Forsaking All Others: The Real Betty Broderick Story

ISBN: B08DBZD7TQ

Author: Schwartz Nobel, Loretta

Condition: New

Combining taut courtroom scenes with the most intimate drama, Loretta Schwartz Nobel explores, through exclusive prison interviews and stunning investigative revelations, the tortured psyche of a woman driven to the edge. Shortly before dawn on November 5, 1989, forty-two year old, San Diego matron, Betty Broderick entered her ex-husbands home and shot the powerful lawyer and his young bride as they lay in bed. Brodericks subsequent murder trial, which ended in a hung jury, was nothing if not controversial, inspiring national headlines and a top rated television movie. Although a 1991 re-trial resulted in a conviction on two counts of second degree murder, the jury again violently disagreed over whether Betty Broderick had committed a crime of passion or an act of cold blooded murder. Even now, despite years of media frenzy, few people know the real facts behind her harrowing ordeal. Loretta Schwartz Nobel, award winning journalist and author of The Baby Swap Conspiracy, gives us the untold story in a provocative, in-depth re-examination of the case including startling evidence barred from the re-trial. Here is a three dimensional portrait of a beautiful young woman who became a middle-aged, throw away wife, betrayed, then abandoned by her husband, systematically deprived of financial security, home, and custody of her four children, thrown into prisons and mental institutions and victimized by the unprecedented legal tactics of a husband who at the time was president of the San Diego Bar Association. The book is more than the chronicle of a toxic divorce or an American dream that self-destructed. It is every womans nightmare, evoking primal emotions from greed to passion to rage, the hunger for redemption. Neither an apology for nor a vindication of Betty Broderick, Forsaking All Others is instead a singular glimpse into the heart and mind of an all too human being as well as an insightful depiction of the complex forces that both bind and separate the sexes.