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Betty Broderick: Dans
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Betty Broderick finally flipped. She smashed the bottle of champagne over Dan's work desk, and then drove home. Once there she emptied her husband's wardrobe of expensive tailor-made business suits, took them out into the yard, doused them in gasoline and lit a bonfire. All this was watched by startled neighbours.
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Betty Broderick was born on November 7, 1947 in Eastchester, New York. She was the third of six children born to Roman Catholic parents Marita and Frank Bisceglia. She had graduated from a small Catholic women's college in Riverdale, named College of Mount Saint Vincent from where she got a degree of BA in child psychology.She met her future husband Dan Broderick, at a football game between the University of Southern California and the University of Notre Dame, where he was an undergraduate.
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Elisabeth Anne ("Betty") Bisceglia met Daniel T. Broderick III in 1965. She was 17, a college freshman; he was a senior premed student on his way to Cornell Medical School - and, eventually, Harvard Law School. They married four years later and immediately began their family: the following year, the first of five children was born. One child died in infancy, and Betty suffered numerous miscarriages. Altogether, she was pregnant nine times in the first ten years of marriage.
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Betty was the third of six children born to devout Roman Catholic parents Marita and Frank Bisceglia, a social-climbing Irish-American mother and an Italian father who had founded a plastering firm with his brothers. She attended and later graduated from the College of Mount Saint Vincent, a small Catholic women's college in Riverdale, New York, where she earned a BSN in nursing. Betty met her future husband, Dan Broderick, eldest son in another large Catholic family, at a football game between the University of Southern California and the University of Notre Dame, where Dan was an undergraduate. They dated for some time and became engaged later. Dan's family was initially charmed by Betty's beauty, graciousness, and sophistication.
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Rather unconventionally for a business visit at dawn, Betty let herself into the dark and silent house with a key borrowed from one of her daughters. Quietly she made her way upstairs to Dan and Linda's second-floor master bedroom. The door was unlocked and she walked in, took the handgun from the waistband of her jeans and started shooting at the couple sleeping in the double bed. Linda Broderick took one .38 calibre round in the neck and another in the chest and died almost immediately. Daniel Broderick was hit by a bullet that punctured his lung. He fell from the bed to the floor where he lay drowning in his own blood.
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According to the documentaries about the Broderick case, the movie, and the book, Betty was still harboring resentment toward Dan and Linda for all the ‘wrongs’ they did to her. Betty was still calling herself a ‘victim’. She always seemed to be a drama queen.
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