The fact that Dan could turn his kids against their mother, when he had an affair AND he wasn't even around for the majority of their childhood lets me know he was a master manipulator.
Watch the entire trial on court tv website. Betty is no victim, in fact she was the narcissist and the abuser! She called Dan a “faggot” on a daily basis the kids heard these names their whole life. Long before Linda came along. She also called her own kids “retards” So many people testified to her lunacies thruout the marriage. She tormented him and the kids with her temper. They did not have a happy marriage. He met Linda and cheated on her and just wanted out. Betty was not having it so she killed them. WATCH THE TRIAL IT IS SO EYE OPENING!
Betty is always me, me, me! It figures she expects the kids to buy her a house if she ever gets out of prison! No remorse for the pain she put them thru, just buy me a house! Thruout the whole trial this was her attitude. She laughed and made face and rolled her eyes all thru the trial. She is an evil person.
@@thefawnlane Yes she is very wicked. When the prosecutor was questioning her about throwing a ketchup bottom at Dan, she exclaims: " I wish Dan was here to tell you the Truth" and the prosecutor says, " I wish he was too!" And the Betty smirks and goes, " Yeah, me too!" She is evil, she will always be a threat to other human beings and she should never be released. She even said one time that " Even though I am in jail, I am still alive" She was should have gotten the Death Penalty.
exactly and this is the one who was very close to her Dad and never wanted anything to do with her mom what do you think she is going to say about her mom
Memphis Presley She didn’t write this book and has stated that fact more than once. This is why you can’t find this book to purchase. It has been removed.
I was living in San Diego when the Broderick story broke. I was going through a divorce too at the time and was being jerked around by my husband. I could totally understand what Betty was going through. Dan withheld money from her and almost made her homeless with her 4 children. Being an attorney he was able to really stick it to her. And the legal community had his back. He made her crazy before she even knew about his affair. He seemed to enjoy torturing her and then saying shes crazy_I didnt do anything. If he had just done what a man who had 4 children with her should have done, it would never have gone that far. My ex kept me in court for years trying to take my daughter from me and he never paid a dime until i got another attorney and took him back to court. Thank God i was able to work 2 jobs and afford an attorney. I knew what pain Betty was in. I still feel he drove her to do what she did. He put so much stress on her , she snapped. People said it was because of his new wife, but it really wasnt. It was about how he was treating her as if she was nothing. He tortured that woman for years. And seemed to enjoy it.
If the scenario you described is true, I cant imagine what crap that woman took from her husband. She is paying for those murders, which she should be, but there has to be some sorrow for her as well. This is tragic all around. I also feel sorry for the children left to deal with all of this.
My aunt put her husband through CalWestern. He left her the minute he finished school and was disbarred less than a year later. She set him up with stolen medical records. She’s capable of murder, but she’s too smart to do that. He mowed lawns for the rest of his life.
@@RuralJuror420 She is an icon of evil, but he probably deserved her. She taught kindergarten for 32 years and did similar stuff to the kids. Equally opportunistic - everyone is a cause for rage.
2Ryled did not just dump her broke her and took away any form of dignity she had left in her . Everyone thinking she was crazy .Whenever you help a man in the end they always leave and destroy you or at least try to destroy you
She was rightly pissed that Linda the hosebag walked right into her life with no effort or sacrifice. She should have let them live so the hosebag could be dumped in the same manner as Betty. The idiot mistresses never believe it will happen to them. Guess what? Wrong! Dan Broderick was a 40 year old looking for someone in their 20's. He would have eventually been a 60 year old looking for someone in their 20's.
@@kellybetts2690 I knew a guy who dumped wife & kids bc he married at 23 and thought he missed out chasing women. Found a girl 19 and married her. He was 40. When he was 50 she dumped him for a young hot guy bc she didnt want to sit around and watch tv at night. She wanted to party, go places and have fun. He was getting old now. Didnt want the grey hair guy they called her dad.
nor I, not a dime will she ever make off me and I'm hoping no one else does either - she inherited from her father's estate but the youngest daughter didn't get a dime - now why do you think that was ???
Her mother ruined her life as she knew it. She destroyed her family. She killed her provider and made her technically an orphan (dead dad, incarcerated mom)
Betty suffered for years, supporting Dan, having babies bc he said no birth control. This man drove her off the edge. I think Betty has done enough time, set her free!
she was already off the edge, foaming at the mouth for FIVE years over killing them. all she's gotta do now is show authentic remorse (parole boards are big on that). she won't do it so i hope she's grown fond of confinement.
I can’t blame her. She devoted her life working and paying bills just to help him get through law school and be successful. In addition she was raising 4 kids. And he did what? Cheated on her, lied to her about the affair and then dumped her.He also used his law skills to destroy the rest of her life We all have a breaking point and he humiliated her. I don’t say that what she did was right, murder is never right, but I can understand the reasons behind that.
Fair is fair. Justice was served on Dan. And Linda guilty by association and accomplice. I’m not sure that justice is afforded to Betty. He threw the first ... umm (2 dozen) punches. She got to throw 1 devastating one, and she did not miss!! Good for her!
The two kids who do not want Betty released are her daughter Kim and her son Dan. The reason is clear: they are being manipulated and controlled by Larry Broderick, Dan's brother who is the executor of his estate. He has told them they will be disinherited if they support their mother. The other two who support Betty, her daughter Lee and her youngest son Rhett, cannot be controlled by Larry Broderick because Lee was already disinherited by Dan in his will prior to the killings. As far as Rhett is concerned, he cares more about his mother than money, which cannot be said for the two kids who want to keep their mother locked up on Larry Broderick's orders. Clearly there is a spirit of manipulation and control in the Broderick line.
+Deanne Booth actually, the two boys are the youngest. Kim is the oldest, the Lee, then Dan Jr., then Rhett. It is so sad that the curse of anger and rage has been inherited by Betty's kids. They were all old enough to witness and remember how unstable Both parents were and how they inflicted that on their children. By the way, Kim has said she had nothing to do with this book.
