The REAL Betty Broderick Story: Defense Opening Statements (1991) | COURT TV
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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. #Netflix #CourtTV
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whoever that was coughing and sneezing shoulda been kicked out 🤧
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.
Court reporters are underrated.
🌺As An ex Court Reporter you know how much that Court Reporter was making a day?!!!
🪷Salary at that time, I believe was around $60,000.00 a year. That's just for her to walk in the door with her machine.
🌹 She's generating thirty pages an hour. It's what they call a "Daily transcript" - which at that time I believe was around $6.00 or more dollars a PAGE. That's not even counting the copies that each attorney and journalist has to order!😎
The judge’s posture cracks me up.
😂🤣😂🤣totally!!!
Looks like he's getting a BJ 🤣
@@ministryoflies..3651 🤣
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.
Dan and Linda didn’t deserve murder, but Linda was not a good person to get involved with a married man with 4 kids. And Dan should have gotten divorced before dating if he was unhappy.
Exactly Linda is a disgusting human being, but she doesn't deserve death. This is definitely going too far
The judge looks like he is bored and sleeping.
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.
Personally I’ve always felt that if not for her, he would be a nobody!
He threw her away when he got where he wanted to be!
It doesn’t justify killing, but I can certainly see how the frustration she felt completely twisted her mind!
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.
Ps the mini series movie a woman scorned was very one sided , taking largely Dan's side and painted Linda as some saint. Hardly the truth.
I bet Dan didn't change one diaper or scrub one toilet
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!
When you're going out of your way for someone in the name of "being in a relationship" think again.
Seeing some of the comments here makes me understand why victims of emotional abuse are not coming forward. She married a guy who was a student, who had no money. She was young and beautiful and could have gone for an older rich men but she chose to marry Dan and let him concentrate on his studies while she took care of kids, house and finances. That’s a great wife in my book. And when he finally makes it he takes up with a much younger girl while giving his wife hot and cold treatment, gaslighting her and treating her worse than a stranger.
Yes people fall out of love unfortunately but you still have to be decent to the person you are leaving. He cheated on her, emotionally abused her, made her doubt the reality, taunted his side piece any way he could, took away her kids and life as she knew it.
I am not justifying a murder but he definitely put this gun in her hands.
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.
Dan was a narcissist & Betty had borderline personality disorder - Deadly combo
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.
Betrayal are the hardest emotions to deal with.
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.
Don't mess with married men.... their wives know their man inside and out and have invested blood , sweat and tears and years to bring him him up in what he wants to accomplish.... follow the golden rule! This woman was done wrong and she did wrong but he made her lose herself by hooking up with a 19 yr old girl .... sick sick man!
Is the judge alive back there….
No - I do not think he is alive!
“Dan saying that he can’t be happy unless he reached his,” Goal of MATERIAL success” says it all. She helped him get there. He bought his mid life mobile and traded Betty in for a younger woman while systematically breaking her down. I feel no mercy for him!
@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.
Your anger can be justified but that doesn't give you the right to go to someone's house and murder them.
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.
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Especially when she had her own boyfriend
She absolutely deserved a million dollars and 25k a month for 10 months. When looking at the big scheme of things and where Dan was headed..that was chump change.
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
Someone needed to give the person coughing..a cough drop or peppermint! Lol
I really understand Betty, being a working mother w/a husband never care what his real responsibility as a provider of the family
In short he only is a self - centered husband, a greedy man
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.
i've never heard such a noisy courtroom, coughing, sneezing , phones ringing, etc.
Your funny
Betty is Italian. He should’ve of known betrayal is the worse sin to an Italian and they will get revenge.
Italian, Scorpio and a woman - already a batshit terrorist
If you go into someone’s house, especially your X & his wife & shoot them, your in big trouble!!!
This is from 1991 I think
This story is season 2 of DIRTY JOHN: BETTY BRODERICK
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.
I can’t believe she didn’t do it sooner.
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.
Before you feel sorry for her listen to the tapes of her talking to her sons. Particularly the one with Rhett. She tells him how she is giving away the puppies, how he needs to stand up to his Dad, how no one at the house loves him, no one cares for him, and on and on. While that poor child is sobbing. There is no excuse, she deserves jail for the rest of her life
Are they on CZcams!? 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.
