"Before her rise to infamy in the late 1980s, Broderick appeared to be living the suburban dream. Married to prominent medical malpractice attorney Daniel Broderick, she maintained a position of influence and popularity in the ritzy La Jolla community where the couple raised their four children. But their apparent domestic paradise was thrown into disarray when Betty began to suspect her husband was having an affair with his younger office assistant, Linda Kolkena."
"The couple divorced in 1985 after 16 years of marriage. The already acrimonious relationship continued to sour amid a protracted and bitter legal battle, and as Dan started dating Kolkena, before eventually proposing to her. Betty repeatedly left lewd messages on the newlywed couple's answering machine, to the point that Dan threatened to file criminal contempt charges, The Times reported at the time."
Elisabeth “Betty” Broderick, a La Jolla socialite, died in a hospital from natural causes at 3:40 a.m. Friday at age 78. She had been transferred to an external medical facility on April 18 from the California Institution for Women. Broderick was convicted for killing her ex-husband, Daniel Broderick, and his new wife, Linda Kolkena, in the early hours of Nov. 5, 1989. After a divorce in 1985 and a bitter legal dispute, she suspected an affair and later left lewd messages for the couple. She turned herself in the same day and remained incarcerated afterward.
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