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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand why her parole keeps getting denied when she's served her full sentence and apparently been a model inmate who's done a lot of good in prison. Criminals with far worse records serve less than 30 years. If she's allowed out under house arrest, living with one of her children, what danger does anyone think this senior citizen would pose to society? [/quote]

A lot! I wouldn’t trust her to not pull a gun on me if I pissed her off for whatever reason. [/quote]

If she's under house arrest and the parole board stipulates no weapons in the house? Don't think you, or anyone else, would have anything to fear.[/quote]

Do you want to have Betty Broderick as a neighbor? I’ve lived next door to two different older divorced women who didn’t kill their exes, but I’m certain they seriously thought about it. One actually was committed for a while after she trashed a neighbor’s house. Their sense of victimhood and anger permeates everything they do. My husband is older than I am, and we are well off financially (more than half the money is mine, fwiw) and I guess that triggers them, but they constantly try to pick fights with my husband over nothing. One of them told one of my family members that my husband is unstable and he beats me. He just refuses to engage with them, which makes them even more crazy. I worry that the one we live near now will do something. I have several other neighbors who are older divorced ladies who are quite normal, btw.   I wouldn’t bet on the murders being the only manifestation of this lady’s craziness.[/quote]

This! The problem with someone like Betty is the total lack of boundaries and self-awareness. If she can murder two people in cold blood, the father of her kids, included, where do you think you’d stand? Plus, In her 70s, she wouldn’t have much to lose and it is clear that prison didn’t deter her from committing her offenses. People who defend her wouldn’t say the same if it had been Her ex-husband who shot her dead in her sleep. Why does she get a pass for being a privileged white lady? [/quote]

Because she was an *abused* privileged white lady. I don't think she'd bother anyone at all if under strict house arrest, do you? But it doesn't matter what I think. Given the severity of the crime and lack of remorse, no parole board will release her. Until she experiences serious health problems and possibly a compassionate release at that point. Either way, she'd be under house arrest and wouldn't be interacting with anyone other than family and friends in a confined space.[/quote]

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