'Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story': Inside the Cautionary Tale About America's Messiest Divorce

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Betty Broderick "remains an unreasonable risk of danger to society." So charged the prosecutor who successfully argued against Broderick's most recent chance at parole in 2017. And she has her reasons.

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And while this is Betty Broderick's story (like, it's right there in the name), if you're interested to know a little more about Dan's whole vibe, here's the deal:

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Betty and Dan met at a party when she was just 17 and got married four years later in 1969. Dan became a successful lawyer, they had four kids, and, honestly, life seemed pretty good—from the outside, at least. But Betty and Dan’s marriage wasn’t all sunshine and roses—even before he started cheating on Betty with his assistant, Linda. , Betty would get mad at Dan “all the time”—she once threw a stereo at him and would frequently lock him out of the house.

Not only did Betty’s eldest daughter, Kim, take the stand during her mom’s murder trial (watch the video below—it’s intense), but she also opened up about her experience in a book called , which doesn’t appear to be widely available. Apparently, Kim has repeatedly denied Betty’s requests to support her parole, but she has visited her mom in jail. Unclear what she’s up to these days, but you can check out her testimony in this throwback video from Betty’s trial:

And Betty was, uhhh, not thrilled. According to a 1990 article, everything changed for Betty once Linda entered Dan’s life: “The people who knew me before 1983 knew the real me. Nineteen eighty-three was like an ax through my life.”

Betty’s crimes went down in the late ’80s, when she suspected Dan was having an affair with Linda—which, to be fair, would piss off most people. But Betty, uh, took Dan’s infidelity pretty badly. By which I mean she rammed her car into his front door, left obscene messages on his answering machine, and —all throughout the course of their insane five-year divorce. Dan even had Betty arrested and briefly committed to a mental hospital, and poor Linda was so freaked out by the whole thing that .

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