What they did, at round 10 p.m. on Aug. 20, 1989, was shoot their dad and mom to dying in the household’s Beverly Hills mansion on Elm Drive, a 9,000-square-foot Mediterranean-style dwelling beforehand leased by the likes of Prince and Elton John earlier than Jose Menendez and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menendez purchased it lower than a yr earlier than the murders.

Jose, a 45-year-old leisure govt, was shot point-blank in the again of the head with a 12-gauge shotgun. He was present in the den, the place he and Kitty, 47, his spouse of 26 years, had been watching a film. Kitty was discovered mendacity in a pool of blood in the hallway, shot in the arms, chest and face. Each was additionally shot in the kneecap. 

The brothers bought in the automotive and dumped the weapons someplace off of Mulholland Drive, then threw the spent shotgun shells and their bloody garments in a dumpster at a fuel station. They purchased film tickets in Century City for a movie they did not see, then went to Santa Monica, the place they tried to search out one in every of Lyle’s associates who may function an alibi; unable to search out the man, they drove again dwelling.

At 11:47 p.m., 21-year-old Lyle referred to as 911, sobbing to the dispatcher, “Somebody killed my parents!”