The REAL Betty Broderick Story: Defense Opening Statements (1991) | COURT TV 

Nope!!!

And waited for his supper to be served.

why should he? along with preparing his pipe & slippers that's a woman's job

@@haintedhouse2990 YOU are sick, seek mental help!

Why?

It was very annoying plus the chair that cracks all the time!

That was the state attorney - the woman and it was her chair cracking all the time!

We all do it….Its part of being human.

Yes it's annoying,but you've got to overlook it. Even though it seems on purpose.

😂🤣😂🤣totally!!!

Looks like he's getting a BJ 🤣

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he gives a fuck and doesnt give a fuck at the exact same time. decides the fates and cashes the fucking checks hahahaha

Being a judge is the best job. The lawyers and jury do the world the judge just collect millions.

tough luck though and she needed to get a grip. people fall out of love all the time when married. Also why would he be a nobody if not for her? What did she do?

@@60toodles she worked 2-3 jobs while having children and many miscarriages so he could go to school! His parents paid for his medical degree(which was a waste) and she supported the family until the end of the marriage when he started making millions!!!

A nobody? Hardly. The guy was a genius in his own right, having both medical and law degrees. That's not something an average person is able to achieve. He was also very ambitious, so with or without her, he was going to be successful.

@@nofear6435 my point is that he wouldn’t have been able to attain the status without her working and supporting the family

@@vickiemouse236 Oh, I understood your point just fine. I'm saying I disagree with it.

Well said!

She actually worked jobs to pay for his schools too.

@@Girl-101 wait till it happens to you. Dan was an arrogant asshole. Wait till your husband leave you for a young, hot thing, when you get in your 40s and gain weight, and we’ll see if you go on so easily, after a man takes away your best years and kick you to the curb.

Well said and lots can be learned from this tragedy. Betty was right when she said quote " Dan would say let's do this together, it's for US and so I did...once he made it there was no longer OURS , it was HIS "

If you watch all the videos it is clear that she was the emotionally manipulating person in the marriage. She destroyed all of their lives just to get revenge.

Exactly Linda is a disgusting human being, but she doesn't deserve death. This is definitely going too far

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Jry decides judge applies.

You can only.take so much..mama bear couldnt take it

Because it's the second trial after the first hung jury so he has to sit through it all over again............lol

@@jameshop2559 LOL!!! A real mother Bear would have been a far better mother than Betty!

Being a judge is an easy job. Just sit, sleep, make millions. The lawyers and jury do all the work.

Betty also had a narcissistic personality disorder.

@@helenal.7881 she sure did!

@@helenal.7881 yep their marriage didn't stand a chance.

Good point.

You didn't even know him, and aren't qualified to say.

It sure is. It takes so long to go through it and get over it.

So true especially when all of your contributions are never acknowledged.

Almost all human beings have deal with cheaters and betrayal, but that doesn’t give you a free ticket to murder. There is no excuse to kill anyone, more if is the father of your children. She is the typical person that thinks “if he is not mine, he won’t be any other woman husband”.

No, that would be hate.

We all go through situations like that in life, but that’s not a reason tu murder! She is a narcissist and a selfish. She is where she belongs in, prison is her place until she dies.

@Oceaneyes, while I agree that he sounded like a big jerk, he certainly didn’t deserve to die. They had had a tumultuous relationship for years... even the children testified to that. He did Betty wrong no doubt, but again... he didn’t deserve to be shot in his sleep. The saddest victims of course are their children. Betty literally ripped their lives apart. It broke my heart when Oprah interviewed two of them years ago. Betty is a piece of work. She was attractive, extremely intelligent, college educated, certainly could have held out in the courts for more money from Dan, and could have had a full and wonderful life. She made a terrible choice and left many lives (including her own) in wreckage behind her.

Thank you! He was a SOB and Linda provoked her as well. I'm from Sam Diego. There were Berry Brodrick defense money cans in several places.

@@Jeanninecomeau wow…”Betty Broderick defense moneys”….I had no idea how stupid and ignorant the residents are from San Diego

@@helenal.7881 How dare you? Who is ignorant here?

