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One of the most sensational moments in Betty Broderick's second trial was right out of a courtroom TV drama.

As Betty's attorney Jack Early was asking Betty about her kids' welfare,

there was this bombshell, so matter of factly that it took Betty and everyone else a moment to process it.

Quote, in Mr. Broderick's comments, did he ever mention that he had talked to somebody about having you killed

and how much it would cost and how he could be protected? Did he ever bring that up to you?

Betty started to tear up, no she said no, obviously not.

Early had witnesses ready to testify about this and he found them chiefly because of the power of television.

The second trial was televised, the first had not been.

One witness was a cab driver whose daughter had been a client of Dan's.

He said he and Dan had discussed getting a hitman to kill Betty.

The second was a Northern California woman who saw the trial on TV and recognized Betty.

And the third was that woman's former fiance, Charles Smith, once a cop and by then a deputy district attorney in San Mateo County.

The woman and Smith told early's team they were at Harris Casino in Lake Tahoe in 1983.

Smith says he went into the bar to wait for her and to this day he's haunted by what happened next and what he would learn happened a few years later.

At the bar he and the man on his right started talking. Smith couldn't help but notice the man wore an impeccable and expensive suit, a shirt with French cuffs, not a hair out of place.

He said he was an attorney and he asked what I did and I said I was going into law school.

We just started just basic chat chatting and he asked me if I was married and I said no.

And he said no and we kind of laughed that was kind of the normal bar chatter.

And at that point he looked at me and he said I think I'm going to drive my wife crazy.

And there was no laughter, there was no joke, there was nothing there.

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