187. A Nick in Crime | Menendez Three: The First Trial, Act One
Done & Dunne
Hemlock Creatives
4.7 • 629 Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
This week, we continue Dominick Dunne’s reporting into the Menendez case, with his coverage from the first trial of Lyle and Erik Menendez, from the summer of 1993. Dunne casts a dramatic lens on the players involved, and exactly how much the story has shifted from the August 1989 double murder of their parents, Kitty and Jose Menendez.
In this episode, we catch up on the main characters in this courtroom drama, including the brothers, the judge, Leslie Abramson, and the cast of lawyers, both prosecuting and defending. Dunne does not miss a trick in this investigation and reveals so many of his own feelings as this case has progressed through the judicial system.
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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 | com.uk-Uk.woundary. That's audible.combe.ukeslundery. |
| 0:11.6 | Welcome to Dun & Dunn. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey, All Things Dominic |
| 0:18.1 | Dunn. Thank you for joining me today as we continue our investigation as it |
| 0:23.9 | happened into the Menendez murders. This is episode three of the series as we move into the summer of |
| 0:32.1 | 1993. This is Dominic Dunn's next reporting on the case three years after his initial piece for Vanity Fair from the fall of 1990. |
| 0:45.1 | Dominic Dunn, as of this writing in 1993, has had a few years to get into his own feelings about the case. His initial reporting in 1990 was very fact-based. |
| 1:00.4 | He talked to the secondary players. He laid down the foundation, the groundwork of the case, |
| 1:07.4 | but by the time three years has passed, Dominic Dunn is no longer impartial. |
| 1:13.7 | Our coverage today is coming from Dominic Dunn's courtroom notebook, the Menendez murder trial, |
| 1:21.3 | published in Vanity Fair in October of 1993. |
| 1:25.4 | Dominic Dunn was one of the ten members of the press permanently assigned in the courtroom for the |
| 1:32.3 | trial. |
| 1:33.3 | And our man, Nick, does not miss a thing in the courtroom or around Hollywood. |
| 1:39.8 | You will find in this piece right on the precipice of O.J. Simpson's crime that Dominic Dunn is coming into his own. |
| 1:49.7 | In 1993, he has a decade under his belt at Vanity Fair and now five novels, including the winners, the two Mrs. Grenvilles, people like us, an inconvenient woman, |
| 2:03.7 | and just released in April of 1993, a season in purgatory. His third act is entirely underway, |
| 2:13.7 | and the first decade of it, Dominic Dunn has had incredible success. |
| 2:19.7 | And here he comes back for the Menendez trial, finally four years after the crime. |
| 2:26.2 | And here, Dominic Dunn is not only covering the trial, but the scene too. |
| 2:33.6 | He is back in the town he knows with all the extra reporting. |
| 2:38.3 | Nick does not miss a trick and we're here to investigate it all. But before we do, there are some |
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