showed adults engaging in sex acts in front of children. and we saw a few seconds of it, a few minutes. and we made excuses. a lot of us stood up and said, we have to leave. we couldn t stand to see it, to watch it. reporter: but jose found this engaging. oh, hysterically funny. reporter: these stories of the menendez family had been buried for years, until the sons were charged with murder. and she signed on to defend them. veteran criminal defense attorney leslie abramson, known for her brash style in the courtroom, and with the press. you want that? that s what you get today. reporter: reporter robert rand, writing a book on the menendez case, recalls the attorney s passionate devotion to her clients. i ve never seen anybody with the power of leslie abramson. watching her in court was like watching great theater. reporter: in this old interview from our archives, leslie abramson described how her defense strategy began to
a region that has been a stronghold of opposition to the military regime. in this village, 14 people were killed. we have blurred their bodies, as they are too gruesome to show. the man filming finds people he knows. at great risk, our team interviewed a number of eyewitnesses. for their safety, we are hiding their identity. their stories are all similar. translation: they split us into groups of men and women. men were tied up with - ropes and beaten up. we couldn t stand to watch it, so we kept| our heads down, crying. we begged them not to. they didn t care. they took away everything from us.
to the military regime. in the village, 1a people were killed. we have blurred their bodies, as they re too gruesome to show. the man filming finds people he knows. at great risk, our team interviewed a number of eyewitnesses. for their safety, we re hiding their identity. their stories are all similar. translation: they split us - into groups of men and women. men were tied up with ropes and beaten up. we couldn t stand to watch it, so we kept our heads down, crying. we begged them not to, they didn t care. they took away everything from us. they asked the women, is your husband among them? if he is, do your last rites.
people were killed. we have blurred their bodies, as they re too gruesome to show. they are so badly tortured they are almost unrecognisable. the man filming finds people he knows. at great risk, our team interviewed a number of eyewitnesses. for their safety, we re hiding their identity. their stories are all similar. translation: they split us - into groups of men and women. men were tied up with ropes and beaten up. we couldn t stand to watch it, so we kept our heads down, crying. we begged them not to, they didn t care. they took away everything from us. they asked the women, is your husband among them? if he is, do your last rites.
the man filming finds people he knows. at great risk, our team interviewed a number of eyewitnesses. for their safety, we re hiding their identity. their stories are all similar. translation: they split us - into groups of men and women. men were tied up with ropes and beaten up. we couldn t stand to watch it, so we kept our heads down, crying. we begged them not to, they didn t care. they took away everything from us. they asked the women, is your husband among them? if he is, do your last rites. this man managed to escape. translation: 11 others were arrested with me. | they were tied up, beaten with stones and rifle butts and tortured all day.