♪ as i went into the room, i just started firing. >> what was in front of you? >> my parents. >> it's not supposed to happen in beverly hills. a movie executive and his wife were brutally slain in their million-dollar mansion. >> to most people, this was the perfect all-american family. >> people assume that if you have money, you have no problems. and you're certainly not going to do anything like kill your parents. >> to me, it was like a movie. >> i thought the whole time it was done by the mafia. >> one kid killing the parents is a bad seed.

two kids killing the parents is a bad family. >> if you looked at the menendez brothers as teenagers, you saw spoiled rich kids spinning out of control. >> if i killed my parents, i don't think i would have bought a porsche that first week. >> just a normal kid. >> oh, erik. you're a normal kid who killed your parents. >> i know. >> it was a spectacle. >> it's like the crowds in the roman coliseum, you know? blood. they smell blood. my name is lyle menendez. i've been in prison for 26 years. i am the kid that did kill his parents.

and no river of tears has changed that. and no amount of regret has changed it. you are often defined by a few moments of your life. but that's not who you are in your life, you know? your life is your totality of it. if you survive it, you're left having to explain it and it's just almost impossible to explain. i think i will end up dying still being in the nightmare of this horrifying event and tragedy. >> bring down the berlin wall. ♪ >> lyle and erik menendez seemed to have it all. they lived in this fairy tale

world of wealth and country clubs. they were top flight tennis players. one at princeton, the other heading to ucla. they were rich. the father was a powerful, hollywood executive. >> they had achieved the american dream. they were living in the mansion in beverly hills. they were living behind the gate. so, on the outside, to most people, this was the perfect all-american family. >> people assume that if you have money, you have no problems. and you're certainly not going to do anything like kill your parents. because you've got it made and it turns out that rich people have dysfunctional families just as much as poor people. one kid killing the parents is a bad seed. two kids killing the parents is a bad family. ♪ >> jose menendez was an immigrant. he wanteto

the american success story. >> he immigrated from cuba at about the age of 16. >> he was the only boy, and mother adored him. and emphasized his male image. so much so that he became a little bit of a bully in cuba. and he became a little bit of a monster to the parents. it was hard to control him. >> here is a cuban immigrant coming to this country as a teenager, with very little, driving, driving through industry after industry, rental cars, music industry, hollywood production. one after another, with this ferocious drive and talent. >> jose and kitty menendez met when they were both students at southern illinois university. >> kitty was my sister, my younger sister. she was stunningly beautiful. and i mean beautiful on the outsidan

jose saw in her what everybody else saw in her, and she saw this handsome cuban. they got married when they were both in college. and then, after graduation, they moved to new york. >> a sniper's bullet cut down dr. king. >> the most significant change in the marriage of jose and kitty menendez took place when their sons, erik and lyle, were born. kitty menendez had dreams of becoming an actress, and after her sons were born, jose basically told her, you can't work. you need to take care of our sons. >> the boys were extremely spoiled. i would tell kitty, i said, there's got to be some discipline in their life and it would be smart for you to rein them in and hold them accountable. and of course, she would come right back, don't tell me how to raise my boys. she wanted lyle and erik to be as competitive as she was, and

as her husband was. >> when i think of jose menendez and his sons, the word that pops into my head is ownership. these were his prized thoroughbreds, his sons. they were going to reflect his own glory, and if they didn't, god help them. >> the world that the menendez brothers grew up in was very affluent and it started in princeton, new jersey. >> jose had success on both coasts. first, the leafy precincts of princeton, new jersey, and then, all the way in california, in beverly hills, one of the legendary places of the world. >> in princeton, we saw them as rich kids. they were like a step above everybody else. princeton was about old money, and you didn't show off. but they were different.

