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KILLER WIVES: Husband+Girlfriend=Murder · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. How does a high profile
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Speaker 1: lawyer raking in hundreds of thousands of dollars a year,
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Speaker 1: his beautiful trophy wife and their gorgeous children at home
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Speaker 1: all end up in the middle of a murder investigation?
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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, I mean, Nancy Grace, this
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Speaker 1: is crime Stories. Thank you for being with us here
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Speaker 1: at Fox Nation and Serious XM one eleven. Take a
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Speaker 1: listen to our friends at Oxygen. When it came time
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Speaker 1: for college, Dan chose a press Notre Dame, enrolling as
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Speaker 1: a pre med major in nineteen sixty five. During his
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Speaker 1: junior year, Dan ran into seventeen year old Betty Bisheglia,
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Speaker 1: a striking blonde co ed from New York City who
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Speaker 1: happened to be visiting a friend in South Bend. Betty
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Speaker 1: came from New York and she was in school. She
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Speaker 1: was successful, She was a model. She worked all the
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Speaker 1: time while she was going through school. Betty was a
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Speaker 1: very intelligent person. She was amazingly quick, she was funny.
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Speaker 1: When Betty met Dan, she was majoring in child psychology
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Speaker 1: at Mount Saint Vincent College in New York City. Her
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Speaker 1: brazen personality is charming at first and fun. And he
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Speaker 1: was this quiet, kind of introvert, hard working, studious guy,
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Speaker 1: and he saw that as almost a compliment to his personality.
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Speaker 1: Betty had an image of her life, which meant that
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Speaker 1: she would also want to be with somebody who was
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Speaker 1: very goal oriented, very successful. Still, Betty turned down Dan's
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Speaker 1: first request for a date. You're hearing the story of
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Speaker 1: these two, Dan and Betty meeting in college with me
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Speaker 1: an all star panel to break you down and put
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Speaker 1: it back together again. How this seemingly picture perfect family
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Speaker 1: ends up in a murder investigation with me Jim Elliott,
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Speaker 1: attorney for a Butler Snow representing multiple municipalities at butlersnow
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Speaker 1: dot com. Renowned psychiatrist doctor Angela Arnold joining us from
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Speaker 1: the Atlanta jurisdiction, former fed with the FBI, Jeff Cortesi,
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Speaker 1: Jennifer schn forensic pathologists, and the former San Diego Police
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Speaker 1: Department Crime Lab director, and you can find her at
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Speaker 1: jenshen Forensics dot com. But right now to Ray Kaputo,
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Speaker 1: lead news anchor for w d BO. Ray Kaputo, So
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Speaker 1: I'm understand ending that Dan was also a medical doctor
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Speaker 1: as well as a lawyer. This guy was exceptional. I
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Speaker 1: mean he not only got a medical degree from Cornell
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Speaker 1: right after that, where most people probably never want to
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Speaker 1: see the inside of a college classroom. Again, this guy
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Speaker 1: goes on to get a lot of grid at Harvard.
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Speaker 1: So he was one of the rare people ambitious twice
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Speaker 1: that had an m D and a JD. He was.
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Speaker 1: He was a pretty ambitious diagn you know, to get
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Speaker 1: an MD and a JD. To you, doctor Angela Arnold,
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Speaker 1: psychiatrist joining us out of Atlanta, how long did it
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Speaker 1: take you to get your medical degree? Well, it takes
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Speaker 1: four years to get a medical degree. That's after college,
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Speaker 1: after four years of undergrad and then you know, tipple
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Speaker 1: want to do an internship in a residency. You know what,
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Speaker 1: I'm having a hard time hearing you. Let me understand
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Speaker 1: what you just said. You said four years undergrad, then
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Speaker 1: four years getting your medical degree. That's eight years. And
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Speaker 1: then how long is an intern or a resident? It
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Speaker 1: depends on what you go into. It can be anywhere
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Speaker 1: from three to seven years to do your internship, residency
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Speaker 1: and a fellowship after that. And you Jim Elliott, attorney
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Speaker 1: with Butler Snow joining us. Jim, how long does it
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Speaker 1: take to get a law degree. So that's your bachelor's
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Speaker 1: degree of four years and law law schools three years
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Speaker 1: at a minimum, so at least three years. WHOA, So
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Speaker 1: this guy back to you, Ray Kaputo has a law
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Speaker 1: degree and a medical degree. Correct yet, Nancy, whoa? And
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Speaker 1: what about the wife, Betty? What does she study? What
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Speaker 1: does she do? Well? She was she was attending college
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Speaker 1: when the two men only early on in the sixties,
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Speaker 1: in she was into child psychology. Seemed to have a
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Speaker 1: career in front of her. She was studying also to
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Speaker 1: do work with kids, So she had a career in
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Speaker 1: part her book. But like a lot of couples, Nancy,
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Speaker 1: back then it was, you know, a one parent household.
