Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story

July 8, 2020July 7, 2020

Malaga Cove Plaza from “Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story”

They say the ocean is good for the soul. So I was thrilled to head out to Palos Verdes Estates last week on a gorgeous Southern California morning to do some stalking. It is the second season of Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story that led me out that way. Not only is the supposed La Jolla Shores house Betty (Amanda Peet) moved to post-separation from her philandering husband, Dan (Christian Slater), located in the beach city, but so is Malaga Cove Plaza, where Betty Christmas shopped with her friend Karen Kintner (Missi Pyle) in the episode titled “More to It Than Fun.” I first stalked the Italianate complex years ago after it appeared in a Season 2 episode of The O.C and have been back numerous times since. So I recognized it on sight when it popped up on Dirty John. Strolling through the sprawling marketplace on my recent visit, with striking blue skies overhead, salt from the nearby ocean crisp in the air, and the warm sun beaming down on my face, was indeed good for my soul! There’s a reason Malaga Cove has long been one of my favorite places to spend a breezy afternoon.

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Malaga Cove Plaza saw its beginnings in 1924 with the construction of the Gardner Building. The Spanish Renaissance-style structure, designed by Webber, Staunton and Spaulding, sits at the complex’s western edge and is pictured at the far right of the photos above and below. Palos Verdes’ first commercial building, it initially housed the local post office, as well as a few other businesses. You can see what it looked like in its early days here.

Six additional buildings, each designed by a different architect, were added to the complex in the decades that followed. Malaga Cove Plaza, as it stands today, was completed in 1963. Considering that seven different individuals had a hand in its design, the center is surprisingly cohesive and beautiful.

Declared a historic site by the Rancho de Los Palos Verdes Historical Society in 1981, the marketplace is easily one of Southern California’s most picturesque shopping centers.

Featuring exquisite brickwork,

sweeping archways,

countless adorable decorative elements,

well-placed greenery,

a plethora of tucked-away spots to sit and relax,

a smattering of charming shops and restaurants,

and a gorgeous mountain backdrop,

Malaga Cove Plaza is an idyllic venue to shop, dine and wander.

And at the center of it all is a towering fountain representing Neptune, Roman god of the sea.

The Carrara marble effigy, inspired by the Fountain of Neptune in Bologna’s Piazza del Nettuno, was constructed in the 1700s and initially stood at a villa in Venice, Italy. It was acquired by a Los Angeles gallery in the 1920s and then later by Malaga Cove Plaza developers, who dedicated it on February 16th, 1930. Sadly, Neptune soon became a favorite of vandals who broke, trashed and desecrated the piece to the point that it was removed in 1968. A smaller replica stood sentry in the years that followed, until 1999 when the original sculpture was returned to its post after an extensive $103,000 repair project spearheaded by the Malaga Cove Plaza Beautification Project.

The group gave the complex itself a facelift around the same time, performing much-needed repairs, planting new foliage, and generally upgrading the sexagenarian site.

Today, Malaga Cove Plaza is a gorgeous marketplace bustling with cute shops, restaurants and cafés.

It is there that Betty and Karen do some window shopping on Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story.

While wandering the plaza in “There’s More to It Than Fun,” Betty informs Karen of how much her marriage with Dan is improving. But throughout the segment, the scenery intermittently shifts to Dan’s office, where he is simultaneously meeting with a divorce lawyer, discussing how to stiff Betty financially. The bit brilliantly showcases the lengths which Dan went to mislead Betty during his affair.

In the scene’s opening, the ladies are shown walking in front of Malaga Cove Ranch Market. They then proceed to make their way east along the plaza.

It’s not hard to see how Malaga Cove Plaza came to be used on the San Diego-set series as it looks very much like the shops in downtown La Jolla.

The complex boasts a couple of other onscreen appearances on its filming resume.

A group of young skateboarders washes their faces in the plaza’s fountain in the 1965 Academy Award-nominated short Skaterdater.

