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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...

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were ready for the cameras. it was the first televiseda courtroom drama that captivated the united states. it was a huge deal. spoke erik and lyle menendez convicted of murdering their own parents. >> i shut my mom. >> it wasnt real. it just wasnt real. >> they are sociopaths. and big ones. >> chilling details. a letter ending in secrets, too dark to imagine. >> this is so out of the norm. >> did they kill in cold blood? or in crippling fear? >> it was gut wrenching. >> they spoke th...

Lyle and erik to come back for follow up therapy sessions. the brothers, afraid oziel might go to police, agreed. during one of those sessions, they both confessed to killing their parents. and oziel recorded the conversation. judalon smyth learned about the recording and told detectives, who promptly seized the tape. just one problem, they werent allowed to listen to it because of doctor/patient privilege. >> how frustrating was that? >> well, it was very frustrating. yeah, a good piece of evid...

>> reporter: the prosecution believed the brothers were flat out lying about the abuse, and the events leading up to the murders, and as it turned out their testimony gave the state a big opening. >> they offered their mental state as a defense. so when you offer your mental state as a defense you have waived your psychiatric patient privilege. >> reporter: the oziel tape. remember that? by testifying, the brothers had put their mental state on center stage meaning the tape was now fair game. th...

Just one problem, they werent allowed to listen to it because of doctor/patient privilege. >> how frustrating was that? >> well, it was very frustrating. yeah, a good piece of evidence and i couldnt even listen to it. >> even though investigators didnt know whether theyd ever get to play that tape in court, they thought they had enough evidence to arrest the brothers. >> it was march 8th, 1990. >> detectives arrested joseph lyle menendez for the august murders of his mother and father. >> erik w...

As it turned out their testimony gave the state a big opening. >> they offered their mental state as a defense. so when you offer your mental state as a defense you have waived your psychiatric patient privilege. >> the oziel tape. remember that? by testifying, the brothers had put their mental state on center stage meaning the tape was now fair game. the defense played the tape to take the sting out of it. >> what erik and i did took courage beyond belief. >> detective zoeller remember had neve...

Anymore." and he burst in tears and left. well, lyle and dr. oziel, more or less, followed him. and lyle got to the elevator. and dr. oziel said, "am i in danger?" and lyle said, "thats all i can tell you is have a good life, dr. oziel." and it freaked him out. >> reporter: what followed was a strange and nervous dance, oziel told lyle and erik to come back for follow up therapy sessions. the brothers, afraid oziel might go to police, agreed. during one of those sessions, they both confessed to ...

Science. what he said is that it is an effort at the more transparency about the underlying data on which policies are built because there was a feeling in previous administrations, certainly by some of his ilk and conservatives that all of this data was being cooked, the books were being cooked so now hes going to be transparent about the underlying data. why do you think its the opposite of what hes saying in laymans terms? explain to us why this is a bad idea. >> a lot of the evidence that sc...

Use all legal means. now, the government then gets that communication. they put it through a taint team what do they do? what is a taint team? a taint team is, other government agents, fbi agents or assisting the united states attorneys, they go through the material, they say, this is doctor/patient privilege, this is a conversation between a man and his wife, a spouse. im going to read it, but im not going to let the prosecution use it. would any american citizen be happy to have his or her pri...