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but this was -- >> what was hi first name, dr -- >> dr. jerry oziel. >> doctor oziel, the psychologist erik was sent t after those burglaries two months after the murders judalon smyth said she was wit dr oziel when erik menendez calle to schedule an emergency session. smyth wouldn't talk to us fo this report, but she did bac then and here's what she told us dr oziel said after getting tha call >> well all of a sudden he's saying, you know, "i hope i' not going to hear what i think i'm going to hear. >> smyth told zoeller that dr. oziel was worried about what might happen at the session. and so he asked her to stay in the waiting room of his office while he met with erik o october 31st, 1989 >> she also told zoeller tha from the waiting room, she overheard erik tell dr oziel the very thing investigators had suspected fo months, but couldn't prove

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>> erik, however, was home and this time he was willing t talk >> erik was emotionall appropriate. he -- he would cry at times. and he was telling reall lovely stories about how wonderful his parents were >> just an incredible man. and uh, people were afraid o him. people were afraid of hi because they would walk in the room and know that this man wa more powerful. this man was more intelligen -- >> erik said his father wanted to get into politics. >> he was going to becom senator of florida, and then h was gonna'spend his life makin cuba a territory of the united states >> now, with his father's death, erik said he and his brother wanted to fulfill his father's dream. >> i wanna become senator of florida and my -- my brother wants to become president of the united states. >> then the mood shifted and erik described what he saw whe he walked into the family de on august 20th >> they weren't real

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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

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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

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attorney, leslie abrahamson. known for her brass style with the press. reporter robert rand, who wrot a book on the menendez case, recalled the attorney' passionate devotion to her clients. >> i've never seen anybody wit the power of leslie. watching her in court was like watching great theater >> in this old interview fro our archives, leslie described how her defense strategy began to take shape. >> i am hearing a lot of ver negative and -- and at least heavily psychologically abusiv things but it's not answerin what's wrong with this kid because he's incredibly sweet. how does he walk into a room with a shotgun this kid and it doesn't add up. i mean, i'm totally, totally puzzled. and that's when i bring in vicar y. >> then, a forensi psychologist and a graduate of harvard law school agreed to meet with the brothers in jail

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wife were blown away last nigh in beverly hills." >> now that, thought rand, was a story tailor made for th miami community he was writing for. a rags to riches story, capped by murder. he worked the phones and soo met up with jose's sister wh 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. >> as he would find, getting t the brothers was not so easy but then, they'd just lost their parents. >> lyle and erik menendez were the grieving sons. >> alan abrahamson is journalism professor at usc. back in 1989, he was a reporte for the la times >> nobody quite knew who had - who had killed the parents was it because of jose's position in business had he been taken out by the mob? >> after all, both jose an kitty had been shot in the knees. a mafia signature, perhaps

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and here their parents are murdered we don't have a suspect yet. it's looking like a perfec crime to me, at that point >> zoeller began to wonder i erik's fantasy could be playin out in reality and then craig told zoelle about his visit to the menende house after the murders. >> erik said, "do you wann 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 and he says, "well, is h saying that's what he thinks happened here at the house or did they actually commit th crime? " >> strange. as was the story the brother told about discovering their parents'bodies >> the brothers said they sa this haze in the air and som smoke that they smelled. >> like gunpowder smoke or - >> gunpowder smoke but i mean, that dissipate pretty darned quick.

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sylvester stallone spoke warml of jose. >> he was a true cornerstone o this company, which i love >> and jose's memorial service was held at the directors guil of america headquarters on sunset boulevard all of which might have le people to believe he was a beloved hollywood insider. >> but the reality was jos menendez was really not know in the hollywood community a all. and most of the people at this memorial probably had neve heard of him >> lyle and erik arrived lat to the service in a chauffeure limousine. they'd spent the night befor in the ultra chic hote bel-air. >> how'd they'd behave whe they were there? >> lyle menendez was -- very cool, calm and collected >> kitty's sister joan was a the memorial too and heard something disturbing about jose >> several men that worked wit jose talked to me at tha memorial service and told me how he loved to humiliate othe

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joan was with her sister the day the realtor called kitty >> they had accepted jose' offer, and kitty, you got your zip code and that made her so happy >> uh-huh. absolutely >> 722 north elm drive a six-bedroo mediterranean-style home swimming pool. guest house. tennis court elton john once lived in thi very house so did a saudi prince, and eve prince himself by august 1989, jose had truly made it. now, to ensure his sons did, too. by then lyle was a student a princeton. younger brother erik was going to ucla in the fall. so perfect so why did diane feel this way >> i said, "well, i know thi sounds crazy but unless i am crazy somebody who's really close to me i gonna die. and it's gonna be horrible." >> horrible?

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warning or advisory. wind chill alerts extending al the way to south florida, th brutal cold is expected to continue through the holiday weekend for much of the easter part of the u.s. whiteout conditions in ohio ar believed to have caused th deadly pileup involving at least 46 vehicles. the safe highway patrol says several people were killed now, bactok dateline. even before the menendez brothers went on trial, th defense scored a big victory the california supreme court ruled that the confession tape made by dr azil could not be presented as evidence of course, the defense had already conceded that lyle and erik killed their parents. nearly four years after th murders, july 1993, if convicted here, lyle and eri could face the death penalty their judge was stanle wiseberg, who had alread presided over high-profile cases. notably, the rodney king beating case, whose result

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