CA v. BETTY BRODERICK (1991): Confesses on the Stand
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- (1991) CA v. #BettyBroderick: Elisabeth "Betty" Broderick is being retried for the shooting death of her ex-husband and his new wife, Dan Broderick and Linda Kolkena Broderick. Prosecutors claim an angry and bitter Betty killed the newlyweds in a jealous rage after she and Dan's very public and brutal divorce, in which he reportedly tried to leave her with nothing.
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My mother was left by my father for a younger woman. The torture, humiliation and taunting she endured drove her to deep depression. My mom was financially independent, she was a strong, resilient woman and yet they broke her. Although I don't condone her actions ,I can understand. I never forgave my father for what he did to her.
If a man or woman is truly mentally strong and resilient then no human will break who they truly are-i don't care if I married a woman who looked like Sade and had Oprah money-she lay a hand on me I'm out-period-and I'm not quitting my job over a human-and if a person really love you they wouldn't take that element away from you so take this as a warning sign and advice-never compromise who you are especially for a human-if you were working and had your life together when you met a person then keep it that way, thin line between love and divorce now days. Smh
@@bornstandin 44 and I've live in quite a few states also-even lived in mexico for about half a year, what were you gonna say "oh your young you haven't seen anything what would you know?!?" Lol nah I've been through it all in relationships and have seen it all in relationships.
@@westcoast2889 Nope. My mom didn't murder anyone. Fortunately.
@@that1koolguy Well,life really doesn't work that way. My mom was very strong, but this experience changed her completely. It's not something she could control.
@@that1koolguy I wish I would’ve reasoned the way you put it...it would’ve been easier to get back up and move on
This is what happens when you make a man your whole life and not have one of your own. Her whole identity was wrapped in being a wife and mother. Being shut out and betrayed drove her mad.
She was apparently never a good wife nor a good mother according to people who knew her! She is a true narcissistic human being! She put herself firs!, before anyone in her family! Burning his clothing, throwing a large piece of equipment at him because he brought the kids home later than she wanted him to from taking them out for pizza! This woman has no self control if everything doesn’t go her way! It!s disturbing and very sad for her four children
Yes.
Dam a very great comment. I like this . Because a lot of women push there dream back to satisfy a man . When that all he wants n he move on
It was her Catholic upbringing.
Yes agree after watching tv drama series (I know a lot is fictionalised) she was just besotted. I would have done my hardest to fight for those kids but money does control many factors & he had the money
I had an ex-husband who had overwhelming power over me and my children. It was truly devastating to me because I was at his mercy. The worst time in my life.
You go girl!!!!!
Yeah, but you didn't go and shoot him. So you're better than Betty Broderick.
I'm sorry
People can suck so much.
I hope you're so much more healed now💖
But Betty Broderick wasn't, she was a narcissistic sociopath
Um, yeah - she committed double murder and is leaning on that as an excuse. And making a fool of people like you who empathize. You didn't murder two people. And she was such a great mom, she killed her kids' father, who was also their primary provider. Nice.
Anyone in her situation: the best revenge is to get yourself a glow up and enjoy your life! That’s what Betty should have done as well. It wasn’t as long as she was at all, but I was in a mentally abusive relationship. I built myself up, and by the time he tried to come crawling back, I wanted nothing to do with him.
You are exactly right! She should have sought therapy, played nice and taken his butt to the cleaners!
Absolutely great plan and fully agree. But what people (not you here I mean) underestimate in this case is the response of trauma is different for everyone. Not everyone has knowledge of the psychology and how the brain is working, and how the trauma process is working. Betty’s mind couldn’t deal anymore with consequences of permanent non stop years after years narcissistical abuse.
Considering the 80s years the society knew so few about narcissism and its influences on people’s mind and behavior. As well we dont have to forget that perception of the marriage in 80s was much way another compared to nowadays: women like Betty were programmed to be a Wife, sacrifice herself for family, lacking self love and personal interests as well.
By the way, having 4 children was a lot initiated by Dan, - one of the narcissism tactics to make victim dependent, moneyless & overloaded by family responsibilities not to develop or grow as personality.
Another remark: many write about Betty’s obsession about Dan etc. this is common posttraumatic syndrom from narcissistical abuse. Many years the neurons of the victim will be trained to turn around the narcissist partner. When the partner leaving the victim literally collapsing, Betty was fully dependent on narcissist partner not only about money but what is much worser emotionally. Her head will be turning around only about this. Its a heavy deep traumatic codependent connection.
She couldnt get any psychological help because at these years there was no profis specializing about narcissistical abuse. Nowadays therapists know technics to break neuron connections to stop ‘turning around syndrom’ of the victim.
She was traumatized to such a point that even went into dissociation while on crime scene. Before dissociation happens the trans/stupor reactions that may last for years. This woman’s brain couldnt handle anymore many layered traumas & collapsed.
Some would collapse by hurting themselves, others would fall into escapism/drugs/alcohol etc, others would hurt their abuser etc, - depends on its own survival instincts that we have from our generation/father/mother/grandmother etc.
I could write so much yet on this all. For instance suffering of Betty was giving to Dan the very known termin in narcissistical terminology so called ‘narcissistical resource’. When ex-victims glow up and enjoy their life, abusers often cannot deal with it.
Linda could be as well his victim (not a fact), raised by Dan’s programming. They often do triangulation, he could as well gaslight Linda and she started to support abuse of Betty unconsciously. Who knows, maybe one day she would face with the real face of Dan as well.
So happy for you you build yourself up. This is the best punishment for them 🙏🙌😊💛
Is that a picture of you? Your are so pretty. Why?
I've been in the same situation. You're absolutely right! Living a happy life is the best revenge.
Happy that life worked out for you. But not everyone can be clear minded in the midst of emotional turmoil, especially when things come one after another, too quickly for one to process it or even adjust to it.. and she had been keeping at this for almost 20 years, she can't change her mindset so quickly... this happened to her in the 80s... society and family were not as supportive or accepting of single women in divorce..
When the hate for your ex is greater than your love for freedom.
and greater than your love for your children..
sickening.
At least she's not feigning remorse.
@@Time_to_Stop_Animal_Cruelty Because she's a cold hearted selfish narcissist.
@@Time_to_Stop_Animal_Cruelty maybe she should. it's what grown-ups do - unfortunately she has the emotions of a toddler.
No better way to sum this up !
If she had made better choices, she could be enjoying her children and grandchildren. No man is worth going to jail for.
After the murders. They were finally left together with love happiness and are finally in a place of absolute bliss in the after life she did not win this he found a.. Beautiful gorgeous wife who are now together forever God bless them his ex wife,., ac hievd..
Nothing in the end she is a sick sick woman 9pm
Dan and Linda didn t make the best decisions either.
Easy for you to say. No one can judge her until they have walked in her shoes.
@@kennaevans1187 puuullleeeaazzee!!!! Millions of women (and many men as well) go through what Betty went through WITHOUT $15,000 A MONTH and a $650,000 paid for Ocean View house (that she was given by Dan) and resorting to DOUBLE MURDER!!! How can so many people be so stupid?!? She wanted Dan. If she could not have him, than no one would. So she killed him and his new wife. This is NOT rocket science!!
@@helenal.7881 she didn’t want Dan in my opinion. Her ego was bruised because he found someone younger. She was just a jealous narcissist. She had a man and he still wasn’t allowed to be happy.
This woman just couldn't let go of Dan😢 For $16,000 a month...I would have said, "Adios Dan!"
My sentiments, exactly. Plus, with the added benefit of a young step-mommy (who likely felt the need to put her best foot forward for the first several years) that could step in and take care of some of those mothering duties, too? Hell, yes!
I recently watched one of the movies and I thought the same thing. I would’ve gotten my real estate license and made a killing selling all those rich ppl houses throughout La Jolla. But emotions are a fck of a thing aren’t they. Damn.
Right? That was probably more like 32k a month back in the 80s. She could have taken a lot of girls trips and paid for a whole lot of therapy on that kind of allowance.
I'd have paid someone to get my now-ex out of my life.
I think it was all ego! I saw the movie. She made the biggest mistake with the kids. She would have gotten $100,000 in child support per month for four kids!! She could have gotten another man! She’s not ugly!
I know how this woman felt. It happened to me. My wife cheated and got pregnant and i was working alot and didnt see it coming. I never thought she would do that after 18 years.
I had terrible thoughts about what i could do to them.i had to get rid of all my guns. But i didnt do anything. I went about my way and made a new life. I built myself up better than i ever was. We still live in the same small town. I remarried a beautiful awesome woman. When i see them it doesnt bother me and i cant even believe that i was attracted to her. I totally changed. Im not the person she did that to anymore. That guy died when she did what she did. Hes gone. I know bettys pain but you cant kill people. Just keep living and all the hurt will go away. It takes time. The hardest part is the kids.