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Speaker 1: You didn't have to have two parents going to work.
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Speaker 1: So Betty decided to stay home with a growing family.
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Speaker 1: And well, Dan was in college, they were having kids.
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Speaker 1: In fact, they had several kids before he ever got
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Speaker 1: out of college. So she was that typical housewife. She
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Speaker 1: had her job, but her job was at home. Okay,
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Speaker 1: So I couldn't quite hear what you were saying. What
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Speaker 1: was she studying today for a living? She was, I believe,
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Speaker 1: studying child psychology in college. And then she had went
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Speaker 1: on and started working as a teacher until she had
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Speaker 1: gotten pregnant. Okay, so she was a teacher, right, is
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Speaker 1: that what you're saying. So she's a teacher. He's a
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Speaker 1: lawyer slash medical doctor. Ray Kaputo w DBO. Was he
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Speaker 1: practicing law or did he ever actually practice medicine? He'd
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Speaker 1: never practiced medicine, Nancy. He got burned out and that's
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Speaker 1: why he decided to go to Harvard Law. But he
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Speaker 1: realized where the money was at. You know, medical malpractice
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Speaker 1: is a big banking industry, and that's what he decided
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Speaker 1: to get into. So he never really practiced medicine, but
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Speaker 1: he did clearly understand it. Okay, And to you, Jim Elliot,
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Speaker 1: lawyer with Butler Snow, Jim, you just heard computer say
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Speaker 1: he needs where the money is med MAU medical malpractice
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Speaker 1: in a nutshell, and don't start talking like a lawyer.
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Speaker 1: What is med mouth. Well, it's where you would file
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Speaker 1: litigation or see or submit claims on the half of
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Speaker 1: any allegedly injured plaintiffs that was injured by any kind
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Speaker 1: of healthcare provider. You know, most commonly, it's a misdiagnosis
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Speaker 1: of botched surgery. An even number of things, but any
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Speaker 1: any professional claim of liability against a medical provider. Okay,
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Speaker 1: you know what, let me break that down in regular
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Speaker 1: people talk. That means you're suing doctors and hospitals who
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Speaker 1: have lots and lots of money for your misdiagnosis or
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Speaker 1: your mistreatment that you would not have had they properly
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Speaker 1: diagnosed you or treated you. That's big money when you
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Speaker 1: start suing, for instance, a hospital that's part of hospitals
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Speaker 1: all over the country. I remember working on a ani
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Speaker 1: trust case when I was with the FEDS and it
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Speaker 1: was against Memorial Medical Well. I quickly found out they
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Speaker 1: were one such hospital as part of a chain, not
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Speaker 1: all under the same name, all across the country. It
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Speaker 1: was a huge, huge business healthcare. So when you've got
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Speaker 1: a mid mail lawyer medical malpractice lawyer going after a hospital,
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Speaker 1: after doctors who we think make a lot of money,
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Speaker 1: you're looking at millions and millions of dollars in settlements.
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Speaker 1: Would you agree with that, Jim Elliott absolutely, and any
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Speaker 1: of someone with a medical degree would certainly have a
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Speaker 1: level of expertise that most PLANEFFS lawyers would not, So
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Speaker 1: that would even give him a greater advantage to understand
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Speaker 1: the record, the testimony, the depositions, all those sorts of things. Now,
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Speaker 1: this is what we know about wife Betty. She was
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Speaker 1: born Elizabeth Ann. Grew up in a New York suburb,
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Speaker 1: a very nice suburb, had Katholic parents, Frank and Maria,
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Speaker 1: five siblings. So she comes from a big family. And
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Speaker 1: isn't it true, doctor Angela Arnold, when you come from
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Speaker 1: a big family, you're more likely to have your own
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Speaker 1: big family. Well, it would certainly be something you were
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Speaker 1: accustomed to and felt comfortable with, So yes, I think
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Speaker 1: you would be more likely to want to have a
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Speaker 1: big family. Yeah. I always wanted four children. Somehow I
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Speaker 1: got a late start after my fiancee's murder and ended
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Speaker 1: up having two, but I wanted for my family had three,
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Speaker 1: And I think when you're used to that, your conditioned
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Speaker 1: to having a big family. Guys, we're talking about how
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Speaker 1: a picture perfect family ends up in the middle of
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Speaker 1: a double murder investigation. Crime stories with Nancy Grace. This
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Speaker 1: is what else we know about Betty. Private school, huge
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Speaker 1: award robe, beautiful home country club, went to college amount
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Speaker 1: Saint Vincent, meets Dan. He was beginning a senior year
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Speaker 1: they get married and settled down in Lahoya. Now joining
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Speaker 1: me is Jennifer Schenn, forensic pathologist, former San Diego Police
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Speaker 1: Department crime Lab director. What kind of area is Lahoya?
