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How Did the Menendez Brothers Get Caught? Inside Erik & Lyle’s Investigation

The Menendez Brothers’ 1993 trial was one of the most heavily followed cases at the time. Here, learn what led to their arrest, which occurred seven months after they killed their parents.

The 10-episode season intends to explore whether the siblings were cold-blooded killers seeking to inherit their family’s fortune, as the prosecution argued, or victims of a lifetime of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse at the hands of their parents, as the defense claimed and the brothers maintain to this day. Lyle and Erik shot and killed their parents in August 1989 with shotguns, firing a total of 14 times at their Beverly Hills home. After Jose and Kitty were brutally shot to death in their Beverly Hills mansion, Lyle and Erik Menendez spent money recklessly, burning through an estimated $700,000 of their parents’ wealth on cars, jewelry, and even purchasing restaurants and cafes.

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