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
investigation and possibly chill witness cooperation. jessica schneider is here with the breaking details. what has the judge agreed to release? reporter: the judge has already made one crucial decision here. he says that he will unseal some relatively minor filings from the doj and this was something that the doj had said would be fine in their court filing, so the things that will be unsealed. it includes the department s motion to seal the warrant documents, also the court s order granting that motion to seal, and the criminal cover sheets here from the warrant application. the search warrant affidavit. so, those are relatively procedural, general information documents that will be unsealed. crucially, though, any information in those three documents that contain information about doj personnel, like names and contact information, that will all be redacted. so likely, what we re going to see later this afternoon won t contain anything substantive. it will just reveal som
part of that sort of devil s pact and you didn t. you know and my my brother, just, yo know, you let your childre wake up in the home of a child molester, every day? lyle testified in the trial that, not only did his mothe cover for her husband s actions, she, also, sexually abused him more than a quarter centur after the murders, those feelings of anger and hurt wer still close to the surface my mother was very cruel. i she just, very much resented my brother and i, fro early, early on. as if you and erik had come between her and your father? yes, exactly. we reminded him of what his prosecutors still say abou him. that lyle is still trying t avoid some level o responsibility by blaming abuse, when the abuse doesn t appea to have been so bad, as to -
he would make mysogenistic comments in the office, he would call some women ugly, some women fat in the office as his female colleagues. when she made these allegations, the office opened an investigation, but she pointed them to two former aides that she said could corroborate some of her claims, especially the ones about inappropriate comments. and the office never reached out to them. now, we did do that work, and eventually we provided that reporting to gillibrand s office. they opened another investigation and they fired him last week. they fired him. so one of the things i thought was interesting, in the statement that was sent to you, it said that they talked to current employees, and then it said given that there wasn t a need so they found something inappropriate, but it didn t, in their view, reach the level o sexual harassment. it was inappropriate behavior. they said they didn t think they needed to talk to former employees because they had