This woman was so demented that she wasn't happy she was getting $16,000 a month; instead, she had to terrorize ex-husband Dan and his new wife Linda and ultimately killed the golden goose.
She had everything at one point and wound up with absolutely nothing but a prison term.
Broderick STILL can't admit what she did was heinous.
This is interesting:
Kathy Lee Broderick, 38, said at the parole hearing she wanted her mother to come live with her, even though she still misses her father.
"She should be able to live her later life outside prison walls," she said.
However, her younger brother, Dan Broderick, 33, said his mother was "hung up on justifying what she did."
"In my heart, I know my mother is a good person," he said. "But along the way she got lost. Releasing a lost person into society could be a dangerous mistake."
Another report is here:
The story Betty Broderick told was so compelling it took on a life of its own. It apparently did withstand the test of time as she went before the parole board. Hindsight tends to paint a sharper -- and harsher -- picture.
Betty's version: She was a stay-at-home mom who worked to put her husband through medical and law school only to lose her "Ward and June Cleaver" marriage when her husband fell under a younger woman's spell.
Larry Broderick's story: No, she did not put her husband through school. No, they did not have an idyllic marriage. "Normal people just don't seem to get that murderers will lie to save their skin," he told CNN. "And, did you know that dead people have no rights? A person can slander and libel and say anything they want about a dead person, and you can't stop it."
"What the public sees is the older woman dumped for the younger woman, and they get upset about that and forget all the rest," Sachs said.
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Another famous killer isn't likely to fare as well as Broderick:
The Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out a ruling that had set aside the death sentence of Mumia Abu-Jamal, convicted of killing a Philadelphia police officer in the 1980s in a racially tinged case that has made the former Black Panther an international cause celebre.
The justices ordered the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia to revisit its 2008 ruling that Abu-Jamal deserved a new sentencing hearing because of flawed jury instructions.
The Supreme Court pointed to its decision in an Ohio case last week, when it said a neo-Nazi killer did not deserve a new sentencing hearing on those grounds.
A mostly white Philadelphia jury convicted Abu-Jamal of killing white Officer Daniel Faulkner in 1981.
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Betty Broderick and Muzzammil Hassan should get together to commiserate. After all, he, too, was abused, in his case by the wife he ultimately beheaded.
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The light is dimming and about to go out for songwriter/sexual assault defendant Joseph Brooks if he doesn't come up with some cash--quick--to stay out of jail.
He's now being accused of faking his sickness.
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In Polanski news, Samathan Geimer is not happy about an L.A. judge moving to have Polanski extradited to the U.S.
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