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True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers

THE MENENDEZ MURDERS-Robert Rand

True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers

Dan Zupansky

True Crime, News Commentary, Documentary, News, Society & Culture

42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2019

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

A successful entertainment executive making $2 million a year. His former beauty queen wife. Their two sons on the fast track to success. But it was all a façade.

The killing of José and Kitty Menendez on a quiet Sunday evening in Beverly Hills didn’t make the cover of People magazine until the arrest of their sons seven months later, and the case developed an intense cult following. When the first Menendez trial began in July 1993, the public was convinced that Lyle and Erik were a pair of greedy rich kids who had killed loving, devoted parents.

But the real story remained buried beneath years of dark secrets. Until now. Journalist Robert Rand, who originally reported on the case for the Miami Herald and Playboy, has followed the Menendez murders from the beginning and has continued investigating and interviewing key sources for 28 years. Rand is the only reporter who covered the original investigation as well as both trials. With unparalleled access to the Menendez family and their history, including interviews with both brothers before and after their arrest, Rand has uncovered extraordinary details that certainly would have changed the fate of the brothers’ first-degree murder conviction and sentencing to life without parole.

Rand shares these intimate, never-before-revealed findings, including a deeply disturbing history of child abuse and sexual molestation in the Menendez family going back generations, and the shocking admission O.J. Simpson made to one of the Menendez brothers when they were inmates at the L.A. County Men’s Central Jail. THE MENENDEZ MURDERS:The Shocking Untold Story of the Menendez Family and the Killings that Stunned the Nation-Robert Rand
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0:26.8

You are now listening to True Murder.

0:29.6

The most shocking killers in True Crime History

0:32.4

and the authors that have written about them.

0:35.2

Gacy, Bundy, Dahmer, The Night Stalker, DTK,

0:40.5

every week another fascinating author talking about the most shocking and infamous

0:45.2

killers in True Crime History.

0:47.3

True Murder with your host, journalist and author, Dan Zufanski.

1:00.0

Good evening.

1:02.9

A successful entertainment executive making $2 million a year.

1:08.3

His former beauty queen, wife.

1:10.5

There are two sons on the fast track to success, but it was all of a sudden.

1:16.1

The killing of Jose and Kitty Menendez on a quiet Sunday evening in Beverly Hills

1:21.8

didn't make the cover of People magazine until the arrest of their sons seven months later,

1:27.7

and the case developed an intense cult following.

1:31.3

When the first Menendez trial began in July 1993,

1:35.6

the public was convinced that Lyle and Eric were a pair of greedy rich kids who had killed loving

1:40.9

the voted parents.

1:43.2

But the real story remained buried underneath years of dark secrets

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