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Sorry to all the Betty supporters, but I can't defend her in this case.

posted 13 years ago by Goodman12
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*Spoilers Involved, maybe*

I know how you guys feel about Betty being hurt in this case, but she killed two people in cold blood. That's not an excuse for her to commit murder. Not only that, but she wasn't thinking about her own children &/or grand children that she had while doing that. Even one of her own daughters asked her to turn herself in in the beginning of the movie. One wonders why didn't she take the high road out & to find some other guy that will make her happy?

When it comes to being in love, from what I read in here, that Dan & Betty weren't truly in love at all. And if this was the case, why continue to be married to each other, or to stay together at all?

[–] KomikBookGeek 13 years ago

Pretty much. She may have felt wronged - Dan may have even ACTED wrong but nothing she did was called for.

[–] lilypad183 13 years ago

"Dan may have even ACTED wrong but nothing she did was called for."

komik,
a narcissist doesn't do anything except to take care of herself, betty didn't care about anyone else, that's why she treated the children the way she did.

a narcissist thinks everyone else is wrong so she didn't kill herself and killed dan and his new wife.

dan did nothing wrong but move on with his life and away from betty.

[–] KomikBookGeek 13 years ago

He had an affair - I count that as wrong. He should have simply divorced her when he realized he didn't want to be married to her and I would find him blameless. But unless you have an open marriage - which I have no moral objections with - then having an affair is wrong.

But he didn't deserve to be harassed or murdered for it. At all.

[–] blacknyellowsquid 13 years ago

Yeah I'm a little disturbed at how many people are defending Betty. People are going to adandon and reject you and lie to you and betray you throughout life. It happens to everyone. But that doesn't give you the right to MURDER them. You just have to move on and away from the toxic people and find a way to enjoy life again. The main point is, just becuase YOU feel slighted does NOT give you the right to take someone else's life. It could get really out of hand, then. Oh no, someone just took my turn at a stop sign *blows brains out* I mean, come on. A human's life is always worth more than someone feeling slighted. The only times I feel more sympathetic would be a revenge type killing, like, if someone murdered your kid, then you want to kill them etc. Still not 'right' but at least is a little more sympathetic.

[–] blinkysmom 13 years ago

Y'all would do well to read the real story of what happened to Betty Broderick and not this villianized version of the truth.

She snapped. Yes, murder is wrong, but she snapped and if you knew the TRUE story and not this pansy-assed version of the truth which is to practically canonize Linda and Dan (makes me want to puke) you would understand some of the 'Betty supporers' points of view.

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[–] mickeymsb 12 years ago

I am watching the films and it didn't show he was having an affair, but spending time with her. Which some people can call an emotional affair, but in any case he wasn't with her until after the divorce. So unless you guys aren't watching the movie then while we are talking about the movie get the thing right.

I know first hand about crazy ladies like this. My mother is one and because of her cold actions my dad is dead. I am the only one in my family that stand up to my mother when it comes to my dad and how she acts. My dad never to my knowledge cheated on my mother, but personally as much as I don't condone cheating couldn't blame him if he did it.

Now with the movie I will say the same as I said about my dad. I wouldn't blame him if he did cheat on his wife. You are being bitched at about every thing and not getting any love and compassion in the relationship department while you are in one. It's the same in every situation. You are getting the shaft you leave and find some place else that will give you the love and support you need. You can say in the movie while he spent a long lunch break with Linda, it never showed them having sex. They could have or could have talked. He needed that.

[–] blinkysmom 12 years ago

The movie is not based on the real story.

It's a b.s. view of the truth. He was screwing Linda long before he and Betty divorced and taunting Betty. I'm not saying murder is right but it doesn't surprise me that she snapped.

The movie(s) are slanted against Betty and make Dan and Linda out to be saints. They were far from innocent. Did they deserve to be murdered? No. But delve a bit deeper for the truth and don't take those movies as fact.

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[–] lilypad183 12 years ago

"Y'all would do well to read the real story of what happened to Betty Broderick and not this villianized version of the truth."

blinkys,
i did read the book. betty was interested in the money and social position dan had and she resented everything about linda.
dan was wrong to have an affair but she cared only about herself, not dan and certainly not her children.

here we are 20 plus years later and she still doesn't feel she was wrong and she still resents losing her social status and not having money. she shows no remorse for killing two people.

[–] blinkysmom 12 years ago

I mean the book, 'The Twelfth of Never' by Bella Stumbo. That's a more accurate account of the real story.

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[–] blinkysmom 12 years ago

Yes, it is wrong. I didn't say it was right. However, she was punished twice; once by Dan and Linda and again by the system. Dan Broderick as a terrible terrible person. So was Linda Kolkenes. They taunted Betty and she snapped. I can understand why. It's not like she got away with murder. She's been in prison for decades. I'm not a Betty SUPPORTER ... I just can understand from the REAL story (not the fairyland versions on t.v.) why she was driven to murder.

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[–] JohnD61 7 years ago

How on earth can you know that book is more accurate? Because it supports what you believe to be true? ROFL

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[–] fiatlux-1 12 years ago

I agree with the OP. If Dan did have an affair, so what?! That makes him a jerk. It doesn't justify cold-blooded murder!
Betty had everything. She killed 2 people because she felt slighted. She is a sociopath.

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[–] hodie 12 years ago

I think we'll live. NO ONE is saying that Betty had a right to kill anyone. But from my own readings about the case (and this movie is completely biased toward Dan's side of the family), Dan and Linda would be alive today if Dan hadn't been such a major arrogant and vindictive douchebag. He kept poking the tiger with a stick, and eventually he went too far. I have no sympathy for him or Linda. I have no sympathy for Betty either. She deserves to be in jail. But I can understand why she did what she did.

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[–] blinkysmom 7 years ago

^^^^^^^^^^^^^ THIS
I believe the book to be more accurate and the movies biased in favor of Dan and Linda. I understand why Betty did what she did. There is plenty of evidence that Dan and Linda baited Betty. Go to the library and look it up - the emotional battering of Betty went on for years. Even after Linda and Dan were married.

http://articles.latimes.com/1989-11-20/local/me-111_1_betty-broderick/2

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