What I find difficult to conciliate is her high catholic principals and her vengeful behavior. She went thru a lot, and I sympathized, but what is her defense? She assassinated two human beings with all the aggravations of the law.
@@socorromedrano7399 Yeah she lost her mind. I think being Catholic made her feel like she had followed all the rules so to speak and yet he got to move on while she was punished. She couldn’t leave it in God’s hands to judge him. Really blinded by her rage. So tragic.
The best revenge is to move on and live your best life! Being a single mom that’s rich is not bad! It’s not life he left them on welfare! She could get a new man.
same here, my ex cheated on me. I think is my fault because of childhood trauma tat i could not hold on to love. I was angry and i kept all the sharp object in the bed room. we separated for 17 years and eventually divorce. i recognised my mistake and we are in good term now but as frd. I remarried and cherish my husband.
You handled a horrible situation totally right, you are awesome😊
This was never going to end well. Nobody won. I really do think she's content knowing they're dead & not enjoying life, having kids etc.
Yes, it was worth it to her, I believe.
You hit the nail on the head. She’s glad they’re gone. Doesn’t care what it did to her kids. I know how hard it is to be abandoned in a marriage. It destroys you on so many levels, but in the end, you were left by a selfish person. Good riddance. If she had just focused on the kids her life, in the balance, could have been happy. But instead, she hated Linda more than she loved her kids. Dan loved Linda more than he loved his kids. So sad.
@@cher4561 I've read that Dan checked out of the marriage before Linda came along. According to the Broderick kids Betty was a lot to deal with. She kept threatening to divorce him, she just didn't think he'd call her bluff. What I don't get is why Betty didn't leave them alone, she had a boyfriend so why bother with them? Hell her boyfriend was there at her trial with Betty's daughters
He wouldn't have had much to do with any new kids either.
@@My3Sons333 which proves what a sick twist she is.
Nothing is more devastating than a husband who cheats then ends up marrying the person who you have all along suspected he is cheating with.
Do you think he decided one morning that he was going to cheat on Betty?
@@mikee9673 No. He cheated many nights. Linda was not the first. He just happened to fall in “LUST” (corrected) with this home wrecker.
That does not justify MURDER, crashing a car into the house, TRESPASSING in to a home that is not yours, spray painting walls, LEAVING HER CHILDREN WITHOUT A PARENT, burning his clothes, etc. LOVE YOUR CHILDREN MORE THAN YOU HATE YOUR EX
I would say having your father murdered by your mother is more devastating than a cheating husband, by FAR.
You do not think it is more devastating having a mother that kills your father? Wow.
My mother was married for almost 25 years to a man just like dan. Made her quit school and be a homemaker and mother. Controlled everything and her whole life was centered around him and us. He threw her out one day (because he had been cheating and lying about it) and moved a new woman and her kids in within a few months . My mom died heartbroken and penniless and he didn’t care at all! He gave her a lump sum of money and continued paying for her car when he kicked her out and then refused to talk to her ever again. My brother and I hated him for this. Money and status was and is everything to him and nothing else matters. When my mom got cancer he didn’t give a damn and it was my husband that supported her and her bills during that time. I promised myself I would never ever end up like my mother but here I am doing the same exact thing and praying my husband doesn’t do what my father did. I would lose my mind!!!
I had a husband to the exact same thing to me also. I can relate very well to how Betty feels. I was literally kicked out on the street after my husband said Marianne will be sleeping in your bed tonight. And she was.
Try to have a vocation and part time job to stay current in the job market. It’s very important no matter what happens
@@cherylb2008 that really is the best advice and every girl should do it!!!
Your mother chose the life she lived. Sorry, if she was not happy, she was to blame. Nobody is in charge of your happiness except...no one is to blame for your misery except you
So sad, I'm so sorry, that must have really hurt you, God bless.
I used to work at a Dollar Tree, in Florida, and a lady came in once, and she was buying a bunch of stuff to mail to Betty. They were pen pals
This is a woman who felt thrown away when Dan left her…. I hate she killed him and his wife. I wish she would have had strength enough to heal and move on in life…..
Some women can't handle rejection. She's a narcissistic loser locked up in prison where she can't hurt her children any more.
@@wildyblissjazz Anyone who is rallying for her to get out should also be forced to take her in. Let's see how comfortable they are with a double murderer staying in their house. Never know what might trigger [in the words of a fellow yt commentor] "Betty Bang Bang" next.
@@fleckcadeau2382 HA I agree I would not want her around
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@@fleckcadeau2382 they would be perfectly safe if she moved in, the object of her obsession & ultimate demise is dead, the woman that took her husband is dead, she may love her children but she also felt perfectly fine choosing not to be with them or see them, she has no reason to cause harm to anyone now, she isn't a serial killer she took care of every problem she was having, she handled it, in no way would she be feared
She hated him more than she loved her children…I get her anger but she could have had a great life and hit him where it hurts…his pocket book.
Exactly!!!! What he pulled was shitty yes 100 percent…. But had she been able to get hold of herself early on she really could have had a beautiful life and who knows what man was in her future
And “ thinking I have got to make this stop “ “ I can’t be at his mercy anymore “. She needed to STOP and let go of the fact of getting her way or revenge !!!! I do understand her anger but grow up
She loved him and her ego more than she loved herself. Her children had no place in here. She loved him mindlessly. Pushing herself to her limits, putting up with everything she had as if she had no other option. It was all a bad habit she couldn't switch her mind out of. So when love turned to hate. She lost all control.
She went crazy with rage.
@@usermc1234 Yes, you're right. Her ego was way out of control. Her ego destroyed her and her family as well as the other woman.
My sympathy is for the children so incredibly sad.
Likewise. I know Betty was hurt but she should of had her children in mind . They're the real victims.
i get so angry when people badmouth the oldest daughter and say "Just wait till it happens to her" How about wishing her some healing?
I agree. To lose both your parents, is so sad. One to murder and one to incarceration. I can't imagine those poor kids pain.
@@keithabney4665 loping iiiiì
I feel bad for them but either parent looked out for the kids interest. Cheating on your wife will effect your kids as well.
Tip to ladies: if you get dumped, MOVE ON, do not kill your ex.
I mean, play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Careful who you push, taunt and destroy. Might just end up costing you your life someday.
IF YOU MURDER 2 PEOPLE YOU GET CRITICISM. @@jessabellgenesis
Preach to the sociopaths not the general public bud
@@AT-kx7nf Did you stop taking your psych meds?
Pro tip
I’ve been mentally abused all my life
I can relate with her saying
The prison was a safe place 🥵
OK then when you shoot and kill someone with a gun you will get to be in a safe place the rest of your life...it's called prison.
I feel for you , I Ca.
n relate...
Safer for the remaining Brodericks.
She's making a fool of you. She is up there lying and using "emotional/mental abuse" as an excuse for a premeditated double murder. Such a great mother and she killed her kids' father because he cheated on her and wanted to pay her only $16000 a month (35000K today), She was a manipulative, abusive person, and you take at face value her obviously contrived and concocted and contradictory testimony. She's no victim. She got cheated on and dumped so she killed two people. They are the victims. Not her.
This case is so sad . What Betty did was so wrong , but she went through hell. I can’t imagine what she went through. She spent years taking care of Dan , and put him through school. She was good enough to have his kids , put him through school , and be the housewife . I can’t imagine being left after all the sacrifices. This is all very sad .
she brought all her misery on herself. she loved to dish it out but was obviously ill-equipped to take it.
Exactly, but why Linda? He was the married man, yes she was a willing participant.
Everything coming out of her mouth is hearsay. There is no excuse to kill anybody. She is one of these.. boohoo, for me.
Those aren't sacrifices that called life. When a person commits to another then you support one another until you don't. She could have made other choices after the divorce. She allowed herself to feed her emoitions rather than get help and healing.
It would surely make a woman feel totally used.
If you don’t get help after someone betrayed you you can totally become obsessed. Tragic case for all involved
Not all therapies work unfortunately.
She did get the help that was required however, in some cases, it doesn’t necessarily cut through sadly! May God continue to watch over the children. They all ended up being raised in different homes, devastating!! In one of her interviews with Oprah, she didn’t show any remorse for them which breaks my heart. Betrayal, rejection and abandonment are terrible life situations which traumatise us differently. One can only hope that she’d not killed two people on that day, may God be the judge🙏🏾🙏🏾
Good point!
Therapy doesn't help a narcissist. That's EXACTLY what she is. She has absolutely No conscience and she will never.
