The Menendez murders that shocked Beverly Hills.The Menendez murders that shocked Beverly Hills.The Menendez murders that shocked Beverly Hills.
- Jose Menendez
- (as Carlos Gomez)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe movie that was playing when the detectives enter the crime scene is The Ten Commandments (1956).
- GoofsWhen the detective arrives at the crime scene, the emergency light on the dash was LED, which didn't exist in 1989.
- Quotes
Detective Les Zoeller: Chief said this was a doubleheader.
Detective Tom Linehan: Jose and Kitty Menendez. Neighbors heard pops around 10. The sons, Lyle and Erik, came home, found the gate open and the alarm off.
Detective Les Zoeller: Where are the sons now?
Detective Tom Linehan: Sarge brought them to the station.
Detective Les Zoeller: Did you run the plates on these yachts?
Detective Tom Linehan: The Alpha's Lyle's. This Mercedes is registered to Mr. Menendez. The other is loaner while his wife's Rolls is being serviced.
Detective Les Zoeller: [scoffing] Mercedes loaner. My wife takes the car in for service, she gets a bus ticket.
- ConnectionsFeatures The Ten Commandments (1956)
Law & Order has jumped on the true story bandwagon based on the 1989 Menendez murders and its protracted trial.
The first episode concentrates more on the police investigation in the aftermath of the murder where the sons Lyle and Erik are not yet suspects in the murder of their parents but are already acting a little strange.
Leslie Abramson (Edie Falco) who would go on to become the sons lawyer already calls it in her first scene when she tells her husband that they did it when watches the story of the killings on the television news.
Living in the UK I know little about the Menendez murders and this story does not have the celebrity or notoriety of the Simpson's story. I actually was less than thrilled with the opening episode and rather bored by the end of it.
- Prismark10
- Oct 4, 2017