Dan was known in San Diego legal circles as a jerk. Yes, he was smart and got "results", however treated many badly . Once he started making $$$, that was it. If you disagreed with him or had a "point" about him, he would do what he could do best..legal threat. Never anything on a human level.

right? its easy for most of us to at first here what she wanted and feel she is a gold digger. once you get all the details its like WTF Dan tried to destroy her.

Well, for all intents and purposes, that's not what this case is about. It's about her decision to fricking murder 2 people.

@@nofear6435 exactly!!!

@@lowlowseesee DAN WANTED TO GET AWAY FROM HER!!!! BETTY DESTROYED HER FAMILY!!!! AND SHE IS A DOUBLE :MURDERER!!!!

He should have treated his wife with fairness and more understanding oh, it took her to help him to reach those goals, they were working as a team, now he wants to switch lanes that's fine but at the same time his wife the one that helped him get to where he was and should have been entitled to half including future earnings

You fell for her story. Everyone who knew her, including 3 of her 4 children, says that she was the materialistic one. At one point she even threw a fit when he bought her a ring as a present because in her eyes it was too small. She also claims that they were poor at the time he was making $82,000 a year -- which was a lot back in the late 1970s! The woman's an inveterate liar and a toxic narcissist, to boot. Such people are extremely skilled at fooling others. One of the psychiatrists she had seen describes as an excellent actress.

so you understand her leaving her kids parentless? as well as damaging countless lives? at the time of the murders she had a descent financial settlement, a beautiful beachfront home and a new live-in boyfriend. instead she chooses to blow away the "greedy man". glad she's locked up.

No - I do not think he is alive!

Exactly! Well said. You’re very wise! 🙏🙌

Especially 5 years after you split up!

Exactly.

Agree and that's why she has been in jail for many years. This is more or less about how one can get to that point and how it could have been avoided.

@@martinakuhnert9636 Especially when she had her own boyfriend

I agree

agree.

Are they on RU-vid!? That’s awful I did hear that one call when she tells him your father is fucking his secretary

@@jettsetgirl I dont know if its on youtube but it is on the CourtTV website. It is at the end of prosecutions closing I think.

@@lbca81 thanks doll - I can’t wait for the next season of The dirty john Betty series ..

@@jettsetgirl no prob.

Meanwhile, he used to kick the kids' dogs, because he didn't like animals. He would lock the phone line up in a closet from the kids with the ringer and ans machine down for days, till she would lose it. He knew how to push her buttons. I watched the whole trial.

Italian, Scorpio and a woman - already a batshit terrorist

I wouldn't want you as a juror deciding my fate? Sheeet!

​@@sandradee1579 logically you would want him ON the jury diinghhus

@@iamagainstyourpillows5162 I wasn't referencing BB attorney. I responded to the previous comment. Read before you type.

at least Dan will never have to listen to that shrill voice again. worse than nails on a chalkboard.

Called Betty fat infront of the Kids at the Dinner table. Dan had to tell her to cut it out .

@@pmoneywest8099 But it was OK for Betty to call her a "cunt" to everyone including her own young children, eh? SMH

It is well established that Betty sent those ads to herself to get sympathy.

@@johnwelsh2769 A friend of Linda’s said that she sent them to Betty.

@@grammylisa1 Provide your reference for that information please.

there's no end to a story where 2 voices have been silenced and the surviving voice is unrepentant.

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end of story?

Best comment ever. 👍

Yay yay yay

Yes that season is soooo good!!!!

It was amazing!

Yeh i have heard about this. Im going to have a watch thanks

On Episode 4.

It’s a very ONE sided view. We had to study this case in Law school and the Dirty John Series is borderline fiction. The only truth to it is that Betty murdered 2 people.

Your funny

She must've sounded like her lawyer, yikes!

Blinded by jealousy.

Oh please, play the violin for poor Danny and his slut.

