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Law & Order episode based on what real life case?

Hi. Season 2, episode 2, "The Wages of Love," was based on a famous real life case of a woman murdering her soon-to-be exhusband and his younger girlfriend in their bed. What was that real life case? What was the name of the killer? Thanks.

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  • 9 years ago
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    from Tv.com :

    This episode appears to be ripped from the headlines of the Betty Broderick case. Five years after a very acrimonious divorce in the late 1980s, Betty Broderick, a mother of four, broke into her ex-husband Dan's home and shot him and his wife, Linda, in their bed. In the years leading up to their deaths, Dan and Linda Broderick had felt so threatened by Betty they had even hired guards to protect themselves. Betty was sentenced to thirty-two years in prison

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