Me too! It's one of those cases that impacts a long time! I just watched Both movies this wk.

@@denisehood6227 there's two movies? What's the name of the other one? I saw "A Woman Scorned"

@@cleopatra1311 Nextflex also has a movie call Dirty John

@@donnacamp5663 yeah thanks I found it and I'm watching it, but I'm taking a shower break before the kids use up all the hot water LOL

Yeah she did. Meridith is a great actress. Actually they all did an excellent job in the movie.

Sometimes I wish I didn't have one cause my husband always calls me when I'm in the check out line!

@@cleopatra1311 is that Mark Anthony or Julius?

@@frozenboot68 😆

Lol

Me too! I was born in 1956 - no cell phones until 1996 when I got my 1st cell phone.

You can see that Dan & Linda were being assholes by not giving her the China. Betty was pushed too far. Either side could have stopped this ,seeing that it would not end well. Biggest losers in this are the kids. if for no other reason, I wouldn't kill my kids father for their sake.

The kids was young but dad making out with Linda in front of them . He was a ass hole

Linda did some pretty dumb shit! Like sending notes like "Eat your heart out Bitch!". Refusing to hand over the China, which would have smoothed things over. She was a complete homewrecker alongside Dan, and neither cared about the damage it did to Betty or the kids. Kids coming down with Lice, Kids not having clothes to wear, so Betty had to use here Alimony to pay for stuff. Dan using Tax law to screw Betty out of any and every liquid asset available. He also was so scuzzy he devalued what his practice was worth so he didnt have to pay Betty its true value. Dude was a complete sleeze, but even so, Six thousand a month is enough to live off of. The problem is divorce law was not in her favor. Instead of restitution checks, she should have gotten everything as a lump sum. Her representation was incompetent, and was awful at arguing crime of passion during her 2nd trial. Not to mention one jurist didnt even know sentencing her to 2nd degree could result in life behind bars, and said post trial she would have hung the jury knowing that, so that would be 2 hung jury's in a five year span. Betty Broderick is a simple case of the Law not protecting domestic engineers. Dan Broderick would have never made it as an attorney without the help of Betty, she put food on the table and a roof over their heads, without knowing whether or not Dan would even graduate, or get disenchanted with Law like he did medicine. The defense was awful.

@@christinehutchins123 What I never understood was the defense not pushing the fact that Betty made Dan! Dan was a wish washy college student who had no direction till he met Betty. She brought him stability. Financially and emotionally. They failed to argue that she financially supported him through med school and law school not even knowing if he would graduate, then when Dan complained about work, she emotionally supported him and brought up that he should create his own practice. The defense should have put the squeeze on Dan to prove he would have been anything without Betty. The Following are irrefutable facts. 1) When Dan met Betty he had no clue what he wanted to do in life except possibly be a doctor, while Betty was successful in her own right attending Notre Dame and working on the side. 2) Dan coerced Linda to quit school and her job so Dan could go to medical school, had her pay for all the food and housing during that time, and also forced her to be his study partner 3) Dan Quit medical school and decided to go to Law School, most sane women would have said I am done with you! You have no clue WTF you want to do in life and I am not supporting you! Betty stuck on and supported him through Law School, and bought all his clothes for him. 4) Dan was a promising attorney tired of the political drama of climbing the ranks, ran into a career roadblock and Betty brought up he should start his own practice, and even mentioned you are willing to risk losing everything for me to do this? She said emphatically Yes! All I need is you and this Family. Thats what is important to me. 5) Dan starts his business, hires a younger looking version of Betty and the affair ensues! Its an absolute fact Dan would be nothing without Betty Broderick. In fact one could argue he needed her to achieve success, and when he didnt need her for that he left her dry.

@@dustinbarlow1623 another idiot that has taken Betty at her word. There's no evidence that Linda sent anything to her.

PTSD

Both sides, yes. Great attorneys. Love how they both manage to make the PD witnesses stutter at different times, lol. 😂

The witness is a SmartAss.

Actually Betty was living in a $650,000 beach front property in her name.

