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Betty Broderick, Convicted Double Murderer, Dies at 78

The official cause now rests with the county coroner following a preliminary finding of natural causes.

Overview

  • California prison officials said Friday she was pronounced dead after an April transfer to an outside medical facility.
  • A physician at the facility cited natural causes, while the San Bernardino County Coroner will issue the final determination.
  • At the time of her death, she was serving a 32-year-to-life sentence and had been denied parole three times, with the next review set for 2032.
  • In 1989, she used a key taken from her daughter to enter Dan and Linda Broderick’s home and fatally shot them seven months after they married.
  • Her case drew decades of media attention and dramatization, including a season of Netflix’s Dirty John, leaving a cultural imprint that outlasted the court battles.