It’d be easy if she didn’t have kids or they were grown. Make single friends, go dancing, date a lot, finally do whatever you want and breathe for the first time
This is the first time I’ve seen the real Betty Broderick. Meredith Baxter played her really well, she even spoke like her. Great actress!
While I, in no way condone this murder, nor her husband’s actions, this lady had choice after choice. She was a fairly young woman who was fairly well off financially, had four beautiful children, she needed to raise her head high and move on with her life, instead she chose to hang onto a marriage that was obviously dead. Sad for her, but even sadder for her children.
I agree but you also have to take into consideration that her life completely revolved around him. She was so invested in him, in his career, in the household to make him look good etc. I don't think there's anything she did, since she met him, that didn't revolve around doing whatever he needed from her. After all the effort she put in, for him to just push her aside as if she was garbage, because that's probably how she felt he was treating her, could drive anyone into a rage. This reminds me of the Clara Harris case in Texas. Very unfortunate for the kids that were left without parents. Murder is never the answer but I do think that if Dan would've handled the situation differently, he could've had his cake and ate it too.
@@Oreiro123 they had fallen out of love with each other from nearly day one. she was a foul-mouthed, occasionally violent pain-in-the ass. Who wouldn't wanna leave that? If you're gonna dish it out, you better be ready to take it,
I believe he tortured her emotionally knowing that his denying her the children would finally push her over the edge. He knew exactly what he was doing.
@@Oreiro123 did you even listen to the prosecution’s opening? She was threatening divorce and asking her toddler daughter who she wanted to live with after mommy left daddy loooong before he found someone else! I can’t even believe how many fucked up nuts hear the actual facts and project their own bullshit on to this lady and then feel she had the right to do what she did. It’s disgusting and appalling and I hate that I even know people like y’all exist. This lady treated her husband like shit and belittled him from day one it sounds like and she cared about “appearances” and she used this bullshit that he disposed of her to elicit sympathy. It’s gross and pathetic and she’s a murderer who should die in prison!
He married her foul mouth and all .. maybe it was because she was gullible enough to work three jobs to put him through law school then med school! No matter what , what she did was wrong but her state of mind at that time was I helped you and you threw me away for a younger version.. her whole life was him
Watching the Netflix shows on this case certainly exposes how her husband /ex husband and his new wife treated Betty. Dan WAS horrible to Betty. Much more than was exposed. Not condoning murder however her state of mind is more understandable.
Yeah but we only have Bettys word for this!
@@Girl-101 Watch the entire trial. She had many flattering accolades from many friends.
Anyone who hasn't experienced her pain, can't possibly know what they would do. This woman experienced "pain" from Dan for years, many many years.
that if he was your husband and he left you for a better version of yourself you may not kill him but you might just put up with it but you would obviously put up with his behaviour. no money no car no house and deducted alimonyno children
@@georgerobbins3198 Her own family doesn't want her released from prison. Their marriage was in trouble from the start. Not everyone believes Betty was a nice person.
Ladies ... if a man has another woman, the marriage is over. Cut your losses and walk away ... nothing you can do will force him to love you ...When a man loves a woman, he's only got eyes for her.
Thats right. You can only change yourself nobody else.
It wasn't just that her husband broke his vows. He took her children from her too and mocked her for "being fat" and other instigating bullsh!t. He was a very foolish man to think he could just take everything from her and leave her with nothing and ride off into sunset with new young wife. Adultery doesn't work that way, someone always gets hurt and many times dies.
@Michael William hahaha .. yes, it works both ways ...cut your losses and keep your dignity intact.
Ben E. King got it right ....When a man loves a woman he can't keep his mind on nothing else , if she is bad he cant see it, she can do no wrong ... turn his back on his best friend if he puts her down. When a man loves a woman he'll spend his very last dime trying to hold on to what he needs ... he'd give up all his comforts and sleep out in the rain, if she says that's the way it's meant to be. When a man loves a woman deep down in his soul, she can bring such misery etc.....
@Michael William lol.
Just like when a woman loves a man; we don’t have eyes for anyone else.
I understand what she's saying about Dan treating her like a maid after they married. She's not as crazy as people think.
No. She’s not crazy. She’s evil 👿
I had one of those husbands - you know what I did? I left him
She is crazy and evil!
She's lost almost all of her life over a man who moved on. Not worth it. Reminds me of a quote in Fargo. " it's a beautiful day and here you are "
she did not lose her life over a man that moved on, she lost her FREEDOM because she stole her daughters keys, unlawfully entered his home & killed him!!!! & his wife, a home btw that those children were in at the time she did this
@@gemmalynn536 Yea, that's what's being said in a nutshell.
The husband wanted the kids so he didn't have to pay a lot of taxes. The husband was bad too. He could just give his kids leave it to wife and pay his alimony
Yet, that was a black comedy movie, when the woman police chief said that, it was a bleary grey overcast day!
"okee dokee then, thanks a bunch"
I'm not justifying the murders but I do believe this woman was tortured by Dan, I think he was a narcissist and used her until he found someone else then threw her out like trash. Linda was a homewrecker, the textbook definition. I feel bad for Betty, I think she felt pushed to a breaking point and snapped.
I agree with you 100 percent 💯 I was married to a horrible narcissist as well. And I do believe I went insane at the end. But that still doesn't give the right to kill. I have a child too with my ex. Its constantly in and out of court when he has his temper tantrums. I now have a wonderful full life and have been through a tremendous amount of counseling. I was his prisoner. Now his new supply gets it 10 times worse. Karma always comes for these people.
I absolutely agree with you too!!! He pushed her to the edge so she snapped . Not saying what she did was ok because it wasn’t!!
Betty Broderick is a narcissist in her own right.
Actually no she was given a chance to leave but she decided not to do it
No excuse period Indo not agree with killing him they tried to negotiate with her the narcissist and the bad person it's trash as person ...
Damn Betty I wish you didn't kill them. She is so well spoken and somewhat intelligent..just emotionally unstable. It wasn't worth losing your freedom.
You just described most psychopaths.
It was worth it to her. She’s not sorry she did it.
I agree. She's not a dumb lady just very unstable.
This is going to sound callous, but I am a drama queen and crime novelist, and if she hadn't shot him we wouldn't have had a great story going on here.
Dan and 'miss Linda' deserved their death sentence! Sorry, but they brought it upon themselves!
This is why you don’t give up your life to please your partner. Be together but independent so if something happens, both can move on with grace and dignity.
Fair enough but serious relationships require sacrifices on both sides. One wasn’t willing to sacrifice anymore and betrayed the other instead of being a man about it.
None of it justifies what she did though.
@@chrigerosen3752 I agree. You can sacrifice but also go into a relationship knowing that humans are flawed and unpredictable sometimes.
@@mmendoza2128 Very true.
The best revenge is to live your own life and enjoy it. Bitterness and resentment gets you nowhere.
This is best comment I’ve seen so far. She had all the resources to achieve her goals and go on to live a good life. It’s what she put her children through that is so awful to me. If for no other reason, do it for them! Yes her husband was abusing his attorney knowledge to aggravate the situation that is no reason to do what she did to her children. Those voicemails were enough proof to me that she is a very disturbed woman.
@tracygreco6372 she was , probably always had been , and Dan it seems had just about had enough . His error was to exacerbate her distress by flexing his legal muscles .
It's a soul killer , literally, it eats you up inside until your life is a shell of what it once was . She had the means to live a good life and she blew it.
Apparently, they can get you sentenced to prison.
I went back to a University program two years after. I worked for a while first to see what I wanted to do. I never actually "got over" him, and stopped trying to. I just accepted that it was meant to be that I would meet him, and the duration of it was also meant to be. I don't hate him ( I do dislike his adult kids and first wife - a lot, because they were playing me the day i moved in) but i just feel that it was a very dysfunctional and abusive relationship. He even refused to let me come to his son's engagement party because I "will upset his wife " I was his wife, not her. He was always talking about her, trying to figure out what would get her back. I was not allowed in his son's wedding pictures ( because I wasn't his son's mother) it was crazy. He wanted a hausfrau and cleaning lady/cook until his wife returned. She never would, they are divorced, she's bought a home, and can't stand him. She plays with him, and he was always upset with her instead of focusing on me. Some things you just don't have the power to change, and the energy you're wasting can be redirected to things that will benefit you. Dan Broderick would have cheated on this Linda down the road. It could have been any woman after she became a mom and wasn't completely focused on praising him. They were both playing games with Betty who had devoted her adult years to Dan. These films about them make Dan and Linda out to be a young ( he was in his 40s) couple in love that Betty was sabotaging. Betty is very intelligent, but she was so consumed with Dan and had nothing else so she just had no perspective. I worked for years before marriage with the public, so I saw that my relationship was dysfunctional. You can't "fix" an abusive person. It's not realistic, and it's exhausting.
