Grimly

In part two of the Betty Broderick case, we see events and the consequences of the divorce war as it reaches its breaking point.

After years of bitter court battles, custody fights, restraining orders, obscene voicemails, and escalating rage, Betty Broderick walks into the San Diego home of her ex-husband, Dan Broderick, and his new wife, Linda Kolkena Broderick. By morning, both Dan and Linda are dead.

But the question that consumed the courtroom, the media, and the public was never whether Betty pulled the trigger, she admitted that she did. The question was, what was Betty's state of mind to bring her to that point, and were Dan's actions what pushed her over the edge? This question still leaves people debating today, where does heartbreak, grief and rage negate personal responsibility. 

efore Betty Broderick became one of the most polarizing women in true crime, she was a young Catholic wife, a mother of four, and the woman who helped support Dan Broderick through medical school, law school, and the building of a wildly successful career. From the outside, the Brodericks had everything: money, status, a beautiful family, and the kind of San Diego life people dream about. But behind the country club image, their marriage was slowly cracking under resentment, ambition, betrayal, and control. In part one of the Betty Broderick story, we’re looking at the life Betty and Dan built together, the start of the affair with Linda Kolkena, and the marriage that turned into a battlefield, and the beginning years of anger and humiliation that pushed this family toward disaster.

On a quiet summer morning in July 2007, Barbara Bolick set out on a familiar trail in the Bitterroot Mountains of Montana with a friend. It was a place she knew well, a short, easy hike with nothing unusual about it. But in the span of just a few moments, Barbara disappeared no sound, no struggle, no trace left behind.

Despite extensive searches, helicopters, and tracking dogs, there has never been a single piece of evidence explaining what happened that day at Bear Creek Overlook. How does someone vanish so completely, in broad daylight, on a trail they’ve walked before?

Listen as we recount the day in question, talk about the main characters in this story and theories of what happened. 

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In this weeks special episode, we’re stepping inside Overbrook Asylum with Brandon O. from Terrorific. Overbrook was a place that once held thousands and left behind countless unanswered questions about the care that was supposed to happen but instead was met with tragedies that we will never hear. From its overcrowded past to the chilling events of 1917 and the ghost stories that followed, this is the story of a hospital that may have closed its doors… but never fully let go of its history.

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In our final episode of this series. We cover the final years of the group that would come to be known as The Heavens Gate Cult. We cover additional member recruitment after the death of Bonnie Nettles. Along with the shift in ideology that eventually leads to the groups final major act in 1997 after the arrival of the Hale-Bopp comet. But with the conclusion of Heavens Gate we still wondering, where does free will end and coercion begin and when does influence negate personal responsibility. 

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In part two of our three part series of the infamous Heaven's Gate cult, we dive deeper into the psychology of the coercion and control that became more and more apparent under Bonnie Nettles and Marshall Applewhite's leadership. We also talk about how the group changed from their original doctrine and beliefs to one that has the catastrophic end in 1997. 

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Before the mass suicide that shocked the world, there was a story of two people, a growing following, and a belief system that promised something beyond Earth.
This week, we dive into Part 1 of the Heaven’s Gate story breaking down the early lives of Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles, how they met, what their teachings were and how their teachings began to pull people in to the cult that would later be known as Heaven's Gate.