Broderick then claimed that she was simply standing up for all the first wives who had been replaced by so-called trophy wives. One of the best was Betty Broderick: A Woman Scorned, about a first wife who shot and killed her ex and his new wife.
But I’ve always loved those movies, and not in an ironic way. This is the Waco I knew, not the one on HGTV’s Fixer Upper.Ī lot of people use the term “Lifetime movie” as a catch-all (and pejorative) for a certain kind of television film, usually those that center on women and crime. Hall’s stellar reporting illustrates how the case continues to haunt everyone connected to it, and raises the possibility that an innocent man was executed - something the district attorney, who declined to be interviewed, vehemently denies.
The 25,000-word piece, the fascinating result of a yearlong investigation, forced me to question everything about a story I thought I knew quite well. While it’s technically not a book, it’s practically book-length. Flash forward to 2014 and I’m back in Texas for my book tour when Texas Monthly publishes “The Murders at the Lake” by Michael Hall. It was long believed to be a case of mistaken identity the working theory was that a convenience-store clerk had paid men to kill a young woman on whom he had an insurance policy, and that the hired killers screwed up. I started my newspaper career in Waco, Texas, and was working there in 1982 when three teenagers were killed in a particularly sadistic homicide. “The Murders at the Lake,” Michael Hall, 2014
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