The Menendez Murders
BenBella Books (Verlag)
978-1-946885-26-5 (ISBN)
- Lieferbar (Termin unbekannt)
- Versandkostenfrei innerhalb Deutschlands
- Auch auf Rechnung
- Verfügbarkeit in der Filiale vor Ort prüfen
- Artikel merken
Discover the definitive book on the Menendez case—and the primary 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. But it was all a façade.
The Menendez saga has captivated the American public 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 later, 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 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.
Journalist Robert Rand, who originally reported on the case for the Miami Herald and Playboy, has followed the Menendez murders from the beginning and has continued investigating and interviewing key sources for 28 years. Rand is the only reporter who covered the original investigation as well as both trials. With 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 certainly would have changed the fate of the brothers' first-degree murder conviction and sentencing to life without parole.
In The Menendez Murders: The Shocking Untold Story of the Menedez Family and the Killings That Stunned the Nation, Rand shares these intimate, never-before-revealed findings, including a deeply disturbing history of child abuse and sexual molestation in the Menendez family going back generations, and the shocking admission O.J. Simpson made to one of the Menendez brothers when they were inmates at the L.A. County Men's Central Jail.
Robert Rand is an Emmy Award–winning journalist who works in TV, print, and digital media. He began covering the Menendez brothers case for the Miami Herald the day after the killings on August 21, 1989. He was in court daily for both trials and provided analysis for Court TV, ABC, and CBS News. In March 1991, Playboy published Rand's article "The Killing of Jose Menendez." The 14,000-word story was the longest article ever published by Playboy. Rand's print work includes stories contributed to People, The Guardian, Stern, Grazia, and Tropic, the Sunday magazine of the Miami Herald. He covered the William Kennedy Smith rape trial for Paris Match. In July 2016, Rand was hired by Wolf Films as a consultant working on the development of the NBC eight-hour limited series Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders, which aired in the fall of 2017. Rand's unpublished manuscript of The Menendez Murders provided the primary source material for the series. Rand has appeared as the primary interview in dozens of documentaries about the Menendez case, including ABC 20/20's "Truth and Lies: The Menendez Brothers" and Dateline NBC's "Unthinkable: The Menendez Murders," which both aired in 2017. Rand was awarded a Los Angeles Emmy Award for two years of stories at KCOP-TV in L.A. about an illegal immigrant who was wrongly convicted. The stories resulted in the overturning of a ten-year-old conviction and the release of the man from jail. He was a member of the Special Assignment investigative reporting group at CBS 2 in L.A. and the I-Team at KYW TV (Philadelphia) that won a Columbia-DuPont Silver Baton Award for a year-long series about wealthy property tax dodgers.
Contents
Part I: Murder in Beverly Hills
Chapter 1: Nightmare on Elm Drive
Chapter 2: No Suspect(s). No Weapon(s).
Chapter 3: Living in Fear—Hollywood and the Mob
Chapter 4: A Family Mourns
Chapter 5: The Investigation Begins
Chapter 6: Millionaire Orphans
Chapter 7: Who Killed the Next Senator from Florida?
Part II: The Parents: Jose and Kitty
Chapter 8: The Menendezes of Havana
Chapter 9: True Love
Chapter 10: The American Dream
Part III: “The Boys”: Erik and Lyle
Chapter 11: A Close-Knit Family?
Chapter 12: Growing Up Menendez
Chapter 13: Hertz Man
Part IV: California Dreaming
Chapter 14: Inconvenient Women
Chapter 15: Troubled Sons
Chapter 16: Kitty’s World
Chapter 17: Friends
Chapter 18: Princeton
Chapter 19: Exposed Secrets
Chapter 20: Choices and Fears
Chapter 21: Kill or Be Killed
Chapter 22: What Have We Done?
Part V: Jerry and Judalon
Chapter 23: A Fateful Meeting
Chapter 24: The Confession
Chapter 25: November 2, 1989
Chapter 26: “Don’t Go to the Cops!”
Part VI: Closing In
Chapter 27: One Night in Malibu
Chapter 28: The Oziels—She Held Us Hostage
Chapter 29: The Informant—Judalon Smyth
Chapter 30: The BHPD Search Warrant
Part VII: Who Knows What Goes On Within a Family?
Chapter 31: The Arrest—Inside the Beverly Hills Bunker
Chapter 32: First-Degree Murder
Chapter 33: Unanswered Questions
Part VIII: Trial by Media
Chapter 34: The Escape Attempt
Chapter 35: Judalon Goes Public
Chapter 36: “Now We Can’t Succeed”
Part IX: Trial By Two Juries
Chapter 37: Showtime—Opening Statements
Chapter 38: The Prosecution—Guiltier than Sin?
Chapter 39: I Don’t Recall—Donovan Goodreau
Chapter 40: Trial Within a Trial—Dr. Leon Jerome Oziel
Chapter 41: The Prosecution Rests
Chapter 42: The Defense
Chapter 43: Sisters in Conflict
Chapter 44: A Compelling Witness
Chapter 45: Lyle’s Cross Examination
Chapter 46: Strange Sins—Erik Testifies
Chapter 47: The Return of Donovan Goodreau
Chapter 48: The Therapy Experts
Chapter 49: More Family Secrets Revealed
Chapter 50: Privilege Denied—The “Therapy Tape”
Chapter 51: The Soap Opera of Judalon Smyth
Chapter 52: Don’t Turn Away from the Pain
Chapter 53: Choose Your Victim
Chapter 54: Mistrials
Part X: Aftermath
Chapter 55: Erik, Lyle, and O.J.
Chapter 56: The Second Trial
Chapter 57: Defense on the Ropes
Chapter 58: The Verdicts—Life or Death?
Chapter 59: LWOP and a Wedding
Chapter 60: Erik and Andy Cano—The Letter
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
About the Author
| Erscheinungsdatum | 25.08.2018 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Dallas |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 153 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 476 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-946885-26-6 / 1946885266 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-946885-26-5 / 9781946885265 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
| Haben Sie eine Frage zum Produkt? |
aus dem Bereich
