Morbid - Episode 47: Betty Broderick Minisode

Episode Date: February 21, 2019

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Ha-ha-ha! Mini more bad, mini more bad, mini more bad! It's a mini episode and it's Ash's centric! Woo! Welcome to another mini-sode, guys! I know, we've done a lot of mini-sodes now, this is fun. I know, it's fun. Yeah, it is fun. This has been fun, I'm glad we added these onto our repertoire. Uh, repertoire. Exactly. So mine, well I think it's gonna be long, but I talk fast, so who really knows?

I was thinking, now when you said it's gonna be long, I was like, I bet it's gonna be like half what you think, so it's gonna be because she talks so fast. That's always what happens. I just like, I talk so quickly. I just, I can't help it. Yeah, you get it out. Yeah, you know, just like get into it So do you want to just like go right into it? Yeah, this is a mini-sode. We don't have any Shit to talk about in this. We just go right into it. We got no business We're gonna think our patreon's next week exactly. So let's just fucking do this. Let's do this All right, so my mini-sode this week. I'm gonna see if you can guess it before I say anything. I know because I'm excited. This is so fun every week.

It's so fun. So, do you know what my favorite lifetime movie is? Like, like, lifetime movie based on a real crime case? Ooh. That's a tough one. What, just take like a guess. Is it one about, like like a cheerleader being murdered? Shut up now. I was being serious. She wasn't murdered. She robbed the bank. Sorry.

You can have one more guess. Okay one more guess. I'm having trouble because I'm thinking of like the ones that I've seen. Is it one about like a call girl? No, okay cool. So Betty Broadrick Oh Was born Elizabeth and Basiglia I think I don't really know how you say I like it last name, but it's not good She was born it's not important. It's fine. She was born on November 7th 1947 She grew up in Eastchester, which is a suburb of New York City, and she was the third of six children.

Well, I'm children. Yeah, but it was like pretty regular, like blah, blah, blah, boring, boring, boring. So she says that she was, quote, raised to be a housewife from the day she was born. Oh, that's no good. Which like, no thanks. I mean, if you decide to be a housewife, that's great.

Oh, dude, if you're raised to be one, I feel like that's not good. Never good. She also put it, she also put it that she was raised to go to Catholic school, be careful dating until you find a Catholic man, support him while he works, and be blessed in your later years with beautiful grandchildren. Wof. Or as I like to say, fuck that. Yikes.

I was not raised that way. Nope, definitely not. So, hashtag no, thank you. No. So Betty was just living her life doing the damn thing. She went to college and she met Daniel Brodrick, the third in 1965 when she was at a party at Notre Dame. She didn't go to Notre Dame, but her and her friend like took a road trip and went to

Notre Dame to a party. Yeah. You know, live in the college life, go into college football games, and then party's following them. Yeah. So live in my Catholic life. Hell yeah. Go Jesus.

Go Jesus. Go Jesus. She was a freshman and he was a senior and he introduced himself to her by writing his name on a napkin. So on the napkin, he wrote, Daniel T. Brodrick, MDA, and he told her that MDA stood for Medical Doctor Almost. Wow. Which is like really.

If somebody did that, I would be be like I have to go real quick see you later my over is actually been waiting and I really can't afford a one-star review so I'm gonna go so we have to know I know that it's 1965 and you don't know what Uber is but I'm from the future and then you zap their mind clear I created Uber for this this very moment right here. Yeah, because you know what? Super cool that you're going to be a medical doctor and like totally brag about it in different ways, but like don't do that. Yeah, do in different ways, but not this one. And also it's like your pre-med. Yeah, let's settle down. You have about 400 more years left before you're an MD.

But he was on the right path. He had just been accepted to Cornell Medical School. And he was, so he's doing the damn thing. Let's do it. He was doing the damn thing. Yeah. So the story goes that the two met and Dan, after they met, was already telling people

that he was gonna marry Betty someday. That's sweet. Like she was it. He thought she was gonna marry Betty someday. That's sweet. Like, she was it, he thought she was so beautiful, so pretty, and that they'd make a successful power couple. I mean, that's what it was for. I mean, oh yeah. Four years later, they got married in April of 1969. Nice.

