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perfect crime. he killed, he ran, he was caught by tenacious law. yazeed essa we will be eligible for parole after serving 20 years. >> that is all for this edition of dateline, i'm natalie morales, thank you for watching. this was a gruesome murder, a high profile executive and his wife shot to death in beverly hills. we don't really think that children can murder their parents. you have to have a lot of evil in you to shoot your mom and dad. >> young. rich. handsome. in a case made for hollywood, they were ready for the cameras -- >> 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.

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vicary hit a wall, and moved on to eric, who, month after month, seemed to stick to a kind of script about his wonderful father, his loving family. >> and the minute something would leak out about, maybe, things weren't so wonderful in the family. he would start crying. and he would, kind of, dissolve and -- and -- and whimper and he just wouldn't go any further. >> vicary put erik on anti-depressants. and slowly, a trust began to form. >> as the months rolled by, i got more and more pieces of information and it got worse and worse and worse, as to what was going on in this family. until finally, the dam broke. >> erik and lyle's cousin had lived with the menendez family and knew the public didn't understand. >> they just knew that, okay,

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>> guilty of first-degree murder. but the fates of lyle and erik menendez were not the only headlines. more came in the penalty phase. dr. vicary finally got to testify and, under oath, he had to admit something. >> the drama involves this man. defense psychiatrist, william vicary, who has disclosed that he deleted dozens of portions of his notes because, quote, leslie abramson told me this has to come out. >> what did it feel like to be you, in that particular circumstance of your life? >> well, it was very traumatic.

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was it you telling lyle about something that was happening? >> my dad. my dad had been molesting me. >> and had been right up until the murders, erik said. and he testified that his mother was aware of it all. >> she says, i know, i've always known. what do you think, i'm stupid? >> lyle says he confronted his father several days before the murders. >> i told him i would tell everybody everything about him. i would tell the police, and that i would tell the family. >> then, according to lyle, his father said something that sounded like a threat. >> he said, we all make choices in life, son. erik made his. you've made yours. i thought we were in danger. >> and so, the brothers drove down to san diego to buy the

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interview. but when rand arrived -- >> lyle had left for new york on a red-eye the night before. he had a problem with his chicken wing restaurant in -- princeton. >> erik, however, was home. and this time he was willing to talk. >> erik was emotionally

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parents. and here's why. and they were going to go, okay, go back home. so, just self-preservation, at that point. >> lyle strongly denied the prosecution's claim that he and erik killed their parents for money. furthermore, he said he didn't think their case should have even gone to trial. >> this case should've been settled. there are, like, 2 to 300 paraside cases a year. and they are almost all related to abuse and they are all settled. >> but, lyle, it was different. guys like you in places like you live and acts like you committed. i mean, this is -- it's -- this is a big, splashy deal. >> exactly. i think that it was very easy because it was beverly hills. my father had a lot of money. to sort of sell this headline that these brothers killed for money. >> you haven't seen erik in how long? >> wow. 1996? >> hmm. getting to be a long time. >> yeah. i miss my brother, every day. >> erik menendez declined our interview request. at the time, he had been married for 18 years.

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accusations. he was nervous. >> were you sorta day-by-day waiting for somebody to call you -- >> oh, yes -- >> be taken and put in handcuffs and -- >> yes. >> oh, the cops would be calling and the investigation would take a turn one that no one expected. coming up. new questions about the case. and about the grieving sons. >> lyle, the way he was spending money was very strange. >> you begin to see a pattern here and begin to think of greed. when "dateline" continues. what can i du with less asthma? with dupixent, i can du more... crazy commutes... crowd control- have a nice day alex (thanks ms. ellen) ...taking the stairs. that's how you du more with dupixent, which helps prevent asthma attacks. dupixent is not for sudden breathing problems. it's an add-on-treatment for specific types of moderate-to-severe asthma that can improve lung function for better breathing in as little as two weeks. and can reduce, or even eliminate, oral steroids. and here's something important. dupixent can cause allergic reactions that can be severe. get help right away if you have rash, chest pain, worsening shortness of breath, tingling or numbness in your limbs.

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years, waiting for the supreme court to rule. >> during which, the menendez brothers resided at the men's central jail where, soon after their arrest, lyle slipped his brother a letter. "dateline" obtained a copy. it had never been broadcast, before. in it, lyle wrote about their father and the murders. he bore two brilliant children. only two. they carry his name and his pride. we did not do anything for the money. he went on. we, alone, know the truth. we, alone, know the secrets of our family's past. i do not look forward to broadcasting them around the country. i pray that it never has to happen. secrets?

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>> so, here we are. >> we spoke with lyle menendez for more than two hours. he was confident, articulate, and 28 years later, still, eager to explain why he and his brother killed their parents. he shared intimate details about his childhood, and the betrayal he said he felt when erik confided to him, days before the murders, that their father was still molesting him. >> my father's rapes, i said nothing. and i just feel like part of that pact i had with my dad, and i am keeping this secret. and for you to have done this to my brother, like i kept my part of that sort of devil's pact and you didn't. you know? and my -- my brother, just, you know, you let your children wake up in the home of a child molester, every day? >> lyle testified in the trial that, not only did his mother cover for her husband's actions,

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>> it seemed like overwhelming evidence that lyle and erik killed their parents. >> two rich kids from beverly hills. greedy. murder murdered their own parents in cold blood. actually hit it. made it look like a mob hit. tried to get away with it. and went on a lavish spending spree. state. t over state the public'disgust with the young men. on the other side of the country in a new jersey town a few miles from princeton, people began comparing memories. >> their home at the time was a

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