{"id":73292,"date":"2026-05-09T18:56:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T23:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/09\/betty-broderick-convicted-in-1989-killings-of-ex-husband-and-his-new-wife-dies-aged-78\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T18:56:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T23:56:36","slug":"betty-broderick-convicted-in-1989-killings-of-ex-husband-and-his-new-wife-dies-aged-78","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/09\/betty-broderick-convicted-in-1989-killings-of-ex-husband-and-his-new-wife-dies-aged-78\/","title":{"rendered":"Betty Broderick, convicted in 1989 killings of ex-husband and his new wife, dies aged 78"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Broderick was serving a life sentence in California over killings and last month transferred to a medical center<\/p>\n<p>Betty Broderick, who became infamous for the 1989 killings of her former husband and his new wife in a case that shocked the country and inspired movies and books, has died at the age of 78 while still serving a life sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/california\">California<\/a> department of corrections and rehabilitation confirmed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/betty-broderick-convicted-murdering-ex-husband-new-wife-dies-78-rcna344338\">NBC News<\/a> that Elizabeth A Broderick was moved from the California prison where she had been transferred to a medical center on 18 April. She died the following Friday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/09\/betty-broderick-convicted-double-murder-ex-husband-wife-dead\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Broderick was serving a life sentence in California over killings and last month transferred to a medical center Betty Broderick, who became infamous for the 1989 killings of her former husband and his new wife in a case that shocked the country and inspired movies and books, has died at the age of 78 while &#8230; <a title=\"Betty Broderick, convicted in 1989 killings of ex-husband and his new wife, dies aged 78\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/09\/betty-broderick-convicted-in-1989-killings-of-ex-husband-and-his-new-wife-dies-aged-78\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Betty Broderick, convicted in 1989 killings of ex-husband and his new wife, dies aged 78\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}