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>> who was the person that was shot >> my mom and my dad >> your mom and dad? >> my mom and dad. >> okay, hold on second. >> les zoeller was a detective back then. one of a grand total of tw detectives in the beverly hill police department who worked homicides. >> how many murders occurred i beverly hills in those days? >> in those days, approximatel two a year >> detective zoeller was aslee that august night when his bos called >> and he said, "come on in, we've had a murder." and i asked him for some information and he gave me the address of 722 north elm >> zoeller drove to the mansion, walked inside. >> it was eerily quiet and when i went into the den library, the first thing i noticed was jose menende seated on the couch.

(female announcer) dexcom g6 is the #1 recommended cgm system by doctors and patients. call now to get started. (bright music) >> detective les zoeller had a very disturbing suspicion. that lyle and erik menendez ha shotgunned their parents t death in the den of thei beverly hills mansion. and then one day, he just knew >> was there a particular time when you thought, "okay, yes it's them" >> well, when we got a cal from judalon smyth >> a name he'd never heard before >> what did she have to tell you? >> her whole purpose was t talk about this doctor and how he was her therapist and he was having an affai with her >> not relevant information to a homicide detective

position and power-to-be could -- could kill their parents. that's -- that's the kinda stuff that shakespeare wrote about. >> and yet, it seemed that's exactly what happened. a few weeks after the arrests, detective zoeller confirmed another tip judalon smyth gave them. >> judalon said that the guns were purchased at a gun store in san diego. i was lookin'through gun records. and i said, "this is it." >> the name on the sale was an old friend of lyle's from princeton. but the friend was not even in california when the guns were purchased. and he was missing his i.d. >> we learned later that lyle had taken the wallet. >> it seemed like overwhelming evidence that lyle and erik killed their parents. >> two rich kids from beverly hills.

oziel said after getting that call. >> well all of a sudden he's saying, you know, "i hope i'm not going to hear what i think i'm going to hear." >> smyth told zoeller that dr. oziel was worried about what might happen at the session. and so he asked her to stay in the waiting room of his office while he met with erik on october 31st, 1989. >> she also told zoeller that from the waiting room, she overheard erik tell dr. oziel the very thing investigators had suspected for months, but couldn't prove. >> erik said that they shot their parents. >> and dr. oziel immediately says, "we need to call your brother and have him come over here right away." >> lyle menendez, who had been at the elm drive home, passing out candy to trick-or-treaters, rushed over to dr. oziel's office. >> and lyle burst into the room. >> judalon smyth told zoeller she heard lyle confront his brother. >> and she heard him say, "why did you tell him?

>> 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.

mob hit. hours after the murders, detective zoeller looked at the scene, puzzled. and right around that time, lyle showed up at the house. >> he said, "we wanna get our tennis equipment." and i said, "well, where is that? " he said, "it's in the library where my parents were murdered." >> what was their demeanor? >> he was matter of fact and didn't seem very upset to me. >> then zoeller learned something very odd. lyle and erik went to the bank days after the murders, looking for jose's safety deposit box, trying to find the family will. did that surprise you, that they would do it so soon? >> oh, definitely. >> so why would the brothers worry about the will? zoeller learned that jose had threatened to disinherit them. lyle had been caught cheating at princeton. erik had fought with his father over tennis. but there was a bigger issue,