Probably right when he was graduating medical school. Exactly. So Betty became pregnant during or shortly after their honeymoon and she gave birth to their oldest child, Kim, nine months after they got married. Damn. Nine months after their honeymoon.

I just move from right along. Yeah, the couple had five children together. Two daughters, Kim and Lee, two sons, Daniel and Rhett, I think is how you say it. It's our age. E-T-T. Yeah, that's Rhett. Sounds like a rich name.

Yeah. And they also had another child. That was a boy, but unfortunately, he passed away like two days after he was born. Oh, that's terrible. Which is really sad. Yeah. But Dan finished medical school,

and then he actually attended Harvard Law. It became a lawyer. Jesus. Yeah. And he was doing like this, like going to medical school. It's a lot. It's this yeah, and he was doing like that's too medical school It's a lot. It's a lot that's a lot so he was like take it down He's going to medical school and then he attended Harvard and Betty was like taking care of all the kids and the house supporting the family like working multiple jobs. She was like

She was doing a lot. She's a little tired. A little tired. Yeah. So in 1973 Dan accepted a job at a really prestigious law firm in San Diego. But he made a shit tenor money working on medical malpractice suits. That's where the money is. Mm-hmm. Well, and he knew too because like he had medical background and law background. Oh, yeah. So he made so much money that he started calling himself Count Da Money. I Mean I'm gonna need that to be erased from history because He Dan was really smooth Dan Dan just needs he needs some time. He needs some time. He needs some space He needs some more nutrients. I don't know like something

He needs some tent. That's no good. Well, maybe he needed a nose job Which he bought himself with all the money that he was making. Hey, I mean, I have a deviated septum I would love to get that fixed. I get that so he started making all this money Started calling himself count to money. Got a nose job started making all this money, started calling himself count to money, got a nose job, bought like hand-tailored suits, and they were just like living their best fucking life. I wonder if he just stood there with his money. Sometimes it was like $100.

Ah, ah, ah, ah. I'm just talking. It's not this. Because he was count, dumb money. I'm screaming. But now he was making enough to support them all. So Betty was able to quit her job slash jobs. And she was basically like a stay at home mom.

She was just supposed to take care of the kids and like focus on that and being a wife. And just get that money. Yeah. So her husband can count to money. So they became like very well-known socialites in San Diego. Betty was known in the community as a super mom. Parents loved her. The neighborhood kids loved her.

They people thought her and Dan were so fabulous and like they had it all. It's never good when that happened. I feel never good. Never leaves anywhere good. Nope. But they bought a home and I think you say La Jolla, California. I think so.

Sounds good. It looks like La Jolla, but I bet it's not La Jolla. Yeah, I think you're right. It's La Jolla, I think you say La Jolla, California? I think so. Sounds good. It looks like La Jolla, but I bet it's not La Jolla. Yeah, I think you're right. It's La Jolla, I think. Yeah. So yeah, they bought a home there. They had a membership at an elite country club, and more money than they even knew what to do with.

People said that he would go on shopping sprees, and there was like no budget whatsoever. She could just spend however much money she wanted. I can, my brain won't even compute that. I don't even know what I would do with all that. Like I would be so well dressed. It would just be great. I feel like people like that aren't well dressed

because they have too much money. So they just like, it just, it swings the pendulum to the other side. And when you have that much money, you start dressing like a trash bag because it's just like, you need to have, yeah. And when you have that much money, you start dressing like a trash bag because it's just like, it just becomes too much. It looks like they had everything, but they really didn't. And beneath it all, the couple started to have a lot of issues. I'm shocked. And they had issues pretty much from the start. There isn't a lot, no one about the child that Betty lost after

childbirth, but she also suffered from two miscarriages after that. Oh God. And not to mention the whole time that Dan was in school, she was supporting their entire family. Yeah. And that's a lot. Well, yeah, that's the thing. She said that he spent hours out after work drinking with his co-workers, and he would say that it was networking, and that he was climbing a legal ladder, and this is just what he had to do. No way man. No, you're out with your friends

and I'm home with your kids. And it's like she's been home all day with like five kids or four kids, however many it is. She's working like how many jobs and you can't even come home and like relieve her like her. It's important, quote, like climbing a legal ladder. Yeah, that's ridiculous. So they fought constantly and sometimes it actually got violent. On one occasion she threw a ketchup bottle at him. And then on another occasion he got so pissed that he threw an empty aquarium over the second floor balcony of their hole. Holy shit. Which like also who just has like an empty aquarium. I was just going to say did

he just like find one or do he like come to one? What happened? Maybe they got a new aquarium and the old one was just like the perfect thing to throw across. It was just hanging there in your yard. Yeah. He is count to money. Who knows what special power he has?