What can I say women like powerful men...🤷🏾‍♂️

He gave Betty's RING To Linda The one Betty wanted for Christmas 🎁

maybe Betty would've gotten more of a financial fair shake if she could've cut out addressing Dan as 'asshole' and 'faggot' in front of friends and co-workers or not called him repeatedly leaving messages for Linda the c*nt, or refrained from making her entrance through the front door of his house with her car.

Of course Betty was the victim! She worked her fingers to the bone to pay for Dan's studies, etc. and the moment he laid eyes on 'Miss Linda' - everything changed for Betty. Kolkena was a gold digger!

@@cecilejoubert7933 there were 2 victims, Dan & Linda. Betty murdered them, that's why they're called victims. Betty just loved PLAYING the victim.

Meredith Baxter did great job in movie

Stop getting your facts and advise from Oprah ...you'll be better off for it!

@haintedhouse2990 if she was such a victim, why did she send her notes with her pictures and saying eat your heart out B.......

if BBroderick wants out she's gonna have to be like every other prisoner and play the game - get familiar with AUTHENTIC remorse and show progress in rehabilitation - being a good girl in the slammer is not enough. as for her shaky-voiced apology a few years back, parole boards can spot a 'snow job' in a heartbeat. some 30 years later and she still aint sorry she killed them so prison it is. Betty was no victim but she still loves to play one.

This woman gave her LIFE not only to Dan Broderick, but to ensure a comfortable life past the kids growing up & forming their own lives….She had multiple miscarriages, worked AND cared for the children she’d had when Dan was going to school to become what he came to be….Once he reached his level, time to discard the one who helped him get there, & collect the “model of his choice”, a considerably younger woman who didn’t lift one finger to assist him in getting to his place in the legal world, but was all too willing to enjoy the fruits of his labor, & he was all for it….Sure it happens but they could’ve saved the emotional abuse they inflicted on her….They broke her & made her do what she did.

@@hallenebrooks5630 She was asking him for a divorce since the day they got married! Her daughter wrote a book! She remembers from a very houngan age her mother always threatening divorce! She remembers her mother asking her at ( years old mommy and daddy are getting a divorce who do you want to live with. I believe the oldest daughter who wrote the book! She saw all of it! What was she doing 13 years later when the oldest was 18, same crap different year. She never changed! That’s because she married someone she never loved! She married him fur what he had the potential to be because he was smart and she knew it! She was never ever going to be happy ! I don’t believe he ever cheated on her for one very common sense reason.. he was a lawyer! He knew if he cheated in her and it could ever be proven, she could take him to the cleaners ! She would have ended up getting way more then she did if he cheated on her! She continued to say how much she loved her children. Did she? A mothers love means you think of your children first ! When she ran the vehicle through the house, especially the front door, she had no idea where her children were inside the home! She could have killed one of them ! What about after she killed them. She is sitting there talking to her daughters like they were adults after she had just killed their father! She had no remorse, empathy, compassion! Nothing ! Woman was psychotic ! After all the previous out of control things she did. even getting arrested in front of her children after running an SUV into the house twice, do you think that would have been enough fur her to have a moment where she would have s self evaluation of reality and say Whoa, J need to get it together! Nope!!! She had her own home! He was willing to give her more then half of the home they owned together! She had a wardrobe that could fill the highest priced stores! She had 2-3 vehicles! She had bought a condo! She was making investments. She had her real estate license! Teachers degree! Plus many other talents! She had a collection of very high priced jewelry! Plus she was getting $16,000 a month in alimony! Just the sake of the house and one year of alimony and her condo and the Hoyas she bought was worth well over a million dollars! Back in the 80’s hit a divorced woman to have that was unheard of ! Not to be toon her vehicles. jewelry and clothes and the fact that she had the intelligence to start her own business. Real estate. Interior decorating/home organizing business which she was great at! ! Daycare chain! She blew it because she wasn’t mentally stable!!!

