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
it just wasn t real. they re sociopaths and pretty big ones. now almost 30 years later 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 in 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 about what had happened. tonight, hear from the brothers themselves. people were afraid of him. let s go through this bit by bit. there was no way he was gonna let this secret get out. silence destroyed our whole family. here it was the shining symbol of their success. here, finally, an address worthy of their long struggle their amazing rise. beverly hills, california. beverly hills emergency. careful what you wish for. someone killed my parents! 28 years later it s still the case that has the power to shock. it s beverly hills. it s the movie bus
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they wanted to see a james bon movie. but it was sold out. so they saw the batman movie which they had both seen before so they decided to see tha again. curious after the movie, they tol detectives, they d planned t meet a friend for a drink at the cheesecake factory, bu they had to go back to the house to pick up erik s fake i.d. and when they walked in, the said, they saw a haze in the air, smelled gun powder smoke, went into the den, and the dialed 911 someone killed my parents the news spread quickly i got a phone call from m brother. and i remember putting the phone down on the table. and walking around the house screaming. reporter robert rand s phon also rang. it was a friend who ha attended the las vegas trade show with him 10 days earlier. the friend had said, hey you remember that guy, jos menendez you know, that you met briefly last week? and i said, sure. and he said, well, he and his
wife were blown away last nigh in beverly hills. now that, thought rand, was a story tailor made for th miami community he was writing for. a rags to riches story, capped by murder. he worked the phones and soo met up with jose s sister wh told him you know, the family was so close. they were loving they did everything together she said, you have to interview erik and lyle. and i said, of course i wanna interview erik and lyle. as he would find, getting t the brothers was not so easy but then, they d just lost their parents. lyle and erik menendez were the grieving sons. alan abrahamson is journalism professor at usc. back in 1989, he was a reporte for the la times nobody quite knew who had - who had killed the parents was it because of jose s position in business had he been taken out by the mob? after all, both jose an kitty had been shot in the knees. a mafia signature, perhaps