{"product_id":"9781946885265","title":"The Menendez Murders: The Shocking Untold Story of the Menendez Family and the Killings That Stunned the Nation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA successful entertainment executive making $2 million a year. His former beauty queen wife. Their two sons on the fast track to success. Until tragedy struck.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarried for twenty-six years, José and Kitty Menedez appeared to be a happy couple and proud parents. Twenty-one-year-old Lyle Menendez was enrolled at Princeton where he was a star on the tennis team. Eighteen-year-old Erik Menendez had just graduated from Beverly Hills High and was about to start college at UCLA. The Menendezes appeared to be living the American dream. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut it was all a façade. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Menendez saga has captivated and fascinated people since 1989. The killing of José and Kitty Menendez on a quiet Sunday evening in Beverly Hills didn’t make the cover of \u003cem\u003ePeople\u003c\/em\u003e magazine until the arrest of their sons seven months after the murders, 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—“the boys,” as they would become known—were a pair of greedy rich kids who had killed loving, devoted parents. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the real story remained buried beneath years of dark secrets. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUntil now. Journalist Robert Rand, who originally reported on the case for the \u003cem\u003eMiami Herald\u003c\/em\u003e, has followed the Menendez murders from the beginning and has continued investigating and interviewing important sources for twenty-seven years. With unprecedented access to the Menendez family and its history, including direct communication with Lyle, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Menendez Murders: The Shocking Inside Story of an American Tragedy\u003c\/em\u003e, Rand shares these intimate, never-before-revealed findings for the first time, 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 LA County Mens Jail.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Benbella Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47040069763312,"sku":"9781946885265","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781946885265_p0.jpg?v=1763801088","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781946885265","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}