It was more of a misbehavior being taken out into the open in late summer nineteen eighty nine Sunday night there were gunshots in Beverly Hills. Jose and Kidman were just watching television and eating ice cream when their son burst into the living room with a shotgun, he shot Kitty repeatedly at close range making a house call Jose is a powerful music executive, Melendez was a titanic personality, he was domineering, he wanted to get what he wanted. It was going to trample anybody, you came in this way because they weren’t initially suspicious, they were able to claim an insurance payout of six hundred thousand dollars the man and his brother went on a spending spree, they bought Porsches, they bought expensive watches, that raised suspicion. The District Attorney’s office became suspicious so much I have so much money and so much pain.
The guilt was weighing heavily on the eighteen year old Eric at the time, you went to your psychologist. Doctor Elle and told him you committed this crime, you were in agony and you told him I felt like I was the worst person on earth and I got to the point where I couldn’t live with myself anymore, in the morning I needed help and so I went to him and that was the catalyst that led to me being arrested. The aura of innocence surrounding the Menendez brothers is now overshadowed by murder charges. Prosecutors say greed drove the boys to shoot and kill their parents last August. Lyle and Erik’s trial began in July nineteen ninety-three, the handsome and well-dressed defendants made it a media spectacle, there were love letters being found and then people coming up to them, so just a huge men yang you would have to think we weren’t in a place like that.
There are social media and things like that, the brothers testified that they experienced sexual abuse at the hands of their father, my father tell me the answers are used two in the process, can you answer this question if you are lying my father was washed. After talking to their parents about this Eric and Lyle were scared to save their lives they thought they were going ahead with the plan to kill us. He said was sitting on the couch with his hands on his head, saying we are going to die, they were so abused, so traumatized and the family was in such a terrible state, such a state of stress and secrets that were coming out that they were afraid they would be killed there if they didn’t kill first the details were horrible so he would guide me.
He said my actions and how are all sexual? When Eric was thirteen he told his cousin that he might know. The most he wanted to know about the station was if this happened to every child. I remember very specifically that he asked me to promise him I would never tell anyone. So the question at trial was whether using abuse claims as an excuse mitigates responsibility for killing your parents. Abuse excuse was what it was dubbed. It captivated the country and produced a hung jury judge D after weeks of deliberation.