Even today, putting yourself in her shoes.. it would make you pretty upset and so hurt. Especially knowing what was sacrificed those first years of the marriage for Dan’s future financial success- and when it is finally achieved and all should be well, he loses interest in his ‘old’ wife and upgrades to a younger one who doesn’t have to endure the sacrifices or birth and raise the children.. Old wife watches while new wife gets to enjoy what took years to accomplish, including being ‘friends’ with their children. Old wife is put on an allowance, none of the local attorneys want to touch your divorce case and definitely don’t want to fight it, all your mutual ‘friends’ are now friends with the new wife.. on and on 😔 I would be getting serious counseling, self-care, spiritual guidance.. any and everything to help heal that kind of hurt. I have zero clue how she was as a person and a partner, and absolutely 100% do not condone what she did. Just looking at her situation as the ‘ex-wife’.

@@angieg3624 this is absolutely not what happened in this crime. You have far too much wrong

​@@ReflectingMoontell us!

@@happybergner9832 it's a very complicated story but the marriage fell apart over a period of years and Betty received a sizeable payment on a beachfront property and was living there alone when the rental property was given up. Betty wanted to make Dan's life hard when he left her and moved into the family home before it was completed and she dumped all the children on him. Betty was going to come out fine from the end of this marriage financially but emotionally she was horrible

If that were the case or works be so, but there is so so much more to this than was even presented. I thought the same thing too until I read the book until the twelfth of never by Bella stumbo. It's written as fact with evidence. It is not biased toward either Dan or Betty. Murder isn't condoned but now I understand why

@@valerierodger7700 I’m glad more people are catching on, and realizing she isn’t the victim she wants to be. After educating myself on this case, it’s obvious Betty was never going to be happy with anything he did. She drove him into Linda’s arms in the first place. She was always a lunatic. I also hate that she feels she won in her head. She doesn’t mind staying in jail, as long as she knows Linda and Dan aren’t enjoying life together; and most of the public is on her side. In her head, she won. That’s the saddest part. Everyone feels sympathy because they only heard her side. She killed the other side to the story so it can never be truly told.

@@lisag.4054 Exactly! No one gets that unhinged either without being someone who is like that to begin with!!! She could have killed her kids when she drove that truck through the home! She had no idea where they were in the house when she did that!!! Right there shows you she is whacked out!!!

He took her children from her!!! Drug users get to keep their children!!! He was the president of the bar association; he always manipulated the system and beat her. They killed her first. She should not be in prison still.

@@cleigh951 you should really watch her testimony from both her trials. Theyre on Court TV’s website. Most of the things she said about Dan were proven to NOT be true, she twisted every story to make herself the victim. She is a narcissist and you’ve been fooled.

It would/is absolutely be tolerated today. I've seen trials where people were eating during proceedings.

Omg for real. He asked the stupidest questions. Wtf does being Irish have anything to do with this case. I also don't see why he was so focused on the ambulance part. Neither of those things are gonna prove your client is innocent. I can't imagine he had a very good career after this.

He can't get it through his head this guy didn't drive the car lol

@@TawnyC_ 🤣🤣

he's trying too hard to be thought of as the typical "hotshot attorney" by being loud, combative, and assholy

So sad that Brian died of Alzheimers in 2017.v

On Sundays, I would grab the cartoons, coupons and Parade..I used to go straight for the Marilyn Vos Savant. I would find a spot that I could spread out on and was warm and sunny or warm from the fire…best day of the week!

and pulling silly putty images from the funnies!

@@BucketHeadianHagg Ooohh yes i remember 🤚🏻🤣

@@BucketHeadianHagg yes

@@Kensington2714 I LOVED the Archie comic books so much, that i even named my first daughter "Veronica" (and of course, I call her "Roni" ) haha! You're so cute .. Have a great week!

Yep but she needed professional help and didnt reach for it so she snapped as any human would,someone taking their child and you cant even talk to them that wa enough to send her out of her mind.sad,sad,sad.

NO IT IS,NT HONEY

She hadn’t moved on one iota, are you kidding?

@@paulvoorhies8821Becky is saying, essentially- wouldn’t it have been nice if she would have just moved on with her boyfriend Brad. Betty was receiving $16k a month Which in 1989 was a lot. Had she been behaved I’m sure she would have gotten more. It was about money, but mostly she didn’t like Linda taking over her high status role in their community.