Linda antagonized Betty and rubbed Betty's nose in their new relationship. Linda stepped into the best part of Betty's life and sent Betty wrinkle cream ads and diet ads shaming Betty for not being younger or thinner.
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.
Was Betty wrong? Of course she was. But Dan and Linda were not angels either. He gaslighted and Linda taunted her and made fun of her in front of the children. She helped make him a prominent attorney andcwhen he was done with her he moved on. That's what narcissists do and they always maje themselves the victim. Linda knew he was a married man with 4 children and started an affair with him anyway.
Dan committed the ultimate betrayal, Betty committed the ultimate payback.
End of story.
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
So the courts allowed this man to do his own divorce and call all the shots unbelievable .
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.
What kind of woman pursues a married man; much less a father of four, 17y older than her, and also her boss? She then brags about it around the office. She proceeds to mercilessly taunt the wife. She also calls her derogatory names to her children. She was shameless. Immoral. Vile. Cheap. Immature. Selfish. She had no redeemable qualities. And let’s be honest here: if Dan was one of the office clerks instead of the big boss with loads of money, she wouldn’t have given him the time of day. At all. She’d call him a perverted and dirty old man. Don’t come at me because she was murdered. I never said it was justified. I’m simply stating what kind of *woman* she was. Awful
I agree
agree.
My daughter’s ex and the father of her children is exactly like Dan. The emotional damage to her has been devastating. It’s all about him, his image, money, and control.
What can I say women like powerful men...🤷🏾♂️
All of the noise going on in the courtroom would have made my ADD act up.
I've been curious to calculate how much money Betty made and contributed to sustain 6 people all those years. She supported them then he was supposed to support them and give her a break BUT HE BRUTALLY CUT HER OUT and GAVE IT ALL TO A NEW WOMAN
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.
Just a few minutes in I’m wondering how the Judge stayed awake. All comfy in his chair, head rested back, warm in his robe. Was he wearing bunny slippers?
Phone calls in the courtroom really?
Betty was nasty….like Dan said, she criticized everything he did and everything he said. That must have discouraged Dan day after day and pushed him far away from her. Murdering 2 people bc you’re pissed off is not justified! She’s where she belongs. She could have gotten professional help. Like her friend told her, she has everything going for her, etc., etc. she made a very, very bad choice!
She must've sounded like her lawyer, yikes!
Blinded by jealousy.
Oh please, play the violin for poor Danny and his slut.
Even Betty looks bored by the end 🙄
$16,000 per month…oh yeah, I could have a good time w that in good ways.
I’m so confused! What? He’s all over the place.
👍. 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.
Dang, that woman is i think the most unlucky wife
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 been fascinated about The Betty Broderick story since she was on Oprah and 2 tv movies that were made about her. To this day, Betty still claims she was a victim and she did nothing wrong
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.......
I think this trial needs even more people coughing and hacking.🙄
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
Betty Broderick, unfortunately, did what so many women have thought about doing in similar situations. What she went through has been happening to so many women and no one really seems to care. Dan cheated on her and he did not care about the pain he caused Betty. He was not remorseful and should have been disbarred for using the law for his own personal gain and unethical behavior. He used the law against her and made it hard for her to get her own legal counsel. He was gaslighting Betty for a long time and is a narcissist . when he decided to leave which was long before he actually did leave is when he discarded her. A tactic most narcissist practice when they are done with their victim. He took and stole all the things that were important to Betty. He even did the things that Betty planned and was so good about , such as vacations with the kids, he used it as though he planned it...I'm talking about after he left her. I know what she went through because I am going through the same thing. The money ,the lawyers , family ,all the lies and the secrets. Dan was gaslighting her and pushed her buttons. He played it all so well. The only part he did not foresee was his death. She was the victim long before Dan ultimately became the victim and she ultimately had the last word, a voice that before no one would listen. She wanted him to know how she felt and she wanted to be validated for her sacrifices and yes compensated . And when she tried to get it through the law the judicial.system failed her . All because Dan Was a lawyer and used it against her. She has paid more than enough time for her crime and what for? To a court system that was biased and labeled her as crazy when really it was temporary insanity. She has served more time then those who have done far worse. She is sorry for going to far and she is remorseful. Everything she said in jail , to other people and in court was.scrutinized, picked apart and twisted into what they thought. She should have been released in 2017 and now it looks like she will never get out. I say let her spend her last years with her family and not in a prison cell.
