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