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
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
The rest of the night watching basketball game before the became focused on each other excuse me if this is to much information but we had se for a while and i went t sleep. a little later, she tol detectives she was woken up by the son of eric talking to someone else had the bedroom through cracking the door. katrina thought she could make out of face and the man looked familiar she believed the got to b the drug dealer. the same guy she met earlier? yes this was only hours befor erik was murdered in his bed detective reuven now had a major suspect. we concentrated on this dru dealer this would prove to be critical moment in the case, but not for the reasons yo think. coming up, did police strik gold in the drug dealers apartment? the same gun that kille eric
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