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.
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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
@@rosearellanes5648 🤦🏼♀️
I don’t think I heard that judge ask the prosecutor how much longer she is going to be. Not once, yet he ask BB defense.
That Kerry wells was like a rabbid dog. She must have had a personal vendetta against betty. She was nasty.
Maybe one day Kerry Wells hubby will dump her for a nearly 20 yr younger secretary. Wouldn't that be ironic?
Court CLERKS are overly underrated!!
Dan & Linda didn’t deserve to be murdered but damn… Betty’s life was her family. I’d be pissed as hell if a younger woman took my life from me. When I divorced my husband an go back an read the messages I sent his girlfriend on messenger 🤦🏻♀️ I’m so embarrassed. Betty needed to heal. They’re steps. I’m sorry but Dan was Linda’s sugar daddy. 16 years difference in age, that’s what it is. Karma would of gotten Linda. He would of done the same to her.
No Dan and Linda deserved it. Linda was no angel .
I’m almost 100% certain that there is a kindergarten class in the audience. Adults would be respectful and be able to be quiet and sit still during court proceedings, right? 🙄
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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
I am glad She got this lawyer. She tried unsuccessfully to get legal advice but no one would help her because of Dan. This guy is good. I know She committed murder but In the first trial he humanized her. She was not some crazed killer, there extenuating circumstances. She was a broken woman without her own identity.
"she was not some crazed killer" - on what planet?
1991, gaslighting term used in court. Dear Mary Ellen, 1944. More relevant today than ever.
Linda didn’t have to be mean to her husband’s ex , they say in Spanish “EL QUE BUSCA, ENCUENTRA”
I’m not saying she deserved to be killed NO , but she should’ve let her husband handle the situation.
Stay neutral
So sad and pity for Betty for she killed the man that is not worth loving, a man that used her to reach his dream for that materials he wanted to have in life.
Kim lost her keys and it's not mentioned anywhere if she told her father & what did he do if he knew the keys were lost or taken? 🔑
Dan should have got an alarm system for his home. He certainly had the money to get one. Big mistake on his part.
It’s quite ironic the defense is lead by a man and the prosecution is lead by a woman
Yes. He was a narcissist. Passive aggressive.
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.
OMG......feel sorry for that jury having to sit for an hour and a half through that boring and rambling opening statement.
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.
She wrapped herself up too much in this man, women let that be a lesson follow your own dreams and have your own identity, she identified too much with this relationship. Having said that she worked her ass off to support her man and their family too and supported his dreams, who goes to medical and law school? Specially when you have a family…shows how arrogant he was as well, he was concerned about himself and his ego because he felt like a nerd and needed to show how brilliant and great he was. Not that he shouldn’t work hard I just feel he thought he was the important one ☝️ and discarded her and her mental instability came out over time. She is the poster child of a woman scorned, I think she should be freed now she’s been in prison for 30 years. I also think they both were controlling and manipulative in their own ways
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.
Please man! The life of any human being CANNOT BE based on your children, on your husband or anyone else. That’s why YOU HAVE TO HAVE A PURPOSE IN LIFE! Your own goals, not husband, not children, it must me your job, your carrier, you cannot live through anyone else’s life. She is a narcissistic, selfish woman. I hope she lives 💯years old, so she has some time to think about what she did. No mercy!
Notice how unpopular common sense is here on planet bizzzaro?
Did the judge really say “how much longer are you going to be?” to the Defense attorney? Oh man……woman on trial for her life and didn’t stand a chance.
Struggling to hear -please people in court -be quiet !
It's too late, the trial is over.
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It doesn't make sense that she said that one of the main reasons why she did this is because she couldn't see her kids and yet the very weekend that she murdered them the boys were staying with her and the girls were living on their own so that doesn't add up at all as a reason
I felt Betty Broderick her pains for what her husband put her through the mores I read her story and the my heart broken. May god bless Ms Betty Broderick.