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Speaker 1: What is that? I mean New York City? You think
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Speaker 1: a tall high rises in Florida, you think of the
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Speaker 1: Sunshine State. What's Lahoya known for? Lahoya is known for
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Speaker 1: stunning homes on a stunning coastline. It is absolutely gorgeous
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Speaker 1: home there, huge and beautiful and high and they overlooks
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Speaker 1: the ocean and the beaches, and Lajoia itself is a
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Speaker 1: very beautiful little beach town. I mean it is high end,
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Speaker 1: very wealthy, exceptionally exceptionally beautiful place to live. And with
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Speaker 1: that is a big price tag. But of course, you
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Speaker 1: know when you look on the outs from the outside
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Speaker 1: looking in here they are with this mansion, the family,
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Speaker 1: the pool, the country club, the works. Why is it?
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Speaker 1: Why can't rich people be happy? I've never understood it.
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Speaker 1: Take a listen to Dave mc crime online dot com.
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Speaker 1: Betty and Dan Broderick Mary. In April of nineteen sixty nine,
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Speaker 1: Dan Broderick completes his MD degree at Cornell University, then
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Speaker 1: enrolls at Harvard Law School. When he graduates, he's hired
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Speaker 1: by a law firm in San Diego, California, and the
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Speaker 1: family relocates to Lajoia, California. Betty Broderick continues to work
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Speaker 1: part time selling tupperwar or Avon ducks while raising four children.
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Speaker 1: In the fall of nineteen eighty two, Dan hires twenty
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Speaker 1: one year old former Delta Airlines flight attendant Linda Kolkena
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Speaker 1: as his legal assistant. Within a year, Betty Brodrick accuses
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Speaker 1: her husband of having an affair. He denies being involved
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Speaker 1: with his legal assistant, but the marriage broke down. Dan
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Speaker 1: Brodrick moves out of the home he shares with Betty
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Speaker 1: Brodrick and their children. In February of nineteen eighty five, Well,
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Speaker 1: there you go, there you go. You know what, doctor
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Speaker 1: Angela Arnold. Here she is Betty selling tupperware in Avon
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Speaker 1: to put him. She helped him get through medical and
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Speaker 1: law school. She worked and paid the bills to get
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Speaker 1: him through school and had his babies tupperware. Can I
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Speaker 1: tell you a story, Dodor Angela. So my dad very
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Speaker 1: often was working the night trick and he would be gone,
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Speaker 1: so I'd get home from school, my sister and I
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Speaker 1: would get dinner going, and my mom would get home
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Speaker 1: from work, usually late, and it would be just about
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Speaker 1: that time when the doorbell would ring and it would
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Speaker 1: be missus Long, the Avon lady. She was a recent
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Speaker 1: widow and was on hard times. And my mom. Whatever
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Speaker 1: we were having, we would make another place at the table.
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Speaker 1: My sister, my brother, my mom, me and miss Long,
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Speaker 1: and I mean she she had the most beautiful face,
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Speaker 1: gray hair, short and we would all have dinner together.
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Speaker 1: At first, she'd always go, oh, no, no, no, I
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Speaker 1: just I just couldn't, but we'd talk her into it.
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Speaker 1: When I think, I've Betty selling Avon and Tupperware to
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Speaker 1: put the husband Dan through medical school, and then he
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Speaker 1: decided he was burned out. Then he want to go
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Speaker 1: to law school. Seriously, after eight years of med school
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Speaker 1: that she puts him through, then he wants to go
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Speaker 1: to law school. I'd say, you know, take a correspondence
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Speaker 1: class de year, go to work, but she puts him
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Speaker 1: through that has all these children, gets the house straight.
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Speaker 1: And then I mean, surprise me. Could it be anybody
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Speaker 1: other than your assistant just surprised me once? Or the
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Speaker 1: checkout girl at the G and C nutrition vitamin store.