Count to money, count to aquarium. Yes, count it all. But their oldest daughter Kim said that, quote, mom was always kind of weird. Mom would always get mad at dad all the time. Once mom picked up the stereo and literally threw it at him. And she locked him out constantly. Jesus. So they were like volatile. I'd say so. Yeah. Betty threw threats of divorce at Dan like all the time, but she didn't actually want a divorce. She just used it as an empty threat.

Because like without him, she wouldn't have this picture perfect life of like the stay-at-home housewife. And like that was her identity. Yeah, like she- And that was what she was raised to be. Yeah, that's what she was raised to be. That's all she knew.

And also they were both Catholics and they took their vows like really seriously. Yeah, that whole thing. Yeah, and they were both like raised Catholic. So, oh, well, that's a big deal. Because that brings like guilt into it. That's not just like, we love each other and we want to stay together.

It's like, oh no, God will smite us if we don't literally. That's like real serious. Because like I take my bows real seriously, but I don't bring smiting into it or anything. Yeah, I'm also with that shit So things were about to get worse. Oh on November 22nd, 1983 Betty went to Dan's office with a bottle of champagne and it does and roses and I know that sounds really great. It does It's gonna be awesome. I think it's gonna be great. It's gonna be fun to be awesome.

I can't wait for you to hear what happens. So it was Dan's 39th birthday, and she played on surprising him, hoping that it would kind of salvage their marriage. She was like doing a nice gesture. But when she got to the office, she didn't find Dan there. Uh-oh.

Instead, she found an empty office with remnants of a chocolate cake, an empty bottle of wine, two glasses, and birthday decorations everywhere. Oh child! So she asked one of the office secretaries, like where the fuck is my husband, and who drank this bottle of wine with him, and the office assistant told Betty that Dan had left around lunchtime with his assistant Linda. Oh Linda Linda Linda Linda Linda Linda Linda. Oh man. So I feel Betty's range right now. I feel it. Yeah. We until here she does. The assistant that Betty had speculated Dan was having an affair with for the past few months was Linda. So, god damn Linda. Yeah, no boy no. So Betty waited in the office like all night for Dan to come back and he never did.

So, she broke up. Oh yeah, but don't worry. I'm just thinking of that though, like sitting there with champagne and roses. And roses, just waiting for him to come back and he's not coming back because he's with Linda She wasn't about to get sad though. She was about to get even so She drove home and she went inside and she gathered all his pants and all his suits and all his nice clothes And she put them in the front lawn and she set them all on fire. Hey, that's what you do

I see nothing wrong with this In the lifetime movie I made I literally made Annie watch it with me the other night and she was like this is incredible This is it she as she strikes the match. She goes Liar liar pants on fire. Oh, and just tosses the match onto the clothing that I even if that didn't happen It it happened Like that happened because that is literally in my notes. I really hope this actually happened because you know she didn't really say that as she threw that match. She's like shit. Missed opportunity. Literally. That was great. The lifetime movie is incredible. I gotta see this now. But anyway Dan denied and denied and denied that he was having

in a fair with Linda. And he told Betty that she was crazy and she was imagining things. Of course whenever a dude says you're crazy in imagining things you have it. You're not crazy. You have everything I checked. Everything you think you think is thought and right. Yeah exactly. Everything you think you think is thought and right. Yeah, exactly. So according to Betty, he was growing bored of her and often called her old fat, boring, ugly, and stupid. Oh my God! Which is really sad. She says that it was all fire.

