I just ran out of the room. I didnt want to go back in. Welcome to how it really happened. It was a Hot August Night in 1989 when media titan Jose Menendez and his wife kitty were gunned down in cold blood in their Beverly Hills mansion. The gruesome murder would trans fix a nation drawn to the lurid testimony from the courtroom. For the first several months, the world would be riveted by one of the most publicized who done its in history. How did it really happen . Beverly hills represents wealth. It represents exclusivity. The prettiest people, the fanciest cars. All over Beverly Hills but rarely here. In august, 20th, 1989, the quota was filled. Whats the problem . Whats the problem . Pardon me . The phone rang and it was the watch commander indicating that he needed to respond to the station. They had a double homicide. 722 north elm. The first patrol car pulls up. Erik is weeping hysterically on the front lawn. At this time we had two deceased persons inside. A male and a female.
i just ran out of the room. i didn t want to go back in. welcome to how it really happened. it was a hot august night in 1989 when media titan jose menendez and his wife kitty were gunned down in cold blood in their beverly hills mansion. the gruesome murder would trans fix a nation drawn to the lurid testimony from the courtroom. for the first several months, the world would be riveted by one of the most publicized who done it s in history. how did it really happen? beverly hills represents wealth. it represents exclusivity. the prettiest people, the fanciest cars. all over beverly hills but rarely here. in august, 20th, 1989, the quota was filled. what s the problem? what s the problem? pardon me? the phone rang and it was the watch commander indicating that he needed to respond to the station. they had a double homicide. 722 north elm. the first patrol car pulls up. erik is weeping hysterically on the front lawn. at this time we had two deceased persons i
to treat her like a doormat. i think the father treated her with no respect and therefore her sons treated her with no respect. jose did to his associates praise his sons, filled with admiration. at the same time, it was filled with expectation. the first thing were the indoctrination of the sons by their father who would sit them down in a chair in the basement for hours at a time. especially lyle. apparently, he would almost put his forehead against his forehead and like, to try to put into him his winner take all philosophy. the menendez family was like a royal family. that we were better than other people. that we were athletically gifted. we were smarter. i think the most dangerous thing he did was to teach them the lesson that if you want
up on the strange response and reaction from the boys. there was just something about them that did not sit right with me. especially when needed to take an inked set of finger prints from lyle menendez, and i asked him, can we go into the house? would that be all right? as soon as we were in the foyer, and he said, is that where it happened? and i looked at him like, you re the one who discovered this. not me. he looked like he just blew it. he wanted to know if we had leads and were solving the crime. he was overdramatic, actually. and that s when we were starting to, we had our eyebrows up about him. behind the scenes, the police were quietly finding clues that they did not share. there was quite a bit of evidence. computers that were in the home.
wealthy beverly hills parents. both brothers were calling me occasionally from jail. they said, wait until the trial. you ll find out what was really happening in the menendez family. he just said that it was our secret, that bad things would happen to me if i told anybody. after 2 years of high-stakes preliminary hearings, the judge finally allowed erik and lyle s sensational audiotape confessions to be played at trial. based on that key piece of evidence alone, it looked like it would be an open-and-shut case for the prosecution, but just before the trial was set to begin in july 1993, more than 3 years after the murders, the defense team introduced a shocking new strategy, which would soon shake the state s case to the core. the trial that transfixed the nation in part two of the menendez brothers: how it really happened.