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In reality, the Menendez brothers told the authorities they were at a Los Angeles theater watching a movie at the time of the killings but they didn't actually leave their parents' home to ...
The show had Bozanich catch Erik in a lie about how he and Lyle attempted to purchase two handguns days before they killed their parents. This was a mistake since Kuriyama was the one asking Erik ...
In a joint testimony, the boys said they’d confronted their parents about the abuse a few days before the murder. Jose allegedly threatened to kill them if they ever told anyone, and soon after ...
Both brothers testified that their father had threatened to kill them if they did not keep the abuse secret. As a result, they purchased shotguns for "protection and self-defense". They alleged that the final confrontation occurred in their home's den on August 20, 1989, shortly before Kitty and José were killed.
The brothers admitted to killing their parents, but contended that they did so out of fear, especially of their father, who they claimed was a violent paedophile. As evidence, the defence called ...
The prosecution contended that the brothers killed their parents to inherit the family wealth. In contrast, Lyle and Erik have consistently maintained, even as they serve life sentences without the possibility of parole, that their actions were driven by fear resulting from a lifetime of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse.
The series examines how and why Erik (Cooper Koch) and Lyle (Nicholas Alexander Chavez) murdered their parents, José (Javier Bardem) and Kitty (Chloe Sevigny) — including the brothers' in-court ...
In a murder that shocked the nation and the world, in August 1989, Lyle, then 21, and Erik, 18, burst into the den of their family’s Beverly Hills, Calif., home and shot their parents at close ...