It's time. Well, careful what you were. She says it was all part of a methodical campaign to drive her insane. So eventually the marriage became unsalvageable to Dan and he moved out of the house in February of 1985. He left Betty with the kids. Oh, so he was like, Fuck you buddy and she dropped the kids off at his house, thinking that he would finally see how much work went into raising them and that he'd have like a new

found respect for her. Oh Betty. But it's not how that works. Like that. Dan realized that this was an advantage for him because now he had the kids which she voluntarily turned over and he could use that against her. Yep. That was a dumb move Betty. Apparently she, Dan is like he sounds like a dick in the beginning of this but Betty's, that shit fucking crazy. Well yeah, and if you're just gonna like leave your kids with this dude, like, you're using your kids as leverage and ponds and stuff, like that's messed up. Well listen to how she dropped them off. She dropped off the oldest one Kim on Easter, after Kim had asked her to drive like her friend home, like her friend must have been over. And she was like, hey, can you drive my friend home? And Betty literally like just lost her shit and was like, no, like blah, blah, like freaking out.

And literally went pack your bags. So Kim packed her bags and Betty drove her to her dad's house. Oh my God. And he wasn't there. And she just left her on the doorstep and she literally had to wait like hours. That is the worst thing I've ever heard. I hate Betty now. This is such a roller coaster. So that happened on Easter. That a few days later. How old was Kim? Do you know? Um, like how old the kids are. She was like around like 16 I would say. She was 16 or 17. Danny arrived the same way a few days later

and he was gotten he was probably like maybe like 10 when this happened oh my god um and then retin Lee came a few months later Kim says they were hysterical holding on to her crying and screaming that's literally the worst thing I've ever heard it's really awful this kind of stuff makes me so mad. It's like yeah because like don't use your kids as a pond. And people like ruining their children's psyches for self-sufficiency. It's like I can't understand you. It's messed up. Ugh. So like I said, Betty thought that if she stopped being like the quote perfect housewife, that Dan would see that she meant business and like somehow gain more respect for her. So delusional. Yeah, her. So delusional.

Yeah, she was very delusional. Yeah. And obviously that didn't go to plan. And she kinda just went on a downward spiral very, very quickly. You don't say. In June, she went to the family home and trash Dan's bedroom.

She shattered mirrors and spray painted black paint everywhere. Wow. So then on September 23, Dan filed for divorce. It's about time. After that, he said Betty returned to the home two more times. One time, she took a Boston cream pie, which I don't know if this is true or not. This part that I'm about to say, in the movie Linda baked the pie.

But I don't know if she actually did or not. But this part is true that she went and took the pie into the master bedroom, like dance room, and smeared it all over his clothes and all over his like furniture, like just like smeared the pie everywhere. Well, that's just, that makes me mad because Boston Cream Pie is great.

And like, that's just how dare you waste one. So she just like ruined all this shit. Well, it's like dude, you lit his clothes on fire, move on. Like you did what you had to do, you got it out. Well you're just, this is like giving him ammo. Like of course, you're never getting your kids back again. Just check out. So that happened and then the second time that she broke in,

she threw bottles of wine through two windows and smashed a sliding glass door. Oh my god. So it hasn't I suddenly get to be on downside in this. I'm very, I'm all confused. It's very wishy-washy. Yeah, my emotions are just everywhere. They will.

So at this point, Dan gets a temporary restraining order, which orders Betty to stay 100 yards from the house, his car, and his office. But that didn't mean shit to Betty. And she violated the order by swinging in umbrella through a large picture window and broken to their house and smashed their brand new toaster. Why? Because she was mad. Like, was she like, now you get no toast? She, I think it was more like your toast, buddy. You don't need a toaster. Because she, I think it was more like your toast buddy. You don't need a toaster. Your toast.

I like it. And you have, like the whole thing is that she thought that he was having an affair with Linda for all this time and that he was treating her in for like a younger girl. Yeah. Because if you look at pictures, actually Linda does kind of resemble Betty when she was younger,

which is like no bueno. And he was 40 and he had just bought like a red corvette and she was like, yeah, you're having like a midlife crisis. So she's like your midlife crisis wife. Yeah, but he was like, yeah, you're having like a midlife episode and I think you need to be connected. Like you literally need to be somewhere. Yeah.

So if you're doing all this stuff with her kids around, it's like you're really messing your kids up for life here. Oh yeah, her kids, actually, I didn't get a chance to watch this yet, but they are on Oprah. There's like an interview with them in Oprah and I'm going to watch it directly after this. Oh damn. And I suggest you all do the same. After you watch the lifetime movie.