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Speaker 1: I mean, so he has an affair with the assistant.
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Speaker 1: What is that for being grateful? Your wife has four children,
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Speaker 1: puts you through medical school and law school, and then
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Speaker 1: you sleep with the assistant Nancy. How do we know
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Speaker 1: he ever was grateful about anything that she had done
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Speaker 1: for him. I don't know that he was. He apparently
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Speaker 1: had a very high opinion of himself. There aren't There
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Speaker 1: aren't many people who go to that, you know, doctor Angela,
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Speaker 1: Doctor Angela, when I introduce you a psychiatrist, I expect
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Speaker 1: for you to at least throw some Latin terms at me,
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Speaker 1: for Pete's sake, say oh, he's a little too pleased
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Speaker 1: with himself. I mean, I can say that helped me out, Angela.
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Speaker 1: I mean, not very many people go to law school
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Speaker 1: and then decide that they need to go to go
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Speaker 1: to law Excuse me, not very many people go to
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Speaker 1: medical school and then decide they need to go to
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Speaker 1: law school to sue doctors. You know what, You're right,
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Speaker 1: that's the first time I thought of that, insight. So
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Speaker 1: he goes through eight years of medical school, then he decides, oh,
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Speaker 1: you know what to hblel with that I'm going to
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Speaker 1: sue all these guys I just went to college with.
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Speaker 1: Then Now, attorneys do not really like doctors. It's just
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Speaker 1: sort of typical across the board. You know, we're not
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Speaker 1: friends with each other, okay. And so it says a
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Speaker 1: lot about him that he went to medical school and
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Speaker 1: then decided and then figured out I could make a
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Speaker 1: lot more money suing these suckers than actually practicing medicine.
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Speaker 1: And I'm just going to have my wife support me
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Speaker 1: a little bit through more through that, and to me,
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Speaker 1: I'm looking at a severe narcissist here. Well, the relationship
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Speaker 1: went even more sideways. An already contentious relationship between Dan
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Speaker 1: and Betty. It takes a new twist that November because
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Speaker 1: he the husband, threatens a criminal contempt charge against wife Betty,
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Speaker 1: who continues to leave LUs just say lewed messages on
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Speaker 1: his and Linda's answering machine. Oh did I leave out
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Speaker 1: the part where they get married? Take a listen to
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Speaker 1: our friends at Oxygen. Betty started dating a younger man,
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Speaker 1: Brad Wright, and Dan married his former paralegal, Linda Culkina.
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Speaker 1: On the surface, it looked like Betty and Dan had
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Speaker 1: both found new loves and They should have both been
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Speaker 1: happy with their lives, They should have been ready to
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Speaker 1: move on, but everything comes crashing down. On the morning
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Speaker 1: of November fifth, nineteen eighty nine, we're responding to the
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Speaker 1: call on a house on Cyprus Way. The caller Brad Wright,
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Speaker 1: tells the dispatcher that the home in question belongs to
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Speaker 1: prominent attorney Dan Brodrick and his new wife, Linda, and
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Speaker 1: the couple needs help fast. Officer Dominic Valleiley is the
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Speaker 1: first to arrive. I speak to the gentleman out front
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Speaker 1: and he tells me he's been inside and he found
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Speaker 1: what he believes is two dead bodies up in the
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Speaker 1: master bedroom and they booked been shot in the bedroom.
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Speaker 1: There were two bodies, a female and a male. The
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Speaker 1: two victims at the scene were Dan and Linda Broadrick.
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Speaker 1: I checked for signs of life and their book ceased.