became involved in different companies, this beautiful home in the center of princeton came on the market. and they just both fell in love with it and they wound up buying it. and so, this is a beautiful stately place with a beautiful sort of reservoir or detention pond behind the home, which, again, is also beautiful. and she was so proud of it. >> jose and kitty menendez were very concerned about the facade of their family. they wanted the public image to be perfect. and one of the ways they did that is, they did their son's homework, so the homework was always perfect. then they would take tests in school and they would fail the tests. another way was to tell their sons who they could date. >> lyle and erik were very influenced by what their father thought. and they wanted, at all times, to please dad. >> the affluence was all around them, but they were expected to work for it, and the work was to

>> they were going to be at the country club owning the scene there. they were going to have beautiful girls on their arms and go to ivy league top-notch colleges. >> he gave them everything in princeton. limousine rides to new york. limo rides to school. because, in that extent, he was showing off. through the kids. >> lyle menendez was going to be the better improved version of jose. for jose menendez, having a son go to an ivy league school like princeton was the end of the american dream. but lyle menendez had mediocre grades, was not a great student. he really wasn't princeton material. he was a very strong tennis player, and so, through a combination of his tennis abilities and also jose menendez made a $50,000 donation to princeton, he was able to actually get his son into the school. >> but lyle was flunking out of

academically, but socially, he was doing things he wasn't supposed to do. >> he was accused at one point of plagiarizing a paper. and was suspended for that. jose rushed in to meet with the dean and try to save his son, to stop the suspension, but his pleas didn't work. >> jose was never satisfied. lyle and erik, i think, had a strong fear of dad. it was so obvious, but it was not spoken. >> jose was such a dominant force in that family that the brothers looked at him, it was like he was the sun and blotted everything else out. >> the impression i got about jose menendez's character was that he could be charming when he chose to, but that his basic nature was very abusive. and that he was abusive to his sons, especially, and to his wife. >> describe your relationship with your father. >> brutal.

painful. torturous. and yet, i admired him, because he was so strong and he was -- he was everything that success was that i was taught that success was. and i thought that he was the most powerful and brilliant person i had ever met. >> to me, the menendez brothers became homicidal monsters that were shaped by jose menendez.

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"truth and lies: the menendez brothers" continues. >> my fell ans, i have spoken to you from this historic office -- >> for 20 years, the menendez family had been living in princeton, new jersey. and then jose became an executive with carolco pictures and live entertainment, and the family moved to california in 1987. initially, the menendez family lived in the los angeles suburb of calabasas. >> and they were really, really proud to have this house that they had found there, and they were remodeling it. there was tennis courts and everything else available there, and this is just the most

beautiful setting. >> i think the cheapest property in here is probably 2 million, and it goes all the way up to 20, 22 million. frankie avalon raised his six children here, robert blake lived here. bruce jenner, when he was bruce jenner, had a house here. there are helicopter ports, so that people can come from hollywood where they're doing a movie, and come right out by helicopter to their house. very spoiled, a lot of the kids. a lot of kids got involved with drugs. >> this is mulholland highway just starting into calabasas. 25 years ago, this was all open land. erik and i used to come up here all the time, this is about eight to nine minutes from our high school. and we used to do some writing up here and look out over the valley. erik and i, we just hit it off from the beginning. we both were chess players, we

kind of outside the box in school. we were in our rebellious phase, independent phase of 16, 17 years old. and we just had something that clicked. he was a little bit different, he was pretty ostentatious and he was flamboyant, but well-liked. he would do things like walk into a store and if somebody wouldn't immediately help him, he would jump up on a table and start throwing shoes and say, "i'm here to buy something." he made himself known and he was a presence. and he wanted what he wanted and found a way to get it. >> erik and lyle menendez kept screwing up. they were hanging out with a group of friends that began doing what was called hot prowls, in which they would sneak into a house when nobody was there and think about committing a burglary. but it was just a group of suburban kids that were, you know, dreaming about the fantasy of committing a crime. at one point, lyle menendez