Of course. So in February 1986, Dan sold the family home against Betty's wishes. He did this by using like some law procedure, which obviously like he knew about, but it was like a very like not well-known procedure that permitted a judge to sign over Betty's half. Wow.

So Dan claimed that he did this after Betty refused to sign papers two times. Even after he followed her advice in choosing the real estate agent and after he literally bought her a home and what did I say it's called LaHoya. Oh yeah. LaHoya for $650,000. Whoa. He bought her a $650,000 home. It's like, okay, Betty, time to move on. So take that house and just move on. Yeah, but she was pissed when she found out that Dan had sold the home without her consent. I mean, which like I'd be mad too.

I do. But then I would just try to like you're not $650,000 home and get over it. And it's like you're not really displaying behavior. Yeah, that, you know, makes it easy for us to work with you here. Right. Well, just wait because she drives to the home to confront Dan and Dan's like, yeah, I don't want to talk to you. Please get off my property. So she does what any rational girl would do. She drives her Chevy through the front door of his mansion. Yeah, I mean, what other option was there? Literally no other options.

What other options did she have? Yeah, I there's nowhere else to go. You just go straight. Fucking call her through his house. And I'm pretty sure her kids were home. Well, I was just going to say in the lifetime movie. And how did she know that the kids weren't in front of the door? I mean, she was literally just killed all her kids at once.

When I was watching the movie, all the kids are home and Dan is like yelling at them. Also, Dan is played by the father of 7th Heaven, which is like no bueno, because he's a child. Oh, yeah, I was just going to say that's really no bueno. He's like yelling at all of them to go upstairs. But that's what I thought. I was like, how did you not know like if your kids were there? Yeah, you don't know if your kid was just walking out

the front door. It was close to it. But she was just like past the point of rationality. She just blind insanity. So after she drove her car through his front door, he like flipped out and like went to pull her out of the car. And I don't know why, but he wanted to. And as he was doing this,

she've reached under the passenger seat and pulled out a large butcher's knife. Jesus. Somehow he restrained her. The police were called and she was apparently taken away in a straight jacket. So she was like so out of control that they had to be straight with a straight jacket. That's, that's a lot. And after that, she spent only three days in a San Diego County mental health hospital. That doesn't surprise me. Which just because of how mental health is treated. Yeah, it's true.

But like you literally drove your fucking car through your children's home. Whoa. Whoa. So then in July 1986, Dan and his attorney go to court to finalize the divorce. Betty didn't have a lawyer because she claimed that no one in the area would represent Dan Broderick's ex-wife, but through the whole process of like their divorce and everything,

she hired five lawyers and fired all five of them. There's probably very good reason for each one. Yeah, very sane, very solid reasons. So the divorce got finalized and Dan got sole custody of the children and Betty received no formal visitation rights. Good. Yeah. So if she wasn't pissed before, she was super pissed now. Yeah.

She called Dan's house repeatedly leaving like really crude messages on his answering machine, using like really gross nicknames for Dan and his new girlfriend. Who was like that? She called her the C word on like multiple occasions, called her like the office whore. Like really awful things. So Dan was paying at this point, he was paying Betty $16,000 a month in Alamoney. Wow. Yeah, so he started to find her for all the shitty things that she was doing. He wrote her letter and said that for every obscene word he was charging her $100, $250 for every time she stepped foot on his property, $500 for every entry into his home,

and $1,000 for every time she took one of his property, 500 for every entry into his home, and a thousand for every time she took one of his, one of the kids without his permission. Oh my god. I can't believe he even had to do that. Yeah, so one month Betty claimed that Dan find her so many times that her total like alimony was negative 1300 dollars. Like she fucked up that many times. I believe it.

But Betty says that Dan and Linda were equally as awful. She said she once received a photo of Dan and Linda with the caption, eat your heart out, bitch. So like she thought that like Linda sent that. And she also said that she was like getting all these flyers for like skin serums and like weight loss medicines. And she thought that like it was Linda's doing. Oh my god. She was like, you're old and fat. Can you imagine? It really does sound like a fucking like Beverly Hills housewife competition. It does. Like this is bonkers. Um, Linda's friends deny that Linda was like evil or mean in the ways that Betty was, but Kim, Betty's oldest daughter, the one from Easter,

confirms that Linda did refuse to return Betty's wedding China after Betty requested it. Oh, and that's low. Yeah, so she definitely steeped to her level at some points. So Linda's a bit of a bitch or so. I guess, but her and Dan were happy together, and friends say, friends of the couple say that Linda brought out a softer side of Dan. They got engaged in June of 1988. But at this point, Betty was still calling herself Mrs. Broadrick and refused to give up her married name. Oh, damn.