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Speaker 1: The female was laying face down with an obvious gunshot
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Speaker 1: boom to the back of her head. The male was
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Speaker 1: kind of half underneath the bed had a gunshot wounded
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Speaker 1: with chat. Guys, you're hearing our friends at Oxygen describing
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Speaker 1: the crime scene at the home of Dan Broderick and
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Speaker 1: his brand new wife Linda Broderick straight back out to
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Speaker 1: Ray Caputo joining us from w DBO. These two are
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Speaker 1: dead in the home. But that was the culmination of many,
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Speaker 1: many months of anger and animosity between Dan, the new
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Speaker 1: wife Linda, and the ex. Betty described to me what
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Speaker 1: happened in the preceding months. Oh, Nancy, any months, you
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Speaker 1: can even see. It starts with the phone calls, you know,
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Speaker 1: and these are really vile phone calls. She's calling Dan
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Speaker 1: every name in the book. And one of them that
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Speaker 1: really struck me was a phone call that was recorded
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Speaker 1: that came out between Betty and her eleven year old son,
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Speaker 1: where she's having this open conversation that you should not
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Speaker 1: have a little eleven year old saying all kinds of
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Speaker 1: viable things about the kid's dad. The kid's pleased with
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Speaker 1: her to stop saying bad things, and I mean, she
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Speaker 1: come down and straight up side. You know. I wish
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Speaker 1: her dad was dad. I wish Whenda that drunken drove
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Speaker 1: off a cliff. And I hold on just a moment,
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Speaker 1: the language that was used in front of their children
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Speaker 1: that they had together. Take a listen to this, and
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Speaker 1: you're only on getting anything you hear start saying bad
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Speaker 1: words I'm never has to say that word before before years. Okay,
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Speaker 1: you said it five times, but it's not gonna do
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Speaker 1: any good. To keep on saying bad words, She's gonna
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Speaker 1: make it a lot worse. Somebody called up bad head,
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Speaker 1: hurt up the phone, and he parted it was I
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Speaker 1: wont it, I don't know her. I card because you
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Speaker 1: keep on calling you bad words, and it's just gonna
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Speaker 1: make you a lot lot worse. And you won't stop
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Speaker 1: who you yet you hear your money. It's absolutely should around.
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Speaker 1: There's nothing to do anything. Being bad for two years
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Speaker 1: is enough. No one time stories with Nancy Grace Can.
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Speaker 1: You're only on getting anything. You're sa saying bad words.
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Speaker 1: I'm never going to say bad words before. I sat
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Speaker 1: for four years. Okay, you said it five times, but
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Speaker 1: it's not gonna do any good. To keep on saying
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Speaker 1: bad words. She's gonna make it a lot worse. Somebody
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Speaker 1: called up dad would say it hurt up the phone.
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Speaker 1: He started, wasn't, I wasn't. I don't know. Somebody called okay,
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Speaker 1: I called up head because he I mean on, you
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Speaker 1: keep on calling it bad words and it's just gonna
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Speaker 1: make you live love verse any who you. Yeah, you
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Speaker 1: hear it's around. There's nothing doing being mad for two
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Speaker 1: years and enough of the one Oh gosh, doctor Angela
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Speaker 1: Arnold psychiatrists joining me out of Atlanta. You hear the
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Speaker 1: little boy begging with the mom and as you hear
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Speaker 1: how many bleeps we had to bleep with the curse
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Speaker 1: words that she was calling her husband and he may
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Speaker 1: well deserve them for all I know. But this is
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Speaker 1: a little boy. He sounds like between age five and nine,
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Speaker 1: begging with the mom. And did you hear what he says? Mommy,
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Speaker 1: you won't stop until you get your share of the money.
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Speaker 1: Don't you think being mad for two years is enough?
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Speaker 1: So those children were exposed to an awful lot and
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Speaker 1: all of this weren't there. But you know, Nancy, it's
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Speaker 1: been my experience that they are one. You can go
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Speaker 1: one or two ways in a marriage like this. You
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Speaker 1: can fight like Betty Broderick good, or you can become
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Speaker 1: very complacent and silent as the wife and accept all
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Speaker 1: of this that has heaped on you until you know,
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Speaker 1: until the next step happens, which is typically the man
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Speaker 1: leaving you. She she was in a very bad position.
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Speaker 1: I am not going to say that she did anything. Right.
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Speaker 1: Of course, it's not right to say these things about
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Speaker 1: in front of children, but it does show the level
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Speaker 1: of chaos and the level of and and what a
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Speaker 1: horrific place this marriage had come to, doesn't it well?
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Speaker 1: To me? It seems like there should be some sort
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Speaker 1: of no matter how much anim there is between you
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Speaker 1: and your husband, to have your son beg you to
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Speaker 1: stop acting so angry and using bad language about the death.
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Speaker 1: Of course, it also sounds like the dad has fed
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Speaker 1: the little boy because you know, thoughts, because the boy
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Speaker 1: is saying, you're just doing this because you're not getting
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Speaker 1: your share of the money. Now where did he get that?
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Speaker 1: He had to get that from the dad, right, So
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Speaker 1: the children are used to being used as pawns by
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Speaker 1: both of the parents, and what does that do to
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Speaker 1: a child? They'll never be right, will they? Those poor children?