@@BuzzByte24 It would have been nice if she’d been able to move on; these tragedies could have easily been avoided.

i'm still baffled at BBroderick - a new boyfriend, money coming in and a beautiful beach-front home - so she chooses murder, prison and leaving her kids with no parents. 'moved on' ? please.

@@haintedhouse2990 It’s called narcissistic rage and revenge. She was so obsessed with being dumped and replaced thst she couldn’t let it go until one of them was dead. Being a narcissist, she chose her own life over his (and the kids’). Pretty pathetic, huh?

Or a man scorned

@@frozenboot68 He was complete ass, if you look at younger Betty and Linda, he dumped the old model and went to a younger model. Younger Betty looked just like Linda. Dude was going through a mid life crisis, bought a sports car when he said he never would get one, lied to his wife about an affair. Took his time finding ways to liquidate all his assets and tying it all into the company after his company was valued, which in all honesty is devaluing your business with the intent of not giving your wife shit, as you lie to her about an affair. Dude went away and said he just needed some time to himself, then liquidated all their bank accounts, and again tied it to his business after it was appraised. The Dude made 2 million a year, but his assets alone alongside the business were worth 10 million. The problem is that Lindas husband was the head of the San Diego Bar, whether she had great representation or not, the judge was his friend. They'd go get drinks together. I wouldnt even be shocked if the judge helped him find ways to screw Betty. Dan was worth 10 million, and the best Linda could come up with was 28K in lump sum payments and restitution checks of 6k a month that would end if she remarried! Dude screwed her before the marriage and after the marriage. Ive known some POS in my lifetime, but this takes the cake. John Meehan wasnt even this bad.

@frozenboot68 👍

@@dustinbarlow1623 there were tons of lawyers in California who never heard of Dan Broderick. they were not intimidated and he wasn't untouchable - that's more of Betty crying victim.

i've always found that phrase 'hell hath no fury like a woman scorned' an insult to women. makes you all sound batshit.

She looked like her in that role and I thought she was great!

The remake was very good too

agree Meredith became Betty Broderick. the scene on Christmas morning when Dan got Betty the wrong ring - yikes! she had that woman down!

They should have had Meredith wear a fat suit to make it more realistic

I never hated her....my heart broke for her.....she endured terrible mental abuse from Dan.....murder is not the answer but Dan toast certain extend didn't deserve to be happy.........😢

NO. BETTY. SHOULD,NT HAVE MURDERD. HER. EX. &. HIS. WIFE. BUT. IF. IT. WERE. U. U WOULD,NT STAND 4. THE. WAY. HE TREATED U. BUT UR NOT. IN HER. SHOES. SO. U. HAVE. NO RIGHT. TELLING. HER 2. MOVE. ON.

Right! I’m thinking what’s the point and what are you trying to get at?? 🤷‍♀️🙄

I agree!

Right? “Are you Irish?” Like WTH

You are spot on Aunt Meme!

In his wrinkled old suit. Some attorney.

agreed, but I had to laugh when Betty said "I went in to wake them up or talk to them"- at 5:00 am with a loaded gun. that comment would be hysterical if it wasn't so tragic.

Betty was a marksmen in college. 🎯

@@Pippa-pw3qw college really paid off in her case.

I hear you... GEEZ Getting ur facts from tv... GEEZ. LOL

But some people DO murder... so remember to treat people well

Umm no she was 20 whatever She would young enough to move on with all his money 😂

It would be interesting to watch how long would she have stayed with him if they were alive because of the age difference and how it would be handled by the counter part.

I knew a "Linda" back in the 90's. She was a doctor but wanted to be an actress/model/singer. When that didn't pan put she went after musicians. She eventually married one but would spend her time complaining about his womanizing. Never mind that he was married to wife number 3 at the time she met him. He would later come home from touring to find her dead on the bathroom floor from an OD. Seems they had also been into drugs like heroin and coke. She was being investigated by the DEA and her state's medical board for her prescription writing patterns for her patients. She had no morals just like Linda.

Me too

Same

Sameeeee!!