And, as I mentioned above, it also pops up in an episode of The O.C. In Season 2’s “The New Era,” Malaga Cove Plaza portrays the Newport Beach bus stop where Ryan Atwood (Benjamin McKenzie) and Lindsay Gardner (Shannon Lucio) finally admit that they like each other.

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Stalk It: Malaga Cove Plaza, from the “More to It Than Fun” episode of Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story, is located at the intersection of Palos Verdes Drive West and Via Chico in Palos Verdes Estates.

July 6, 2020July 7, 2020

Betty’s La Jolla Shores House from “Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story”

Dirty John producers traveled far and wide across Los Angeles to shoot the second season of the true crime anthology series, which chronicles the 1989 double murder of prominent San Diego lawyer Dan Broderick (Christian Slater) and his new wife, Linda Kolkena (Rachel Keller), at the hands of his ex, Betty Broderick (Amanda Peet). The scenes involving Dan and Betty’s longtime family home were shot deep in the Valley in Chatsworth, the restaurant the couple regularly dined at during happier times is in Studio City, and Betty rammed her car into Dan’s post-divorce pad in Toluca Lake. But most of the action takes place at Betty’s supposed La Jolla Shores residence, where she grows more and more unglued following the separation. The sprawling seaside property is perhaps the show’s most prominent locale, popping up in the opening scene of the first episode and going on to appear in pretty much every episode that follows. So I, of course, was hot to track it down. Try as I might, though, I could just not find the place – until I enlisted the help of my friend/fellow stalker Owen, that is, who IDed it in no time!

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From what was shown onscreen, we knew the dilapidated ranch-style abode was situated on a corner lot across from a bluff overlooking the ocean. Since no discernible street signs or address numbers were visible in the background, Owen simply began scouring the Los Angeles coastline from the north to the south via Google aerial views and, voila, quickly pinpointed Betty’s home at 1400 Paseo Del Mar in Palos Verdes Estates. I ran out to socially-distant stalk it shortly thereafter on a gorgeous Southern California day. Those skies, amirite!

In real life, the 1966 property boasts 3 bedrooms, 4 baths, 3,962 square feet, 2 fireplaces, a massive 0.48-acre lot, a wraparound driveway, a pool, and a large front yard.

Oh, and views for days!

The Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story production team roughed the place up a bit for the shoot by dotting the front railings with rust stains and covering the roofline with chipped, peeling paint to make it appear to be in the same disrepair as Betty’s actual former La Jolla Shores home. The exterior was also painted a muted blue and the front door swapped out to give the property a more dated look.

In real life, the residence has a much cleaner and more contemporary aesthetic.

The set dressing coupled with the fact that the house was mainly shot from the driveway, a vantage point that is blocked from the street by large hedges, equals a very different-looking house in person. So much so that, when I first pulled up, I wasn’t entirely sure I was in the right place.

One glimpse of the side of the property, though, with the front stairway, large pane windows and ocean visible across the street, and it became instantly recognizable.

Dan put a $140,000 down payment on the house for Betty following their separation in mid-1985. (Though, as stated in Bella Stumbo’s 1993 book, Until the Twelfth of Never, “He would, of course, collect it back in full nearly four years later from her share of the community property in the divorce settlement.”) Per a San Diego Reader article, the place was in “poor repair” at the time. In fact, Betty, sure Dan was going to re-think the separation, considered the property a tear-down and had plans to raze it in order to build a dream house for the two of them. Dan had other ideas, instead buying a Colonial pad in Hillcrest and moving his mistress right in. Eventually Betty began fixing up the La Jolla Shores residence on her own, adding a pool, a Jacuzzi, a pool house, a new kitchen and bathroom, and gorgeous landscaping that she honed herself. By 1988, though, she was in seriously dire financial straits – whether through fault of her own or Dan’s depends on whose account of the divorce proceedings you believe – and could no longer afford the $4,000-a-month payment on the place or the cost of the many repairs it required. (Per the Reader, she spent $11,000 on home improvements in the first 5 months of 1988 alone!) She finally put the pad on the market in September 1989 and began moving into a small 2-bedroom condo at 3133 Morning Way, which cost her $200,000. Though she was splitting her time between the house and condo in November 1989, it was from the La Jolla Shores residence that she departed the morning of the murders.