Growing up, I was privy to so many of my moms girlfriends going through horrible painful divorces where they had put their husbands through medical or dental or law school. Working while having a child or two. Finally just starting to get used to an easier life when hubby decided he wanted his young secretary, assistant, etc. Husband and new wife would live in a McMansion while wife and kids lived in a condo or modest home and mom went back to work full time. Only difference is none of them killed their husband or ex husband. One did commit suicide. Common scenario, sadly.
She DIDN'T put him through school, his parents paid for his medical school, he paid for law school, conventional student loans that he paid off...these are facts of record, she tells another, self serving,victimized version that is untrue, like much of what she says, she has borderline personality amongst a plethora of other issues, she's devoid of remorse, hence her parole being twice denied, that's info directly from the parole board, she doesn't even try to feign it and they're on to her in a big way
@@bethewalt7385 all true. I think what people are forgetting is that we are primarily hearing from Betty's side. If Dan was alive, he would give a different story. The children and Betty's former friends are alive and they all side with Dan even before he was murdered.
@@bethewalt7385 I was looking through comments to see if anyone see things the way I see it. She is a bit off and drove her husband away.
@@bethewalt7385 really?
That’s why judges need stricter laws on this. She was thrown away like trash. Inhumane
I was once married to a man just like Dan and it caused me a great deal of emotional, phycological and physical abuse. My children also suffered at the hands of this man. I can't say that I never had thoughts of doing this same exact thing. Luckily I was able to bring myself back down to earth. But I will say that my heart breaks for her because I can completley understand where she was coming from and how someone can be pushed so hard emotinally that they have a moment of insanity. Narsacisstic abuse is no joke. If you have never experinced it then consider yourself lucky but please do not pass judegment on those who have becuase you truly have no idea how incredibly damaging it is. Plz understand that I am not condoning what she did but I am saying I understand it.
completely agree with you! Mental abuse by the hands of a narcissist can make a sane person go crazy. It’s so subtle and well thought out that it takes years for one to figure out how badly it has scarred them. Even though she shouldn’t have murdered them, I get why she did so. These people in the comment section clearly do not understand abuse!
@@mstruthseeker1766 Totally agree
I hope her children will read your comment. By the time they’re married they will understand their mom. Yes nobody is condoning her action . But i hope her children shouldn’t be hard on her.
@@queenprincess2902 she ambushed and killed their father, i'd definitely have a problem getting warm and fuzzy with mom. she's still at the same spot she was 30 years ago. full of hate.
This is a hurtful situation. I pray she can get some help and healing.🙏🙏🙏♥️♥️♥️♥️🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
This tragedy didn't have to happen. She is clearly a woman unravelling. She needed to seek help badly. Killing wasn't the answer. She was a woman on the edge. Treated horribly and then discarded after all her sacrificing. Seems like Betty thought, ' I do all the work and she reaps the reward. The nice life and the success'. He was no angel.
She was in counseling but he kept going after her and trying to make her life hell.
@@monicesharde4113 was he hell. She has borderline personality disorder. Everything is about her and drama is what she thrives on. That man suffered terribly and then she killed him and sits there lying about it. She needs to be locked away until she dies. She did not give a shit about her kids. I see women like this in my work. Their families are in hell until they get away and never let someone like her know where they are. They manipulate the police, the courts, like she is trying to do here. 🙄
@@monicesharde4113 ... please! She repeatedly tormented and harassed him and the children.
Agree. I don't think she was an angel - far from it. But he was a cold b---ard. And he kind of lorded his "new love" over her. Hell hath no fury... On the other hand, it's mostly husbands who kill their wives when they leave them, statistically.
That’s why both need to have their own lives.
This trial was so riveting. Still is. Thanks for reposting Court TV
I agree! We get a really great look into their lives.....Oh boy I would wish that on anyone!
Go to Court TVs website, there’s a lot of her trial on there.
@@grammylisa1 ....Thanx for the tip Lisa L.
I agree Liz, been following this case since day one. Riveting, is an awesome word to describe the affair.
pretty amazing that 30 years later, people would still be talking about it like it was yesterday.
Many women who have gone through this understand her thinking. Ladies, stay in your own lane. Don't mess around with married men. And men, treat your ex with respect. Be kind. It goes a long way. Think of the kids.
The gun "went off", that's so disingenuous. As if it's the gun's fault, & not the person who used it.
By her saying that she openly admitted that she had used the gun and shoot the two of those people
@@asbatelbey4282
She’s always admitted that she shot them
Attorney: You said you went to his house to kill yourself in front of Dan...Why didn’t you?
Betty: There was no bullets left!!! Lol
Right?🤣🤣🤣
Better them dead than you my dear Betty. Good strategy
This woman attorney makes me think of old Nancy Reagon. Thin as a rake!
The no bullets left excuse doesn’t really make sense. She would’ve had to shoot herself first in order to kill herself in front of Dan. Since she shotDan first, that was now impossible.
@@keeganthorpe Good point. She should have stuck to her original plan: woke them up, blew her own brains out, thus ridding the world of a giant foul-mouthed pain in the ass.
No one knows what goes on behind closed doors
I do. 5 bullets were fired into two bodies while they were in bed.
God does.
Adultery can be a dangerous activity.
Absolutely!!!! I couldn't agree more😳
You think?
Dan should have left California
he still would be alive today.
That's why, as a psychic advisor, I always tell my adulterous clients to clean up their acts with their spouses before moving on.
Men: don't use your wives to get ahead, raise your children and make your life better only to leave her for someone younger.
Women: if your husband leaves you, move on he's not worth life in prison!
She stole the keys to Dans house from her daughter. She's lucky she didn't get convicted of first degree murder because that's what it really was.
Totally agree!!
Thank you! 100%
Absolutely!
Definitely premeditated
@@Woodman-Spare-that-tree yeah mothsm. These people cheering for Betty are easily mislead and they themselves might be dangerous! A bit overstated there but it does make me wonder.
She was upset she wasn't able to go to Dan's funeral?! She's the one who put him in his coffin and acts as if she even had a right to attend or would be welcomed by anyone to begin with!
She is severely borderline
@@penelopemace7440 I’d say she’s more narcissistic than Borderline. She might be a sociopath actually.
That part! Like make it make sense!
She wanted to make sure he was gone 😆
She was upset bc he had a catholic funeral...
Gotta give her props for not pretending to be sorry just to get out of prison. If she would have acted sorry I think she’d be out by now.I think the trade-off for her was worth it knowing that they’re dead .And can’t live life or have children . It was all worth it for her to spend the rest of her life locked up.
It would appear so. The whole thing is sad but the way the prosecuting attorney is acting is disgusting. It’s as bad as the defense attorney defending the nanny killer, Lyndsey Partin I think her name was? That Defense Attorney was straight up, wicked and evil, both her and the man.
No man is worth you loosing your freedom for. Betty should have went got some help for her narcissistic situation and 🙏 to God for help.
She doesn’t deserve to be out.
That man was abusively all the way to Miss Betty.. especially hiring a younger woman with no experience in anything..it's obvious his intentions..that woman knew he was married she should have backed off..she also new what she was doing she saw 💰..just to let all the men know we as woman all get older..we won't look 20something all the time..my opinion you get what you give.. everything happens for a reason😘
I wish she could have just acted sorry.
I've always felt sorry for her. I think she was driven crazy by what happened. I think he did everything he could to make her miserable. I have no doubt that all 3 adults in this situation were guilty of abusive behavior.
Facts!
I went through something similar in my divorce. It was hurtful and demeaning and I just wanted to die. But I pulled myself together, used the money I got to furnish my home the way I liked it. And lots of therapy. I understand her but you don't kill your ex and his wife... that's taking it too far.
@@kiralindholm2009 Exactly! My ex husband moved us to Australia, so I had no family support…..he then got his coworker pregnant. We had built a business, and we had two sons. I’d been that great housewife, great mother, and did everything expected of me. Wasn’t enough. I ended up penniless, as we’d moved and had no assets. He then tried to take my children, as he knew it’d hurt me, and he hired a lawyer, and there was little ole me, alone in court. I wasn’t in Australia long enough to be given assistance for legal family matters.
I hated him. Now, I am apathetic towards him. I just don’t care. You can’t kill people because you’re bitter or hurt. You can’t 🌹
Because she was crazy to begin with.
Agreed. I don't condone murder but I totally can see how it got to this point. She was pushed over the edge, it could happen to anyone and it does, this is not a unique story. Everyone has a breaking point. I feel bad for her and I can empathize. You don't truly know how terrible this type of situation is until it happens to you...