And she was still leaving like a really obscene messages on the answering machine. So this is a phone conversation that she had with her son, Danny, who was 11 years old at the time. So she was like in the middle of picking up, or she was in the middle of leaving a message on the phone and he picked up and said, you guys are separated mom and he likes somebody else now. He doesn't like you anymore. And I mean, if you got, you got to stop saying the bad words. Oh, and then Betty says why doesn't he like me anymore to her 11 year old stop talking to

your 11 year old and Danny's like crying throughout this whole conversation. Oh my love because you've been he's sick of you because you guys get in all these fights and Betty goes why do we get in all these fights. Oh my god he's literally she's literally making this kid very spit it out. And then Danny goes, I don't know. And Betty goes, because he was fucking his secretary. Oh, like this is recorded.

Like literally you can hear the conversation between the two of them. And Danny goes, even before that, you got into fights mom. And then Betty goes, I don't think so, Danny. See, you didn't know he was fucking his secretary for the last year that we were married. Oh my God. And then Danny says, we want to live with you,

but you're just making it harder for all of us that want to live over there. If you stop saying bad words, everyone will be happier. At least I know I will. Oh my God, that just hurt my soul in so many ways. Did that not ruin your life? That ruined my life. It's so sad, but don't worry,

because- I cannot imagine speaking to my child that way. I cannot imagine speaking to my child that way. I cannot imagine speaking to my child that way. I cannot imagine speaking to my child that way. I cannot imagine speaking to my child that way. I cannot imagine speaking to my child that way. I cannot imagine speaking to my child that way. I cannot imagine speaking to my child that way.

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I cannot imagine speaking to my child that way. I cannot imagine speaking to my child that way. I cannot imagine speaking to my child that way. I cannot imagine speaking to my child that way. I cannot imagine speaking to my child that way. I cannot imagine speaking to my child that way. I cannot imagine speaking to my child that way. I cannot imagine speaking to my child that way. Yeah, um, their younger daughter Lee dropped out of high school and Dan disowned her and formally wrote her out of his will So whoa, that's all that's he means business He also asked Kim to move out when she turned 18, but later he like chilled out and paid her college tuition That's pretty job. It seemed like they had like all the kids had a rocky relationship with both parents Yeah, I mean it makes sense.

They grew up with like all this crazy violence in their house. Exactly. That's why I'm so interested to watch them sit down with Oprah. But Betty was mostly focused at this point on getting custody of Retten Danny because they were 11 and 14 respectively, like at this point. And they seem to gravitate toward their mom, a friend of the family says that in between visits with their mom, they always stayed in contact through the phone. So after Linda and Dan got engaged, in April, they got married in April of 1989, in the

front yard of Dance Mansion. He hired private undercover security guards, but he refused to wear a bullet professed like Linda had request. Like she literally was worried that he was gonna get shot on their wedding day. I would be too. Well, and news had spread that Betty had bought a revolver. Oh yeah, then I'd be like, you're wearing a one. And she's been threatening like time and time again to kill them like all the time. Oh, yeah. But Dan told his friends that he doubted Betty

would kill her, quote unquote, golden goose, which I guess means like the dude that like pays all her shit. Yeah. So, but Linda wasn't quite sure. She had asked a lawyer on numerous occasions to prepare papers to get a restraining order against Betty, but Dan wouldn't let her file them. So his friend Ned Huntington said,

she was the mother of his children, and he really didn't take the strong measures he could have taken. He didn't want the guilt of being punitive toward her, so he let her get away with a lot of atrocious acts. He just wouldn't punish her. Oh, see, that's your mistake, man. So, seven months after the wedding, for some reason, Betty finally hit her last breaking point.

