Beverly Hills. August 20, 1989. José and Kitty Menendez are watching a James Bond movie in the den of their $13.5 million mansion. By the end of the night, they'll be shot a combined sixteen times by their own sons.

This week on Murders & Minivans, we're going deep on one of the most complicated — and most misunderstood — cases in American true crime history. Lyle and Erik Menendez. The killings. The spending. The trial. The abuse claims. And the letter that sat undiscovered for over thirty years.

We talk about who José and Kitty Menendez actually were — not the shorthand versions, but the full picture. A Cuban immigrant who built a genuine American success story and ran his household like a company. A woman who gave up her ambitions, survived her husband's affairs, and may have known something terrible was happening under her own ...