+Deanne Booth ~ Well said ! The two children are cognizant and have expressed, quite accurately, that even after 20 yrs. of reflection their mother is still stuck in a narcissistic 'victim mentality'. Incapable to feel any genuine remorse for murdering two people while they slept. Which (IMHO) renders Betty emotionally unstable; thus, dangerous to others that "push her" too far. Be it murder or otherwise.....it's not worth such a chance.
+Shane Kane There is more than one way to 'kill' someone. D&L were hell bent on destroying Betty as is often done when after the newness wears off in their relationship. They then 'get off on' making the x (and oftentimes the children) miserable. I understand Betty's lack of remorse-they were killing her in their own way. She got the upper hand on them.
+jeanettea12345 ~ All three adults behaved badly ! None of them had clean hands. Betty, not only gave as good as she got but was relentless in instigating, perpetuating and exasperating a nasty situation. That was witnessed and well documented. The point is ~ The ugly dance called divorce happens thousands of times, to thousands of people. Without resorting to "the upper hand" (MURDER) as an acceptable remedy. It's also evident, she still (20 yrs. later) feels her actions were somehow justified. If she is currently bereft of remorse in doing so; it's a sound determining factor that she remain exactly where she is....Prison.
+jeanettea12345 no excuse for her killing two people. She's a psychotic lunatic. There is no justification at all for what she did. She cared more about "winning" than she cared about her children or herself.
Elisabeth Broderick not only put her husband through, med school, she alsoput him through law school while he only put her through hell. put her through shame in return.
@CaptainSpauIding ~ Don't forget that she was living in a house which cost more than $600,000 before she murdered them. Yeah please, let me be abused like that too...😁
Deborah 78. Well maybe you should be abused like her and we will see if the money makes it ok. Maybe more men should act like the husband and divorce the wife after 30 and get a new one. And I bet you complain that men don’t respect women. Look in the mirror to see why, I know after reading your comment I have a little less respect
one of her sons was on oprah years back(can't remember which but I think it was Rhett) and he said that the two people who had the most to fear from betty were already dead, she's not a threat to society at large and should be released.
lisa bradford I agree, she has spent about 25 years in prison.....Time to release her so she can be back in society and be with her family. Perhaps she can try to do something with her life and be happy.
Suspiria10 i've heard that the kids are split about betty with 2 supporting her release and 2 not supporting it. btw i love your profile pic. gorgeous!
She needs to rot in prison for life. She is a cold-blooded killer - she shows no remorse. Let this piece of trash stay in prison. She was physically and verbally abusive. She violated restraining orders and she is a psychopath.
She wasn't a threat to them until they pissed her off. She still is saying they gave her no choice. Prison isn't just about who's in danger on the outside. if that were the case, we could release 75% of those in there as most murders are domestic situations. Yeah, the one she was mad at is dead, so let's just let her go? Parole boards expect a person to develop insight into their situation. I also don't think her child should be the person to make a decision about her release. She was mentally ill early on. Her husband didn't cause her to develop borderline and narcissistic personality disorders and he didn't make her kill him.
The very definition of subtlety driving Betty crazy by gas lighting her until she lost her identity, perception and self-worth. It was a form of upper class domestic violence, and Kim her daughter should recognize that her mother was temporarily insane.
I can't believe her own daughter testified against her. I seen the movie betty was always the one taking care of the children. While dan was out screwing around with Linda. She certainly wasn't a saint she knew she was messing around with a Married man with children. Shame on Linda and Dan!!!
Jane - I do not condone the killings but I certainly understand. My mom was married to a narcissist. He was very controlling. physically and emotionally abusive towards her. She supported him through school . He got his Masters and his PHD. Then she wasn't good enough for him.
I was living where Betty was imprisoned. She did wrong...But her husband and new wife TORMENTED HER!! AND her Children are BRATS! HOW dare them turn there back on her. She was given 20 yr Sentence..why isn't she out! I hate what EVERYONE is and has been doing to her!! She was a Grear Mom and an EXCELLENT WIFE! WHY can't anyone recognize her True Character. She is Brilliant and could be a Huge Blessing to her Community. That's the Real Betty Broderick 🌹
Yes, it's easy to see that the husband was the narcissist. Cheaters are the biggest narcissists because they always get away with it. They make it look like they are the innocent one and their partner is the crazy one. They smear their partner publicly and walk away with everything. Then their partner becomes crazy because they took away their entire life. On the flipside Betty had her own dysfunction, otherwise she would not have attracted her husband who used her up, discarded her like a crumpled piece of paper and continued to abuse her with the court. Her children were brainwashed by the other woman and their dad because that is who they ended up living with. If she had walked away and gone no contact, she likely would be free today, but how many women would be able to leave their 4 children and make a new life. Altho murder is not acceptable, I can only imagine how much pain and suffering she went thru to get to that point.
@@haintedhouse3052 You can't read? She is Brilliant. All you have to do is read of everything she did for Dan helping him on College exams and all the Crafts and Poetry she wrote..that's NOTHING to what wasn't put in the Movie about Betty. She was the one who really passed Dan's Exams! You have no idea. Both of those Cruel people Tormented Betty then took away her Children. They were horrible people!
Bullshit. It is her fucked up behavior that drove him to concentrate on his work and eventually get involved with Linda. Betty should have been put in a straitjacket and institutionalized.
Ha ha You are beyond stupid. Your husband if you have one is probably one of those sissys who would like to leave but doesn't dare. Wait til it happens to you Ms. Smug. Dan concentrating on his work my ass! He was concentrating on himself only and subsequently tossed his wife and children under the bus to get it. I wouldn't say him driving that convertible around town with Linda means he was concentrating on his work. Him (and Linda) writing and witnessing the one child out of the Will says it all. Only two lower than low lifes would do that to a child.
Oh yes, driving in a car around town with his wife means he's not doing his job! And of course a convertible is a murdering offense. Betty was just denied parole (can't apply again for 15 years!) and good for that. Even her own words, in interviews, show her as a narcissistic sociopath who ruined her own life, all on her own. She never showed any compassion for what her insanity was doing to her children. They never existed for her except as tools to use against a husband who (quite understandably!) committed the mortal sin of falling out of love with a crazed, selfish Gorgon of a woman. She should have taken that $16,000 a month (in 80's dollars!) and fixed herself up and gotten a young boyfriend.