She had a restraining order but she still went there. Imagine if she had been a man with a restraining order against his ex wife.
And anyone notice the sly smiles during cross examination...
and her sad, victim personality with her defense attorney, but it switches to a condescending, spiteful attitude during cross.
She looks like an adolescent when she smiles like that. I think she was immature.
She is being obtuse just for the sake of being obtuse. She is being as uncooperative trying to control the court room and going so far as to instruct the prosecutor. She screwed herself in the second trial. Clearly Betty has personality disorder. Her putting her hands in the prosecutors personal space is cringe. Trying to manipulate in that way is just bad protocol.
Yea, I think it's odd how people in the comments seem to justify what she did. Even if the man was a jerk, and a narcissist, she should have moved on with her life. At the beginning she says she doesn't remember this and that, and then you can tell she does. For examoke she said 'someone screamed', but then clearly says the woman screamed call the police.
Exactly, and imagine if a man dropped his kids off at the ex's house and refused custody. Double standard!
She can’t remember driving there and what she was thinking but she remembers every detail about going into the room, someone waking up, someone screaming, hearing a loud explosion 🤔 stop lying. It’s obvious
She took both of her children’s parents in one moment of anger! That made her children orphans in a split second, because she was mad. To this day I still can’t imagine how devastating it must of been for the kids to be told, ‘both of your parents are no longer going to be able to care for you because one is dead & the other in getting locked away for life.’
Yes, that's a tragedy.
They are not orphans. What are you on about? The mother is still alive and loves them. These brats could have visited her in jail. But they didn’t care. They are bunch of selfish idiots.
@@justme9723 She murders their father and causes them to lose both of their parents and they are the selfish ones? Her actions essentially ruined their lives. Why would they go and visit her? How are they supposed to feel?
@@justme9723 It was an 8 hour journey, they were just kids.
She doesn't take responsibility for what she did its all I dont remember the gun went off at some point a person stops playing victim and grow up
This can happen to men too. My brother was left by his wife for a man who was very financially set. She drove my brother crazy with him waking up and she not in bed. She sneaked out to her lover. I'm glad my brother didn't kill them because he was an emotional wreck. She was very beautiful and manipulative. Eventually, she got pregnant by the other man and he denied the baby because he was married.
Isn’t that some karma though!!! Very sorry your brother had to go through that, hopefully he’s doing better
@@MrsCree8tive I don't think he ever got over it. He hasn't had a committed relationship since his divorce. He dates and has one-night stands, but nothing of substance. I think he still loves her.
@@michellefreeman3659 I will pray for him
Oopsie!
Let the cheater go. Karma will find them.
There is no excuse for murder, but I can understand her confusion from the betrayal, the pain, the insult, the abandonment from someone you love.
Same here
There was no insults. She lied and her children knew. She woke up in the middle of the night to go and talk to a married man in his house and in his bed room. Shot him then took the phone away not to call the police. She had been telling one of the sons she was going to kill his dad. This is premeditated murder...double murder. She was using PR agents like a movie star, disrespecting, prison officers and inmates etc. The least sentence should be life in prison without parole. Betty is just a core narcissist and no one could have stopped her as her friends told her to let go but she refused. She is a murderer. This will stop spouses for killing their exs and proclaiming insanity. After the killing, she was proud to tell somebody that she is annoyed with people mourning the ex husband and his wife. Pure evil.
Yes Their really is no reason to kill!
Nope. She's a psycho hose beast. Period.
@@Amberose77777 UNLESS you're defending yourself, someone else or your country
1.09
Broderick:
"I wish Dan could be here to tell the story!"
Prosecutor:
"SO DO I!"
Broderick:
*Smirk*
👏🏼👍👏🏼
gee betty he could be here to tell the story only he's got this giant hole in his chest.
Dan got what he deserved
@@shathanajjar9046 Seek help.
She knows she can’t deny her involvement but geez Dan kinda drove her to insanity.
@@austinhansen9079 neither is an excuse for murder in my opinion. Now, if he was beating her and she defended herself that would be different. This chick went in his house and killed them both 😳
No. He didn't. Don't try to excuse her for being horrible. Even her kids tried to stop her and she couldn't give a fuq.
To this very day she is still not taking any responsibility for murdering 2 ppl. She cld have been paroled already but still carries bitterness and anger towards the ppl she killed.
He was a manipulater
@@Metonymy1979 she placed her kids on the back burner so she could nurse on her obsession with Dan.
Why does she think she has any say over their funeral or how it was handled? Wow.
Her children testified at her parole hearing in 2017. 3 of the four agreed that she was not fit for the outside world. Lee, the daughter that was left out of her father's will ( she had drug addiction issues) said her mother could live at her home. The parole board denied parole because she still had no remorse for the murders and the damage she caused her children.
SO!! SHE CAN STILL BE NO HARM TO ANYONE NOW!
@@dianabeurman364 You are crazy. Not a threat? Yeah, ok. She is the true definition of a narcissist. She does not feel for anyone, which makes her a danger to everyone. I am glad they denied her. Hope she gets denied the next time around.
@@dianabeurman364 WHat do you base that assessment from?
@@dianabeurman364 once a murderer, always a murderer.
Whoooo she gonna kill now at 73? The 20 yr old deli guy she has a crush on? What danger she would be to anyone? It be the other way around!! Dan& Linda minions harassing her where ever she went! Text, emails stalking at mall & supermarket! But she is safer & half sane where she is now at 73!! In prison & a mentor to younger abused women!!
While I don’t condone what she did, I really feel for this woman. She was repeatedly tortured by that man. Everyone has a breaking point, and he drove her to hers. Hard. In her trial, she seemed very genuine and was actually crying, unlike someone who really was a psychopath with no remorse. I don’t know. This case has me very conflicted. I feel for her children. They’re the real losers in this case.
If you watch the entire trial on CourtTV, the evidence and testimony shows that Betty was NO victim! The difference between direct and cross as it relates to her actions leading to the murder is night and day. No tears, just anger, defensiveness, and more holes in her story than swiss cheese. The physical evidence proved Dan and Linda were shot in their sleep. Dan's fall from the bed woke him enough to grab the phone before Betty hit his hand with the gun and pulled the cord from the wall. She was completely in that room and could see well enough to aim and hit her targets. She's a vindictive murdering liar who deserves to die in prison.
Yes l agree , but l feel Betty served her time 🛑
@@LilithsCosmicLounge While I see what you're saying about paroling her, but because she doesn't show any remorse for killing them they denied her parole recently🤷🏽♀️
My heart breaks for the children. Their parents and stepmother all garbage people.
The ultimate feeling of worthlessness.
So let me understand this... She took the gun with her to force them to listen to her but she snuck into the room while they were obviously sleeping and became startled when they woke up? How would they have listened to her unless they were awake? What did she think they were going to do when they woke up and saw her- offer her coffee and say "let's talk"? That's why her story does not make sense. She deliberately went there that morning to kill them simple as that
Exactly!!! As much as I feel bad for the way this divorce broke her, she premeditated this event. Betty is all over the place. I’m sitting here like girl what??!!! 🥴
@@erikawitak yep! And if she could admit that she might even get paroled.
clearly out of her mind
@@sylviacorwin9182 Clearly!
I agree with you.
She was so upset that she wasn’t allowed to attend Dan Broderick’s funeral??? How in the world could she possibly think that would be the place for her since she is the one who murdered him!? Horrible case and the children are the real victims forever.
She felt used and thrown away. She lost herself in him. And couldn't see her way to move on.
She can’t see anything other than her own bloody self
Are you a psychologist? I doubt it, she was a psychopath... Ok that's it
@@Vele1267 I do not believe she was a psychopath. I believe he broke her down mentally and emotionally.
@@1goldenshell That makes you a psychopath... People get broken down mentally all the time, that does not mean they kill people. The lies, her anger, she caused him to leave in the first place. She is definition psychopath. Your thought process is a little off
@@Vele1267He seemed to be a narcissist. And brainwashed her children as well. . No my thinking is very well intact.
She completely snapped. Sad for everyone 💔
I would also snapped!
What took her so long to completely snapped! Anybody who is in that kind of state would have snapped. The 2 'lovebirds' got the surprise of their lives.
@@cecilejoubert7933 she didn't "snap". she had been foaming at the mouth over killing them for 5 years. she bought the gun ,the bullets, took a refresher course in firearms training, stole her daughters key, even faked help "looK" for the key when the daughter told her it was missing, snuck up the stairs to "talk to them" (yeah right) got Linda in the head, Dan in the chest. bullseye. mission accomplished. she knew exactly what she was doing.
