Christina Randall: The Story of Betty Broderick: Victim Or Villain?

Source:Christina Randall with a look at he Elisabeth Broderick story.

" Elisabeth Anne Broderick is an American woman who murdered her ex-husband, Daniel T. Broderick III, and his second wife, Linda Broderick, on November 5, 1989. At a second trial that began on December 11, 1991, she was convicted of two counts of second-degree murder and later sentenced to 32-years-to-life in prison. The case received extensive media attention. Several books were written on the Broderick case, and a TV movie was televised in two parts. In 2020, an 8-episode miniseries was produced and aired about Broderick. An article about Broderick's case in the Los Angeles Times Magazine led to the production of a television film called (Part 1) A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story, and (Part 2) Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, The Last Chapter (1992), where Meredith Baxter portrayed Betty, Stephen Collins portrayed Dan, and Michelle Johnson portrayed Linda Kolkena. Baxter received an Emmy Award nomination for her portrayal of Broderick. The murder was also dramatized in the season 4 episode of Deadly Women, titled "Till Death Do Us Part." Article Pieces from... 

From Christina Randall

"Eight months after buying a Smith & Wesson revolver and seven months after Dan and Linda were married, Betty Broderick drove to Dan's house at 1041 Cypress Avenue in the Marston Hills neighborhood near Balboa Park in San Diego.[2] Betty used a key she had taken from her daughter Kim to enter the house while the couple slept, whereupon she shot and killed them. The murders occurred at 5:30 a.m. on November 5, 1989—two days before Betty's 42nd birthday. Two bullets hit Linda in the head and chest, killing her instantly; one bullet hit Dan in the chest as he apparently was reaching for the phone; one bullet hit the wall, and one bullet hit a nightstand. Dan was 17 days shy of his 45th birthday; Linda was 28.

Evidence was presented at her trial that Betty had removed a phone/answering machine from Dan Broderick's bedroom so that he could not call for help. Medical evidence indicated that Dan had not died right away, and Betty claimed that she had spoken to him after she had shot him.

After contacting her daughter, Lee, and Lee's boyfriend, Betty turned herself in to police, never denying that she had pulled the trigger. Betty's explanation at both trials was that she never planned to kill Dan and Linda and that her crime was not premeditated. Her account of the murders at her second trial was that she was startled by Kolkena screaming "Call the police!" and immediately fired the gun.

Linda and Dan Broderick are listed as having been buried together, at Greenwood Memorial Park in San Diego." 

From Wikipedia

The old expression two things can be right at the same time comes into play here. A woman can be both beautiful and adorable (take Christina Randall, just to use as example) at the same time. She can be gorgeous and intelligent. She can be a homemaker and a career woman. Someone (man or woman) can be a victim like in this case of her husband being a workaholic, as well as his adultery. But then she can take it too far and not just intentionally murder her cheating husband, but murder his wife, while they're asleep in bed. Which is what Betty Broderick did to her husband Dan and his new wife Linda.

If you watch the literal beginning of Christina Randall's video here, you see a clip of Betty Broderick testifying for herself at her trial and she literally says: "Things just started coming down on me. And I couldn't stand it for another minute." 

I'm not a police detective, not a prosecutor, not a psychiatrist, but that sounds more like a suicide note, than justification for breaking into someone else's home, in the middle of the night, go upstairs in Dan and Linda's bedroom, while they're sleeping and shoot them in bed, with her own gun until they're both dead. 

This is not just a clear case of murder one, but a double homicide here. She planned the murders of two people and then murdered them all. by herself. It's one thing she comes home or goes to his office and she finds her husband having sex with another woman. And then she freaks out and goes crazy with whatever is around her and uses that to murder both Dan and Linda. That would be a clear case of murder 2. And she's probably out of prison right now. But she planned the murders of two innocent people, who represented no threat whatsoever to her physical well-being, her life, or anyone whose around her. 

If America was some theocracy or this case happened down in Mississippi or some other Bible Belt state and adultery was illegal, Dan Broderick is not just guilty here, but he's also guilty and of being a bad husband to her wife. And not talking financially or physically, but emotionally. But America is not Iran or Saudi Arabia and adultery is not illegal anywhere in America. (As far as I know) And besides, this happened in California, where adultery and free love, are actually promoted, or at least encouraged. At least in hippie San Francisco, or Berkeley, or Los Angeles. (Ha, ha)

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