Betty’s actual La Jolla Shores house, located at 8320 Calle Del Cielo, no longer stands. It was torn down in 2014 to make way for a newer modern manse. Thankfully, if you toggle Google Street View back to 2007 and 2008, imagery of Betty’s residence is still visible. As you can see below, it looks nothing like the pad chosen for Dirty John.

In fact, it is the only location on the series so far that does not closely resemble the site of the actual events. I’m guessing that is due to the tear-down. Either producers did not know what the residence looked like . . .

. . . or they figured that since it was gone audiences would have nothing to compare it to, so they had a clean slate to work with.

Interestingly, Betty’s TV home looks a lot like a neighboring house on Calle Del Cielo – the one at 8333 (pictured in the top image below) – leading me to wonder if the production team drove around Betty’s old neighborhood, saw the residence and its large second-floor balcony, exterior staircase, big pane windows and ranch-style elements, and became inspired to find a similar property for the shoot. That’s a completely unsubstantiated hunch, though.

As mentioned earlier, the Palos Verdes house pops up regularly on Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story. Besides the front of the residence, Betty is also shown eating with friends on the balcony overlooking the ocean in the episodes titled “No Fault” and “The Twelfth of Never.”

The interior of Betty’s home is just a set, though – one with a very run-down ‘80s feel.

I am sure the interior of the actual Palos Verdes property is much more swanky and updated, though I could find no photographs with which to verify that.

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Stalk It: Betty’s house from Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story is located at 1400 Paseo Del Mar in Palos Verdes Estates. Betty’s real former home was located at 8320 Calle Del Cielo in La Jolla Shores, but it was torn down and a new dwelling now stands in its place.

June 26, 2020June 25, 2020

Bistro Garden from “Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story”

The ‘80s were, without a doubt, garish, splashy, and over-the-top. But the second season of the true crime anthology series Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story, which covers the 1989 murders of Dan Broderick (Christian Slater) and his mistress-turned-wife, Linda Kolkena (Rachel Keller), at the hands of his first wife, Betty (Amanda Peet), sure makes the era look good! I am obsessed with Betty’s clothes – her oxford shirts, navy flats, ever-present gold chain, and, of course, that headscarf from episode 3’s beach scene! The locations are pretty chic, as well, none more so than the swanky restaurant Dan and Betty dine at in “Marriage Encounter,” which I recognized on sight as Bistro Garden. One of Studio City’s most oft-filmed spots, I stalked and blogged about the eatery way back in 2010 (hence the dated photo above), but figured it was time for a re-do.

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Bistro Garden was founded by Carolyn Pappas, daughter of famed restauranteur Kurt Niklas, and her husband, Gregory, in 1990. The establishment was an offshoot of Niklas’ two popular Beverly Hills eateries – The Bistro in Beverly Hills, which opened in 1963 at 246 North Canon Drive, and The Bistro Garden, which opened in 1979 just up the road at 176 North Canon. To distinguish the Studio City site from its similarly-named BH counterparts, it was originally given the name “The Bistro Garden at Coldwater.”

The stunning space, inspired by European winter gardens (aka large glass conservatories built to house tropical plants year-round), features two airy dining rooms, a handsome wood-paneled bar, thirty-foot ceilings, skylights, latticework, French doors, and trees strung with twinkle lights. It is easily one of Los Angeles’ most gorgeous restaurants.

Considering that little of the interior has been changed since its opening thirty years ago, the eatery’s use in Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story must have been a no-brainer!

In “Marriage Encounter,” Bistro Garden poses as the fancy La Jolla restaurant Dan and Betty begin frequenting after Dan finally lands a high-paying job at a law firm. It actually pops up three times in the episode, first in the scene in which Betty embarrasses Dan by mentioning to a friend they run into that they used to be on food stamps.

The couple dines there again later in the episode and Dan complains about having already grown bored with the place.