She drove to Dan's house at 1041 Cypress Ave and entered the home using a key that she'd stolen from her daughter, Lee. She quietly snuck upstairs to the couple's bedroom and shot Linda first in the head and then the chest and then shot Dan who was hit in the chest as he was searching or as he was reaching for the phone. Dan was 44 and he was only 17 days shy of his 45th birthday and Linda was 28. What? Yep and also it was two days before Betty's birthday. Oh my god. So she and before she left, she unplugged the phone from the wall and flood the house. But later that day, she turned herself into police.

And she never denied that she pulled the trigger, but she denied that she planned on killing them. She said that she went there because she wanted to talk to them and what she wanted to kill herself in front of them. But that Linda had like, but then she was like, and she got startled. Which it's like, yeah, I definitely buy that. No, not true. No, you definitely went there to murder them.

Yeah. So during the first trial, Betty's lawyer, Jack early represented her as a battered woman who'd been pushed to the brink after years of verbal and emotional abuse. The prosecutor, Carrie Wells, portrayed Betty as a murderer who planned to kill her husband and was the very opposite of a battered woman. She had been getting $16,000 a month in Alamoney and was living in a $650,000

home that the victim had bought her. Seriously. Like you're not a battered woman. Like you're doing okay Betty. And Betty's whole thing was that like she was so battered and he just wanted to ruin her life and like her life was nothing but she had a boyfriend and they were doing like this trial thing where Rhett and Danny were like living with her like like as a trial like he was gonna give her custody of them. So the two sons were at her house at the time that

she killed their dad in Linda. Oh my god. So the first trial ended with a hung jury because two jurors held out for a conviction of manslaughter as opposed to second degree murder because they didn't think that she planned the murder. They thought that because it's like But to me, it's like just the fact that she stole the key From her daughter in order to get in the house. Yeah gives me all I need to know because she wasn't willing to set up a meeting with them She was going in the dead of night right when they didn't know it was five or the most vulnerable Yeah, when you're at your most vulnerable and then she also unplugged the phones when she left. So they couldn't even call for help. And that she was looking to kill them.

And that's what they used to was like her unplugging the phone. Yeah, because the whole thing was that these two jurors wanted to convict her of manslaughter since they didn't think that she planned the murder because I guess second degree murder has to come with premeditation. Second degree murder, you don't with premeditation. Second degree

murder you don't need premeditation you need BALASA 4th thought. So what does that mean? So premeditation is for first degree murder but MALASA 4th thought is when you have intent. So for second degree murder you would need intent there but you don't necessarily need preparation. Okay. A Miss trial was declared and Betty was retried a year later with the same prosecutor and the same defense lawyer. This time she was convicted on two counts of second-degree murder and She was sentenced to two consecutive years of 15 years to life plus two years for the illegal use of a firearm. So she's in prison for 32 years to life. Good. She's been incarcerated since the day that she committed the murderers,

the, the murders. And her first request for a pivoreal was in January of 2010. And it was denied because she quote, did not show remorse and did not acknowledge any wrongdoing. So that bitch is still hanging on to like, yeah. Oh my God. That's literally you can mock up. You got tons and tons of interviews with her and she is not sorry at all. Like she does not give a fuck. That's so fucked. Because her whole thing is that she's like a battered woman. But there's just like so much evidence

that like she was also like fucking bananas. Like the fact that she like drove all her kids to his house and left them there. And then I also read on one occasion that she, her older daughter, excuse me, her younger daughter Lee was like kind of like a brat growing up apparently, according to the older daughter Kim. And she one time was like, oh, like your spankings don't hurt, like when I get in trouble. So she was like, oh, like never say that. Yeah, literally.

Also, like maybe don't spank your kids, but yeah, personal. I don't agree with that at all with spanking kids, but I don't either. But apparently she was like, okay, well, the next time you get in trouble, I'm going to hit you with a fly swatter. So she chased her around the backyard and the like the fly swatter, like the screen of it fell off. So it was literally just the wire thing and she was literally beating her with like the wire thing. Oh my god. And she had like waltz all over her. Oh, that's awful. So Betty was fucking crazy from the start. Seriously, she was the world. And she like the kid said that she would pick fights with Dan all the time. Yeah, I'm totally on Dan's side now, which I did not think was gonna happen in the beginning.

