{"id":607,"date":"2026-05-09T22:39:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T22:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=607"},"modified":"2026-05-09T22:39:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T22:39:35","slug":"betty-broderick-convicted-in-1989-killings-of-ex-husband-and-his-new-wife-dies-aged-78","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=607","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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=607\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}