Murder
Eight months after buying the gun and seven months after Dan and Linda were married, Betty drove to Dan's house at 1041 Cypress Avenue in the Marston Hills neighborhood of San Diego and shot and killed the couple while they slept. The murder occurred at approximately 5:30 a.m. on Sunday, November 5, 1989, two days before Betty's 42nd birthday. Two bullets hit Linda in the head and chest, killing her instantly, one bullet hit Dan in the chest as he apparently was reaching for a phone, one bullet hit the wall, and one bullet hit a night stand. Dan was 44; Linda was 28.
Upon shooting the gun, Betty turned herself in to the police, never denying that she had indeed pulled the trigger five times. Betty's explanation at both trials was that she had never planned to kill Dan and Linda and her crime was never one that was premeditated. Her account of the murders, at her second trial, was that, that she was startled by Linda screaming, "Call the police!" and, immediately fired the gun.
Linda and Dan Broderick are listed as buried together at Greenwood Memorial Park in San Diego.
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