What they did, at around 10 p.m. onAug 20, 1989, was shoot their moms and dads to death in the household’s Beverly Hills estate on Elm Drive, a 9,000- square-foot Mediterranean- design house formerly rented by the similarity Prince and Elton John prior to Jose Menendez and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menendez purchased it less than a year prior to the murders.
Jose, a 45- year-old home entertainment executive, was shot point-blank in the back of the head with a 12- assess shotgun. He was discovered in the den, where he and Kitty, 47, his spouse of 26 years, had actually been seeing a motion picture. Kitty was discovered depending on a swimming pool of blood in the corridor, shot in the arms, chest and face. Each was likewise shot in the kneecap.
The bros got in the cars and truck and disposed the weapons someplace off of Mulholland Drive, then tossed the invested shotgun shells and their bloody clothing in a dumpster at a gasoline station. They purchased motion picture tickets in Century City for a movie they didn’t see, then went to Santa Monica, where they looked for among Lyle’s good friends who might function as an alibi; not able to discover the man, they drove back house.
At 11: 47 p.m., 21- year-old Lyle called 911, sobbing to the dispatcher, “Somebody killed my parents!”