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Speaker 1: How you just to be able to depend on your
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Speaker 1: parents first and foremost on your family, and then on
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Speaker 1: your parents to give you a sense of safety in life,
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Speaker 1: and that safety helps you develop your self esteem and
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Speaker 1: who you become. So this has been totally ripped out
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Speaker 1: from one of these children's feat when you when you
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Speaker 1: grow up in that and you're exposed to that as
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Speaker 1: a child. What does it do to you the child?
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Speaker 1: As you grow up and you start having relationships, maybe
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Speaker 1: your marriage, Well they never have Those children never have
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Speaker 1: a sense of a sense of calm, or a sense
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Speaker 1: of completeness or or what. People are not going to
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Speaker 1: be able to lean on them. They don't feel a
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Speaker 1: sense of security. Their sense of security has been robbed.
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Speaker 1: I mean, isn't it true, doctor Angela, that when you
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Speaker 1: grow up you seek out the same environment that you
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Speaker 1: had growing up when you're an adult, that's what you're
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Speaker 1: looking for, whether you realize it or not, that's exactly right,
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Speaker 1: because it's because it's so internalized. It's internalized from from
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Speaker 1: the time you're very young. So what else can you
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Speaker 1: look for? You think that's what a family that, that's
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Speaker 1: what the family structures made up, don't you if that's
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Speaker 1: all you've ever seen. Well, this little boy whose voice
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Speaker 1: you just heard in audio recordings begging mommy not to
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Speaker 1: be so angry, well he was right. Take a listen
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Speaker 1: to our France at Oxygen snapped. Based on the position
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Speaker 1: of the bodies, authorities tried to piece together what happened.
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Speaker 1: The first shots were fired as the police understand it
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Speaker 1: into Linda Broderick. He was clear that Dan obviously heard
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Speaker 1: the shots, so he started rolling off the bed. Dan
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Speaker 1: was shot through the lump through the back. There were
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Speaker 1: two bullets in Linda. There's one bullet in Dan. There's
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Speaker 1: one bullet in the wall behind them, there's one bullet
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Speaker 1: in the nights and next to them. It's a total
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Speaker 1: of five shots. And since no shell casings have been
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Speaker 1: left behind, investigators believe the murder weapon was likely a revolver.
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Speaker 1: The caliber weapon used to murder Dan window was a
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Speaker 1: thirty eight tower. Aside from the two bodies, authorities find
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Speaker 1: only one other disturbance in the bedroom. We found some
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Speaker 1: ripped wires from the wall colorphone line, and I walked
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Speaker 1: in the hallway and there was the telephone that looked
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Speaker 1: like it had been taken from the nightstand and out
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Speaker 1: of Dan Roddick's reach. This person ripped the phone out
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Speaker 1: of the wall, took it out into the hallway and
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Speaker 1: dropped it. That would have obviously prevented him from calling
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Speaker 1: for help. So what we see is not only what
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Speaker 1: appears to be a rage shooting, but a certain amount
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Speaker 1: of planning. Because the phone is ripped out of the wall,
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Speaker 1: so the murder victims can't possibly call for help. Crime
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Speaker 1: Stories with Nancy Grace, we are talking about a marriage
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Speaker 1: that blows up into double murder. Take a listen to
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Speaker 1: our friends at Oxygen. Everything comes crashing down on the
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Speaker 1: morning of November fifth, nineteen eighty nine, when Dan and
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Speaker 1: Linda are found shot to death in the bedroom of
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Speaker 1: their Hillcrest mansion. Linda was shot in the chest and
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Speaker 1: in the back of the head. There's no question the
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Speaker 1: head wounds are instant. You get shot in the head,
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Speaker 1: you're pretty much gone. The same can't be said for Dan,
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Speaker 1: who suffered a single gunshot wound to his chest. He
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Speaker 1: noticed there was whitecroth coming out of the wound, and
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Speaker 1: if you get shot in the lung, you don't die
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Speaker 1: right away. Basically, you believed to death and the blocks
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Speaker 1: your heir. He was alive. The medical examiner estimating their
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Speaker 1: own twenty minutes. You are hearing about the shooting deaths
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Speaker 1: of Dan Broderick and his new wife, Linda Broderick. The
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Speaker 1: way that they were shot in bed, lying there most
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Speaker 1: likely asleep, that the new wife was shot first, that
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Speaker 1: there were multiple gunshot rooms, gunshot all around the room,
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Speaker 1: and that the phone had been ripped out of the wall.
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Speaker 1: To Jeff Cortesi, former special agent with the FBI, what
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Speaker 1: does that tell you about the mindset of the killer?