Yeah, like they literally said that she would like get all dressed up for them to go to like some socialite event and then at the last second, she'd be like, I'm not going. Like just make a fight happen. Yeah, exactly, like just to be a bitch. Oh my God. So I don't buy that she was like a battered woman at all.

I also don't buy that Dan was like super great either. No, I don't think either one of them were like Shining their halos anytime soon, but he definitely did not deserve to get shot. No, and then especially even if he did have an affair It's like come on like people on the front all the time it fucking sucks Yeah, it's awful, but like move on man. You can't move on and like be good there for your kids That's what you need to do. You can't fucking kill people just cause you feel like it. And I don't know if this is true. As much as we all want to, you can't.

Okay. I don't know if this is true. I read it on Wikipedia so like not positive cause you can write like anything in there. But apparently she was pulling the phone out of the wall. He looked up at her and he was like, like, okay, I'm dead. Like that's what you wanted That was his last words. Oh my god. I

You know what it probably was yeah, like that would make sense. I'd be savage like you got what you wanted Yeah, also he probably knew all along that this is how it was gonna end. I think he probably knew it But he didn't want to believe it. Oh, yeah, you never want to but I'm sure he was like oh she's definitely gonna be the end of it So that is for sure. Also, more supporting evidence that she was a crazy bitch. In between like her, the mistrial and her regular trial, this videotape surface of her in prison. And I don't exactly, it's on American Justice, which is on A&E. You can find it on YouTube.

But this video of her in prison surfaced and it was like, I don't know if she got into a fight with somebody or what happened, but she was literally like going crazy. And she had to like, they were dragging her away. She's like kicking and screaming. And then apparently she's, she was like put in like solitude or whatever, whatever it's called. Solitary confined. Yes, thank you. And solitude.

She was put into solitude. Yes, thank you. And Solitude she was put into solitude She defecated and smeared her defecation all over the walls. Oh So this bitch is like she has bought the farm like the coconut Yeah, she's a coconut lady. Yeah, like if you're smearing your shit places. Yeah, you've crossed over Like cyanarebitch. I think we have all the information we places. Holy shit. Yeah. You've crossed over like, cyanarabage. I think we have all the information we need just from that.

Yeah. That's Betty Brockett. That is bananas. It's like my favorite, favorite lifetime movie in the whole entire world. Please watch it and tell me what you think everybody. That's, that's crazy. Yeah.

Betty is, is something else. I wonder if everyone else went on the roller coaster of emotions that I did being like Oh my god, Dan's the worst. Yeah, Betty like do the damn thing like you should on fire and then being like Oh my god. Yeah, Betty's the worst. I went on that emotional roller coaster Yeah, it really is a lot like this pants on fire. That's the only thing I stand by her in that I'd be like Okay, like I'm I stand behind it light is pants on fire. That's the only thing I stand by her in that I'd be like, okay, like I'm I stand behind it Light is pants on fire. It's a nice little like symbolism. I like it. I like it all

Especially that is where it ends liar liar pants on fire. Yeah, I mean if she said that like as she was putting the match on there Yeah, if she just flicked the match on the thing while she said that, I'd be like, not like chef's kiss. That would be wonderful. I wish there was a gift of her, her doing it because she literally lights it and goes, liar liar pants on fire, flicks it onto the thing and like spins around and walks to the front door and he's just standing there like the child molester from sub-at-theven on the front lawn like bloop like just feeling like there's no one to do. Well that was a good one. Thank you. Good job Ash, SunTrick episode. Thank you and in the meantime you can go follow us at Instagram or on Instagram at it's been a long day. Mororbid podcast. You can send us a tweet.

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wooo morbidpodcast.com. I wish you could all see the weird like jig that she did to that. I did some shoulder shimmy in there. And we hope you keep listening. And we hope you keep listening and we hope you keep it weird. But not so weird that you let your husband's pants on fire and say, Lier Lier pants on fire, but then like drive your SUV into his home and then like you like kill him and his new wife and then like it just gets really bad and then you fucking put your shit on the walls. You're a little little shit. I was so big that that was how it was gonna end. Yeah. I was like sending you vibes through the screen being like

and then I'm like, and then the shit. The shit. The shit. Go there. And then shit. The defecation. Oh yeah, bye.

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