Booker Jones ~ "You know what Booker"...... thanks for input that you have the ethical fortitude and decency to recognize that a spouse's adultery is NEVER a reason to murder them. Frightening that some do.......
It’s 2019 now and this woman is 70+. I don’t think she can move on unless she’s released and I doubt she would hurt anyone again. There’s a big difference between crimes of passion and cold blooded killing. Not justifying murder, in the 80s women were staying home more to raise the kids. He took her kids, her friends and her life. At this point it’s time to let her out. I think the 2 who don’t want her out, probably just don’t want to help her financially.
Free Betty. I agree, she’s not a danger to anyone. Nobody is being helped by Betty spending the rest of her life in prison. Her kids aren’t going to forgive themselves when she passes.
lucaboden you’re referring to statements by Betty’s children and Linda’s brother read at her last probation hearing? I hope her two oldest children are considering that she’s 75 years old. You can’t tell me I’m wrong in my opinion that they will regret not supporting their mother’s release. I could be wrong as could you.
I do not support murder of any kind except for self defence.However I can certainly understand why she did it.Betrayal by your husband is not easy to accept and Dan Broderick handled that situation badly.
he put her out like the trash - she had his kids and supported him and he was happy for that until a younger model came along - she was most probably having a mental breakdown over it - her kids whatever age will always have mixed memories but its 2020 now and we are all more aware of mental issues that were not known in the early 90's - he was allowed to abuse her through the courts - omg her daughter is now making money from the story - shame on her - she should be donating the money to women who are in hostels now and homeless because of spousal abuse and helping children of mothers in prison.
Especially since he lied about the affair when she asked? Then continued to be faithful and move to a new state with him. Made her move and spend money she didn't need to. Made her invest part of her soul to him. You dump her like its nothing and the new wife doesn't think it'll happen to her once she ages?
The more you read about it the more you see that she was a wreck long before they divorced - not that that's an excuse for Dan. When Dan first left her and the kids spent time living with him, Kim said it was the first time she felt like she had a normal life. Dan was a jerk to do what he did, and he probably would have left her no matter what because he cared more about money than he did about his family. But whether they stayed married or not, Betty would have been better off if she had dealt with the issues she obviously had for the entire marriage.
@@cher4561 Friends of the Brodericks witnessed Betty's verbal humiliations aimed at Dan way before Linda came along. and people act appalled at him for wanting to get out (!)
@@humanbeing2420 , I don't feel sorry for Dan and Linda! You mess with a married man, you should know what's going to happen! Most women will fight for their man...
I still can't understand not being able to 'move on'. She had a mansion, paid for in full. Cars, clothes, insurance, etc. 16k a month alimony, her kids in private schools, her bank account secured, etc. I moved on, with no alimony, one child, a used car I paid for, my own bank account, my living expenses and my daughter's, my cost. My life. What I didn't have, the more costly items, were the words, the cruelty, the abusive and neglectful spouse. He was gone, and my first meal with my daughter, free of this man, was like the most expensive meal anyone could imagine.
Wow.. Yes, you cared more about your daughter and your life. Unfortunately, Betty still wanted that "social circle" and couldn't just move on. Don't get me wrong, I'm not judging her, because I really don't know how I would react to putting my husband through law and medical school for our family, then have him dump me for someone younger and place her right in "the circle".. Mental cruelty is horrible! But, congratulations on placing your child's welfare first! You are Truly Wise and Blessed~
She didn’t have all those things that you say. And the alimony was for one year, with the next two years it being halved and then finished after that completely.
I understand what Betty went thru, my daughter didn't see her fathers abuse towards me when she was young but when she got older she actually understood and remembers. Good thing i divorced him and he kind of lost his children since he is so egoistic and all he thinks about himself and now has a caretaker taking care of him in his old age.
Betty held things down while Dan was in medical school AND then law school she had 9 pregnancies with him and tons of odd jobs even after he was an attorney
@@haintedhouse2990 no. But the sacrifices made the betrayal bitter. Being used like that is hard to swallow. He took away her identity, children and friends with his power as a famous lawyer. I don’t condone what Betty did, but understand why she did it.
@@sz5263 they were in a loveless marriage based on position, catholic tradition, status and money. both narcs using each other for their own gain. for 30 years we've heard 1 version and I aint buying the June Cleaver bit for a sec.
This is what happens. Mothers are always taken for granted . They pour their life and love on kids , sacrifice their life . But all kids can appreciate is their rich dad .
@@haintedhouse2990 Her daughter kim even said, because of their mother they weren't living financially well as they could have been..Sounds like her daughter missed the money daddy was pouring out on them..
@@thepamela050 her mother murdered her father. until you've experienced the same thing don't make assumptions. i've said it before, Kim and her siblings deserve praise for witnessing and surviving the shit show their psycho mother performed for them.
@@haintedhouse2990 The other daughter was cut out of her father's will because he wanted to play games with her as he did with Betty..Keep in mind two of Betty's children say she should be free and must have witness the mental crap Dan put Betty through..Like I said I feel ZERO compassion for Dan and Linda and Betty did what many wish they could do to a cheating mind game playing husband..Kim is just mad that all th emoney went away and her lifesyle no longer exisited of weath and privilege..
@@thepamela050 so Betty did what many wish they could do - a great example to set for you ladies. when I think of her locked up for life I could weep with joy.
My husband was cheating on me with a friend and when I found out I literally had a melt down. I never would have killed them but I always wished the worse on them. It's taken years to let that anger go. Betty should have considered her kids. She was such a narcissist that she couldn't put anyone's needs ahead of her own. Must read this book. 💔
i'm glad you were able to work through some of your hurt and i wish the best for you. i've always felt that you can't instill homicidal actions into somebody, the capacity to kill is either in you or it isn't. i think with Betty she was a ticking clock - her over-the-top reactions were more suited to a psychotic toddler. read up on her cold-as-ice parents who were MIA during both trials - Betty's problems go waay back.