And finally, it is at Bistro Garden that Betty, after showing off her new Oscar de la Renta dress to friends at the bar, overhears Dan describing Linda to a co-worker as “just so beautiful.”

Dirty John is hardly Bistro Garden’s first onscreen foray.

Jerry (Cary Elwes) proposes to Audrey (Maura Tierney) there in the 1997 comedy Liar Liar.

That same year, Cooper Hargrove (Christopher Orr) presented Valerie Malone (Tiffani Thiessen) with a diamond necklace at Bistro Garden in the Season 8 episode of Beverly Hills, 90210 titled “Toil and Trouble.”

The restaurant masks as New York’s Plaza Hotel, where Lexi Sterling (Jamie Luner) meets with three ex-fiancés of Ryan McBride (John Newton) in the Season 7 episode of Melrose Place titled “How Amanda Got Her Groove Back,” which aired in 1999.

Andy (Steve Carell) and his pals attend a speed-dating event there in the 2005 comedy The 40-Year-Old Virgin.

Bistro Garden portrays the country club where Gabrielle Solis (Eva Longoria) catches a news report that leads her to believe her husband, Carlos (Ricardo Chavira), has been killed in the Season 2 episode of Desperate Housewives titled “Remember: Part 1,” which aired in 2006.

Gabrielle returns to the restaurant the following year in Season 3’s “Not While I’m Around” in order to meet her secret admirer, who turns out to be Zach Young (Cody Kasch).

In the Season 6 episode of The Office titled “Double Date,” which aired in 2009, Michael Scott (Steve Carell) takes his new girlfriend Helene Beesly (Linda Purl) to Bistro Garden to celebrate her birthday and then promptly dumps her upon learning her age.

Julia Fitzpatrick (Jennifer Garner) poses as a waitress there to get back at her boyfriend, Dr. Harrison Copeland (Patrick Dempsey), whom she has just discovered is married, in the 2010 romantic comedy Valentine’s Day.

And in the Season 1 episode of Why Women Kill titled “Positively Lethal in Every Way,” which aired in 2019, Simone Grove (Lucy Liu) celebrates her daughter’s engagement at Bistro Garden.

While IMDB claims that the second episode of the 1985 miniseries Hollywood Wives was lensed at the Studio City Bistro Garden, being that the restaurant did not open until 1990, we know that is not true. Filming actually took place at the Beverly Hills Bistro Garden. In fact, the BH outpost inspired Jackie Collins to write the novel on which the drama was based! Of the restaurant, which shuttered in 1996, Jackie is quoted as saying, “There’s a story at every table. It’s almost like Le Cirque in New York: a place to see and be seen, to get dressed up before you go, to wave across the room at your friends when you arrive.”

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Stalk It: Bistro Garden, from the “Marriage Encounter” episode of Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story, is located at 12950 Ventura Boulevard in Studio City. You can visit the restaurant’s official website here.

June 17, 2020June 17, 2020

Dan’s House from “Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story”

The first season of the true crime anthology series Dirty John had the feel of a really cheesy Lifetime movie. I couldn’t even get through one episode! Season 2, though, titled Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story, which covers the 1989 murders of prominent San Diego attorney Dan Broderick (Christian Slater) and his mistress-turned-wife, Linda Kolkena (Rachel Keller), at the hands of his first wife, Betty (Amanda Peet), is absolutely scintillating! It doesn’t hurt that I’ve long been obsessed with the case and have read countless books and articles on the subject. I’ve, of course, been obsessively seeking out locations from the show, including the home where Dan and Betty lived during their marriage, which I blogged about here. Also on my list was the stately residence Dan bought post-separation, which Betty rammed her car into in episode one. Thankfully, it was a snap to find!

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It became obvious while watching Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story’s premiere episode, titled “No Fault,” that Dan’s house was situated on a corner.

One look at its handsome detailing . . .

. . . and sleepy, leafy surroundings, and I figured it was most likely located in Toluca Lake.

So I started searching aerial views of the area for large brick homes on a corner lot and came across the right pad at 10355 Woodbridge Street.

I headed out to see it in person shortly thereafter.