Completely 🙄

What a stupid question to ask! What the hell has Dan's background to do with this case! NOTHING!

What was he meaning by asking him that. Do you know? I don’t

What does that what to do with this whole scenario! 'Are you Irish'! SO WHAT!!!!!!

FUCKED-UP!

Me too (retired) - and at Mr Forbes' mumbling (note the lawyer telling him to speak up for her benefit. She probably (hopefully) had back-up tapes to work from. And all those exhibits...ugh. What a stressful case to work - though far more interesting than mine ever were!

Some judges will instruct the lawyers to slow (the hell) down for the court reporter. Seems like there should be some kind of signal u could use. 🤷‍♀️

I am also a court reporter. If the reporter is having trouble, they can ask the court to slow them down. No problem. No need to feel sorry. It's all part of the job.

WE GOT A MUMBLER!

Poor court reporter!

Betty is not an evil woman she's devastated she's hurt dam it she never thought nof her self it was always. Dam the creep

She wants the jury to visualize

He recalled taking their pulse.

@ Mara Müller this the prosecutor - she isn't trying to help the killer. Genius.

That is how a cross examination goes.

Sometimes it can go down to shoelace color.

And what’s up with the fans?

👏

And the phone ringing, several times! 😂

And the creaking chair(s) 😫

This was many years ago.

Agree here. Lucky the kids weren't k.....d also. All the signs were there.

But then you have to look at Bettys mental state.

He didn’t seem unhappy with her until he met Linda. He kept getting her pregnant. He didn’t seem to have any issues until she gained weight and didn’t look so pretty and a beautiful bimbo wanted him. I agree Betty was horrible to the kids, but before he left, she was lauded as a supermom. Dan destroyed it all by dumping her for a good days her and she went crazy. C

@@oooohkaye2302 He was miserable. Even kids said so - they fought all the time.

@@oooohkaye2302 One thing no one every talks about in this case is if Betty could have been suffering from post-partum mental health issues. She had A LOT of pregnancies from the 1969 honeymoon until she had Rhett in 1979. That on top of working and caring for 4 kids may have made her difficult to live with.

What the hell has being Irish got to do with all of this! This smart ass lawyer stayed in the USA! Then he saw this fortune seeker young woman at the Irish party. She seduced Dan then and he fell for it!

Sad...

RIP Brian Forbes

He's trying show that he tampered/contaminated a crime scene. Since he trampled in before police got there. disturbing crucial evidence. Police should have been the first in the house.

Right I’m not understanding what’s the point of his questioning 🤨

The lawyer is trying to sound competent. Which he’s not.

The attorney is doing the best he can considering who he is defending. Betty is the absolute worst kind of defendant, she refuses to follow any kind of instruction. Every attorney she has had, whether for divorce or murder trial, she treated them like servants and acted out like a child.

This lawyer is a jerk

YEAH!

Live in La Jolla and followed this case as it was happening. To answer the question of why the defense attorney asked Brian Forbes if he was Irish...Dan Broderick was deeply involved with The Friendly Sons of Saint Patrick, a fraternal group still active today that exists to drink and play up their "Irish roots." (They also occasionally raise money for a charity or cause.) The FSOSP membership included many attorneys and a few judges. The defense attorney asked the question to establish a possible bias of the witness Forbes, i.e., You're Irish, too, and sympathetic to Dan. Elizabeth's entire defense was that she was fucked over by the San Diego legal fraternity in her divorce and was so frustrated she resorted to breaking into her former husband's house to "make him listen." In fact, she was awarded a very, VERY adequate monthly spousal and child support payment but felt deep humiliation at Dan's desertion of the marriage. Instead of moving forward in her own life and circumstances (as so many people do when faced with the dissolution of a long marriage), she chose to continue with extreme animosity in all her dealings with Dan. While not minimizing the trauma resulting from Dan's adultery and desertion, Betty behaved abominably. She stated many many times her sole focus was her children yet her grotesque behavior and vulgar language toward their father created a miserable environment for them. She was sanctioned by the court for her antics.