U have got to be kidding me with all this poor Betty BS!! SHE MURDERED TWO PEOPLE!! Did Dan, leave her yes! Did he marry Linda yes! And by the way Dan, was paying EVERYTHING for her!! Betty made the choice to leave those disgusting messages, drive into Dan's front door, and drop off their children one by one. As for serving enough time, ABSOLUTELY NOT!! Betty is NOT REMORSEFUL and takes NO RESPONSIBILITY for kulling Dan and Linda. That is why the parole board has denied her parole. If I were the Judge and I wish I were Betty would have been sentenced to life WITHOUT the possiblity of parole. That would've been true justice

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👍. He rambles on and mispronounces words and misspeaks. At one point it sounded like he was saying Betty was all these bad things. So hard to follow him. Wouldn’t want him as my lawyer. The prosecutor did a much better job of laying out her case and I’m on Betty’s side!

@@GlowingMpd Betty shows many personality characteristics similar to JA.

her family were the unlucky ones.

unlucky wives are those who cant leave the relationship..the ones where the husband will hunt them down, using every trick in the law to continue to beat them.....Betty wasnt wanted by Dan....Betty couldnt accept that...all the money in the world would not have satisfied Betty to walk away and move on with her life.....she couldnt accept he no longer loved or wanted her...and that is all it was....she was one of the luckiest women out there in fact, she could have had more then enough to live on, and possibly found someone better---FREELY

I've never had to sit in a jury but I always think my biggest fear is getting gas. Coughing I could deal with. LOL

Maybe one day Kerry Wells hubby will dump her for a nearly 20 yr younger secretary. Wouldn't that be ironic?

No Dan and Linda deserved it. Linda was no angel .

Everyone, lawyer or not, has the right to defend themselves or handle their own legal proceedings. I don't understand why you think it is unbelievable.

Jackie, u sound like u hate men. Why is that?

@@allend2749 nope not all I just call as I see it

Betty should be released now, she's paid her dues... it's 2021!

I really think a lot of women learned from this experience. Some still send men to school, but I think people are waking up.

Notice how unpopular common sense is here on planet bizzzaro?

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What about the phone calls. Why would the court have a phone?

Bc it was 1991, now they have instant messaging on the computers etc

@@jovanalmen8660 I work in the courtroom as a clerk we still have phones lol

Linda and Dan lost 60 plus years, certainly Linda. 32 isn't enough you sick twist.

@@DannyBoy777777 yes!! Preach!! Isn’t is revolting the number of twisted people out there who side w Betty?? And to think they probably vote also. No wonder this country is such a mess

all she's gotta do is express remorse - she won't do it. - hell she could even fake it for the sake of her children and grandkids but she's way too fucked in the head to even do that.

@@haintedhouse2990 yes!

@@DannyBoy777777 someone would’ve killed Linda. She was a well known husband stealer before Dan. But found a sucker going through mid-life crisis she could get to leave his wife to marry her. So she could move up from mistress to wife,

Dan should have got an alarm system for his home. He certainly had the money to get one. Big mistake on his part.

"she was not some crazed killer" - on what planet?

her cold-as-ice parents trained Betty to marry a motivated catholic and rake in the bucks - love was not required. neither parent showed up for both trials - that speaks volumes.

@@keithabney4665 wow..her parents were not there for her

@@robinsmith3987 yep. they were old school disciplinarians - you married another catholic and you don't get out of it. I suspect they were like Betty as far as being a sociopath - doing damage then pointing the finger at others, in this case Betty.

I think if he had acknowledged her value and all she had done for him, treated her more respectfully, not used his legal connections, and kept Linda off of the answering machines, legal documents etc. She would have eventually moved on. I think in some ways Dan and Linda behaved cruelly fo no reason and got off on bringing out Betty's crazy and pointing it out

