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 here their parents are murdered we don t have a suspect yet. it s looking like a perfec crime to me, at that point zoeller began to wonder i erik s fantasy could be playin out in reality and then craig told zoelle about his visit to the menende house after the murders. erik said, do you wann know what happened? and he described shooting the parents and then he summed it all by saying, it could happen. and craig thought about it and he says, well, is h saying that s what he thinks happened here at the house or did they actually commit th crime? strange. as was the story the brother told about discovering their parents bodies the brothers said they sa this haze in the air and som smoke that they smelled. like gunpowder smoke or - gunpowder smoke but i mean, that dissipate pretty darned quick.
well, the officers got there right after they did and they didn t smell anything the gunpowder smoke, an fantasizing about the perfec crime, and the screenplay, and even what might be called confession it all led detective zoeller t start thinking the unthinkable that the brothers had murdered their mom and dad. and he wondered, would eri tell the story of the shooting to craig again this time on tape. they decided to wire up craig and go to this restaurant but this time, erik wasn at all talkative erik didn t admit anything. but i think his conscience said, you better not talk too muc about this. not that day, anyway. and not to craig cignarelli. but erik did talk, eventually. and what he said would chang everything coming up lyle burs into the room. she heard him say why did you tell him?! the explosiv secret, hidden until now
no. they wax they looke like wax it s something that i v never seen my dad helpless you know, i think that possibl if lyle and i would ve bee home, if we would ve been able to do something about it maybe uh, maybe my dad would b alive. i definitely would give my lif for my dad s and, this was curious, erik also told rand about a screenplay he had writte called friends. that story was about a youn man who murders his parents an inherits $157 million. fancy that. erik wrote the screenplay with a close friend of his name craig cignarelli when detective zoeller interviewed craig, he learne that craig and erik ofte fantasized about committing th perfect crime. which, in their screenplay became the story of a ma killing his parents and evadin police they thought about th perfect crime.
that story was about a young man who murders his parents and inherits $157 million. fancy that. erik wrote the screenplay with a close friend of his named craig cignarelli. when detective zoeller interviewed craig, he learned that craig and erik often fantasized about committing the perfect crime. which, in their screenplay, became the story of a man killing his parents and evading police. they thought about the perfect crime. and here their parents are murdered. we don t have a suspect yet. it s looking like a perfect crime to me, at that point. zoeller began to wonder if erik s fantasy could be playing out in reality. and then craig told zoeller about his visit to the menendez house after the murders. erik said, do you wanna know what happened? and he described shooting the parents. and then he summed it all by saying, it could happen. and craig thought about it.