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It Was Simple: The Betty Broderick Murders

Los Angeles Times 6 Episodes Jun 4, 2026

This true crime podcast revisits the infamous Betty Broderick murders, a double homicide that shocked the wealthy enclave of La Jolla, California, thirty years ago. The killer was the first wife, Betty Broderick, who murdered her ex-husband Dan and his new wife after a bitter divorce. The series features interviews with divorce attorneys, criminal defense lawyers, and a jury foreman, exploring the toxic marriage and the two trials that sent Betty to prison. It examines how a seemingly perfect couple's relationship unraveled into jealousy, rage, and fatal violence.

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This Has Haunted Me | 4 Jun 9, 2020 00:45:56 Episode 4: One of the most sensational moments in Betty Broderick’s second murder trial was straight out of a TV courtroom drama. As Betty’s defense attorney Jack Earley was asking about her kids’ welfare, he dropped a bombshell: He had witnesses ready to testify that Dan Broderick had talked about hiring a hitman to kill Betty. In the final episode of our podcast, we hear from one man Earley want

You Got Me | 3 Jun 2, 2020 00:35:27 Episode 3: Dan Broderick and his new wife, Linda, were killed in their bed. In jail, Betty behaved like you'd imagine someone would be after an exorcism — a bit giddy, a bit manic. She wasn’t sorry, not for a moment. In the third episode of our podcast, we hear why Betty’s first murder trial ended in a hung jury, learn more about Linda Broderick from a close friend, and begin Betty’s second murder

Bed, Wed and Dead | 2 May 26, 2020 00:44:21 Episode 2: You could look at the story of the Brodericks as one beginning and ending in two marital beds. In 1969, it was Betty and Dan’s honeymoon bed. In 1989, it was Dan’s bed with Linda Kolkena, his new wife of not quite seven months. Betty — displaced, dispossessed Betty and her five-shot nickel-plated Smith & Wesson — saw to it that they would never live to share that bed again. In the secon

A Fatal Shore | 1 May 26, 2020 00:27:21 Episode 1: On her wedding day, April 12, 1969, the newly minted Betty Broderick looked romantically toward a future as enchanting as the lace veil around her shoulders. It was all supposed to be so perfect. But then again, aren’t all marriages, at the start? In the first episode of our podcast, we follow Dan and Betty Broderick from their wedding day through their lean student years of hot-plate d

Introducing "It Was Simple: The Betty Broderick Murders" May 19, 2020 00:02:45 Thirty years ago, a man and his new wife were murdered in their bed. That’s a long time for a double homicide to stay in the public eye and imagination, but these were no ordinary murders. The killer was the man’s first wife, Betty Broderick. Betty and Dan Broderick had looked like the perfect couple, right up until they weren’t. After four children and nearly 15 years of marriage, after the riche

It Was Simple: The Betty Broderick Murders

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