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Killer Psyche

Betty Broderick

Killer Psyche

Audible | Treefort Media

Exhibit C, True Crime

4.64.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Former FBI agent and criminal profiler Candice DeLong focuses on Betty Broderick, who, after having one of the most infamous divorces in United States history, proceeded to kill her ex-husband and his new wife. Betty’s absolute certainty that she did the right thing, and her complete lack of remorse, are some of the clues that help Candice unravel Betty’s psyche.


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0:00.0

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0:07.8

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0:14.8

Please be advised.

0:24.7

When I was growing up, my family ate dinner together almost every night.

0:30.1

I loved it.

0:31.8

There were eight people at the table.

0:33.5

Mom, dad, my three brothers, myself, and two grandparents.

0:38.7

While we were eating, there was always a topic of conversation.

0:42.4

Might be religion, might be politics, but a frequent topic was what were we going to be

0:47.7

when we grew up?

0:49.3

And where were we going to go to college?

0:52.3

My brothers would always say, well, I want to be a scientist or a doctor or a lawyer or

0:58.4

an FBI agent.

1:00.0

A lot of those things appealed to me too, but I had the feeling those things weren't

1:04.7

really open to me.

1:07.6

For my generation, going to college for a woman was to get your MRS degree, meaning Mrs.

1:15.7

a Mrs. to a Mr.

1:18.4

job after graduation was to become a wife, a housekeeper, and a mother, not a scientist

1:25.7

or a CEO or especially an FBI agent, because women were not even allowed to be agents back

1:33.4

then.

1:36.2

So when Betty Brodrick was all over the news for killing her ex-husband and his new wife,

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