Anybody would snap under Betty's circumstances! Dan and miss Linda drove her to the edge! They both deserved what they got at the end!
@@cecilejoubert7933 so Dan and Linda got what they deserved because Dan had fallen out of love with his wife who now resembled a linebacker after packing on 60lbs, drove her car through the front door, left filthy messages on the answering machine, broke restraining orders while all the while threatening to murder them both ?? You Team Betty zombies are as delusional as the cow herself.
"The gun accidentally went off"...I guess it accidentally aimed itself at Dan & Linda too, LOL. And yes, Dan leaving her for a younger, better looking woman made her lose her mind. It certainly wasn't worth spending 1/2 her life in prison though. Getting $6000 a month in the 80's and all my bills paid would have gotten me totally over him. That just proves she went totally batshit.
She emptied the gun on them...
😂😂😂😂😂😂
She's a narcissist is what she is. Rejection warrants a death sentence in her mind.
she wanted someone to love her and have a mate. that is a marriage. she was old school Catholic and a 1970's/80's housewife raised by war generation parents.. put the puzzle together.
she has said she had one foot in the room, there was a flash, then she thought Dan was chasing her. with a hole in his chest?
OMG what is wrong with this Woman!!!!! If someone doesn’t want you…don’t make them have to tell you twice!! Have some self respect & LEAVE!
It's not always that easy
She gave too much of herself up to help him advance his career. It's hard to have four children and have a career at the same time. It is devastating when you loose your identity and the life style you came to know because your husband falls for another woman. I know how she felt....we are all just one step from crossing over and making a huge mistake. I came close to losing my mind when my husband cheated on me and married the other women. I hung on to my sanity by one nail. Grieved for about 3 years.
Have u seen the netflix show? What am i saying, of course u haven’t cuz u wouldn’t have written that. The show is very very close to what actually happened, many people helped the writers who were part of it, so before u comment on something u know lil about, watch the show, watch 3,4,5 documentaries and then u can comment
@@StellaAdler_ get a life
I think the thought of Dan and Linda procreating drove Betty over the edge. There was no way on God's green earth that she would ever stand by and permit Dan to start a new family complete with brand new babies.
Wow great point
Very true, but as long as he wasn't mistreating his children, so be it. It seems like he wouldn't have made his kids go without, new family or not.
Her description of her thinking on the way to his house is dead on correct. I have had those times when I was SO immersed in thought that I could not remember how I got to where I ended up. This is classic Borderline Personality Disorder
Yessss omg. When hatred kicked in for me it was time for me to go.
Must be a women thing , people do do things and don't remember it but that would be from beginning to end , and she remembers too much and then went on the run because she thought her
ex husband was going to get her when he was on the bed shot the hell up by her cowgirl style shooting. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔫🤫
⚔️💥💥🤫💥⚔️ 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔫🤫
despite her being "so immersed in thought", the refresher course she took in firearms training allowed big holes to Linda's head and Dan's chest yet she says she doesn't remember firing. how selectively convenient.
Maybe she should’ve pleaded insanity then
He did do her dirty 🐻🛡️🐻
Especially after he got the big
💰💵💵💸💵💸💵💰then he ,
cold heatedly 🗑️ her.
He did her dirty as fugg 🤫
When Betty doesn't want to answer a question...she just doesn't remember.
LOL!! So true.
I think her name is Karen
Maybe
I agree. She does appear to be a narcissist. Dan crossed the wrong person.
@@marthawoodworth Dan is no angel and far from perfect asshole
In my entire life, 1:43:01 I’ve never had the money to shop in Nordstrom, Nieman Marcus or Saks fifth ave.
This woman is so entitled it’s sickening.
It's clear that it was all meaningless. Material things are nothing without a loving home.
Exactly
They had a bad marriage LOOOOONG before linda came into the picture. She forced him to stay into the marriage no matter what. Cheating is wrong 200%! But she was very aggressive towards him and made him not want to be there anymore. She lies a lot. I hate cheating but she's no angel and couldn't let go. Filled with bitterness and hate. Imagine if i killed my ex? I hate him but killing him? I love my life too much to throw it away for some people with no morals.
Nopppe, she was a great wife, mother and friend, hees the 1cwho cheated on her, period, she verrry much helped him financially , she's the 1 always with thosec4 ungrateful creeps, she was q super model 2hil3 ge was away, so stop it with ur nonsenses
Narcissism, thy name is Betty.
she was so flustered and crying and all that when the defense was up...but her smiling, snide remarks and attitude with the prosecution was a STARK difference! She remembers everything except things that would be damaging to her defense. 🤣 people are crazy to sympathize with her. She killed them because she didn't want to LOSE. People can make themselves crazy with bitterness, that's what she did. After she eliminated her source of bitterness she was fine.
Borderline, severe. I dealt with such persons when I did psych nursing yrs ago, they are very scary, you do not turn your back on them
She said she slept better after the murders. Bingo to everything else you said.
@@penelopemace7440 Are you sure about that? This woman seems highly narcissistic and possibly sociopathic to me. People with BPD have a lot of remorse for their wrongful actions and usually apologize promptly. I am very familiar with this.
@@christar9527 she had a parole hearing in 2011 and it was denied because she said she was not remorseful. Not even for trying to get out has to learned how to present herself.
Her testimony was of a con artist and thinking she could act like a victim.
@@christar9527 True. I have BPD. And when I do something wrong and realize I did I try to make sure that I apologize for what I've done wrong
Dan was not a good husband. He gaslighted Betty and screwed around, but there are many stories of her scratching him, throwing things at him, screaming at him. She burned all his clothes with the children watching. She was far from an innocent victim. She obviously has psychiatric problems that were not addressed. I don’t feel sorry for her. She completely F’d up her childrens’ lives. That’s not the work of a loving mother. She belongs where she is.
Don’t judge until you’ve walked in the persons shoes for a few miles🤔
She does and I'm surprised nobody has mentioned her probably being in a menopausal state as well. Sometimes this can cause unstable behavior. Life is scary. She has mentioned felt desperatation. She was depressed. She was obsessed. Counseling is always good. This case breaks my heart.
Exactly, she made her kids orphans, killed their father who provided, he wasn't abusing the kids. She had no rational reason to kill their father
That chair squeaking is obnoxious. It should be quite in the court…
You would think one of those filming would have a can of WD-40. I recently bought a new container when ones home gets older WD-40 is necessary. LOL
😂
Judge wants to slam his head into his desk over and over. Especially when going over the checks she wrote for clothes. 🤣
Who cares how she spent the money? Without her, he would not have gone to law school as his parents cut him off. As a nurse I have see this more times than I have fingers. Medical students marry nurses to get them thru medical school as soon as they finish their residency they divorce them and marry a 18 yr old trophy wife. I would have so hung that jury.
@@damesaphira9790 Never said I cared how she spent her money. I just said basically that the judge looks miserable when they wanted to go over every detail of what she spent her money on. She could have bought a freaking Ferrari and I would have cared less. I'm basically just pointing out the judge.
@@damesaphira9790 you’re crazy!!!! And you no nothing about the real details of the case. Dan was not only super intelligent but super ambitious! His parents did NOT “cut him off”!! They paid for his Medical School but when he was accepted to Harvard Law they said they would not pay for that also so he had to take out loans. Where on earth do you get your propaganda from?? Betty??
@@helenal.7881 ~ LMFAO and what exactly do you think "Cut off" means? They refused to PAY FOR IT. I'm crazy? right.......
@@damesaphira9790 his loans got him through school. If he didn’t marry her, he would have still made it. He went to Harvard and was still paying those loans. Just stop
Who could not survive on 16,000 dollars a month. Anyone really screwed in a divorce would find this absurd!
I guess she couldn’t give up the entire bank account of her husband, and was forced out of the status
I know, I would be pretty damn happy to move on if my husband was giving me 16,000 a month! its an insult to struggling divorced people!
@@brandimccoy4454 Totally different situations, he made millions per year by that time. She was entitled to receive a fair portion of that money. It really has nothing to do with struggling divorced people.
Because it wasn't really $16,000 a month.
She got the house but had to take over the payments which were $10,000 a month.
So she actually had $6,000 for everything else.
I’d ask for more. He was making over 100k monthly.
Holds up an 8x10 glossy photo snd says, ‘Is that what you came to look like in 1989, the time of your arrest?’ What kind of question is that? Anyone else notice?
That made no sense to me. What could the relevance possibly be??
That she let herself GO‼️
@@blanchedevereaux8133 obviously that’s what he was implying. - but the relevance??? And how utterly nasty, as well, to do it in such an underhanded fashion.