actually committed a burglary with several of his friends. >> lyle had taken some things from a girlfriend's house and showed his little brother that he had done this crime. and his little brother said, "well, i can do the same thing." and erik went in and stole something, but then wanted to put it back before anybody knew. he just wanted to show his older brother that it could be done. >> the initial victims were the parents of some of their friends. and in the first burglary, over $100,000 of items were taken out of the house, including cash and jewelry taken from a safe. >> now, it was my understanding that their burglaries consisted of backing up a moving van to a house that was empty, and cleaning out the house, which is different from breaking into a house and stealing the family's silver. what's that about? i think they were practicing to be criminals. i think they thought being criminals would be a fun way to earn a living. >> they just got bored with life and they wanted excitement. they wanted challenges. and robbing houses was a challenge. something they tried to get away

they'd be caught. >> they wind up getting arrested, and jose, in his inimitable way, decided that he was going to quickly put it to rest. he didn't want it in the newspapers, and he went out and he visited every one of the homes that had been robbed. and he asked them what the value was of anything that was missing. and they gave him a number, a price, of what they felt that it was worth. he apologized, and his son apologized, and he wrote them a check right on the spot. >> joe, when he found out that the children had been arrested for the things they had done in calabasas, he was upset that they had gotten caught. the main message was, "how stupid of you to get caught. you're like sheep that follow. you're not leaders." and he was ashamed by them getting caught. because i think jose thought that life was about winning. and probably it was not as important how you got there. >> i think the parents lost

they were in a culture where money can buy you anything, not just the bmw or the designer jeans. it can buy you a free pass out of trouble. >> when poor kids do a burglary, like they go to their neighbor's house and take the big screen tv, they go to juvenile court or they go on probation or something like that. when rich kids do it, they go to the psychiatrist. so, i'm fairly certain that that was part of their court-ordered treatment for their burglary problem. >> all i know is that they both got probation. they gave the stuff back and i think it was shortly thereafter, they moved down to beverly hills and left the calabasas area, and jose kind of said, "let's distance ourselves from the calabasas crowd." >> there are people, a great number of people, who think that you two are spoiled brats. what do you say to them? >> i don't know that there's anything that i can say to them.

because i came from a family of wealth, it doesn't make me spoiled. i'm just a normal kid. >> oh, erik, you're a normal kid who killed your parents. >> yeah, i know. >> and you still say you're a normal kid? >> well, i didn't have normal experiences, but i am. i did that and there's not a day that goes by that i don't think about what happened and wish that i could -- i could take that moment back. >> is it hard for you, lyle? >> it is. it is difficult to be -- your whole 28 years, defined by a day. >> lyle menendez was the alpha male of these two brothers. he was the one with the charisma, with a kind of sinister intelligence, high-functioning but cunning. and more than anything, he had a

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by early 1989, the menendez family was living in a mansion in beverly hills. >> which, according to some of the witnesses, was kitty menendez's dream. >> the beverly hills house on north elm was amazing. when we saw it for the first time, we said, kitty, the house is so marvelous. everything just shines of money. >> i think we're pretty normal here, not much different than

>> a lot of the kids, 16, you get that convertible bmw. some had multiple cars, you know, a mercedes, a porsche and a lamborghini. >> maybe kids have a little more privileges, but i don't really think it's different from anywhere else. >> some, you could see that their value system was upside down. >> jose and kitty both were really having second thoughts about having been so generous. she was very concerned about the irresponsibility of lyle. he just felt that he could do anything, and it didn't make any difference whether it was ethical or not. >> at a certain point, erik and lyle menendez became a disappointment to their parents. jose menendez didn't approve of the women that lyle was dating. >> lyle was a very fascinating young man to women. so, lyle had women all the time, and they were purported to be

victoria's secret models. >> lyle is now in his 20s, he didn't stay in college, and my sister, kitty, began to recognize that they had essentially raised a playboy. and they took his credit cards away to try to educate him. he was really upset. and what he started to do was steal their credit cards and go out and buy what he wanted to buy anyway. >> erik was a disappointment in other ways. in whatever joe thought would be the right way for a young man to behave. >> i met erik menendez when i was doing a photo shoot in beverly hills. he was natural in front of the camera. he was very comfortable. i don't think erik had really the physical attributes to be a working model, but he was photogenic. i think erik was struggling to find his way, and i don't know

