185. A Nick in Crime | Menendez One: Beverly Hills Horror
Done & Dunne
Hemlock Creatives
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2024
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
This week, we open a whole new investigation into the murders of Jose and Kitty Menendez, at the hands on their sons, Lyle and Erik. The grisly crime committed in Beverly Hills on August 20, 1989, was extensively covered by Dominick Dunne, over the course of a number of years. In this episode, we begin at the very start, by exploring Dunne’s initial coverage from October 1990. His “Nightmare on Elm Drive” is an excellent baseline for the case, still in early days, before the years make the details far murkier.
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| 0:00.0 | Your first great love story is free when you sign up for a free 30-day trial at audible.co. |
| 0:05.5 | That's audible.co.uk slash wondery. |
| 0:11.5 | Welcome to Dun & Dunn. |
| 0:13.5 | I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey All Things, Dominic Dunn, where this week we are opening a brand new investigation, one going |
| 0:23.2 | straight to the source, our man, Nick. |
| 0:26.7 | Thank you for joining me for this new journey into Dunn's coverage of the Menendez murders. |
| 0:33.2 | I have heard from many of you and looking out into the world of social media over the last few weeks, |
| 0:40.2 | there are a lot of strong feelings that a lot of folks have about the Monsters series on Netflix, |
| 0:46.9 | with the Menendez case being the focus of this particular season that just dropped September 19th. |
| 0:53.6 | For a lot of you, the very best part that I |
| 0:56.5 | understand is Nathan Lane, starring as our man Dominic Dunn. Brilliant casting on that one. What can't |
| 1:03.5 | Nathan Lane do really? As of this recording of this Dun & Dun episode, I am not entirely through with the whole monster series yet. |
| 1:14.6 | But hey, I figured in the next few weeks, what is a better time to go to the actual source of the best reporting of the time about the actual events at the time they were happening. And all the inside |
| 1:30.2 | scoop, too. Dominic Dunn covered this case extensively for Vanity Fair through the years, |
| 1:37.7 | beginning in October, 1990, all the way through to June of 1996. This would be well into his career with three novels already |
| 1:48.1 | published, a wealth of essays written for Vanity Fair, and Dominic Dunn not yet writing quite as high |
| 1:57.8 | as he will in Hollywood again. These are early days still. I am pretty confident I have |
| 2:05.1 | pulled every word about the murders and the two subsequent trials that Dominic Dunn has ever written. |
| 2:13.1 | Don't forget, Dominic Dunn also covered this particular case on his power, privilege, and justice television program. |
| 2:21.7 | He has a lot to say about the case. |
| 2:23.7 | Dunn knows it, and I, for one, will always go back to his coverage, which is long and wide and thorough. |
| 2:32.7 | This week, we're not going to pay any attention really to monsters, |
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