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Murder & The Menendez Brothers: A Court TV Mystery - Episode 2: The Tapes

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4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In the months following their parent's brutal murder, Lyle and Erik Menendez went on with their lives thinking they had gotten away with it. Little did they know that one woman – a woman they had never met – would be their downfall. Her name was Judalon Smyth and had she not come forward and shared what she knew about the deaths of Jose and Kitty Menendez, the brothers might have gotten away with it. Episode two of Murder and The Menendez Brothers: A Court TV Mystery tells Judalon’s story and looks at how the Menendez brothers would, for better or worse, become the cultural icons they remain today. For more Court TV and to see our coverage of the first Menendez trial on demand, go to CourtTV.com. To see to courtroom arguments about the admissibility of the Erik and Lyle Menendez’s confession tape including testimony from Dr. Jerome Oziel, click here for Part 1 and click here for Part 2.

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0:00.0

That sounds like they're waiting the confidentially

0:05.8

just for that.

0:06.8

That's beautiful.

0:07.8

That's fantastic.

0:09.8

Jesus.

0:11.8

Imagine all of that is on tape.

0:14.0

So they went ahead and agreed to be recorded

0:18.0

and gave all the details from every minute what happened.

0:30.1

It was almost spring in Los Angeles. The days were getting longer.

0:34.7

And much like the trees of California, the Menendez investigation was finally starting to bear fruit.

0:42.1

It had been seven months since Kitty and Jose were gunned down in their living room.

0:46.3

Police suspected their sons had something to do with it.

0:50.3

Eric and Lyle had gotten more than half a million dollars from insurance,

0:54.0

and they were in a rush to spend their windfall on Rolex's and fancy cars.

1:00.6

The cops also learned that the brothers hired an expert to wipe their family computer.

1:06.0

Eric and Lyle knew their father's original will listed them as heirs.

1:11.0

They worried the latest will would disinherit them so they had it destroyed.

1:18.4

The police had their suspicions but they had no guns, no witnesses, and no confession.

1:24.0

They couldn't directly link the brothers to the crime.

1:28.0

It's strange to think that a case that became one of the most watched trials on TV might have never gotten solved if not for one

1:37.2

woman.

1:41.2

Judulon Smith.

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