Yeah that was really helpful LOL
Yeah...I think her attorney was trying to say that Dan had driven her so crazy that it affected her physically also.... I agree, not a very good tactic.
I feel her pain as a woman I truly do, but ugh I definitely can’t relate to ending individuals lives because of my hatred sad situation for the kids.
Exactly!
If she thought of her children and lived for them she would have enjoyed her life.
When you lose everything you have worked for years it is comprehensible
How could she raise healthy happy children when their father gaslit her constantly for 5years???
Her husband even stole her kids. Being a mother, losing her kids made her desperate
I find it crazy that this woman is still in jail when other murders get out in twenty years even ten or fifteen .
She killed 2 people. If she had just killed him, maybe but 2 no way.
@@spikesgirl9371 true you are right I just can not believe so.many of these nuts that kill children get out in fifteen yrs only to do it again . I just do not believe she would kill again but you are right I guess I just feel like the husband set this in motion and on cross they acted like he was just so giving to her , he cheated she deserves half if not more he cheated not her .
This idiot goes to parole and admits having NO REMORSE. And states she’d do it again.
@@blanchedevereaux8133 ya that is stupid I did not know that
They may get out early in the countries with soft judicial systems like UK, Aus, Canada and NZ, America is harsh and wouldn’t let her out, plus because Dan was a lawyer then they definitely probably won’t allow her out seen as Dan was on “their side”
If I was on the jury & watching the judge... I might be influenced by his actions of looking bored, frustrated & appearing to want to be anywhere but in that courtroom!
And you would be disqualified. The defense attorney is watching you and your answers when picked to be on a jury and they watch your body language..been in the legal field too long..your eyes and ears are supposed to be on the defendant and witnesses
He was a whole mood. 😂
Lol, I saw the judge lean his head back in his comfortable chair and I thought he was going to fall asleep
Even in death Dan screwed Betty. The legal system was is play ground; he knew all the judges and lawyer; he was the head of San Diego Bar. The judge gave her the maximum ; she has been up for parole twice; last was 2017 and still she was denied parole.
@@marcia67100 Yeah, like she's going to go out and shoot a bunch of other people. Not. She shot the people she hated. I'm sure she's satisfied with that.And yes, like everything else, the legal system is basically a man's world, and male "connections" are what keep it going.
I understand how things got to a double homicide. After years of feeling betrayed by her husband for his secretary, Betty broke one day.
She chose not to move on
Bloody hell, have you heard of just leaving?
Why would she think it would’ve been a good idea to go to Dan’s funeral??? She’s nuts!
I think she wanted to organize it 😱
@@brigettetame8553 yes! Sounds that way!
EXACTLY ‼️
@@brigettetame8553 😂I agree I think she was annoyed & thought certain things were “tacky” she probably wanted to throw Linda in a cardboard box & pick out the satin in dans coffin
@@brigettetame8553
That is narcissistic
These self aiming guns have a tendency to go off by themselves after taking their owners to the crime scene.
HA indeed
I think in her rage she went there to kill them. Funny but true post Alan.
@@Dustandfuzz I can't believe that Sylvester! I reckon the gun forced her to go there!
Sarcastically victim blaming. How sweet of u. Guess u haven’t watched the netflix show which clearly depicts betty’s life with dan
@@StellaAdler_ I have not seen the Netflix show and I don't know how accurate it was, however I tend to believe facts rather than Netflix shows. He may not have been nice towards her but that is no excuse for killing someone.
ITS ABSURD ASKING HER ABOUT SOMETHING SHE SAID IN 1981.
Yes!!! This prosecutor is so lame!!!!!! She needs some pointers from Juan Martinez vs. Jodi Arias.
My god is Kerry Welles annoying. I don’t even know where she’s going with all of this inane questioning 🤨
@S Cor Thats still 11 years! Thats nuts.
@@rubygirl214 Exactly!
@@daisylavender5275 you're so right she is the worst
I believe Betty believed every word she said reality or not when she discussed her marriage. I can see the pain clearly in her face.
Betty demonstrates delusion at it's finest but she's a terrible actress - she's got the pain in her face along with the shaky voice but not a tear in sight.
You live by the sword, you die by the sword. Dan created a monster with his actions and got killed by it.
Right on!
Absolutely
Yassss
Absolutely
He still didn’t deserve that she got what she deserves if it were my choice she’d be dead
Ughhh! I feel bad for EVERYONE who was effected by this! I cannot imagine her stress and grief....It most likely would drive anyone nuts!
I feel the same. I can’t but help feeling bad for her. Her mind was as broken as her heart was by this guy. She did a terrible thing out of her insanity.
What a bunch of gullible people posting here. If someone shows up with a gun are you going make them a cup of tea and have a chat.
@@bronxgurl6293 she didn't go there to have a discussion. how fucking stupid does she think we are?
She was nuts to begin with.
She still one ((CRAZY BITCH!)) and still won't admit what she did was wrong! Even 2 of her children went to her parol hearing and told the board, "Don't let her out".
Don’t live someone else’s dream: don’t put your husband through medical school and law school then carry his children and bring them up. You’re just a passenger and you’ll always be on ‘standby’.
N don’t expect a pat on the back for raising your own kids!
It was their mutual dream to be rich and powerful, they were both very materialistic and obsessed by status and a mansion and designer clothes and blah blah, all the superficial crap. She was fine with the sacrifices so long as she was reaping all the material benefits. Relationships, love, all that meant nothing to either of them
Couldn’t have said it any better Betty…….
She didn’t put him through med school. His parents paid for his full ride. He took out a loan for law school which he started paying back once he got hired by a prestigious firm shortly after graduating. Are we forgetting she lived quite the cushy life while married to him? There were more cushy years during their marriage than the lean years. So she got compensated for those years
@@cheriebenjamin0315
I disagree...
Betty supported Dan thur medical and law schools..gave birth to
his children..raised his children..Betty was constantly busy..
Betty's life revoled all
around Dan..
Wtf does Betty having long hair or not have to do with the murders . Wtf is with this prosecutor , she needs to get to the real facts not this petty shit
I know! She’s awful.
@@panrulesall3088 I have a law degree and am well aware of the concept of relevance. The defense didn’t object because they let the prosecutor drown in her sea of stupid questions. That’s why she wasn’t able to get a first degree conviction even after 2 trials and working the refs. The judge didn’t allow any battered woman evidence in the second trial, and the jury still almost hung. Horrible.
@@panrulesall3088 And half the people you know don’t, but pretend to know what they’re talking about. 😘
Everytime I watch this I am still amazed to hear Betty lament not having been able to attend Dan's funeral. As if she had been unreasonably denied the right to have been there with her children and Dan's family, regardless of the fact she was the one responsible for his death.
talk about needing a bullet proof vest.
That shows her confusion.
No, that doesn’t show her confusion, that shows that she’s *psychotic*.
@@gogogetem8203 yes
And therein lies the proof of how mad she went. I’m surprised she didn’t froth at the mouth at trial. Her husband did it to himself.
Cautionary tales…..
Nobody owns anybody, divorce is the answer here. She was vindictive, revengeful, jealous beyond belief, no one was going to have her man, now she has lost everything. She is selfish and self centred, her poor children, she didn't even care about them. She could have sought counselling she had the money, but did nothing to help herself.
Not saying people deserved to die, but he literally stole EVERY ounce of dignity she had. She was half responsible for his success, and he stepped all over her with another woman!!
The Marital settlement was $28,000 for Betty. He hid money and loaned his brother close to a million dollars. The alimony he paid her was coming to an end. He humiliated her and cheated her out of money and the dignity she deserved.
None of that is true. He gave her whatever she wanted. Paid for everything including her mortgage. She in turn drove her car into his house, smashed patio door, smashed picture window, smeared pie all over his bedroom and drew all over their bathroom. Spoke to their children like garbage AND she dropped the kids to him with their suitcases.And lets not forget....murdered them while they slept.
@@Heirphoria13 No, all of what I wrote is true. Eventually a bank found out about the "loans" Uncle Larry received from his brother prior to his divorce and sued him on the children's behalf to get what should have been their inheritance. Dealings with Dan were akin to bargaining with a demonic snake. Everything he paid for was tabulated including the mortgage as items to be deducted from the marital estate at an inflated rate. They were "Epstein Credits" Betty wound up with a $28,000.00 divorce settlement whereas her hard work allowing him to study for years and not support his family made him a multimillionaire. He sold their house from underneath her and refused to talk to her. Yes she drove her car through his front door and fortunately was unharmed. At that point she really lost it and was out of control angry. Her kid(s) could have been hurt. He cheated on her and literally out of a fair share of the marital estates.
