Discover the definitive book on the Menendez case-and the disquieting true story behind Netflix's Monsters- The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.
Discover 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 fa ade.
The Menendez saga has captivated the American public since 1989. The killing of Jose 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.
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, Rand has uncovered extraordinary details that would certainly have changed the fate of the brothers' first-degree murder conviction in 1996. Today, his discoveries give the brothers new hope for reopening the case.
Industry Reviews
“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.”
—Evan Wright, New York Times bestselling author of Generation Kill
“Robert Rand, having covered this case from the beginning, is the only journalist who attended both trials gavel to gavel . . . This book tells the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.”
—Hazel Thornton, author of Hung Jury: The Diary of a Menendez Juror