Betty was not the victim Dan and Linda were the victims have a kid in the kids this whole story is so stupid they should just let any rights in prison for the rest of her life.
Until Kim puts her husband through LAW and MEDICAL school while working and taking care of their children only for him to leave her for the younger woman, she will never understand. I don't but that's because I refused to let men live off of me. To me, Betty was pushed to the brink. Dan had all of the power and took her kids (probably spoiling them to the point that they were loyal). It's all a very sad story where the kids suffered in the end.
Murder of course is never ok, however, all human beings have a breaking point. We do not know how it feels to spend your life helping to make someone successful only to have them dump you and start over by living the good life with a younger woman.
I too was used, abused, then dumped for a younger woman after 15 years of dark secrets so I know how this affects the heart, mind and Soul. Betty was driven insane then punished for going insane just like I was but women and kids hold little value in this World, still. There is no way I feel she should still be in Prison for snapping because she is a human being that was SHOVED past her limit with degradation and humiliation not to mention the loss of friends, kids, family, and her freedom yet boys will be boys. It's grossly unfair, unjust, and has nothing to do with real Justice in my opinion when a man can kill a woman's dream/life and leave her imprisoned in the ashes of his decisions.
my goodness I'm really running late! lol I have NO IDEA how this came up as I've KILLED four computers so far..but still trying lol. Hang in there. Scum DOES NOT DESERVE ANYTHING BUT WHAT THEY END UP WITH! OLD AND ALONE!
You know nothing about this case, and it shows. She didn't do shit. She was whacked in the head many years before Dan left her. His mistake was not getting her institutionalized. Linda was merely an escape from an untenable situation with a batshit crazy bitch.
Nobody gives a shit about your situation insofar as it relates to this case. It has no relevance here. You didn't decide to murder somebody. Sorry to be cruel about it, but Broderick was the classic narcissistic sociopath who is a danger to society because of her inability to take responsibility for her actions.
The daughter that cry’s without tears . I’m not sure which parent she got that personality disorder from but she sure has one . Her dad and his gold digger got exactly what they deserved!
My and i saw the tv movies of the case she commented on how the children went along with their father's welcoming of his homewrecker say the kids and friends always go to who has the money.
My mother went through something very very similar to this with my bastard father and if it weren't for the fact that she had friends and family to help her get counseling and to deal with it before I got this ugly, she probably would have done the same thing! Thousands of women go through shit like this all the time in this world, and it's been going on forever!.... Working their asses off to support their husbands dreams, raise their children, keep a home, attend all the appointments and games, keep up appearances, and literally drive yourself crazy trying to keep yourself absolutely flawlessly perfect so he doesn't lose interest in you while you work to build a comfortable lives for yourselves, all to be dumped on the side like a piece of garbage when he decides they're not good enough anymore! It's bullshit! What Betty did was wrong but she paid her do, now it's time to let her out! And to be honest, I don't blame her for losing it! just the fact alone that he had an affair would be enough to drive a woman mad, let alone everything else he did to her! Having her die behind bars is not the answer she needs to be rehabilitated! intense physcotherapy is in order! I believe that she was going downhill for a very long time before that November day, and she just finally snapped and that shows that she was not fully aware of what she was doing and the gravity of the situation, Her mental health needs to be the focus, but I truly believe that she has no intention of ever hurting another person.
Hey..he could have knocked her off first! She would not listen to counsel , she was obsessed and crazy jealous. She cared about her pride..left her kids on his doorsteps, used them for her agenda..sorry, not a good mom or person.
I’m really sorry for what your mum went through and how that would have hurt you too. It’s so nice to hear from men who are not selfish and can see the bigger picture. Not just what they want for themselves. You will be a beautiful husband if you are not already. My husband did the same thing to me but left when I was 9 months pregnant with our second daughter, a baby we had planned for! My emotions were to nest, meanwhile I had to look after a toddler and deal with my husband leaving for another woman. Then the helol of him taking my new born baby off me five days and nights a fortnight along with my breast milk so he and his girlfriend could play mummy’s and daddy’s with our children, my babies. It actually just got worse and worse, the legal battles, screwing me down to nothing financially with a lesbian lawyer who never had kids and didn’t want kids so how could she understand the pain of what she was doing to me. I lost all my money fighting legal battles and then my ex husband lost the rest of it by trading it away on the stick market. I thought I had signed off every document, I signed everything he gave me, but he didn’t give me one of our company documents to sign that would remove me as a director. So after our divorce, he is remarried with a new baby, his lawyer tells me I have to pay for his margin loan debt of $350,000 from trading derivatives that he wasn’t watching. I understand Betty Broderick. Totally.
Her husband Dan didn't deserve Betty's love. He is someone who is not worth going to prison for. Betty could have punished him and get half of his assets and get on with her life. It is a lot easier for people to advise when they have no clue of what she went through and how she felt betrayed. Betty should be let out of prison whether she shows any sign of remorse or not.
He made sure Betty doesn't have a life, Betty got nothing out of her divorce but to be on his mercy,for how long was she going to live like that,her daughter is exactly like her father,wants her mother to suffer while she is getting rich using Betty's name, because if the book did not have Betty's name it would not give her a dime and she knows it.
@@ntombikayisethabisadanisa874 she had 16,000 a month, a beautiful house on the beach and a new live-in boyfriend, a settlement most divorced women only dream about. i would gladly be on dan's mercy.
Betty was obsessed with the good life, but nothing was good enough for her, she was crazy way before Dan divorced her, he also supported her 4 years after the divorce with 16,000 a month
@First Last I feel sorry for her. She also had no lack with this man and yes what she did is not excusable but she have paid for this long enough! This is my opinion! End!