In real life, the Colonial-style home, which was built in 1967, boasts 4 bedrooms, 4 baths, 2,973 square feet, a formal entry, multiple fireplaces including one in the master suite, a 0.28-acre lot, a pool, and a built-in BBQ.

You can check out some interior photos of it here.

The property is eerily reminiscent of Dan’s actual former home, which is located at 1041 Cypress Avenue in San Diego’s Hillcrest neighborhood. One of my dearest friends, Kylee, happens to live nearby, so I enlisted her to stalk the residence for me. That’s it in the top photo below as compared to its television counterpart just beneath it.

The TV home is a virtual carbon copy of the real thing, right down to its white columns, dark shutters, front door framing, circular driveway, brick fence pillars, and large trees.

Once again, the Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story location managers absolutely nailed it!

Dan purchased the idyllic pad in late 1985 shortly after leaving Betty. It was not long before Linda moved in with him. They eventually married in the home’s front yard on April 22, 1989. You can see a photo of them standing by the front door on their wedding day here.

None of that has played out yet on Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story. So far we’ve only seen the house once, in “No Fault.” In the episode, Betty drives to Dan’s new residence to confront him about their La Jolla home, which he has just sold out from under her.

She gets so angry over the property’s sale that she winds up hopping into her car, kicking it into gear and ramming it straight into Dan’s front door. As she later explains to friends in the episode, “God, I loved that house. I loved it so much that when I found out it was gone I crashed my car into Dan’s new one!” Of the incident, Betty told the San Diego Reader in 1989, “I’d do it again, only I’d do it better. I was mad! He had just stolen everything from me. Up until that point, he had stolen my furniture and my kids and my dogs and my jewelry and my clothes, but I still knew I owned half that [La Jolla] house. My name was on that house, and I didn’t really understand how it could be taken from me.” Dan had her committed to the San Diego County Mental Health Hospital for three days following the attack.

When Dan’s actual former home was up for sale in 2014, a friend of the then owner spoke to ABC News and showed off the exact spot Betty damaged in the crash. The discolored brick where the façade had to be replaced is clearly apparent in the segment, which you can watch here.

You can also see remnants of the repair in the image below, which was featured in this video tour of the property.

Though Dan’s home has only so far appeared in “No Fault,” considering it is where the murders took place, it will definitely pop up in upcoming episodes.

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Stalk It: Dan’s house from Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story is located at 10355 Woodbridge Street in Toluca Lake. His real life former residence can be found at 1041 Cypress Avenue in San Diego’s Hillcrest neighborhood.

June 5, 2020June 26, 2020

Dan and Betty’s House from “Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story”

No true crime case has fascinated me quite as deeply as the murder of prominent La Jolla attorney Dan Broderick and his wife/former mistress, Linda Kolkena. The intrigue is odd considering we know who the killer is (Dan’s first wife, Betty, confessed immediately following the slayings), we know the why (she could not get over the affair, the divorce settlement or the fact that Dan had moved on), and we know the how (on numerous occasions Betty has detailed sneaking into Dan and Linda’s Hillcrest home on November 5th, 1989 and shooting the couple dead). There’s really no mystery here. Yet, I.am.engrossed. So is much of the world. There have been myriad books and articles written on the subject, television interviews broadcast (including several with Betty conducted from prison), and a two-part made-for-TV movie starring Meredith Baxter that aired in 1992. But the public can’t seem to get enough. So it is no surprise that the USA Network decided to dedicate the second season of its Dirty John series to the case, with Amanda Peet and Christian Slater at the helm. Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story hit the small screen this past Tuesday. My interest was piqued long before that, though. In fact, I started tracking down the show’s locations as soon as the first trailer was released! The spot that most interested me, of course, was the home where Dan and Betty lived before their relationship went bad, which turned out to be a snap to find.

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In the first Sneak Peek of the series, which was released in early May, a young Dan and Betty are shown removing a “For Sale” sign from the yard of their new house. An address number of “19854” was clearly visible on the front of the property in the scene and, thanks to its early-80s tract look, I figured it could most likely be found in the San Fernando Valley. So, armed with that information, I headed over to Google and fairly quickly IDed the place as 19854 Dina Place in Chatsworth.

