Betty Broderick, Infamous Double Murderer of Her Millionaire Attorney Husband and Much Younger Wife, Dead at 78

[Sugar Cookie]

Betty Broderick, widely known for murdering her husband and his new wife in 1989, has died while serving a life sentence. She was 78.

Broderick, whose real name is Elizabeth A. Broderick, died on Friday, May 8, at 3:00 a.m. local time, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) said in a statement shared with PEOPLE.

Three weeks before her death, Broderick was moved from the California Institution for Women to an outside medical center "for a higher level of care," the CDCR said. The details of her health condition are unclear.

A medical doctor determined that her initial cause of death was natural. The San Bernardino County Coroner will officially rule on her cause of death at a later time, per the CDCR.

Broderick gained national notoriety after killing her husband, Dan Broderick, and his new wife, Linda Kolkena, on Nov. 5, 1989.

Betty and Dan wed in 1969 and shared four children. In the early 1980s, Dan began an affair with Kolkena, a former flight attendant whom he had hired to work as his legal assistant amid marital woes with Betty. Though he denied the affair following Betty's suspicions, Dan eventually left Betty and filed for divorce in 1985, and the two battled over the sale of their family home and custody of their four children. Dan had been granted custody, and Betty was given visitation rights. Their court dispute often included their children, which drove Betty into a depression.

Dan and Kolkena married in 1989. Later that year, Betty shot and killed the couple in their bed.

Broderick's first trial ended in a mistrial. Betty was officially convicted of two counts of second-degree murder and sentenced to two consecutive terms of 15 years to life plus two years for illegal use of a firearm in 1991.

Though she was eligible for parole, she was denied several times.

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I loved Meredith in these movies abut Betty

 

[cubby]

I remember when this hit the news. Betty was definitely a flaming bitch on wheels, the type to kill instead of let go of what she considered her property. Dan is not totally innocent in this but he didn't deserve death. Betty should have cared more for her children and kept her murderous side under control. Nothing excuses what she did before and after what she did to Dan. She turned into a side show, every day she was in the news for acting like the murderous bitch she was.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

I remember when this hit the news. Betty was definitely a flaming bitch on wheels, the type to kill instead of let go of what she considered her property. Dan is not totally innocent in this but he didn't deserve death. Betty should have cared more for her children and kept her murderous side under control. Nothing excuses what she did before and after what she did to Dan. She turned into a side show, every day she was in the news for acting like the murderous bitch she was.

Agree...

She should have ran his pockets or asked for him to pay for her schooling.

She was a very intelligent woman who could have become a lawyer herself.

Reportedly Dan and Linda were not very nice and would taunt her.... he knew how to push Betty's Buttons and he pushed them a little to fat.

Side chicks should realize that a man with a crazy wife makes him not worth it.

Betty was the original "fuck around and find out," Say what you want about her she stood on business and never showed true remorse for what she did.

She could have been let out if she showed genuine remorse for killing Dan and Linda.
The only real victims were the children of Dan and Betty.