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Dateline-20220122-08:29:00

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Dateline-20220122-08:03:00

. real life details and the defense that shocked america. >> we would be in the bathroom, and he would put me on my knees. >> i'm looking to see if he's telling the truth or not. >> lasted rather the center of it all, about truth. >> to this day, i'm still dealing with the controversy of it. obviously, my own guilt. >> what's really happened? and why? so, to understand, where to begin? how about here, illinois, 1940s. everybody who knows the story, knows who is kitty, but that was an earlier name. >> no, it's mary louise. >> she was the baby of the family, said her older sister. it was one of their brothers who came up with the nickname,

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Dateline-20220122-08:37:00

speaks out about his father, his family and a killer script. >> that story was about a young man who murders his parents and inherits 157 million dollars.

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Dateline-20220122-08:16:00

dialed 911. >> someone killed my parents! >> the news spread quickly. >> i got a phone call from my brother. and i remember putting the phone down on the table. and walking around the house screaming. >> reporter robert rand's phone also rang. it was a friend who had attended the las vegas trade show with him 10 days earlier. >> the friend had said, "hey, you remember that guy, jose menendez? you know, that you met briefly last week? " and i said, "sure." and he said, "well, he and his wife were blown away last night in beverly hills." >> now that, thought rand, was a story tailor made for the miami community he was writing for. a rags to riches story, capped by murder. he worked the phones and soon met up with jose's sister who told him -- >> you know, the family was so close. they were loving. they did everything together. she said, "you have to interview erik and lyle." and i said, "of course i wanna interview erik and lyle."

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Dateline-20220122-08:44:00

>> 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.

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Dateline-20220122-09:15:00

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Dateline-20220122-08:45:00

and he says, "well, is he saying that's what he thinks happened here at the house? or did they actually commit the crime? " >> strange. as was the story the brothers told about discovering their parents'bodies. >> the brothers said they saw this haze in the air and some smoke that they smelled. >> like gunpowder smoke or -- >> gunpowder smoke. but i mean, that dissipates pretty darned quick. well, the officers got there right after they did. and they didn't smell anything. >> the gunpowder smoke, and fantasizing about the perfect crime, and the screenplay, and even what might be called a confession. it all led detective zoeller to start thinking the unthinkable, that the brothers had murdered their mom and dad. and he wondered, would erik tell the story of the shooting to craig again? this time on tape. >> they decided to wire up craig and go to this restaurant. >> but this time, erik wasn't at all talkative.

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Dateline-20220122-09:19:00

decision turned a local l.a. story into an international sensation. how big was it? the menendez trial was the case that put an entire network, court tv, on the broadcast landscape. >> reporter: prosecutor pam bozanich knew all of america was watching her every move. >> how did you feel as you prepared to make your opening statement? >> as i walked down the hallway, all the cameras were there. and, you know, i just threw up. 'cause i thought, "oh, god. you know, this is really stressful." so -- >> reporter: what's more, prosecutor bozanich was going up against two fierce opponents. leslie abramson defending erik. and jill lansing defending lyle. >> these are three very smart, strong women? >> definitely. >> engaged against each other over these boys? >> yes. >> i say boys. but they weren't really boys -- >> no, they -- >> were they? >> weren't boys at all. in fact, that's what the defense wanted everybody to hear, "these

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Dateline-20220122-08:23:00

>> okay, wave goodbye everybody -- >> 12 days later, kitty and her husband's murders were front-page news. >> it was a big story from the get-go because it happened in beverly hills, california. >> the big story became a big problem for carolco pictures. >> the company was getting beaten up in the media because all the media stories were, "this was a mafia hit, somehow related to shady dealings that this company was doing." >> carolco hired a prominent publicist to help calm the media storm. sylvester stallone spoke warmly of jose. >> he was a true cornerstone of this company, which i love. >> and jose's memorial service was held at the directors guild of america headquarters on sunset boulevard. all of which might have led people to believe he was a beloved hollywood insider. >> but the reality was jose menendez was really not known in the hollywood community at all. and most of the people at this memorial probably had never heard of him.

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Dateline-20211206-08:18:00

erik killed their parents. nearly four years after the murders, july 1993. if convicted here, lyle and erik could face the death penalty. their judge was stanley weisberg. who had already presided over high profile cases, notably the rodney king beating case, whose result sparked the l.a. riots. judge weisberg ruled that each brother would have his own jury. and -- >> the electronic media that wants access to this court room. >> he allowed cameras in the courtroom. >> the idea that there was a camera in a courtroom in california was so new, so novel. >> reporter alan abrahamson, once an attorney himself, covered the trial for the la times. >> you weren't just playing to the jury. you were playing to all of america. >> the judge's decision turned a local l.a. story into an international sensation.

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