What You Didn't Know about the Menendez Brothers Murders

Published: Sept. 21, 2018, 7 a.m.

Two young men, both alike in dignity, in Beverley Hills where we lay our scene. Lyle and Eric Melendez went to court in matching sweaters to defend themselves against the charge that they opened fire on their parents, Jose and Kitty Melendez, with a shotgun in their upscale California home. 

Their story is now a common thread in American history, and the unfolding of the case has been immortalized in TV Shows, movies, and on hundreds of podcasts. But this one is different…here’s how my dad and a Beverly Hills cop came across Lyle just hours after the murder, and more on the case that spun the media into a whirlwind. This is what you didn’t know about the Menendez Brothers Murders.