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
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 wasn t real. it just wasn t 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 the truth about what happened. here from the brothers themselves. let s go through this bit by bit. there was no way he was going to let this secret get out. silence destroyed our s whole family. . symbol of their success. here ait was, the shining symbol of their success. here finally an address for the of their long struggle, their amazing rise, beverly hills, california. careful what you wish for. all these years later, it s still the case that has the power to shock. it s beverly hills, th
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.
and it freaked him out what followed was a strange and nervous dance, oziel tol 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 th recording and told detectives, who promptly seized the tape just one problem, they weren t allowed to listen to it becaus of doctor/patient privilege. how frustrating was that? well, it was very frustrating. yeah, a good piece of evidence and i couldn t even listen t it even though investigators didn t know whether they d eve get to play that tape in court they thought they had enough evidence to arrest the brothers it was march 8th, 1990. detectives arrested josep lyle menendez for the august murders of his mother an father erik was playing a tennis
wouldn t get any jail time and part of the disposition wa that he contact a therapist. in comes jerry oziel dr. jerome oziel, you ll want to remember that name a beverly hills psychologist who specialized in phobias and sex therapy so, therapy and no jail time for the burglaries but were they written out of the will they finally did get hold of it and discovered jose hadn t disinherited them after all. so now they stood to inherit the family s 14 million dollar estate and what the brothers did afte the murders shocked the whol country. they were just spending spending, spending three rolex watches a private tennis coach for eri a porsche lyle eve bought a chicken wings restaurant i love to shop. but i think that i might eve wait a day or two. lyle went to visit hi cousin alan in chicago after the murders.