@@Heirphoria13 Part 2 to my previous response. Betty dropped the children off at Dan's`as a ploy to get him to appreciate her and that she did a lot of work for the care of their children. His calculated response was to hire a Nanny and keep them because he would keep more money$$$ for himself from the marital estate. As far as smearing the boston cream thing his secretary/ho made for him over his bedroom If it made Betty feel a little better why not?.it wasn't as if they split on good terms and he was parading Linda in front of his children. As far as murdering them while they slept linda was awake and told Dan to call the Police. She knew she was paying the ultimate price for breaking up a marriage. Not that she or Dan deserved to die but they made their own bed so to speak. Betty was deliberately pushed over the edge in the hopes of causing a suicide. It didn't work out that way. Dan was also looking to hire a hit man to get rid of Betty and any future payments he would need to make to her
@loralieisa Are you serious? So when the intruder comes in and they wake up that makes it different cause they were no longer asleep at 5am? He gave her everything she asked for in the divorce. Including paying all her expenses and her mortgage. Bottom line is she's mentally ill and couldnt let it go. SHE asked for a divorce numerous times way before Linda was around and degraded him every chance she got. She's a loon.
She thinks her feelings are the most important thing in the world. I’ve never heard her utter a word of empathy even for her own children. When it comes to the kids all she says is “I was the best mom.” In her mind, the world revolves about her and is all subjective to her feelings.
@E M yep. "me me me" and if you don't go along God help you.
@E M Her husband was the narcissist however the roles where switch and she became him. Narcissism is a dangerous disorder for all involved.
That's because...noone ever appreciated her for whatever she did...as simple as that...she is not that narcissist... it was him...the world only saw her responses...and not the mind games played on her...
@@sreedhanyapillai3936 it's not as simple as that - her sacrifices and hard work went along with a foul-mouth, verbal insults and a caustic wit that embarrassed friends of the Brodericks and later the two older daughters. and you wonder why people never appreciated what she did?? you must not know a lot about narcissism. You need to have at least 5 of the 9 traits that qualify a person to be a narcissist. Betty was diagnosed with all 9. Her and Dan were a match made in hell.
@@haintedhouse2990 I am sure about one thing ...he and his gf were playing mind games with her...and they just got the results...very Harsh I know...but u should never push anyone ...to that extent
I’m not condoning what this woman did, but the pain of when you’re replaced for a younger model after you’ve devoted your life to building up a man, been there at his beck and call and put in your own life needs aside in favour of his only to be thrown away, for quite a while you just can’t see reason. This lady was emotionally abused and I said, I don’t condone what she did but there is nothing worse or more betrayingin the world when you discover the man that you would take a bullet for is the one pulling the trigger!
I 2nd that emotion 🌷
The courtroom looks so small , unorganized & stuffy 😂
Yes! It was giving me anxiety, especially the area where the phone kept ringing.
Betty would have designed it better 🤣
Yes. I also thought the same of the OJ Simpson trial, although the court room was bigger.
She’s sobbing and playing the victim during her lawyer’s questioning but then has the absolute look of disdain and condemnation all over her face during the prosecutor’s examination. That’s how you can tell this is all an act to her. She laughs when she shouldn’t be laughing and smiles when she shouldn’t be smiling, but definitely sheds the tears at all the right times.
Betty seems like a very cunning, calculating woman and I don’t believe for a second that she just one day “snapped” after years of emotional abuse from her ex….that kind of crazy always existed. Maybe it was hidden and buried most of the time, but it was still there. And I’m sure her husband and kids both witnessed it before the divorce even occurred. All I get is narcissistic vibes from her.
You have NO IDEA how she felt/feels or what devastation she suffered losing everything and watching someone else take over her life ... not saying that she's right but human and proned to error like all of us!!
Are you trying not to see the difference between the two styles of questioning? The female prosecutor is just rude and disrespectful, how would you respond, based on being in a shitty position in the first place!
@@sharpedge3355. Error and double homicide are 2 vastly different things.
i2Bwitchy...I 👍 agree
@@sharpedge3355 I totally understand how she felt, but I didn't torture my ex after the split, nor did I kill anyone. It was hell, twenty years later I still dream about him, but I've moved on. I think she abused him as much as he did her after the split. Just my two cents,.. I'm not disagreeing with what you said either.
If Scott Peterson gets another look Betty sure should.
NO!!! She should not. She murdered two people because she wanted to act like a little rich spoiled brat!!!
@@rosearellanes5648 I also do not think Scott Peterson should.
@@rosearellanes5648 I think if this case and menendez brothers case were today things would be a little different. They both deserve to be in jail but I’m both these cases abuse and mental health is not considered at all. The 90’s were different. Evolving we know so much more about abuse and mental health and how it plays into all murders. not saying they shouldn’t be in jail but in 2021 when coming to sentencing these things are considered
Both Betty Broderick and the Menendez brothers were greedy spoiled brats. The Menendez could have moved away. Instead they murdered their parents and went on a shopping spree so do i believe they were abysed ABSOLUTELY NOT!!! As for Betty, she couldn't let go and was a greedy spoiled brat. I have been through abuse, and i can tell u this she WAS NOT abused just greedy. She wanted to bleed Daniel Broderick dry
@@rosearellanes5648 How can you be so sure?
Is there no money in the Court budget for WD-40? That creaking chair is driving me crazy! 😜
Then don’t watch Jodi Aries interrogation! 😬
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😂🤣😂🤣😂
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Lmao 😂
Imagine if she was going through this separation today, she would of had more support.
For god sake she got cheated on, it happens, she was always emotionally unstable and why does someone need support for this?! Maybe if she and Dan were alive today then he would be alive now.
These people commenting saying that they feel sorry for Betty. Are you WATCHING this case? She's smiling and smirking. That description of the ketchup argument, where she's saying, "I wish Dan was here to tell this story." She's creepy as hell and doesn't even get the irony of that statement. I feel as if some of you all aren't even watching this at all. She has no remorse whatsoever and is nuts.
The lawyer said yes me to.
Yup we watched the case but more importantly we watched the netflix show which is very very close to the truth along with other documentaries. No one is dumb enough to comment on a subject they know little about😂
Research the whole story
Dan was a monster in my view
Ladies if a man does this to you, cry about it for sometime, and then eventually let it go and get a makeover, go back to school, get a job, start a new life....................don't go to someone's house with a gun..........this lady seems like a nice person, who just let her rage get the best of her......that was not really her but she is suffering great consequences.
The best revenge would’ve been for Betty to let the new wife get old or wait a few years and watch the new wife get cheated on. Dan wouldn’t have changed his stripes. Betty should’ve did like Roseanne did in the movie She-Devil.
Exaaaactly!!!
Exactly I agree
Period!
Yes!!!
Right! I love that movie.
She should be released from prison now
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no. should dan and linda be released from their coffins? oh wait.. they cant. so NO, she should never be allowed out.
So many feeling bad for Betty. Everyone hurts at times, and the best outcome is to get through it and hopefully grow and learn. When it comes down to it the question is Is murder wrong?most people say YES!!
until you are betty
@@ladizhustle Betty is where she belongs, behind bars.
@@lillyanderson3623 100% murder isn't the answer.
Everyone is agreeing it was wrong even if they are commenting that she suffered. Both things can be true.
You are missing the point. People are expressing sympathy for all that Betty was subjected to at the hands of Dan & his new wife. No one is saying that murdering them isn't wrong. And it's so easy for you to say she should've just moved on. Dan was a big deal lawyer & had total control of their money and children. They bullied Betty relentlessly. I do have major sympathy for Betty. As for Dan & his wife? Not so much.
I would be more sympathetic towards Betty if she just admitted that she murdered her ex husband and his wife without any remorse. The gun didn’t just “go off.” She fired multiple times. Her intentions were clear. I believe Dan was cruel to her, but watching her constantly lie and smirk on the stand is high key irritating.
Agree
How was Dan cruel to her? Is wanting to get away from a homicidal maniac of a wife being cruel to her?
@@small_joys2022 She didn't start out being a maniac.
@@small_joys2022 totally agree, she's a narcissist and has no remorse at all. You only have to look at the way she's coming across as dominant and arrogant with that sarcastic smurk talking down at this lawyer. That's probably how she treated her ex husband, I'd say her own behavior drove him to leave her. No sympathy for this woman, she deserves to be locked up for life.
@@felauailemamea645
I definitely don't agree with you..
Betty worked long and hard and helped put Dan thur law school and medical school...
During that time, Betty gave birth to
4 children and also had some miscarriages...
Extremely hard on
a person's body...
If I am not mistaken
Dan and Betty were
married in the Catholic church...
Catholic church doesn't recognize divorce...
Betty Broderick is NO
danger to anyone...