SAN DIEGO — Betty Broderick, the former La Jolla socialite who killed her ex-husband and new wife in 1989, has died, News 8 confirms. She was 78.
Broderick was serving out her life sentence for second-degree murder since 1992. She was currently incarcerated in the California Institution for Women in Corona.
A spokesperson with the California Department for Corrections and Rehabilitation confirms she died of natural causes at 3:40 a.m. Friday. The San Bernardino County Coroner will determine the official cause of death.
Who was Betty Broderick?
It began with an affair followed by a bitter divorce and ended in a brutal murder. More than 35 years ago Betty Broderick, a San Diego socialite, brutally gunned down her ex-husband and his new wife as they slept in bed at their home on Cypress Avenue near Balboa Park…