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The Menendez brothers claim they didn’t kill their wealthy parents for their money.
But in the days and weeks after Kitty and Jose Menendez were brutally killed in the blood-spattered TV room of their $5 million Beverly Hills, Calif., mansion on Aug. 20, 1989, it didn’t look that way, especially to the authorities.
Just days after the violent shotgun murders on Aug. 20, 1989, that shocked the nation, the slain couple’s sons, Lyle, 21, and Erik, 18, went shopping, spending $15,000 on three Rolex watches, a jewelry saleswoman testified during their first trial.
That was just the beginning.
Lyle went on to buy a $64,000 Porsche Carrera, while Erik opted for a new Jeep Wrangler.
Later that year, Lyle put a $300,000 deposit on a $500,000 restaurant in Princeton, N.J., where he’d gone to college at Princeton University.
