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
erik said that they sho their parents. and dr. oziel immediately says, w need to call your brother an have him come over here righ 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 zoelle she heard lyle confront hi brother. and she heard him say, why did you tell him we re gonna have to kill him now. seriously yes and erik said, i can t kill anymore. and he burst in tears and left well, lyle and dr. oziel, more or less, followe him. and lyle got to the elevator and dr oziel said, am i in danger? and lyle said, that s all i can tell you is have a goo life, dr oziel.
days after the murders, lookin for jose s safety deposit box, trying to find the family will did that surprise you, tha they would do it so soon oh, definitely. so why would the brothers worry about the will zoeller learned that jose ha threatened to disinherit them. lyle had been caught cheatin at princeton erik had fought with his fathe over tennis. but there was a bigger issue too. well, in the first hous they took the whole safe the second house, they got int the safe lyle and erik had burglarized the homes of their friends wealthy parents. one of the burglaries was in the exclusive community of hidden hills had you ever heard of such a thing before no. it was just because we coul do it. look what we can do. at the time, jose hired a prominent criminal attorney wh arranged for the younger brother, erik, to take the fall because he was a minor, knowing that erik probably
if it s your cousin that you grew up with, of course, you would. you re pretty sure that the were doing that? i m positive. one reason why? a relative came do me and said that she felt that th defense was made up. that she d confronted lyle about it and he said to her that s th way it s going to be so, we had to ask did the brothers ask you to li for them no. did they ask you to, sort of, like shade things or tel certain stories and not othe stories or anything like that? huh-uh. huh-uh huh-uh the defense contended the abuse was real went on for years. and finally. they came to believe that something terrible was about t break loose. specifically, that thei parents were going to kill the if they didn t kill thei parents, first mental health experts testifie and said that wa understandable erik and lyle menende