The Menendez Murders: The Shocking Untold Story of the Menendez Family and the Killings that Stunned the Nation

by Robert Rand Narrated by Eric Martin

Overview

Discover the definitive book on the Menendez case-and the source material for NBC's Law and Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders.



A successful entertainment executive making $2 million a year. His former beauty queen wife. Their two sons on the fast track to success. Until tragedy struck.



Married for twenty-six years, José and Kitty Menendez appeared to be a happy couple and proud parents. Twenty-one-year-old Lyle Menendez was enrolled at Princeton, where he was a star on the tennis team. Eighteen-year-old Erik Menendez had just graduated from Beverly Hills High and was about to start college at UCLA. The Menendezes appeared to be living the American dream. But it was all a façade.



The Menendez saga has captivated and fascinated people 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 after the murders, 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-"the boys," as they would become known-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.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

"Through his unparalleled access—and his relentlessly detailed reporting—Robert Rand became America's unofficial ‘Menendez-whisperer' when this story dominated the news. Now, Rand is back, with stunning, never-before seen revelations  in The Menendez Murders—a landmark work that upends everything we thought we knew about these crimes, and may rock the criminal justice system. Deeply compelling and meticulously sourced, it's the essential read of the year."

—Evan Wright, author Generation Kill 

"What kind of journalist stays on a single story for 30 years? Meet Robert Rand . . . Even now he's exposed new, hard-fought, deeply-concealed pieces that flip the entire story on its head."

—Arthur Jay Harris, author of Speed Kills and The Unsolved Murder of Adam Walsh

"Robert Rand, having covered this case from the beginning, is the only journalist who attended both trials gavel to gavel . . . Robert has spent the time required to understand this complicated case and has presented it in an unbiased, factual, compelling manner. This book tells the whole truth, and nothing but the truth." 

—Hazel Thornton, author of Hung Jury: The Diary of a Menendez Juror

Product Details

BN ID:	2940171446543
Publisher:	HighBridge Company
Publication date:	09/04/2018
Edition description:	Unabridged
Sales rank:	1,046,564

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