Jose And Mary Menendez 1989

This paper is about the homicide of Jose and Mary Louise Menendez in California in 1989 by their own sons Erik and Lyle Menendez. This paper will be discussing the investigation in the homicide, how the detectives come up with the probable cause that the brothers committed this crime, the trials, and the sentences of the brothers. This paper discussed the warrant for the brother’s therapist to use to tapes and the notes in the court about what the brothers confess about the murder, the arrest warrants, and the different of the two trial.

Keyword: investigation, homicide, detectives, court Background
José was born on May 16, 1944 in Havana, Cuba, the youngest son of three children to an upper-middle class family. Then in 1959 his family

The next day the bodies of José and Kitty was brought to the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office where Dr. Golden perform the autopsies where he determines that José was shot three time, while Kitty was shot four times in her head and ten times in her body and the both was shot in knee to make it look like a mob hit with shotguns. Detective Zoeller and Detective Linehan started to interview family and friends of the victims to see who would have murder them, and started to look into the numerous theories from people including theories from the brother’s which they stated in the questionings with Sergeant Edmond which was the “mob maybe did it.”. None of the theories came out to be not true, and detectives begin to have suspicions about the brothers involvements. One of the thing that made the detectives suspicion was the fact even though Erik was very emotional, Lyle was very calm, collected, and the fact that the brothers was an hour late to memorial for their parents. Moreover, adding suspicions was that days after their parents were murder, the brothers begun a spending spree which include buying expensive cars, jewelries like watches, open businesses that didn’t last, hiring private coaches for tennis, and so