Unthinkable: The Menendez Murders

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🗓️ 7 October 2020

⏱️ 85 minutes

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In this Dateline classic, Keith Morrison takes a comprehensive look at the case of Lyle and Erik Menendez who were convicted more than two decades ago of murdering their parents in Beverly Hills. Originally aired on NBC on November 17, 2017.

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0:00.0	This was a gruesome murder.
0:02.6	A high profile executive and his wife shot to death in Beverly Hills.
0:08.6	We don't really think that children can murder their parents.
0:12.8	You have to have a lot of evil in you to shoot your mom again.
0:18.3	Young Rich, handsome.
0:20.8	In a case made for Hollywood, they were ready for the cameras.
0:25.3	It was the first televised courtroom drama that captivated the United States.
0:29.7	It was a huge deal.
0:32.0	Eric and Lyon Mnendez convicted of murdering their own parents.
0:37.4	Are you in a round?
0:38.4	Some of them are.
0:41.1	It wasn't real.
0:42.6	It just wasn't real.
0:43.5	They're sociopaths.
0:44.9	And they're pretty big ones.
0:46.8	Now, almost 30 years later, chilling new detains.
0:51.4	Evidence never broadcasts before.
0:54.4	A letter hinting at secrets too dark to imagine.
0:58.4	This is so out of the norm.
0:59.8	Something's going on in that house.
1:01.4	Did they kill?
1:02.2	They'd cold blood or encircling fear?
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