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True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers

THE MENENDEZ MURDERS-UPDATED EDITION-Robert Rand

True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers

Dan Zupansky

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

4 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Listen to Robert Rand, the investigative journalist the definitive book on the Menendez case—and the disquieting true story behind Netflix’s Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.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 Menendez saga has captivated the American public since 1989. 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, when the case developed an intense cult following. By the time 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.The real story remained buried beneath years of dark secrets.A culmination of more than 30 years of journalist Robert Rand’s relentless reporting, this updated edition of The Menendez Murders shares these intimate, breakthrough findings, including a deeply disturbing history of child abuse and sexual molestation in the Menendez family going back generations, as well as exclusive new revelations linking the 1980s boy band Menudo and the Menendez family, a first-hand account of the emotional reunion between Erik and Lyle Menendez, and surprising insights into how the Menendez brothers remain resilient and live with purpose despite a life sentence without parole.Journalist and author Robert Rand has followed the Menendez murders from the beginning and is the only reporter who covered the original investigation as well as both trials. With a unique vantage and unparalleled access to the Menendez family and their history, including interviews with both brothers before and after their arrest, and to this day. In 2023, Rand uncovered extraordinary material evidence that would certainly have changed the fate of the brothers’ first-degree murder conviction in 1996. He and the Menendez family hoped his discoveries would give the brothers new hope for reopening the case.The Netflix film series MONSTERS was released September 19th-with over 20 million viewers, and much controversy-with Netflix also releasing their documentary The Menendez Brothers, featuring Robert Rand, to be released October 7. On October 3rd, Los Angeles D.A. George Gascon made an announcement that his office is reviewing the convictions of the Menendez brothers to determine whether they should be resentenced and potentially released. A hearing has been scheduled for November 26th. Robert Rand joins me to discuss The Menendez Murders Updated Edition, Netflix's Monster and The Menedez Brothers documentary—and his incredible role in the latest developments in the historic Menendez murder case. THE MENENDEZ MURDERS UPDATED EDITION-Robert Rand.

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You are now listening to true murder, the most shocking killers in true crime history and the authors that have written about them.

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Gacy, Bundy, Dahmer, the Nightstalker, Dckck,

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

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killers in true crime history. True murder with your host journalist and author

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Dan Zufanski.

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Good evening.

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A successful entertainment executive making $2 million a year, his former

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beauty queen wife, their two sons on the

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but it was all a facade.

0:55.0

The Menendez Saga has captivated the American public since 1989.

1:01.0

The killing of Jose and Kitty Menendez since 1989.

1:02.8

The killing of Jose and Kitty Menendez on a quiet Sunday evening in Beverly Hills didn't make the

1:08.8

cover of People magazine until the arrest of their sons seven months later, when the case developed an

1:16.7

intense cult following. By the time the first Menendez trial began in July 1993, the public was convinced that

1:27.1

Lyle and Eric were a pair of greedy rich kids who had killed loving devoted parents.

1:35.3

The real story remained buried beneath years of dark secrets.

1:41.8

A culmination of more than 30 years of journalist Robert Rand's relentless reporting.

1:48.0

This updated edition of the Menendez Murders shares these intimate breakthrough findings, including a deeply disturbing

1:56.4

history of child abuse and sexual molestation in the Menendez family going

2:01.4

back generations, as well as exclusive new revelations linking

2:07.0

the 1980s boy band Menudo and the Menendez family.

2:18.0

Journalist and author Robert Rand has followed the Menendez murders from the beginning and is the only reporter who covered the original investigation as well as both trials.

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