Asking a seemingly 'non-relevant' question often gets the jury thinking, or involved emotionally, via a bias on the jurors' parts... Sneeeaaakiness, was on both of the attorneys' agendas, this whole trial. 'Over-ruled' & 'Sustained' are just words uttered, while everyone takes all in. Very interesting to see it all play out, but sad overall, for the victims & the families (Dan & Linda, Betty & the kids 💖, of course) --- Let's just hope that society has learned something from this entire play-out. Fingers & toes crossed. No human is perfect. Lawyer, murderer, wife or husband, judge, detective, etc.

I am Irish what about it!!!

Dan needed to move out of the state to be safe. 😢I believe Dan enjoyed his power over Betty, and I believe Linda enjoyed making Betty a complete failure. They would pay with their lives for their sins. I don't think Betty minds being in prison... she had no desire to move on😢.

agreed. no matter what they did or did not do, they didn't deserve to be slaughtered in their own bed. people who say 'they got what they deserved' are disgusting.

@@haintedhouse2990 when sin is done it causes death

@@sylviamorgan831 for all you know Dan & Linda may have asked to be forgiven, then married to make it right. They just couldn't escape a vengeful cow

@@sylviamorgan831 You know it’s women like you who make women look stupid. I’m a woman and there’s no good excuse for what crazy Betty did. She was acting psycho for a long time and could have gotten help for herself but she’s not the type to do that. She’s a narcissist and they won’t take any responsibility for themselves. She had money and a nice place to live but she decided to go ahead and take two people’s lives. She has no remorse about it either. She belongs locked up because she’ll never change. She could murder again. She is at fault here.

Poor dan 🤔

are you a smokers cough expert?

Smoker's cough? How do you know it isn't a cold, allergies or cancer? I'd hate to be sick and have you anywhere near me. Damn...

I don’t know if it’s smokers cough or not, but I DO KNOW that there’s a cougher in every single court case I’ve seen. It’s annoying AF.

@@iwantthe80sback59 Viewers are not seeing a video done by a production company, where all distractions are eliminated, all boring parts are cut out, etc. People cough! If you don't believe me, pay attention the next time you are in a room with a couple of hundred people in it and take note. When you are there, you don't hear it because you are used to it. When you watch it on tv, you expect "a professional production" designed to be without real life distractions, whether you are consciously aware of it or not. P.S. People sneeze and clear their throats, too.

And a cracking chair! So damn annoying!

YEAH! It pisses me off so much! Always somebody coughing their lungs out and cracking chairs! So damn annoying! If you come to court and cough your lungs out - then leave the damn court!

And a typewriter with a return lever arm! Ha the kids won't know what she's doing 😂

omg how cute that you noticed that!

It was October

… And also pumpkin earrings!

@@scarlettbutler2873 😄

Well at least they are not little children

Completely

😂🤣👍🏻

omg is that all YOU PEOPLE do is complain

This isn't a television program or a movie. This is real life. I assume you are a perfect human being and have never had a cold.

They should leave the room instead of constantly interrupting. There were line ups that stretched for blocks to get in to see this trial. Remove the noisy ones and replace them with quiet ones.

@@iwantthe80sback59 Are you calling a cough or sneeze noise? Okay Karen, you've had your ridiculous say. Sheesh.....get a life.

Agreed! He seems to be one of the most truthful & honest, at this point so far. 👍

Again here, everyone seems to be hearing the creaking chairs & occasional coughs, way more so than the RINGING PHONES. 😄

@@jocelynmaine9117 Indeed! 😄 🗞️ (

No he did not. research this case. She was violent and psychotic before she met him. Violent to his children, threatened his life even while she was with him going after him with a knife on several occasions. Put it this way, she is a female version of Charles Manson. Very evil horrible person She threatened the life of her oldest daughter who testified against her. The prosecution did not have the other children testify as it would be to traumatic to them. The process of separation to murder was over 12 years. Anyone who hires a pr firm to write articles and do movies about their 'case' in the event of a murder gets media coverage as if they are a 'saint' but on further investigation all the sociopathic/narcissistic behavior comes out. She has been diagnosed 3 times by psychiatrists as narcissistic personality disorder and hystrionics. The problem with pr and folks with severe mental illness such as narcissists and sociopaths who kill is their charisma and stories-not facts-glorify them and get them 'supporters' who get caught in the web of deceit and see the murderers as victims and their crimes as not so bad. For the record, I am a 70 year old female disabled widow who has over 2 decades investigating murders and 4 decades working with those with extreme mental illness such as her. She has never been granted parole as she shows no remorse and still vows to get those who 'acted' against her and remains extremely dangerous to this day.

