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Done & Dunne

192. A Nick in Crime | Menendez Five: The First Trial, Act Three

Done & Dunne

Hemlock Creatives

History, True Crime

4.7630 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Done and Dunne, we return to Dominick Dunne’s reporting around the first trial and Lyle and Erik Menendez, resulting in two hung juries.

What is the defense portion of this case? What is the other drama inside the courtroom, from the family to the media to the observers?

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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.ukeslustre. Welcome to Dunn and Done. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey, All Things, Dominic Dunn.

0:19.8

We are centering back to our man Nick in his writing this week.

0:24.9

We left Dominic Dunn reporting back in Vanity Fair in October of 1993 with the prosecution's

0:33.2

case of the Menendez brothers. Dominic Dunn's next submission is from the spring of 1994 in

0:43.1

March of that year. The whole first trial is over at this point, and it does, as we know,

0:50.5

result in two hung juries for Eric and Lyle Menendez.

0:56.0

Their second trial will not go down the same way, as there is a whole lot that happens to turn the whole world's eyes onto the criminal justice system in Los Angeles coming in June of 1994 with the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson.

1:15.0

It is almost impossible to separate Dominic Dunn's coverage of the Menendez brothers in their

1:21.4

second trial away from O.J. Simpson. It really does all connect by 1996, but today, here on Dun & Dun, we're

1:31.1

still living in 1994. Our man Nick has a whole lot of thoughts about the way that first trial

1:38.9

went down and all the other courtroom happenings as well.

1:44.7

Before we begin our episode today,

1:46.7

I do have some tremendous thanks to give

1:49.2

to our newest supporters over at Patreon.

1:52.2

Thank you, thank you, thank you, Suzanne E, Amy B, Nicholas B. and Jalina.

1:57.7

Holy cats, I am so grateful for you

2:00.2

for finding us over at patreon.com slash done and

2:04.3

done. That's where you get all the ad-free episodes. All those come early to you. Bonuses as well.

2:11.6

Big thanks to our new supporters and our sustaining supporters there. One other note of mention, my done and done investigators here,

2:21.3

I really, really think you're going to like the series that I'm currently doing

2:25.7

over on my other podcast, Trashy Divorces, Aristotle Onassis, and his lovely ladies.

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