Elisabeth Broderick

Elisabeth Anne "Betty" Broderick was born on November 7, 1947 in Eastchester New York, one of six children born to Frank and Marita Bisceglia. As a college freshman in 1965, she met Daniel T. Broderick III, then a medical student at Cornell, and they married in 1969, moving from Pennsylvania to California. Betty gave birth to two boys and two girls thoughout the marriage. By this time, Dan Broderick had gone from medical to law, and was making millions of dollars a year as a medical-malpractice attorney. However, as the money poured in, the marriage was dissolving, and in 1983 Dan began seeing Linda Kolkena, who at the time was twenty-one years old. Betty reacted to this news violently, and after Dan moved out and began initiating divorce proceedings, she began vandalising his new premises, leaving foul-mouthed messages on the answering machine and generally attempted to make life difficult for both Dan and Linda. After the divorce was finalised in 1989, Dan married his former mistress