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Camping here for 18 days. for people like her, basics have become luxury. you cannot afford to live here. food prices are increasing day by day and shortage of fuel, gas and all other essential goods and also medicine, so it is very difficult to live. i personally stopped buying fresh milk because i cant afford it anymore. a classic case of a country living beyond its means. now colombo is running from pillar to post for loans. a rude awakening for sri lankans. protesters chant i have been comin...

And also medicine, so it is very difficult to live. i personally stopped buying fresh milk because i cant afford it anymore. a classic case of a country living beyond its means. now colombo is running from pillar to post for loans. a rude awakening for sri lankans. protesters chant i have been coming to sri lanka for the past 25 years and these protests are quite extraordinary. ethnic fault lines, they run very deep here in sri lanka, but the cost of living crisis has brought the three major com...

Basics have become luxury. you cannot afford to live here. food prices are increasing day by day and shortage of fuel, gas and all other essential goods and also medicine, so it is very difficult to live. i personally stopped buying fresh milk because i cant afford it any more. a classic case of a country living beyond its means. now colombo is running from pillar to post for loans. a rude awakening for sri lankans. protesters chant. i have been coming to sri lanka for the past 25 years, and the...

Firing. >> in what direction? >> in front of me. >> what was in front of you? >> my parents. >> at some point was your gun empty? >> yes. could see somebody moving, seemed like moving in the direction of where my brother should be. >> reporter: lyle said he returned to the car, re-loaded, and ran back into the house. >> and what did you do after you re-loaded? >> i ran around and shot my mom. >> reporter: so did they act while in the mistaken belief they were defending their own lives? yes, said...

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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 couldnt 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 f...

>> oh, so theyd argue a lot? >> oh, yeah. a lot. and i think a lot of it was about the kids. >> what was your impression of them? >> they were kinda quiet. they werent that friendly, but it seemed like they were a bit troubled. and you know, i know they were afraid of him. >> afraid of their father, jose. >> i saw him just stare them down a couple of times -- >> but after jose was murdered, lyle and erik seemed to be afraid of noel bloom. they told police they thought bloom may have killed their...

Decision turned a local l.a. story into an international sensation. how big was it? the menendez trial was the case that put an entire network, court tv, on the broadcast landscape. >> reporter: prosecutor pam bozanich knew all of america was watching her every move. >> how did you feel as you prepared to make your opening statement? >> as i walked down the hallway, all the cameras were there. and, you know, i just threw up. cause i thought, "oh, god. you know, this is really stressful." so -- >...

>> reporter: but before that second trial could begin -- oj happened. and suddenly the stakes were even bigger. >> when o.j. went home, we were nationally considered to be losers. >> reporter: the second menendez trial began just eight days after ojs acquittal -- with judge weisberg presiding again. the same judge -- the same case, but this time the trial was fundamentally different. >> the first major ruling judge weisberg made was, "no tv camera in the courtroom." >> reporter: this time, one j...

>> as the months rolled by, i got more and more pieces of information. and it got worse and worse and worse as to what was going on in his family. until finally the dam broke. >> reporter: erik and lyles cousin alan andersen had lived with the menendez family, and knew the public didnt understand. >> they just knew that, "okay, we got these rich kids, boom, shot their parents. now theyre -- think theyre multimillionaires," well, thats not the case. >> reporter: alan had begun thinking back to so...