in you to shoot your mom and dad. young rich handsome in a case made for hollywood they were ready for the camera it was the first televised courtroom drama that captivated the united states it was a huge deal erik and lyle menendez convicted of murdering their own parents. i ran around and shot my mom! it wasn t real. it just wasn t real. they re sociopaths and pretty big ones. now almost 30 years late chilling new details. evidence never broadcast before! a letter, hinting at secrets too dark to imagine. this is so outside of the norm something is going on i that house did they kill in cold blood or in crippling fear oh man it was gut-wrenching i wanted to bust the door down they spoke the truth abou what had happened. tonight, hear from the brother themselves people were afraid of him let s go through this bit b bit. there was no way he was gonna let this secret get out. silence destroyed our whole family here it was the shinin s
erik, however, was home and this time he was willing t talk erik was emotionall appropriate. he he would cry at times. and he was telling reall lovely stories about how wonderful his parents were just an incredible man. and uh, people were afraid o him. people were afraid of hi because they would walk in the room and know that this man wa more powerful. this man was more intelligen erik said his father wanted to get into politics. he was going to becom senator of florida, and then h was gonna spend his life makin cuba a territory of the united states now, with his father s death, erik said he and his brother wanted to fulfill his father s dream. i wanna become senator of florida and my my brother wants to become president of the united states. then the mood shifted and erik described what he saw whe he walked into the family de on august 20th they weren t real