their house, because he didn't talk about it. i don't know if it was awful. i don't know the truth about that. but that last photo shoot, something was a little bit different. and he was quieter, and he was a little bit more withdrawn, a little bit more humble. but when i look at the pictures and when i think about it now, i can see that there was a difference. those pictures to me look very lonely and haunting. and i'm not so sure that i was looking into his soul, but in retrospect, there was something coming out of him that i didn't see on a regular basis. >> in the late '80s, early '90s, what people may have forgotten is that being gay was not that acceptable. it was just -- i mean, gay marriage was decades off, at that time. from what i knew of jose menendez, he would not have been the kind of father who would have embraced that. >> did your father accuse you of being gay? is it one of the things he used

>> the prosecutor brought up the fact that you might have been a homosexual and that this might have caused some of the fury on your father's part. >> yes, he did. >> i didn't -- i didn't hear about girlfriends. >> they were there. >> i guess what i just have to say to you is, are you gay? >> no. i'm not gay. >> kitty was so upset, the way things were happening, and she was trying very, very hard to understand why they were doing what they were doing. >> she was also very worried about the state of her marriage, because she discovered that jose had been carrying on an eight-year affair with a woman in new york, and that was extremely upsetting to her. she was very frustrated, she was disappointed, she was concerned that jose was going to leave her. >> i don't think they trusted each other. they didn't particularly show affection. i don't think they ever touched each other.

>> jose menendez, unknown to the mistress in new york, also had a woman that he was seeing here in los angeles. >> she was explaining to me what the situation was and how it -- how it hurt her. and the one thing she said to me -- and i'll never forget it -- she said, you know the most difficult thing for me, brian, is that i've lost my hero. >> jose menendez was carrying on affairs with a woman in new york, a woman in l.a. and he was also being supplied with prostitutes by a madame here in los angeles. >> it appeared to me that kitty menendez was the maid and the chauffeur and that the three men in her life were dominant. i think that her whole personality had been erased by the family and that she didn't have the ability or the wherewithal to stand up to her husband. >> i knew that kitty didn't have a lot of friends. and she did have a very private life. but i know that she loved her

sons, and she loved jose. >> this is a woman who was enduring the dissolution of her family. her husband was cheating on her. her sons had turned into criminal louts. and she couldn't handle it. tried to keep up a brave face with some people, popped pills when it got too much for her. >> at one point, she was rushed to a hospital after taking an overdose of valium. people at the hospital felt that she had actually tried to commit suicide. she told jose's sister she wished the brothers had never been born. >> describe your relationship with your mother. >> my mother was a person in a lot of pain. and she was alcoholic, and she was suicidal. >> there was not a lot of communication, but she, i saw her as -- i saw -- heard and saw her get beaten by my dad. >> your mother was battered. >> battered. >> physically? or emotionally? >> physically.

certainly emotionally. >> and i would try to help her through it. we went through it together. >> i don't think she was depressed in beverly hills. what i did see is the situation that took place with lyle. lyle was stressing her a lot. and the thing with calabasas just about broke her emotional back, when she realized how far her son would go to basically have whatever he wanted. and, so it was very, very painful to the two of them, but i think it was especially painful to kitty. >> and then, in the spring of 1989, jose menendez had several conversations with his brother-in-law, carlos baralt, in which he told him he was disappointed in his sons and that he was thinking about taking them out of his will. so, everybody was starting to have problems, and those problems were starting to spin the family out of control. ♪ the itsy bitsy spider went up the waterspout.

