homicidal maniac. The ones who suffered the MOST are her kids. It seems to always be the kids who get the shitty end of the stick....especially in nasty divorces.
i agee, betty shouldn't have resorted to murder, i never believed her i was gonna kill myself in front of them bull~ as a mother i feel mortified at how the children were used & abused during all of this, betty especially~ but i can see where she would snap, after helping put him thru both law & medical school, raise what was it 4 kids, she had like 2 miscarriages~ all to have him go for a younger version like she once was~ i also think dan wrong or not, betty pushed him there, w/ how hard she was to live w/~ betty says they were mocking her, w/ their new great life~ but then you hear how betty was a golddigger, even called that by her friends~ she sounds as if she was always sort of bitter & totally nagging & bitchy~ remember when they said she threw her own feces all over in jail?~ i mean scorned woman or not, who does that?~ i have never thought she was mentally ill, just really pissed off~ the messages on the answering machine at dan's were beyond belief~
they were not a match made in heaven~
I agree, there are several LMN movies that I am completely addicted to... These 2 are up there on the list.... Guilty pleasures...
Betty is where she deserves to be. I do believe that she has been sentenced more harshly than others in her situation. Partially because of Dan's position in the legal community. I certainly don't think Dan and Linda deserved to be killed, but Dan was no saint in the whole ordeal... He manipulated the legal system in such a way that Betty went bananas... (and apparently that wasn't a far off destination for her!)...
I do feel the worst for the kids... What a horrific divorce and aftermath... It's a wonder that any of them are halfway normal, to effectively lose both parents... I do find it interesting that Rhett thinks Betty deserves parole... I wonder how the other kids feel about that!?!?
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sorry betty--thou shalt not kill.
loved the movies though.
She's bad tempered, foul-mouth and still seems to have a chip on her shoulder, can't think of anything more freightening then being in a cell with Betty....she's where she should be......we've all loved and lost and painful as it is we didn't kill....
Hell hath no fury.......
she's one hard cookie if you ask me, I understand her anger but it was to the 10th degree and she needed some help, she is in the right place
That woman was a raving lunatic. Not to mention selfish, mean, rotten, and a HORRIBLE mother. I hope they never let her out.
Betty - cold blooded killer
Dan - asshole extreme
Both of them equaled the worst parental team on Earth.
I think people would have more sympathy for Betty except for the fact that the woman just never seemed to "get it". No remorse, and no indication that she really grasps how wrong her 'solution' was.
I have to say, though, I can't think of two people who deserved each other more than Dan and Betty.
The book The 12th of Never (their wedding song) was fantastic. The movie could not hold a candle to it.
That was a good book. It had all the tape transcripts of her phone rants to the kids. Beyond belief....
Dang, when I saw her name I thought the skank had Died!!
She was a damn nutjob in my book!!!
She was like a member of the first wives club who snapped! It goes to show the woman scorned thing at its most extreme!
I feel sorry for her, for what he put her through. She had everything & he took every single thing away from her. He was methodical. He knew how to hurt her the most b/c she had put him through law school & he was an expert.
I agree that she was slowly losing her mind. He knew it & he kept pushing. I think he slowly but surely drove her mad.
Also, I have no sympathy for women who are with married men, that's the worst of the worst. She had something coming to her, although shot in bed while sleeping maybe wasn't it. Betty should have woken her up. Heehee j/k
It really does make my blood boil to think of how Dan treated Betty. Yeah she went oo far, & those phone calls were uuuunbelievable. But again, she was driven to that point by him. I just am so sad people can even do this to each other.
It would appear that BETTY liked to control DAN to a good degree and that once he'd stopped loving her largely due to her constant manipulaton, he moved on to his secretary LINDA. BETTY couldn't deal with that & became unglued. Her resulting behavior having gone from basic manipulation to shrill desperation and ultimately MURDER.
P.S. I was getting really tired of seeing MEREDITH BAXTER-BIRNEY drooling for another follow up segment for her next made for tv movie about BETTY Futtin NutZ BRODERICK.
It probably helped that Linda was young and pretty. Just like Betty had been before she had 4 kids.
To me this is such a sad story. If Dan had loved and cared about Betty, he would have stuck with her and helped to get her help, instead of doing what he did. I guess he figured he had all he could get from Betty.
Betty could have made the best of a bad situation, as many women do. Acted with dignity, gotten on with her life...and probably something good would have happened for her eventually. Perhaps another, happier marriage. At least she would have been free. She was mentally ill, probably all along. There is no excuse for murdering two people as they sleep, including the father of your children. And she doesn't have a drop of remorse.
I agree she is/was mentally ill and she should not have resorted to murder.
However, Dan Broderick was a mean person and threw her away like garbage when he had used her up and he moved on to a young woman who looked just like Betty once had.
Dan Broderick did not deserve to die, but had he decided to handle things in a different way, he could still be alive today. They both could have done things different. That is what is so sad about the whole case.
Lord knows I'm not advocating leaving your wife and children, but sounds like Betty was a handful to live with. They married young, had kids right away, and it was probably a mistake.
The thing is, if you read the book, they might have been young, but they were really in love when they married. She stood by him and worked her ass off so he could attend med and law school and not work. He would never have made it if it were not for her. She bore 5 children. (one died soon after birth) and then he just says "sorry, I found someone new?" Actually, he did not even say that, he lied about it.
No one should have to stay with someone they do not want to be with, but everything I have read points to him using her once he got into college and after.
well, can't argue with your points. I just hate seeing Psycho Betty excused (and in some cases, almost celebrated) for what she did. where there's life, there's hope. Living well would have been a much better revenge.
Oh and I did read the book!
Yeah a very juicy read. I may have to read it again now. Are there any others? I love everything Betty!
You know, I am not sure if there are any more. I might have to google that.
I just found this blog, this gal really hits it on the head, kind of like what you were saying. I have to agree with a lot of what she said.
http://lauralinger.blogspot.com/2006...-and-cunt.html
I think Betty was/is nuttier then squirrel turds
That ahole Dan was as bad as she was. He started all this crap. She did everything from liposuction to face life to please him. I think Linda was nothing but a 2 bit tramp who latched on to him for his money and fame as a lawyer in SD. Linda sent Betty a clipping or clippings about their engagement, and wedding and so on. Well that did not fan that falmes? He litterally screwed her out of the Ca law 50 percent property division etc. That family was her life and he did a good job of destorying what was left of the Betty he married. He used her and threw her away like yestersdays garbage. I don't know how I would have handled her situation. I am a bitch on wheels and I am sure that if I had some man do this to me he may just be pushing up poseys with the tramp he did it with lol I don't know. I don't think she was sane at that time. I think she went off the seep end and the only way she could live with all of this is if they both were dead. Terrible? Well she went nuts and he helped put her there. Her son has forgiven her and loves her and that tells me something. The kids wanted to live with their mother yet he couldn't even let her have that. He was making those kids call the tramp Mom, when they were there,now that would certainly have caused me to do injury lol.. I have no pity for women or men who cheat. Dan played a dangerous game with a woman that became unbalanced and he paid dearly for it. I don't think she is a danger to anyone else either. I agree with her kid. I feel terriblefor the kids,they lost their mother and their father but this kid seems to have fared pretty well.