craig melvin: he looked like he was sleeping, except for the bullet hole. he was in bed. his head was on a pillow. his entire upper body was tucked in. craig melvin: the first guess was suicide, but there was no gun on the scene. hard to have a gun suicide with no gun. that s correct. craig melvin: and this was a man who had everything to live for. eric loved life. craig melvin: he loved his family and women, too, many women. did one of them love him too much? no shortage of lovers to question. craig melvin: no sign of a break-in either. someone either had to have a key or have been let in by eric. craig melvin: so it must have been somebody he trusted or maybe someone who didn t trust him. inside the safe was a .380 handgun. josh mankiewicz: that s the same kind of gun that killed eric. the same kind of gun. craig melvin: everybody loved him. so who killed him? we knew in our hearts that this murder was going to be solved. we believed that justice was going to be served f
were ready for the cameras. it was the first televiseda courtroom drama that captivated the united states. it was a huge deal. spoke erik and lyle menendez convicted of murdering their own parents. i shut my mom. it wasn t real. it just wasn t real. they are sociopaths. and big ones. chilling details. a letter ending in secrets, too dark to imagine. this is so out of the norm. did they kill in cold blood? or in crippling fear? it was gut wrenching. they spoke the truth about what happened. here from the brothers themselves. let s go through this bit by bit. there was no way he was going to let this secret get out. silence destroyed our s whole family. . symbol of their success. here ait was, the shining symbol of their success. here finally an address for the of their long struggle, their amazing rise, beverly hills, california. careful what you wish for. all these years later, it s still the case that has the power to shock. it s beverly hills, th
Spotted his drive and business savvy at an early age. suzy somuah: and he started a lawn cutting business in our neighborhood. early age the neighborhood kids, they were he would pay them, what, $2. a born capitalist he would tell me, susie, i going to be really rich on day. he wanted to go all the way to the top. from the day he was born, eric was a charm or and hi sisters and big brother michae always adored him. he was a wonderful joy to our family, and two are sister and i. eric was the baby of th family, we all enjoyed him because he was very vibrant. it was just the three of us and then he came along he was sort of our little doll then, erik grew up an became a living doll, to the
Over to erik s and he was like, what are you talking about? he was so adamant about no even knowing where eric lives. i m a we dealer, a motto delivery men, i don t deliver, people come to me. detective reuven wasn t about to take a drug dealer at his word we got a search warrant for his place and we recovered a safe from his apartment, and inside a safe was a three 80 handgun. and it s like, did he lie, tha the murder weapon. it s the same kind of gun it s the same kind of gun the gun was sent to the firearms lab as reuven check t see if he could prove that william would fork wasn ericsson part mint would force dna an fingerprints were not on the door or anywhere else. you look at a security tape was he on their anywhere then, the test came back on the dealers three 80 it was not the gun that killed eric, it was the same