I ran out to stalk it – from an appropriate social distance, of course – shortly thereafter. I call the picture below “Stalking in the time of the Coronavirus.” Winking smile

Betty Broderick’s story is a tale as old as time. Wife works to put husband through school (in Dan’s case, medical and law school) while managing the household and caring for the children. Husband finally starts making money, opens up own practice, buys a house, and a new sports car. Not long after, husband begins affair with young secretary (in Dan’s case, his 21-year-old legal assistant, whom he hired even though she couldn’t type). Husband leaves wife for secretary, files for divorce, and things get ugly. Extremely ugly. At the center of Dan and Betty’s divorce proceedings was their longtime family home, which they both referred to as the “Coral Reef house.”

The actual Coral Reef house (pictured in the top Google Street View image below) is located at 5555 Coral Reef Avenue in La Jolla. Dan and Betty purchased the 5-bedroom, 3-bath, 3,000-square-foot pad, which you can see interior photos of here, in 1976 after their rental in nearby Clairemont was damaged in a fire. Per a 1989 San Diego Reader article, Dan was just on the cusp of hitting it big financially. Author Jeannette DeWyze states, “Betty said they moved there with virtually no furniture, and even after her third child, a son, was born in 1976, she continued to work nights as a cashier and hostess at the Black Angus restaurant in Kearny Mesa. According to her, the family only became ‘solvent’ around 1979. ‘I can remember because we built a swimming pool in the back yard. And that’s a luxury, right? We financed it onto the house, so it wasn’t like we paid cash for it or anything, but we were able to increase the house payment a little. So, in my mind, that’s when he had some money.'” When a cracked slab was discovered at the property in the fall of 1984, the family moved out and into a rental nearby so that repairs could be performed. Dan left Betty the following spring, moving back in Coral Reef alone for a time and then into a handsome dwelling in San Diego’s Hillcrest neighborhood. On February 4th, 1986, he sold their longtime home out from under Betty via a legal loophole (granted she had been trying to stall and hamper the process for months), and when she found out, she was so furious she proceeded to drive a car into his Hillcrest residence! Like I said, things got extremely ugly. As you can see below, Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story location managers really strove to find a house for the series that closely resembled the real thing, which I couldn’t appreciate more.

The peaked red-tile roof, three-car garage, double front doors, stepped front walkway, and Spanish style of Dan and Betty’s actual former home are all a direct match to those of its TV counterpart, as you can see in the MLS photo of Coral Reef as compared to the image of the house used on the series below!

Not only that, but the TV pad still has a very ‘80s feel, despite being 2020, so producers must have been elated to find it!

In real life, the 1976 home boasts 4 bedrooms, 5 baths, 3,989 square feet, a 0.41-acre lot, a pool, a jacuzzi, and a tennis court.

I had to laugh at the Ferrari parked out front being that Dan bought the same kind of sports car shortly before leaving Betty – both on the series and in real life. His was red, but still. Life imitating art imitating life, I guess.

The property’s backyard is also being featured on the series.

The inside of Dan and Betty’s residence was, I believe, just a set – one closely based upon that of 19854 Dina Place. And though I could not find interior photos of the home with which to verify that hunch . . .

. . . an Instagram follower named mz._royale informed me that the very same property appeared in another true crime anthology series based in San Diego! In 2018, it popped up as the supposed Rancho Bernardo home where Andrew Cunanan (Darren Criss) grew up in the “Creator/Destroyer” episode of The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story.

I was thrilled to discover while watching that the home’s actual interior also appeared in the episode!

Though it is similar in layout and design to the inside of Dan and Betty’s house, as you can see above and below, the two are not one and the same, making me all the more certain that filming of Dirty John took place on a set.

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Stalk It: Dan and Betty Broderick’s house from Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story is located at 19854 Dina Place in Chatsworth. The couple’s real-life former residence can be found at 5555 Coral Reef Avenue in La Jolla.