Betty Broderick also a victim

I disagree, there are living victims of Betty's crime. Dan and Linda had families that loved them. Dan and Linda are dead, they will never share another holiday, birthday or special occasion with their families again.

Yes, it is unfortunate that Dan and Linda didn't stop and think about the possible consequences their repugnant treatment of Betty could have. Had they treated her decently they would still be here - spending holidays and birthdays with their families.

Betty murdered two people because her feelings got hurt.

That certainly is an understatement. The constant bullying not only hurt her feelings, it caused her to lose all sense of right and wrong.

Anyone can succeed in life and be happy, especially in North America. It's a choice.

Yeah, right!

Betty was not a victim. The victim's are dead

Betty was very much a victim - a victim of betrayal and mental cruelty - mental cruelty that eventually caused a devoted wife and mother to lose all ability to deal rationally with the Hell that her life became.

Yes...Dan and Linda are victims - victims of the woman they drove over the edge. They indeed played a huge role in their own deaths. They were hateful bullies.

"Even "insane" people are capable of planning a murder (not very well, but...). I don't think there was a lot of rational planning involved. It seems that the most recent legal ruling she got from Dan's lawyer convinced her that she had no choice but to kill Dan and Linda, unfortunately. She obviously couldn't see a better solution."

From Betty's behavior, it appears to me that she didn't really have much control over her actions. Who knows where her head was when she got the gun. She appears to have been wanting to use it on herself sometimes (self hate) and sometimes on Dan. I believe that more than actual planning, she was just swinging back and forth from one extreme to the next. I can see where her seeing them actually together in bed, as husband & wife, being actually faced with them in such an intimate setting was the final straw.

I feel that Betty Broderick was driven to a point to which she had no control. She worked hard to put her husband through both medical and law school, went through pregnancies and raising children, and dealt with the hardship of being mother & father as Dan put in the long hours required of a new lawyer with a budding and successful career. It is pretty obvious that during this time, it was Betty that gave all to her husband & family with the expectation of better days ahead. I can believe that Dan reassured her over & over that soon it would be worth it and that they would reap the rewards some day.

It seems to me that she gave plenty of warning signs that she was near the breaking point, yet no one attempted to help her, especially her husband. In fact, he kept pouring fuel on the fire. Her behavior and her actions up to that day clearly shows that she was becoming less rational and more psychotic.

Don't get me wrong, I don't think she was justified in murdering him and his new younger, thinner, prettier wife. However, I do believe that she sincerely did not plan and plot to murder them. I don't believe her mind was organized and focused enough to plan anything much less carry out any type of plan.

This was not only a crime of passion but also a crime that she was almost bullied into doing by the very people she killed.

Passive, where did you see Dan being controlling, that was all her side of the story, the movie the book, the court case, Dan will never be able to tell his side because he is dead.

Betty chose to be a victim. She stayed locked in the battle for years. She could have walked away and chosen more productive ways of coping. Their are real victims that did not choose to be victims. Linda and Dan had loved ones that are now victims of Betty's crimes.

Dan was controlling true but so was Betty.Betty got Dan through school but that does not allow her to verbally abuse Dan.If you act like evil person people will want to leave you.So Betty destroyed Dan then killed him due to jealousy real nice.She should be executed