the pain becomes a part of you everybody, to my house, now. his entire family, gone. i said what are you talkin about, what do you saying? and i really hear it was surreal his fellow cops suspected him. i did not do this, i did not d this she was upset she felt like history wa repeating itself he wants to have women an his wife was in his way. we are police wrong it s like the twilight zone lies become truth and the trut becomes lies maybe the real killer was still out there. you have lied to the police about this case? yes, sir. so devastating. we probably knew that thi was the key to solving this. 13 years, 13 years such an awful crime. the wife the little boy and girl. shot at point blank range. i was just dumbfounded, shocked at what i saw. how to comprehend what do you talking about what do you saying? the husband had an alibi. for ten minutes. he could have done anything he did 13 years, three trials, repeals, reversals and changin st
the clock was hatched, this dreadful plot. and it s like a movie script it s family rivalries an betrayal and murder. it was so horrific. what were the last hours o earth like for her it looks here on this storied family estate, a mystery tangled as that was th treat for the sky. i think she s dead. it eats at me, i can t slee most of the time a crime like a stor everyone could see it coming everyone in the town ha their suspicions she was missing, th matriarch with a group on he powerful families fortune, tha someone have a powerful motive to do her harm i saw bruises on bonnie s arms, like somebody had grabbe her. she tried to kill me. who was behind this a search in the dark it s all right a secret in the family, and the jailhouse interview to mak your jaw drop. you said you wished you are dead, and then later she becam that this is a twisted tale deep in the heart of texas. people who are desperat will do desperate things
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
and the main one is that h gets somebody else to do wha he wants done and he does it through influence. i will simply say that that is a devastating bit o evidence yes, because that makes m think, well, they got to tha guy just hypothetically speaking, let s say the case i purely circumstantial, and i looks kind of that, and then there is proof in front of the jury, this is by the way, he did it before that makes all the other evidence see much more important. if you are a prosecutor - that s great stuff. that is the end of this stor whether it should be or should not. it took the jury only one hour to reach a guilty verdict bruce harkey was steve day lif sentence as did karl pressley. lilian king was sentenced to 4 years for her role in th murders. i m not a violent person. i m not. and i loved miss harkey like she was my own grandmother and yet - i know.
husband. that was one of the first times that i heard him cry remember kim s old friend, marcy? the prosecutor had her testify about an affair david had when kim was pregnant in 1994 she was called in tears to say that she and david wer separated. soon after, marcy visited kim. she was upset you know, and saddened by it especially just having a baby. there was more. just three weeks before th murders, marcy had another troubling phone call from kim. her demeanor was different, her attitude was different, sh didn t want to hang up the phone but yet she didn t wan to talk. the old friends made plan for came in the children t visit marcy. then kim said something sh never explained. she felt like history was repeating itself we didn t go into what tha