@@lorigarry371 that’s all bs… she was unhinged for a long time… over other minor things. This is how she responded when the stakes got raised and it was no longer a minor argument. She got dumped… so she terrorized him for five years.. stalled every part of the legal process, because she did not want to get divorced. Then she shoots him while he was asleep. She’s a manipulative bully a psychopath and nothing more. The amount of unprovable statements she makes with no other witnesses ever.. and people just believe her because this whole case symbolizes something else to mainly women. When you look at the rest of the facts, she’s completely indefensible. She wanted to be a rich somebody and have high status as a prominent lawyers wife. But in reality she treated him terribly over the years with numerous witnesses coming forward to back up how she would publicly berate him. Call him a f***** in front of their friends… this is all before he cheated on her. Yeah it sucks he cheated on her. But I hate to break it to you, that happens all the time in life… and a lot of people lie about when they do. So this whole gaslighting narrative is a joke. Like Dan was some mastermind psychologist. He was just buying time to when he would exit. Everything after that was provoked or instigated by Betty and he was simply jus trying to get away from her and protect his kids from her while did crazier after crazier s***. And then just blows him and his wife away… I’m so happy she’s been in jail for 30+ years.

Her dream??!

Betty sure as hell wasn't Joan of Arc.

Betty appears more the narcissist. We have examples of her actions and words and only her word for his actions. She acted predictable when he stopped responding to her baiting and she spiraled. She kept changing the goal posts. She has zero remorse. She needed control.

LOL Right! I would be totally spaced out thinking of something else and then not know whether or not to convict.

She didn't stand a chance, he's sound too much like her.

And they did abuse her mentally!

And they did mentally abuse Betty!

All Dan and Linda were trying to do was go on with their lives. Betty got a million dollar house, $16,000 a month plus $1500 a month child support and a one time $28,000 payout. All Dan and Linda wanted was for Betty to go away, and she wouldn't do that.

oh please - they were newlyweds, no couple gets married and spends their time and energy plotting against the ex-wife - they wanted to forget about her insanity unfortunately Betty couldn't stop foaming at the mouth over being dumped - she needed to get in line with the rest of the grown-ups and deal.

Very true. Being hurt by someone does not give you the right to kill them. You get a divorce. You end the relationship. It hurts so much if you put your heart and soul into a relationship and the person moves on and enjoys life with someone else. That is life. Glad you are not in prison. A lot of women chose life instead of prison.

tired of people blaming Dan for Betty's batshit reactions - she's a born sociopath wrecking havoc then pointing the finger at everyone else, after all it was Dan's fault that she pulled the trigger 5 times. please. Betty would hire lawyers then not show up for consultations, she drove all her lunch lady friends away because she couldn't talk about anything else. she was dead-set on murdering both Dan & Linda for 5 years. she never snapped, she simply closed the book on her long term plan. now she sleeps like a baby.

Very true. Murder is not the answer for betrayal, even though it might hurt like hell.

I agree with you. She should've put the children first. If she was smart, she should've went after every dollar that she was entitled to. Had she done that, she would've outsmarted him. Instead of serving life in prison, she could have retired and live a life of luxury. I would've went after his $$$. Speaking of money and mistakes she should not have married him when he was broke and put through school. I would've told him call me when you have your career established, you're not ready and I'm not Barbara the builder. Lesson learned from this case is don't marry a broke man. Don't sacrifice your life to make him somebody. Instead treat yourself like your the prize and make him pursue and pay for you.

She was an absolute nightmare to be married to

The marital cheating was just the start. It’s what he did after. He could never repay what he owed her so he decided to cheat her out of that too.

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Maybe he's just trying not to lose his lunch from listening to all the BS this guy is yelling about. (Had to turn the volume down.) If Betty had a college degree and was so smart, why was she always hostessing at a restaurant or selling Avon door to door. This woman was famous for playing the violin. She claimed she had no money when she was getting $16,000.00 a month. We only have her word that she was this superwoman, superwife, supermom, etc. We only have her word that Dan didn't let her buy a stick of gum without his say so. This woman doesn't have any credibility as far as I'm concerned.

@@jovanalmen8660 to add to your point, $16K in 1987 is $37,700 in 2021 dollars.

@@thelmadickinson6811 That's definitely the spoonful of sugar that could make my medicine go down.

@@jovanalmen8660 Betty had no college degree, she paid for Dan to have a law degree. That's why a woman should never pay for a man to get a degree because he will leave her afterwards. My high school teacher told us to never pay for a man and to get her own degree.