Danny boy drove her there.he destroyed her systematicly and methodically.when it first happened I was like get over it(the divorce).got informed.Betty was a true warm good loving woman.after I learned more I made a creed ,of you fuck with someones head-you deserve what you get.if a dog got treated like that and it got mean ppl would defend dog.ever notice in these types of crimes the females always stand behind daddy.but not mommy. I could go on.she was beautiful bright intelligent witty.I wish she was free.PPl get informed besides thru a Hollywood movie. What did an older man on jury say about her?he said,"what took her so long?"you kids need to forgive her and love her and try to have some kind of relationship with her.especially you girls. I think the impetus was when Dan said haha I have been fucking Linda the whole last four yrs.and its a good example of females cruelty to other females.but we must lionize good old danny boy.Dan made her the col blooded killer.I could go on and on about this case.she's doing her time-over 30 yrs now.I don't think she would kill again.also clip 'forgot to mention she also pput him thru medical school too.DONT FUCK WITH PEOPL ES HEAD.her kids -try to find it in your heart to forgive and love her.
I apologize for being so late, i know it's been 6 years but sorry, after skimming through the comments i spit out my coffee on "Betty was a true warm good loving woman" i'm confused. the only Betty Broderick I knew about was a foul-mouthed batshit pain-in-the-ass YEARS before a Linda Kolkena showed up, in fact I don't know how Dan stayed married to her as long as he did - maybe she was great in the sack.
Betty gave Dan her power and she ended up losing herself in the marriage. When he left her, it was sad that Betty did not use the opportunity to reinvent herself and regain her independence. She did not need to kill them. More than likely, Dan may have decided to leave Linda for a younger woman later in life. or vice versa. I have often heard the saying, "If they cheat with you, they may cheat on you."
That was well said as I have been trying to say that but was unable to communicate it properly. She needed to back away, get her own apartment or small house, find a job & maybe see a therapist. She was her own worst enemy & yeah Dan is a douche but Betty had no right to get violent & psychotic no matter what he did. The greatest saying is "the best revenge is living well"
It's obvious she was angry with her mother from listening to her testimony. She seems very insincere when being cross examined and her memory was failing her all of sudden. She also had a smart mouth. That girl has it in for her mother and is making her pay because she was a wild party girl. Ironically she's just like her mom, bitter 'til the end.
i am sorry, and i know that i will get a million jabs, but i feel sorry for betty! he was so disrespectful, and mentally abusive she just lost it. imagine working your ass off to put him thru school., have his babies, and then after he gets a great career going he gets too big for his britches, and dumps her for a young girl!...i think she should have gotten a short prison term! he was not an innocent victim, he pushed her, and i think she just lost it...it can happen when you are trying so hard to hang onto your life, and someone basically laughs in your face as they screw it all up! i do think betty has issues, but jeez who gave them to her...answer her asshole husband!
She didn't "lose it." She and Dan had been separated for MANY YEARS, and divorced the previous year, before she MURDERED Dan and Linda in their sleep. People get executed for far less.
Susan Nunes he killed himself. he was an arrogant prick! i dont think his new wife deserved death. she married someone she loved. i think betty should have gotten it big for her death, but not for ugly man!
We can't punish people for murdering "nice" people and let them off for ones we don't "like". The law--thankfully--doesn't work like that. Nobody "did" anything to Betty Broderick; from all the facts and what her own children (even the ones supporting her release) have said, and what interviews with her starkly reveal, she is a self-enclosed, self-righteous narcissist with no capacity for caring or even seeing anyone outside the turmoil in her own brain, not even her own children. There isn't a scrap of evidence that--forget her ex-husband and his wife--she has a particle of remorse for the suffering she has caused her kids. There's nothing to say she can even see it, or anything that doesn't have to do with HER personally.
Cindy Sue ~ Moral decency & common sense is evident that Daniel Broderick didn't "kill himself". He & his new wife.... were executed! A gun... deliberate&targeted bullets were shot whilst they slept... ending their lives. That was engaged by a self-absorbed narcissist ex-wife that refused to realize that her past life was over and the future was NOW her agenda to instrument a forward positive direction. Regardless, that he betrayed her. Perception that he was "an arrogant prick" is just that.... "an arrogant prick". Possibly, accurate. So what! Never in a civilized society; should it be acceptable that 'adultery' is his sentence to become a 'Murder Victim' !
i agree that she had issues.i agree that she committed murder, but he did so many bad things to her. just like the Travis whats his name murder with jodi arias. he took a girl with issues and pushed and pushed. they she snapped. what did he expect. if Dan had not been a user, a cheater, and a dirty old man he would be alive today wouldnt he?
She worked 2 jobs to put him thru law school raised his 4 children then he wanted to throw her away for someone half their age cut her out of the kids life he drove her to it
There is no way she could grasp what her mother did for Dan and the kids. Literally everything he and they had was made possible by Betty. She worked multiple jobs while raising them ... and had multiple miscarriages as well as giving birth to a baby boy who died after 5 days. After all that he treated her like trash and took up with a 20 yrs younger woman. I hate to say it but an arrogant user dying is no loss to the world. The gold digger who screwed around with him was no loss either.
Betty was a foul mouthed pain-in-the-ass years before Linda showed up. her insults and verbal wrath no doubt drove Dan straight out the door. can't blame him for saying "see ya". glad she's still locked up.
This is the same daughter who would call her mama crying about how her daddy wouldn't buy them any school clothes,and Betty would take them shopping out of her alimony money?The same kid who the school had to give her and her brothers clothes from the lost and found cause her dad didnt have them clothes for cold weather,but the new girlfriend was going around looking glamorous? Being a mother really is a thankless job lol.Why do we even do it?
Warning to women not to support a husband through school and give everything she has to build his success. Divorces from Narcissistic husbands don't go well. No reason to kill but he knew exactly how to drive her off the deep end.
Fair is fair. Justice was served on Dan. And Linda guilty by association and accomplice. I’m not sure that justice is afforded to Betty. He threw the first ... umm (2 dozen) punches. She got to throw 1 devastating one, and she did not miss!! Good for her!
