At the time of his death, his fortune was estimated at $14 million. Jose, who emigrated from Fidel Castro's Cuba when he was 15 years old, worked his way up the business ladder to become CEO of a video distribution company. "They tend to measure performance and success by concrete measures." "There is a lot put on being able to create wealth," Weisgerber said. The situation can be even more intense in families with self-made riches, like the Menendez family. "Money becomes a substitute for having a relationship," Weisgerber said. She said it is a common thread among the wealthy families she specializes in. "It struck me very odd."īoston psychologist Karen Weisgerber, who was not involved in the Menendez case, said it should come as no surprise that the brothers had a blind spot when it came to money. He wanted to get things out of the house," Zoeller told NBC's Today Show last year. Police bought it at first, investigating the business ties of Jose, a media executive.īeverly Hills Police Detective Les Zoeller - who has since retired from the force - said he initially had "no inkling" the brothers might be involved, even though Lyle seemed unusually calm on the night of the murders. They even shot their parents in the kneecaps to make the killings look like gangland hits. They cooked up an alibi, telling investigators they had gone to see a movie at the time of the murders. They forged the paperwork to purchase two 12-gauge shotguns.
Lyle and Erik planned their parents' murder meticulously. It is even the subject of a new series, " Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders," premiering this fall on NBC. Nearly three decades later, the story still fascinates. The investigation, and two criminal trials that followed, transfixed a nation at the dawn of the tabloid TV era. And they almost got away with it, until their greed went too far.
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