The Final Chapter for Three Infamous Women: Betty Broderick, Raynella Leath, and Claudine Longet [Current Affairs]
LOVE MURDER
Jessie Pray and Andie Cassette
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Three of our past subjects died this spring. Betty Broderick, who served 35 years for the 1989 La Jolla murders of her ex-husband Dan and his new wife Linda. Raynella Dossett Leath, the Tennessee nurse twice tried in the deaths of her district attorney husband and her second husband, and ultimately cleared. And Claudine Longet, the French-born singer whose 1976 shooting of Olympic skier Spider Sabich in Aspen ended in a thirty-day sentence served largely on weekends. We revisit how each relationship broke.
Sources:
https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/betty-broderick-dies-in-custody/
https://timesofsandiego.com/crime/2026/05/09/convicted-murderer-betty-broderick-dead-at-78/
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/raynella-leath-nurse-mom-focus-203603768.html
https://deadline.com/2026/05/claudine-longet-dead-1236904878/
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to current affairs, our show about the cases of love gone fatally wrong that are in the news right now. |
| 0:14.7 | If this is your first love murder episode, tune back in on Wednesdays for our main full-length episodes. |
| 0:19.7 | This week, three of our past |
| 0:21.9 | subjects have died. There are three women who all have something in common. We are talking about |
| 0:28.5 | Betty Broderick, Rainella Dossett Lee, and Claudine Lange. And we will be doing a little |
| 0:34.6 | retrospective on all three. Betty Broderick did everything she was raised to do. |
| 0:39.9 | Born into a strict Catholic family in Bronxville, |
| 0:42.8 | she met Dan Broderick at a Notre Dame dance at 17, |
| 0:46.1 | married him in 1969, and supported the family |
| 0:48.7 | through his Cornell medical degree and Harvard Law degree |
| 0:51.8 | by selling Tupperware and Avon. |
| 0:56.6 | They settled in La Jolla and had four children, |
| 1:02.2 | and Dan built one of the most successful medical malpractice firms in San Diego. In 1982, Dan hired a 21-year-old former Delta flight attendant named Linda Colkenna as his legal assistant. |
| 1:09.3 | Betty suspected the affair almost immediately. |
| 1:13.1 | Probably didn't help that Linda looked exactly like Betty had when she was 21. |
| 1:18.9 | Yeah, that's a huge punch in the gut. |
| 1:21.2 | Mm-hmm. |
| 1:22.0 | Dan denied it for two years, pretty much gaslit her, and then moved out. |
| 1:27.2 | By the time he filed for divorce, |
| 1:29.0 | Dan was president of the San Diego Bar Association, and Betty later said no local attorney would |
| 1:34.1 | take her case against him. The divorce stretched four years. Dan won sole custody, sold the family |
| 1:39.7 | home over Betty's objections, and Betty's behavior collapsed. Hundreds of profane voicemails, |
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