@@zoelynch1062 But Dan was sane (being sarcastic). Don't you think women have had enough of the double standards where men are accepted no matter how much they cheat, lie, steal and manipulate. Betty was a victim not only of Dan, but of a society who doesn't value a woman's input in a relationship. She was seen as property used by Dan until he used her up. She was never valued as a human being. And Linda like women back then - thought having a man - no matter how bad he was, was better than being single. Linda was desperate and stupid to date or marry Dan. Women need to stop being so desperate.
lucaboden why use a knife when you have a gun? Why use a punch when you have a knife? Why use anything but the legal system when it beats punch, knife, and gun? 🙄
Dan disinherited his second daughter before he was killed because she talked to her mother. This girl was a teenager and she got written out of her fathers will. What does that tell you about Dan
Dan and Betty both were go-getters. She was willing to put away her ambitions because his would yield better fruits. His success was a team effort, until he reached the level where he could do it without her. The reality is, people who judge Betty as narcissistic or unstable, don’t realize BB and DB chose each other for their own reasons: Dan may have chosen Betty for her complete devotion to family and she chose him for his 💯 focus to success. Both had their own roles to play. Dan reached the maturity of his success first, because children take longer and is always a risky investment (as we can all see here with Kim and Dan Jr. betraying their mom) Dan reached the summit of his mountain first and he shoved her off the cliff because he no longer needed her. Kim and Dan Jr show what kind of low moral characters they are when they don’t get to enjoy that luxurious lifestyle their father was able to provide. But is that the only fulfilling life one can have? I see these 2 as manifestation of Dan’s worst characteristics: callouse, immoral, ruthless who wish they could further his reach and Betty ended it all. Maybe they could have turned into the Rockefeller’s or the Kennedy’s or Trumps if Betty would just be willing to be a pawn to be tossed away like so many women in these ambitious people’s paths?! But they messed with the wrong woman!
The law was changed in California because Dan hid so much money from Betty.Can.t stand lazy young women who go after married men.They don.t deserve murder but they don.t deserve a fan club either.They should check their morals.
Don't get me wrong, he was a DISGUSTING EXCUSE for a human being, but nevertheless, she DID NOT HAVE TO KILL HIM!!!! Look at the BEAUTIFUL children she's missing out on!!!!
Betty shouldn't have spent one day in jail over what happened, he drove her insane and that the time she couldn't even find a lawyer to represent her in San Diego county she had no money he closed all her accounts and she was completely out of her mind when she did this. Her attorney should have used temporary insanity cuz that's what it was
You don't understand what that legal definition means. She planned and carried out a murder. He was a pig, but she had no right to kill hm. She was mistreated but not in danger.
This saga was alawyas justifiable homicide to me. There was something written lately that even if the 'new couple' are finally together THEY go out of their way to harass the x-wife They 'get off' on it.
No, she wasn't, Linda was being stupid but as I said a year it doesn't give Betty the right to break Dan and Linda home and shoot them in cold blood and I have also say Dan would have eventually cheated on Linda.
Money got tight and the daughter's husband said, "Dammit honey, write the damn book already. Your mama ain't ever getting out so don't worry 'bout her killing you, too!"
she wrote the book to help pay for her medical bills from what I'm guessing is years of therapy after witnessing the over-the-top horror show her mom put on.
WELL,BETTY IS JUST HUMAN...AND SHE HAVE HAD HER LIMITATIONS TOO...SHE IS TRYING TO MAKE THINGS BETTER BUT THE HUSBAND IS MAKING IT WORSE. I CANNOT BLAME BETTY...IMY HEART REALLY HURT FOR WHAT SHE'D BEEN THRU.
he was a pig who spent years using her and removing her self worth it made her nuts he's lucky she didn't torture him for awhile before she killed him the nerdy little freak grew power as he did this to her! look at the pics 28th him & her or him and the kids he seemed to save his smilesfor the girl he was having an affair with than married ! he could of at least smiled with his kids!
She IS a victim, just because the victim commits murder does not lessen what she went through originally. Dan and Linda had every opportunity to say, right this action is not working Betty is not going to change but they didn’t, they continued to withhold money, use the legal system to their advantage and cause the mental breakdown of Betty. Yes it’s terrible that they were murdered but corner anything, leaving them with no way out you need to be prepared for the consequences!
Betty would have gotten more of a fair shake financially from Dan if she would have stopped calling 100 times a day with profanity or tried parking her car on the street, not in his front door.
Yep, you murder two people and you get to have your freedom to do whatever the fuck you want. If this was a man, you can bet your ass he'd have been fried by now.
Release her and them her kids have to support her. She's an entitled crazy bitter female, if they didn't give her what she demanded she would turn the gun on her own kids
You don't let someone out, who murdered 2 people in cold blood, and has never shown remorse. If Dan withhold money it was because he was trying to get her to stop harassing him. She couldn't let go and from what I have read and what was described in the movie, she was not easy to live with.
@@hannejeppesen2887 There are always people like yourself who can never understand what it means to be used and abused by someone. Betty was emotionally and mentally abused by Dan for years . Hopefully this won't ever happen to you. Betty needs therapy, not jail. She can't feel remorse because she can't reconcile it with defending herself. No one could help her so she helped herself. How can she feel bad for doing what she did until she can talk through this and someone can sympathize with her position to show her compassion. You guys don't get mental abuse. Betty was wrong to kill, but right to stick up for herself.
It really must've been extremely difficult for Betty to watch another woman just move in on her man and her home of almost twenty years, that she built and nurtured. They even stayed all in the same house. same bed, same country club friends, who apparently had no trouble replacing her for the "newer" version. The lady also bore a striking resemblance to Betty in her youth. In the movie version it shows the children just cavorting around with Linda without any pity or loss for their mother. All I see is a man who got tired of his wife, and continued to wear down her self-esteem, hoping she'd slink down into the shadows and go away.. and things just didn't work out that way for him. I am not a killer. But when I think of all the women who die every year at the hands of men like that, it really is sickening. Maybe they're the lucky ones. So many other women suffer a daily corrosive, humiliating defeat at the hands of men who don't love them anymore. Someone perhaps decided for once, that it wasn't going to be her. In her own words; "She could not let him win."This was her husband. I think that's more than fair.
