Betty Broderick Denied Parole: Could Commit Murder Again if Released
Betty Broderick Testifying at her Preliminary Hearing, 1989
Nineteen years after Betty Broderick began serving her 32 to life sentence for two counts of second degree murder, Broderick was denied parole by a two-panel board in California. When we first wrote about Betty’s parole board hearing we felt Betty should stay in prison due to the fact that she showed no remorse and, that if she got out, she may kill again. The parole board agreed.
From the St. Petersburg Times:
Board of Prison Terms Commissioner Robert Doyle, who delivered the decision to Broderick, told her he had never seen an inmate who had made so little progress in acknowledging what she had done.
“Your heart is still bitter, and you are still angry,” he said. “You show no significant progress in evolving. You are still back 20 years ago in that same mode. You’ve got to move on.”
And,
Deputy Commissioner Carol Bentley echoed her colleague’s concerns, saying Broderick could commit murder again if she was released.
In Betty Broderick Seeks Parole: Sociopath or Screwed Ex-Wife?, we posted Betty’s four different versions of what happened the early morning of November 5, 1989, when Betty’s ex-husband Dan Broderick and his new wife, Linda Kolkena Broderick, were shot dead while they slept in their suburban home.
Dan and Linda Broderick
We also posted some of the horrific things Betty did to her children in her quest for revenge against Dan, Betty’s “real” deal in the divorce, and the way Betty really felt about having custody of her kids.
Betty’s lack of remorse beginning from day one, the other crimes Betty committed before she killed Dan and Linda (see link), and the fact that Betty had told several people she was going to kill Dan and Linda, were, in our opinion, reasons enough to keep Betty Broderick behind bars.
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