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"truth and lies" continues. >> we wrote a screenplay, we wrote several screenplays. we were ambitious young writers with a lot of ideas. and we said, well, let's write murder mysteries. >> erik wrote a script about a boy that kills his parents to collect the insurance. and he brought that by for me to read and give him my opinion. >> a gloved hand is seen gripping the doorknob and turning it gently. good evening, mother, good evening father. his voice is of attempted compassion but the hatred overwhelms it. all light is extinguished and the camera slides down the stairs as screams are heard behind. >> we needed the characters to get money somehow and thought, "well, here's an interesting way to do it." and it showed the darwinistic

the parents. remove them and then i'm free and i can do what i want. but as time went by, erik took that screenplay and reworded the first four or five pages to exactly what happened at the scene of the crime. and so, people thought, "well, maybe this is the precursor to what actually happened." >> he's already got the idea and he's already beginning to execute it in his mind, the crime that he will eventually commit, murdering his parents, for money, for the insurance money. it was powerful evidence that he'd been not just thinking about it, but playing with the idea, scoping it out, writing it down. >> i thought that it was probably pretty unreal, a bit of nonsense. i didn't contemplate that he was really planning to do such a thing. not on any day did i think that. >> if you looked at the menendez brothers as teenagers, you saw spoiled rich kids spinning out

criminals. they were stealing, they were robbing, but the viciousness that lyle and erik menendez eventually demonstrated, i think that has its seeds in their relationship with their father. >> any way you cut it, jose menendez was the kind of person that people cowered from. everybody described jose menendez as someone you should be afraid of, someone who was always expecting perfection and never got it. >> when we went to their house, there was a ferret, always. and the ferret died one day, and kitty and joe assumed that one of their dogs had killed it. and one of their dogs was a black, very aggressive dog. they had aggressive dogs. the children opened the refrigerator one day and found the dog's head inside.

>> on the tuesday before the murders, lyle menendez and his mother, kitty, were having an argument. >> she got so upset that she began striking the older brother and she even ripped off his toupee. >> and erik was actually in the hallway and he saw this happen and he didn't even know that his brother was wearing a toupee, which his father had forced him to wear, because he started having thinning hair. >> and the brothers had a very emotional conversation, in which they agreed that there were so many secrets in family. >> and at the point, erik broke down and he started crying. and his brother said, "what's wrong with you? what are you crying about?" and erik said, "dad has been doing things to me." >> when lyle told me about the abuse, he was 8 years old at the time. one night, i was in my room

changing the sheets on my bed, and lyle came in, saying that he was afraid to sleep in his own bed, because his father and him had been teaching each other down there. i went upstairs and got kitty. by her demeanor, i could tell that she was not believing any of this. >> there was certainly no indication of any kind that there was ever any abuse. >> he had sexually molested me before i was a teenager and it was a different -- much different experience than erik's. >> because you were little? >> because i was little, i guess. but it was difficult to be close to my father and yet have so much conflict in the home. >> i mean, it just didn't happen. it just didn't happen. i think the motive was strictly money. >> my impression was that their father had cut them off. i think, somewhere, starting with lyle, there was a decision that this was just not going to be okay. it was not going to be okay to live in beverly hills and be paupers, or to have less than

wasn't cool. >> the source of the hatred wasn't that they wanted money, it was the sexual abuse. the source of the homicide was how dare he take away the money. in other words, the two theories of this case aren't necessarily contradictory. >> i was with kitty in her beverly hills house, and she was using her computer, and i said, "what are you doing with the computer?" and he said, "i'm changing my will." and as i looked down the aisle of the house, i said to kitty, "lyle's hearing you. he's going to know that you're changing your will right now, and she said, "i don't care. they know i'm not going to give them any money." and that must have been when they decided to take care of them and murder them. >> no, no, that's not how that occurred. there was a -- a confrontation.

