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Murder & The Menendez Brothers: A Court TV Mystery - Episode 1: Concentric Circles

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4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Three decades ago, a family disintegrated. Two brothers committed the ultimate crime – shooting their parents to death in cold blood. The brothers were Lyle and Erik Menendez and their story has captivated people for thirty years because of the revelations that would play out over the course of the murder investigation and the two trials that followed. Before the brothers appeared before a judge, the Beverly Hills Police Department had to do their investigation. Episode One of Murder and the Menendez Brothers: A Court TV Mystery looks at that investigation and the little things it took for the brothers to avoid suspicion…at least for a little while. For more Court TV and to see our coverage of the first Menendez trial on demand, go to CourtTV.com. To see 911 dispatcher Christine Nye’s testimony, including the 911 call from Lyle Menendez, click here. To see Beverly Hills Police Detective Leslie Zoeller’s testify about the crime scene, click here

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's a warm Sunday night on Elm Drive in Beverly Hills. You can hear the low hum of cars passing by a block away on

0:15.3

Sunset Boulevard. The neighborhood is sterile, the lawns all perfectly

0:22.4

manicured with fresh cut grass and sculpted bushes.

0:26.4

Some homes have wrought iron gates to keep out unwanted visitors.

0:30.7

Most nights it feels stately calm.

0:34.0

There's a mansion on that street. The address is 722 Elm Drive.

0:39.0

That mansion was once home to the rich and the famous.

0:44.1

But tonight it will become home to the infamous.

0:48.1

It's around 10 p.m.

0:51.0

Inside the house, the James Bond thriller the Spy Who Loved Me, is playing on the TV.

0:56.0

James, that motorcycle has been following us for the last mile.

1:00.0

Jose Menendez and his wife Kitty sit on the couch next to each other watching the movie.

1:06.0

They're eating dessert, a bowl of berries and cream when... I had heard some sounds going off and I thought that there were Chinese firecrackers.

1:27.0

It was a series of like popping.

1:29.2

Avril Krom lives two doors down from the Menendez family. At first she doesn't think the sounds

1:34.1

she hears are gunshots. After all, this is Beverly Hills. So she ignores it. That

1:41.7

is until the cops arrive.

1:45.6

It was only when my son said,

1:46.9

oh mom, that's what I was telling you, those were shotguns.

1:50.1

So I, only then did I click what I was hearing as to what was going on. Is that a little emergency?

2:03.0

Yes, police.

2:04.0

What's the problem?

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