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Speaker 1: There was a lot of passion, is what that would
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Speaker 1: tell me. You know, five shots fired, three if the
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Speaker 1: targets intended targets to missed, relatively close proximity, um, you know,
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Speaker 1: would suggest a certain amount of passion behind those those firings.
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Speaker 1: I mean, there probably wasn't a lot of movement. It was,
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Speaker 1: like I said, close proximity shooting the wife first. You know,
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Speaker 1: all all point to a pretty impassioned effort. Guys, take
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Speaker 1: a listen to this. No matter what else she wants
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Speaker 1: to say to you now about what happened in that
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Speaker 1: room that morning and what and why her reactions were
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Speaker 1: what they were, the cold hard facts of what actually
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Speaker 1: happened in the room are indisputable. There is no getting
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Speaker 1: around them. And there is no getting around the fact
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Speaker 1: that that first shot into Linda was right through her
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Speaker 1: chest as she lay flat on her back in her bed.
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Speaker 1: If she had time to react at all to the
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Speaker 1: defendant being in there pointing a gun at her, She's
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Speaker 1: sure as heck didn't have much. She was still lying
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Speaker 1: there in the bed. She didn't have time to sit up,
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Speaker 1: she didn't have time to dive off the bed. She
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Speaker 1: didn't have time to do anything to protect herself. That
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Speaker 1: gun was pointed at her heart, the trigger was pulled
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Speaker 1: when it was pointed at her heart, and she could
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Speaker 1: do nothing to protect her life. There is no getting
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Speaker 1: around the fact that the defendant had to then change
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Speaker 1: her aim, to change her direction of pointing that gun
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Speaker 1: in order to shoot Dan Broderick in the back. Veteran
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Speaker 1: defense attorney at attorney with Butler Snow representing multiple municipalities,
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Speaker 1: Jim Elliott, Do you hear what the lawyer is maneuvering
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Speaker 1: right there? The time it took between the shootings for
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Speaker 1: her to change positions and then shoot her husband, that
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Speaker 1: goes to premeditation. That she had time to put the
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Speaker 1: gun down, call it all off, and leave, but she didn't.
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Speaker 1: That's right, I mean, that's that's what the that's what
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Speaker 1: the focus was on was the degree of murder. This
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Speaker 1: would be construed as by the jury by the court
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Speaker 1: premeditation or intention being would take it to the first
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Speaker 1: degree and is understand California law, second degree murderer indicates
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Speaker 1: no premeditation or intentional That so, premeditation under the law
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Speaker 1: can be formed in the twinkling of an eye. It
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Speaker 1: can be formed in an instant. The time it takes
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Speaker 1: you to pull a gun up and pull the trigger.
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Speaker 1: That's how quickly premeditation can be formed. And you hear
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Speaker 1: the lawyer describing how Betty Broderick shoots the New Life
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Speaker 1: as she's asleep in bed, then pivots, moves positions and
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Speaker 1: goes after her husband. Under the law, that is time
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Speaker 1: for premeditation to form. Premeditation equals murder. One listen to this.
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Speaker 1: And she tried the front door, but it wouldn't work,
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Speaker 1: so she went around to the back door with the key.
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Speaker 1: Did she tell you whether or not the key worked
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Speaker 1: in the back door? Yes, she said that it worked.
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Speaker 1: She went into the house and up the stairs and
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Speaker 1: around the TV room. Now that would bring her into
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Speaker 1: the back entrance way into your dad's bedroom. Is that correcting? Yes?
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Speaker 1: And did she tell you what she did in excellent
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Speaker 1: She said she shot the gun one time, but it
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Speaker 1: fired five or six times. She told me that she
31:48
Speaker 1: didn't know what had happened because the drapes were drawn
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Speaker 1: and was completely dark. I was asking her if she
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Speaker 1: had heard anyone, if there's any screens or blood or
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Speaker 1: anything like that, and she told me that she didn't
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Speaker 1: think that she had hurt my dad because he had
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Speaker 1: sat up and said, um, all right, you shot me undead?
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Speaker 1: Okay obviously to you Ray Kaputo, a lead anchor to
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Speaker 1: w DBO. She has now gone to her daughter and
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Speaker 1: told the daughter that she shot her husband, and I
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Speaker 1: think she left him alive, of course, pulling out the
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Speaker 1: phone so he couldn't call for help. But why would
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Speaker 1: you go to your daughter in detail the murderer of
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Speaker 1: the stepmother and the husband? Why? I mean, did I
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Speaker 1: get that correct? Isn't that the daughter speaking? Yeah, Nancy,
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Speaker 1: this is a pattern of behavior with Betty, that she
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Speaker 1: is interjecting her child, her children, into the middle of
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Speaker 1: adult problem. So we talked about the phone with the son.