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the week before they were murdered, i had lunch with kitty. she had never been happier. she said that she was getting along with jose. so, she thought that everything was doing better. >> at that time, there'd be good days, there'd be bad days. and kitty had a sense of hope, i think, as would be natural. she didn't want this family to split apart and all the secrets of it, perhaps, to spill out.

she didn't want to lose what she had, and i think you can hear in her the last strands of hope for this family. >> august 20th, 1989, was an unusually warm, balmy evening in beverly hills. most of the neighbors who lived near the menendez mansion at 722 north elm drive had their windows open to let fresh air in. >> beverly hills is a quiet town. even the business district kind of folds up at 7:00. we average two murders a year, and really don't know what you're in for when you get a murder call. >> what's the problem? what's the problem? >> someone killed my parents. >> pardon me? >> someone killed my parents. >> what? who? are they still there? >> yes! >> the people who -- >> no, no, no. >> were they shot? >> yes. >> they were shot? >> yes!

>> what happened? >> i have a hysterical person on. >> what happened? who is the person that was shot? >> my mom and my dad! >> your mom and dad? >> my mom and my dad! >> okay, hold on a second. okay, we're on our way over there with an ambulance. >> 12 shots in the middle of beverly hills on a sunday night, and no one calls the police? we're waiting at the house, no one shows up, and i still can't believe it. i'm sitting on the stairs afterwards, thinking the police are going to be there in seconds. they've got roving patrol. >> and people, many, many people did hear the shots. many neighbors came in and said they heard all these shots. but nobody called because they just figured, this is beverly hills, this doesn't happen in beverly hills. >> so, you called the police, but at that point, you had already decided -- that you weren't going to say anything? >> we had decided that -- our feeling was not, we'll just explain what happened and it will be okay.

we were very stunned and we felt that we would go to jail, obviously, and we -- it was a selfish reason to just not want to have to go through that. >> you know, by this intersection, i could actually see the police tape and the police cars in front of the menendez house. >> hello. this is the police department. >> yes. >> okay, i want you to come outside. okay? just come out the front door and -- >> i got to get my brother. >> you tell your brother everybody that's -- come outside. >> okay. okay. >> as we walked in the front door, the only thing i could really detect is the silence. it was just eerily quiet. it was so quiet inside. from the foyer was a staircase, and then, in the back of the foyer was this library family room, which is where the murder occurred. the television was on, so, it was just a normal evening for

she was covered in blood. jose had a shot gun blast to the back of his head, blood everywhere. there was brain matter on the ceiling, on the windows. it was really horrendous. >> when jose and kitty were found dead, the police didn't do what they normally do in a case like that. there are things that could have been done that night that would have proven that they were the killers. the murder weapons were in their cars. nobody bothered to look. >> both brothers had gunshot residue on their hands. >> at the time, we felt they were victims, and you're not going to press them, because their parents just got blown away. >> a beverly hills criminal is going to be treated differently than a south central los angeles criminal, because the police understand that the beverly hills criminal is going to lawyer up, they're going to file

complaints. rich people view the police as being sort of lower than cleaning people, okay? and so, i think that influenced the way this case was prosecuted. >> the sons told police they left their parents at home to go to the movies. >> the pair said they came home from a movie and found their parents lying dead in pools of blood. >> we didn't have an alibi. all we did was say we were at the movies. >> but they never checked you for gunpowder? you did fool the police. >> that day, they didn't. i bet you they've changed their policy. >> when i first heard joe and kitty had been murdered, i said, with tears in my eyes, this is awful. the most awful thing i've ever heard. but what if it had been the kids? i don't know why i said that, but i must have had some basic instinct in the back of my head that told me that might be the case.

>> i was in st. louis, in training for a new job, and i had my dog with me. i had my dalmatian puppy, and i was watching the news. >> jose was shot five times, once to the head and four others to the body. >> and i just about squeezed the life out of my dog. >> i had nightmares. i had nightmares about it. i could see that house, and i could see them taking them out as i saw on tv, the bodies. >> it took me a while to figure it out, and what it was is that i remembered that i had the script about the boy that kills his parents to collect the insurance. and that was a very chilling realization to me. >> tell me as clearly as you can why you murdered your parents. >> the first thing that comes to mind is terror. i was so afraid. i was running downstairs and i was crying, and my mother was on the couch and she

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