Betty Broderick (case detail)
Betty Broderick shot her ex-husband Dan and his new wife Linda dead in their bed. After one mistrial, she was convicted of two counts of second-degree murder. She has been denied parole multiple times.
On November 5, 1989, Betty Broderick, 41, used a key she'd kept to enter the Marston Hills home of her ex-husband Dan Broderick and his new wife Linda Kolkena. She shot them both dead as they slept.
The murders were the culmination of a bitter four-year divorce and custody battle. Dan, a prominent medical malpractice attorney, had left Betty for his much-younger legal assistant Linda. Betty's behavior had become increasingly erratic.
Betty's first trial in 1990 ended in a mistrial (a deadlocked jury). In her second trial in 1991, she was convicted of two counts of second-degree murder and sentenced to 32 years to life.
Betty has been denied parole multiple times, most recently in 2017 when she was denied again and told she could not apply until 2032. The case was dramatized in the second season of USA Network's 'Dirty John.'
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