Forsaking All Others: The Real Betty Broderick Story ; Including Prison InterviewsShortly before dawn on November 5, 1989, forty-two-year-old San Diego matron Betty Broderick entered her ex-husband's home and shot the powerful lawyer and his young bride as they lay in bed. Broderick's subsequent murder trial, which ended in a hung jury, was nothing if not controversial - inspiring national headlines and a top-five-rated television movie. Although a 1991 retrial resulted in a conviction on two counts of second-degree murder, the jury again violently disagreed over whether Betty Broderick had committed a crime of passion or an act of cold-blooded murder. Even now, despite years of media frenzy, few people know the real facts behind her harrowing ordeal. Loretta Schwartz-Nobel, award-winning journalist and author of The Baby Swap Conspiracy, gives us the untold story in a provocative, in-depth re-examination of the case - including startling evidence barred from the retrial. Hers is a three-dimensional portrait of a beautiful young woman who became a middle-aged throwaway wife - betrayed, then abandoned by her husband, systematically deprived of financial security, home, and custody of her four children, thrown into prisons and mental institutions and victimized by the unprecedented legal tactics of a husband who at the time was president of the San Diego Bar Association. |
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