Husband doesn't mean property neither does wife yes it's hurtful to be " replaced " but she should have gotten help and moved forward with her life she is a pretty woman who just could of done much better than that cheating creep you just can't go around killing people who have done you wrong but I will say this possessive people like Betty Broderick are scary and seldom change their ways sad!
What would you really do then,.sit back and say nothing, while your partner screws another broad while your at home thinking your the love of his still,.? Takes out this ho who's half his age,and yours,.suppose to STFU,. take over all you worked for even all the kids, get real..liar..
She did get help and Dan was allowed to use the legal system against her for five long years, hearing after hearing, motion after motion. It was a ridiculous abuse of the legal system. He did not s=deserveto die but for God's sake, she was pushed beyond understanding by him and unnecessarily so.
Of course not, but there were options. She had looks, connections, money and her children until she blew it. She had a million other choices besides murder.
the only people i felt sorry for were the kids. betty & daniel were toxic together & made a lousy home environment for the kids. linda f***** around with her rich married boss & also acted badly after the divorce feeding into the drama between them. betty deserves to spend life in prison for robbing those children from having a relationship with their father. she & daniel seem to have been 2 very selfish, narcissistic people.
s mast ~ Insightful and balanced take! The three adults catered to their own individual narcissistic agenda. The children's emotional welfare unfortunately, were not; yet should have been prominent. Sad!!!!
She robbed her children of a relationship with a malignant narcissist who kept their mother in litigation for 5 years. There was no reason for that. He weaponized his law degree for many years and did every single thing he could to harm her. No different than being punched in the face every single day.
Betty did her time, she bought therapy inside as well as helping others get their diploma, and some college credits. 2 of her children made sure the parole board keeps her in there. Along with others contributing. 30 years is coming up, its not like she only served 10 for what she did. She feels remorse, and I seen it on different videos. I don't see her being a threat to society, emotionally abused woman she was, in the hands of her ex husband...
It's sad that Narc Dan excluded his other daughter Lee from his will. Poor girl, hope she's doing fine. I'd even buy a book if she ever was to write one.
Sorry your Family has to be the cautionary tale for cheating men and entitled money spouse. The world needs examples such as your parents otherwise the law protects the moneyed spouse. Women like me need Women like your mother to speak for us with their firm, loud and decisive actions. I’m sorry she had to play “crazy” to try to get away from the good ol’ boys’ punishments in court and thus did not appeal to the world at large.
I don’t think she owes her kids anything and certainly don’t need their forgiveness. She gave them the biggest gift: Life! And also gave the 2nd biggest gift: good looks and intelligence to succeed. They may not have their father, but a new generation of 4 new entitled arrogant immoral narcissists is not a wonderful world made. All Dan would have taught his children would be: it’s ok to fuck people over (you may get away with it! Look at me!). No thanks! Dan, you serve the world best 6 feet under as a cautionary tale than anything you could have done in your remainder life. I refrained from using stronger language out of decency and respect for the deads.
Agency in Repose Umm, Na-da! They already got more than I got in this world: born white, and privileged, from attractive parents who both loved them the best way they knew how, money from Dad’s ruthless gotten gains legal cases estate, mother who still loves and cares about them from prison. However, I believe They owe their mother a debt of gratitude for bringing them into the world and raised them into attractive and intelligent people.
I don't know if she should be out or not, I'd have to research more, but I do have a feeling of sorrow for this woman. It's like she Kinda lost her mind.
Wonder if shed be able to make it on her own today with nothing...its hard out here! Plus the instability mentally issue. I wouldnt want to be responsible for letting her go then her snapping on one of her kids or something because they "wronged" her too.
I would go crazy too if i were her. first of all i would never support any man through law school. he can pay his own way. or why couldnt he let her go to school too. why did she have to stay home and take care of their children, its a two way street. its a wonder she drove herself to the edge. although she seems like a very smart woman. i believe she should be released if she believes in herself
She acted out of rage for his behaviors to the marriage and she doesn't want to be sorry it would show weakness when a man she trusted made her be strong because he was a weak cheating rat. Who knows what any women would do under that humiliation and hurt.
This is sad but my favorite LifeTime movie I'm clearing my morning or night 2 watch# he made his bed now he got 2 lay in it She helped him get what he had she was by his side
Tyesha Crutcher good right?? Christian slater and amanda peet are nailing it! Did you watch the first dirty john? It was just as awesome. These Stories are so sad but even more intriguing cos they are true!
Many divorces can turn very nasty, this is not uncommon. In these divorces someone always feels they got screwed, someone always feels they were unjustly hurt. These feelings of betrayal are as old as marriage itself. However, rarely do they turn into a double homicide, this is uncommon. Betty was never able to unload her emotional baggage. She couldn't do it back then, and according to her own children she's still unable to let it go some 20 years later.
I happen to disagree with you. This divorce turned nasty because Dan filed and turned it nasty. Betty didn’t ask for a divorce, didn’t screw anyone over for her own gains. She definitely unloaded her emotional baggage with those five bullets LOL I think she is as free and light as a feather at this point, despite being in jail and that is why she didn’t have to fake remorse for your benefit or those Jail house officers. 👏
@@seattlerain8655 She murdered two people, the jury found her guilty, she's been in jail for the last 30 years, and make no mistake, she'd love to get out. But according to most legal analysts, jail is where she'll remain. So in this case the system worked. End of story.
Dam this was good movie what she did was wrong she was there for him threw him going college while she worked three jobs then left her for younger women she's the victim not him.
And Betty benefitted when Dan lavishly supporting her later on in their marriage. They didn't just go from him going to medical and law school to him taking up with Linda. Dan & Betty were married for 16 years, before he filed for a divorce. He was already in his 3rd year of medical school, when they met in college, which means 3 to 4 years of law school. So Betty spent 12 or 13 years living it up in style while Dan went out and made their money. Not to mention the $16,000 she was getting after their divorce, and a $600,000+ home she was living in....