I thought the prosecutor was clear, concise and measured. She explained the timeline of events as they happened.

@@MsWaggydog i agree

you watch too much tv court room dramas

@@podiumguy100 if you intended that comment for me, you are way off the mark. I don't own a TV.

Both could've done better, majorly agreed there. 👍

Wow! What happened to him ?

He died of Alzheimers in 2018

@@pjhey947 so sad.

What happened with Betty ? Do you know ??

@@stefanvalerica9959 shes been in prison for 30 years

Exactly!!!

She planned it? Stole the keys? She was wrong for not letting go and for mis-treating her children in the first place. But those behaviors were really extra-loco. How do you know this? What did I miss?

Yes Tammy!! So true.

Betty is a really sick woman.

Agree 100%

And all the noises and clanking. I bet they can smell each other too.

is that all YOU PEOPLE do is complain

She got a lot a money post divorce! This was proven in court

Betty lost her entire world her whole reason for living when the whore husband cheated with the whore at work. She didnt care about money it was until death do us part and Betty made sure it was...

She had 5 abortions. Not exactly the thing practising Catholics (or most atheists, for that matter) do.

Bettys supposed Catholic upbringing meant nothing to her. The testimony about enduring 9 pregnancies is a fraud because she elected to have 3 abortions, 4 surviving children and one child died at 2 days old. Even in her self professed religion she's a fraud.

Reality yes..but if she was surrounded by conservative Catholic family and friends she would have been judged harshly if she did divorce..sometimes to the point of being dis-owned and completely shunned..it sounds kind of crazy but I've seen it happen many times and often the hard.feelings last for generations..

They were both Catholic. Divorce is not an option. Why have a pre-nup?

@@recoveryrocks1 Divorce is always an option even if they're Catholics. Catholics don't follow every single rule in the Bible. A lot of people have sex before marriage (fornication); Catholics indulge inthat. People choose what they want to follow and what they don't want to follow.

Prenup wasn’t that common for regular citizens. They both weren’t wealthy when they got married. Also, she sent him to study while she was working at restaurants

Well they used to think we Irish were subhuman so maybe he was just discounting his testimony 🤷‍♀️ 😂

Touching on the jurors' ears. In other words, pretty much irrelevant to the case overall, but... *ahem* .... some of those jurors may be Irish, or not like the Irish, lol: etc., etc., etc. 🍀😉

Right?!!! 😂😂😂

She was a VICTIM! Doesn’t excuse murder but Dan Broderick was a very successful medical malpractice attorney. He was an MD and a lawyer and used the legal system to bury his ex wife. He could have been kinder 😥

How do you justify $16k a month when he makes $137k with potential to continue to make more, when she supported him thru two degrees…. Never! He was getting away with making her insane…. She lost it because she knew he was a top attorney and no one would go against him… what she did was wrong but he pushed her to it.

Exactly KARMAS A BITCH

@@pjhey947 fair finically yes

@@pjhey947 she was no victim. She was a narcissist who was abusive towards him and to her children. Had he wanted to use the legal system to bury her, she wouldn’t have been able to murder him because she would’ve been in jail for all the things that she did to harass and terrorize the family, including her own children.

Prisoners lose rights to proceeds here in the US

LMAO!!! 😂

😂😂😂

"hapless" the word.

They can’t show that in the movie because their intent is to make her as sympathetic as possible.

@J Moore They would not have to get permission to show she had a boyfriend. They wouldn’t have to use his real name. Duh.

Yep.

They showed the boyfriend in the movie - often!

@@ddp8972 Not in the Netflix movie, which left out any mention of a boyfriend.

No, each step is crucial in attempt to discredit the witness. Notice the same question was asked over and over and in different way? Pay attention to this strategy when watching court trials. It's brilliant. Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, is a Latin maxim, phrase, meaning "false in one thing, false in everything"