Her story was also dramatised in the TV movie A Woman Scorned (with Meredith Baxter as Betty and Stephen Collins as Dan), and used as inspiration for an episode of the long-running drama series Law & Order.The real Betty currently resides at the California Institution For Women in Chino, California, a long way from leafy suburbs of Eastchester, New York, where she was born on November 7, 1947. She then fired five shots, killing him and his new wife Linda in their bed.The story behind what led Betty to shoot Dan and Linda is the basis of the second season of true crime drama Dirty John, with Amanda Peet delivering a powerful performance as Betty, Christian Slater starring as Dan and Rachel Keller as Dan’s second wife Linda.It’s a story that mesmerised America when Betty was on trial for the murders.

Her defence was that she had been suffered years of mental, physical and psychological abuse inflicted by Dan – indeed, in the Dirty John drama it is intimated that he gaslighted her throughout their marriage and beyond – and many women sent letters of support to Betty in prison, sharing with her their own stories of betrayal by husbands and partners.Betty became a celebrity, granting interviews from prison to newspapers, magazines and TV shows including Hard Copy and The Oprah Winfrey Show. Dirty John's 2nd season, which will air on USA, tackles the true crime case of Betty Broderick! For more information about how we hold your personal data, please see our privacy policy. The third of Marita and Frank Bisceglia’s six children, she was raised in a strict Catholic household and, as author Bella Stumbo wrote in her biography of Betty, The Twelfth Of Never, she was “programmed from birth to be a wife, not only by her parents and the girls’ schools she attended, but by her peers. Sign up to get alerts on Netflix and on demand services and receive TV and entertainment email newsletters from our award-winning editorial team.

And she locked him out constantly. Dan and Betty married on April 12, 1969, (he was 25 and she was 21) and she was already pregnant with their first child when they returned from their Caribbean honeymoon.“All I wanted to be was a mommy,” Betty said in an interview with Amy Wallace of the Los Angeles Times in 1990. Betty Broderick, whose story is being featured on Season 2 of Dirty John, is still alive in real life. ©2020 NBCUniversal, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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When Betty turned up to Dan’s office on his birthday to surprise him only to discover he and Linda had left together earlier in the day, she went home and set his prized designer suits on fire.

BETTY BRODERICK is streaming on Netflix now after the series aired on the USA Network earlier this year. In 1991, she was found guilty of the second degree murders of the couple and was sentenced to a minimum of 32 years in prison.

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Betty has been denied parole three times in the years since (the most recent hearing was in 2017), with Board of Prison Terms Commissioner Robert Doyle telling Betty during one parole hearing: “Your heart is still bitter, and you are still angry. Betty soon became convinced her husband and Linda were having an affair, but Dan denied it (according to Betty, he later confessed she had been right all along).