@@Deborahtunes she only got 16k for 1 month and I don't know many people who could endure years of abuse and their whole full thriving lives stolen away from them from kids to 600k to friends and not go bat sh** crazy. I would love to see you do better in her shoes
@@Makamaes1 ~ For one thing, there wasn't any abuse against her. That's one of the lies she told everyone to try and get off for her crimes. And no it was not just for a month that she got the $9,000 to $16,000. It was all the way up until she murdered them, because that was alimony that he was required to pay her every month. As for me, I've been through a divorce, with a whole lot less resources then Betty got. And I certainly didn't go out and kill anyone over it...
Dan was a scrawny guy with a hook nose when he got lucky and marry the gorgeous virgin Betty. The kids got their good looks from Betty. Dateline reported Dan had at least a nose job.
Kim Is so unappreciative Of everything her mom sacrificed for them. It wasn’t the dad that sacrificed it was the mob. The wealth the success they had was because of their mom and their dad drew her to psychosis
She supported him during his schooling and began cheating on her after becoming successful.Happens often sometimes. Anyway she became obsessed with this divorce and his new life. Betty needed serious help dealing with it. It destroys her whole remaking family. She kills them both and now is in prison.. Sad thing.
Every scorned,humiliated ,dumped woman will identify with Betty...The more I learn about her the more I feel crushed...Now betrayed by her children too..Could be devastating for any woman
Wow, ppl are actually justifying and 'understanding' her reason for premeditated murder smh. There is no excuse point blank period!!!!!!!!!! If you followed the case and the evidence, she over exaggerated alot. She did not put him through school, his parents started off and he continued… he may have gotten some help from better but she was not the primary contributor. He went out to study and work, she took care of the home and kids, she considered this arrangement an investment for a prosperous future… sounds fair to me. She chose this. She was also the aggressor and physical abuser early in the marriage and this testimony came from her own children!!! She tormented him during the divorce period and he reacted through the law, the difference is… his reactions were effective while her venomous behaviour backfired, then she called it bullying. She pushed her friends away with her constant ranting and threats to the point where her friends had to give her warnings before they invited her to their gatherings… parties etc I don't condone his cheating but she was no angel either and murder is never the answer!! She dtopped her kids off at his house to try and prove a point and it backfired on her! Her kids ate not objects and pawns, they are human beings with feelings!! Dan even attempted to give her bk her kids abd she refused! They were also both naracasstic. My post is to inform ppl there are two sides to everything and murder is wrong no matter how u try to twist the reasoning.
Regardless Betty was torn apart. The so called Linda should've found herself without a married rich man. Wish Betty would've walked away and had a good life. They drove her crazy. Children should be bound to stand by their parents and try to understand. However murder wasn't the answer. This family went through hell. Thanks to one 2 very selfish ppl
sometimes when you do everything you can to negate a person and shatter their self esteem ,it might come back to bite you in the butt. dan destroyed everything this woman had worked hard to achieve then destroyed her self esteem.some times you get what you ask for. as far as the daughter being against her mom its typical for men to stick together and women to stick with men.
@@haintedhouse2990 the moral to that story is "be careful who you taunt. it just might come back to kick you in the butt or the chest as the case may be"
She should be released !! 😭 For her boys since her daughters dont want to speak to her yet write a whole as book about her for money? Betty loved them so much & would do anything for her kids just like any mother would
I understand that people get divorced and life goes on but Dan was acting as if his life never happened. Betty wanted some validation that all that she did for their family mattered to him. He just left her and that was it. If Dan had handled things better and not lied about his affair instead of acting like she was crazy things could have been different.
just my opinion This case happened when I graduated high school and stayed with me. I have been a stay at mom during my whole marriage but my car is in my name and my name is on the house with my husband.
@@kimma508 yes, but Betty's name was on the house and Dan was a corrupt lawyer who figured likely paid enough people to get her name wiped off the asset. Most people would've snapped of they were in Betty's shoes.
Makamaes1 You makes excellent points and I am not in Betty’s shoes. I can’t say how deeply Dan’s abuse affected since I am not Betty. I just finished about the Broderick case called Until the Twelfth of Never and it has really given me a whole new perspective on things.
Makamaes1 Right again. After reading the book that I mentioned in my last response to you and remembering when one of the jurors asked in an “what took her so long?” I started to wonder that too.
Kim is a ungrateful daughter and only seems to profit by writing about the sufferings her mother went through because of her unfaithful, womanizing dad. I see no reason that Betty shouldn't get our of jail. She more than served her time, and she really was the main victim in this case. I can only hope that Kim someday experiences the same unfaithful husband as her dad was, and her good mother experienced. Justice has come to both Dan and Linda when them both met their maker, and it doesn't look very good for either of them. "If any man commit with the wife of another, and defile his neighbour's wife, let them be put to death, both the adulterer and the adulteress." [Leviticus 20:10] ~
What a pathetic example of a daughter. Mother was wrong but at least she could expect some sympathy from her children. It's OK not to condone the murder but not OK to throw stones at your mother when she needed support most. She has suffered and given up her life for the children and her husband who discarded her for someone younger and then proceeded to abuse her emotionally. Shame on your book.
I don't agree with the murders, but I don't feel bad about Dan and Linda's murders either. I have much more compassion for Betty. She worked hard to put Dan through college, went without, and raised his children, and then when he was finally making a lot of money, he dumped her for a younger women...what a jerk. I think Betty was besides herself to get peoples attention to what she was going through. Even her "friends" left her. I have two friends who were rejected by their long time husbands, for younger women. Pains from the heart are worse than physical pains. I can't get Betty, and what she went through, out of my mind. Too many women today have no Christian morals and don't care if a man is married or not. Linda was a gold digger. Dan had a good job and money, while she didn't have an education or money. I NEVER like sluts or adulterers who break up families, be they men or women!!!
videox222ify I think book was taken off market.Kim Broderick wrote on amazon that she didn’t write the book.She said her friend Nanette defamed her character.
Daughter must be happy to make money on her book she should at least give her mom money her mom definitely had a nervous break down can you imagine how Betty must of felt and why should she feel guilty I sure wouldn’t if this happened to me I probably would do the same thing
