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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 wasnt real. it just wasnt real. >> theyre sociopaths -- and pretty big ones. >> now -- almost 30 years late -- chilling new details. evidence never broadcast bef...

it just wasnt real. >> theyre sociopaths -- and pretty big ones. >> now -- almost 30 years later -- 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 in 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 about what had happened. tonight, hear from the brothers themselves. >> p...

Dialed 911. >> someone killed my parents! >> the news spread quickly. >> i got a phone call from my brother. and i remember putting the phone down on the table. and walking around the house screaming. >> reporter robert rands phone also rang. it was a friend who had attended the las vegas trade show with him 10 days earlier. >> the friend had said, "hey, you remember that guy, jose menendez? you know, that you met briefly last week? " and i said, "sure." and he said, "well, he and his wife were ...

Interview erik and lyle." >> reporter: as he would find, getting to the brothers was not so easy. but then, theyd just lost their parents. >> lyle and erik menendez were the grieving sons. >> reporter: alan abrahamson is a journalism professor at usc. back in 1989, he was a reporter for the la times. >> nobody quite knew who had -- who had killed the parents. was it because of joses position in business? had he been taken out by the mob? >> reporter: after all, both jose and kitty had been shot ...