"You was a"... Better English is "you were a"

“was not as innocent that she seems to be” was not as innocent *as* she *seemed* to be

@@trickortrump3292 Grammar Nazis! English is not their first language , idiot.

@@ChrisIrving-et3tf Grammar Nazi English is not their first language, jerk.

It's too late, the trial is over.

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Listen to the prosecution's side too. This woman was obsessive to an unhealthy degree for years. And if she was this obsessive after he left her, i have no doubt she was hard to live with during the marriage aswell. Women left by their husbands for a younger woman, arent always otherwise just angels. She has a screw loose, and that is independent from anything the husband did or didnt do.

Betty used Dan too. She said he looked like a dork when she met him. She met him his 3rd year in medical school. She invested in Dan cause she knew he was a provider, her words!

There is enough to confirm he is arrogant, a liar and a cheat etc but she killed him and Linda what is the justification for a double murder?

@@SunshineDay-fv5lh nothing wrong at all to marry a man because you think he’ll be a good provider, especially in that time when more men were the sole income source … Men often married women because they perceived that they would be good mothers, homemakers etc.. she had no right to kill him , but she felt discarded and allowed her emotions to run her life

@@viqala9159 exactly! Both Dan and her weren’t innocent. I can’t help but think of it was Dan who murdered Betty and her new husband would society be as supportive? Most likely they would condemn the husband and call him abusive, evil sociopath, etc., double standard society we live in!

Noone gets a free pass for murder,she needed to move on with her life.

@@JimmyKartounii reread my last sentence you dick fuck.

@@JimmyKartounii again, reread my last sentence you dolt.

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He didn’t take her life. He kept his lifestyle. She gave up her own life.

They were both devout Catholics - no birth control.

THEY WERE Catholic back then it was against their belief to use birth Control of any type including condoms. DAN WANTED TO HAVE AS MANY CHILDREN AS HE COULD DIDNT MATTER TO HIM IF HE IMPREGNATED BETTY OR LINDA HE THOUGHT HE WAS A SUPPER STALLION.

A girl on RU-vid said her dad advised her to tell her boyfriend that any money he gives her is for food. Because when the relationship is over he is going to want to take any physical items now. Right now, I have neighbors that always want to offer me things but I say no becuase nobody gives anything for free.

Actually, Dan was infamous for dirty tactics. He was also the head of the Bar Association there, and he was known for having destroyed the careers of people who opposed him.. He deliberately switched from medicine to law so he could clean up on malpractice suits as well. For all her histrionics, Betty was telling the truth about Dan being a gas lighting misogynist. He even mistreated his eldest daughter though she has yet to deal with that part of it publicly.

He wanted to infiltrate his immoral influence everywhere. She saved the system from diseased debauchery.

Definitely ironic! Seems like Dan kept telling Betty when she requested fairness "over my dead body!"

Exactly! She is a selfish and a narcissistic.

YES!!!

Yes, she was jealous. Very sad, but I understand her pain. Murder is not the answer though.

@@teeahtate i don't understand the pain that leads to double homicide

absolutely. there were plenty of lawyers who would have been glad to go up against Dan Broderick. Unlike Betty's claims they were not intimidated and he was not untouchable.

She did have another well respected and talented Beverly Hills divorce attorney. She didn’t like him because he tried to help her settle the divorce and she didn’t want to. She is the problem.

@@hauntedunicorn8158 altho she'd never admit it, she got off on the fight. settling the divorce meant Dan could forget about her and she couldn't have that.

No. There was the “four hour notice” which became a huge thing for not retaining a lawyer from LA

@@bebebrunette007 If you have a lawyer that you’re working with and not sabotaging, those things don’t happen. They can look ahead, they can get extensions, they can advise you to show up for your court dates, they can file motions. That’s why you retain a lawyer and take their advice, so you don’t get screwed. It’s also a 1.5 to 3 hour drive from la to sd, 2 hours on the train and there are things called phones. If you think a short notice appearance hindered her having a productive attorney, you’re friggin nuts.

Dan had an alarm system. supposedly Betty busted it when she rammed the car into his front door.

Couldn’t agree more!