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.
camera to protect us from the types of tissue falling down. when they picked up jose s body and brain fell out of his head it was a scene you don t want to see very often. it was 11:45, 12:00 at night, and the phone woke us up. erik was screaming on the phone. my father s dead, my father s dead. the house was cordoned off already with that yellow tape. there were a number of police cars. they blocked off the traffic. no traffic. lyle was on the sidewalk talking to one or two either policemen or detectives. the police show up at the scene and there are these two distraught sons. these two boys. and they ve just found their parents murdered. lyle and erik menendez, the brothers, they had a good
introducing myplan. the first and only unlimited plan to give you exactly what you want, so you only pay for what you need. and get iphone 14 pro on us when you switch. it s your verizon. reporter: it happened at this mansion in the heart of beverly hills. at approximately 11:47 p.m. last night, we received a call on our 911 emergency line it happened at this mansion in the heart of beverly hills. at approximately 11:47 last night, we received the call on our 911 emergency line from the residence stating that there had been a shooting here. on the night jose and kitty were killed, erik and lyle menendez made this 911 call. what s the problem? what s the problem? somebody killed my parents. i have an hysterical person. who was the person who was