As it for Linda. Only god can punish her
The coughing is so obviously deliberate
Getting cheated is NOT an excuse to kill people, she’s not the first or last one to go through it. Her kids should have been more important than her ex. She deserves what she gets.
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.
This miss Kolkena was a real piece of work - so mean!
Betty should have had the OJ lawyer defend her.
You know whats hypocritical about everyones comment giving her a hard time? Its the fact that when someone commits a crime, the first thing someone asks is "why?". You'll make excuses for other people who killed their spouse in an abusive relationship, but others you wont. Dont ask "why" if you're going to just pick and choose who gets a free pass for murder.
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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She did wrong no doubt she had her reasons. But she should be set free now. I think she's done her time. She's in her 70s now
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,
She throws away her attys and doesn't listen to them and then complains she has no power . She threw away her own power because she couldn't accept the fact she's being divorced .
Jack Is a great attorney with a lousy client
He took her life & she took his. No sympathy
He didn’t take her life. He kept his lifestyle. She gave up her own life.
Team Betty
This is one brilliant lawyer.
Worth emulating.
Leave the courtroom and go and cough OUTSIDE! It is very annoying in court!
Dan and Linda were sadistic and the whole basis of their relationship was to abuse Betty
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.
I think Dan was abusive and no one came to Betty's defense. Betty was a victim of Dan and Linda but the system never helped her. Betty worked as a slave for this Dan and in the end he wanted to leave her with nothing. I believe that what she did was because no one defended her and this Dan manipulated all entire system for his benefit. Dan was always a liar to Betty that's why Betty's emotions were out of control. Unfortunately Betty had to take the law under her control. Imagine giving your life for someone and in the end he scam you. Dan scammed a large part of Betty's life. I don't approve of what Betty did but Dan was the one who deserved to be in jail for being a fraud.
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.
She came from a wealth family...why where they living in an apt with no furniture ?? where were her parents during the trial
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.
There are women who get NOTHING to support their kids. Betty was selfish and ridiculous.
So if she doesn’t get her dream then nobody gets their dream lol
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??!
The idea that a lawyer’s arguing for her in court that the husband was too powerful so no lawyer would argue for her in court is just … ironic.
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!"
Judge, are you not supposed to take notes! You just sit back and fell asleep!
He should've been her divorce attorney.
Her defence lawyer is terrible! I could do better and I'm a hairdresser! Talk about jumping back and forth!
The judge couldn’t be more disinterested!
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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.
Dan would have ended up divorcing Linda too
Dan used Betty to get his career stable, while Betty worked many jobs to support his career, she took care of the house, raised the kids and when Dan went through his mid-life crisis getting a corvette and a younger version of Betty was working at his office, his loyalty went out the window!!! Dedicate your life to someone and than be betrayed and discarded...I need to send Betty some money into her commissary account.
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!
Listen to this lawyer bark endlessly on, it must be what it's like being married to Betty Broderick. He represented her well, and justified why Dan got to steppin'.
Miss Kolkena was not as innocent that she seems to be - you was a home wrecker and a mean person!
"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.
Shame on Dan and Linda, sorry, but when you play with fire…….!
Did he say that Dan Broderick didn't obey his wife
Dan and Linda got what they deserved for their treatment of Betty.
I'm sure Dan was a bit of an asshole but doesn't justify what she did. I've been betrayed by a man and the pain was unbearable and thoughts of killing him crossed my mind. Thinking and actually doing are completely different and that's why I don't sit in prison. Dan was a lying cheater but she chose not to rise above and find strength to move on. It's a shame she couldn't do that but continued to be a hateful spiteful woman.
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.
Look at how she's reminiscent while looking at the pictures while he's talking about the early days of looking at law firms and places to stay in Diego.
Defense Counsel's opening statement is horrendously long - too much
Judge looking like the edibles just kicked in
FREE BETTY
Ms. Kolkena perhaps had a rise signing and sending papers to Betty, under Dan’s approval of course…. The webs we weave
Her ex took her to the edge period. I can only imagine the garbage he put her thru with his lawyer expertise. Sorry but you made your bed u lie in it. Literally
Would you all be backing this double murder, if a man had shot his ex wife and her new husband? Like hell you would. Hypocrites.
That women typing. Her poor fingers