Episode 105 - Working Class Hot: Betty Broderick Part 1

efore Betty Broderick became one of the most polarizing women in true crime, she was a young Catholic wife, a mother of four, and the woman who helped support Dan Broderick through medical school, law school, and the building of a wildly successful career. From the outside, the Brodericks had everything: money, status, a beautiful family, and the kind of San Diego life people dream about. But behind the country club image, their marriage was slowly cracking under resentment, ambition, betrayal, and control. In part one of the Betty Broderick story, we’re looking at the life Betty and Dan built together, the start of the affair with Linda Kolkena, and the marriage that turned into a battlefield, and the beginning years of anger and humiliation that pushed this family toward disaster.