Introducing "It Was Simple: The Betty Broderick Murders"

It Was Simple: The Betty Broderick Murders

Los Angeles Times

Dirty John, Los Angeles Times, History, Murder, Patt Morrison, Marriage, La Times, Usa, Betty Broderick, Tv & Film, Divorce, True Crime

3.9 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2020

⏱️ 3 minutes

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It Was Simple: The Betty Broderick Murders premieres on May 26th.

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0:00.0	It was all supposed to be so perfect, but then again, aren't all marriages at the start.
0:13.4	I was happy to find and be married.
0:16.0	I wanted to be married very much all my life and I was looking forward to cooking and
0:21.2	fixing up the house and cleaning and having children.
0:28.2	Eddie Brotteric grew up an Italian-American Catholic girl from the suburbs of New York City,
0:33.7	brought up on prosperity and proper manners.
0:44.2	When we met, we were very happy together.
0:47.4	I thought we did have a perfect marriage.
0:58.4	Until one day, in 1989, when it all came crashing down in venom and violence.
1:05.4	Brotteric broke into her ex-husband's house in Hillcrest and shot him along with his new wife while they were sleeping.
1:12.6	Long call and said that she was in trouble.
1:15.6	Now she needed my help and she said that she had shot my father.
1:19.9	The one's traditional housewife, Betty Brotteric, now a murderer and a furiously unrepentant one at that.
1:27.0	I did bring the gun as a way to make Dan and Linda listen to me.
1:34.6	I'm Pat Morrison, host of a new podcast called It Was Simple, The Betty Brotteric Murders.
1:40.8	Join me on the dive into why this decades-old case still gets to us today.
1:46.8	After 30 years, five bullets, two coffins and one California prison inmate.
1:52.6	Why can't we look away from Betty Brotteric?
1:56.2	I remember being in the classroom when President Kennedy was shot.
2:00.4	I remember being in the shower when the planes hit the towers on 9-11.
2:06.2	The third thing I remember and will remember till the day I die is hearing that Betty shot Dan.
2:15.8	From the Los Angeles Times, this is It Was Simple, The Betty Brotteric Murders.
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