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Speaker 1: This is par for the course for Betty to see
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Speaker 1: things like this to her kids. And I think I
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Speaker 1: think she might be hoping is that she is communicating
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Speaker 1: through the children back to the husband. But clearly it's
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Speaker 1: not working well and it's franchise with the kids. Guys,
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Speaker 1: I want you to take a listen. Is this a surprise?
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Speaker 1: Did we not see this coming? Take a listen to
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Speaker 1: San Diego News eight reporter and Maryanne Kushi. Another emotional
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Speaker 1: day of testimony from the eldest of the four Brodrick children.
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Speaker 1: Twenty year old Kim tells our mother harbored intense anger
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Speaker 1: toward her father for years, even before the couple was divorced.
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Speaker 1: Kim testified, our mother Betty once grabbed Daniel Brodrick's clothes
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Speaker 1: from the closet and threw them out to burn the garage,
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Speaker 1: and he grabbed Kim. Gasolene imported all over all, and
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Speaker 1: it was a huge pile of things. And I was
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Speaker 1: underwhear stipend other tours of the balcony as well. And
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Speaker 1: then she lived with Gasolene. And then she got by
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Speaker 1: Paine imported over others. But the accounts of rage and
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Speaker 1: fury didn't stop there. Kim said. Her mother once mere
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Speaker 1: cake on her father's bed and scrawled obscenities with lipstick
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Speaker 1: on the mirror in his house. At another time, when
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Speaker 1: Betty drove into the front of his Marston Hills home,
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Speaker 1: the car came through the house, not through the house.
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Speaker 1: It hit the door and it sounded like a chainsaw,
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Speaker 1: and I ran out the back door. When you look
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Speaker 1: at their history, burning Dan brought her his clothing in
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Speaker 1: the front yard, scrawling curse words in the mirror of
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Speaker 1: his new home, crashing her car through the couple's home.
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Speaker 1: I mean, Jim Elliott. I'm surprised she wasn't put in
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Speaker 1: jail for that, driving your car through the couple's home.
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Speaker 1: But she wasn't. She was out able to murder her
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Speaker 1: ex husband and his new wife as they lay in
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Speaker 1: bed asleep. Any of warning signs, he certainly would have
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Speaker 1: thought like some intervention at some point by law enforcement,
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Speaker 1: Robot whomever else would have perhaps not lead to the escalation.
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Speaker 1: Ah Man, guys, take a listen now to what happened
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Speaker 1: in court. With the jury and the above and title costs,
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Speaker 1: Find a defendant Elizabeth N. Broderick guilty of the crime
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Speaker 1: of murder violation of Pino Code Section one eighty seven
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Speaker 1: parent a a felony as charge account one of the
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Speaker 1: information and fix the degree thereof as murder in the
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Speaker 1: second degree victim Daniel Broderick, With a jury and above
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Speaker 1: and title costs, Find a defendant Elizabeth M. Brodrick guilty
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Speaker 1: of the crime of murder and violation Apino Code Section
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Speaker 1: one eighty seven parent a a felony as charged, account
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Speaker 1: to the information and fix the degree thereof as murder
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Speaker 1: in the second degree. Victim Linda Broderick Jay Computo, Lead
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Speaker 1: news anchor Wdbo. Where is Betty Broderick today, Nancy, She's
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Speaker 1: in prison where a lot of people think she belonged.
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Speaker 1: She was up for a parole hearing about thirty years
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Speaker 1: ago in twenty seventeen, and you did get Spending all
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Speaker 1: that time in jail would have caused Betty to be
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Speaker 1: a little bit more repentant. But in her hearing, it
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Speaker 1: was a lot of the same old stuff that we
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Speaker 1: were hearing. Her claiming she was a victim and that
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Speaker 1: she killed Dan in self defense after years of abuse.
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Speaker 1: But her own kids didn't even agree with her. And
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Speaker 1: her own kids, two of her four children testified against
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Speaker 1: her and parold her, saying that she needs to stay
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Speaker 1: in jail for the rest of her life. Betty Broderick
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Speaker 1: coming back up for parole. Hopefully she'll stay behind bars.
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Speaker 1: Nancy Grace Crime Story signing off, goodbye friend.