Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murdersfollowed a season-long plot line to dive into the nitty-gritty details of the actual case, featuring theendlessly captivating Edie Falcoas criminal defense attorney Leslie Abramson. Law & Order: Organized Crime(2021–present) Detective Elliot Stabler (C...
The eight-episode first installment of Law & Order: True Crime, NBC said, will revisit the 1989 Menendez brothers murders. “We’ve been talking with Dick about how to create an event series coming out of the Law & Order ripped-from-the-headlines brand. This case captured the public’s...
Historical spoiler alert: It wasn’t enough. The brothers were sentenced to life in prison, and the first season of a new anthology series,Law & OrderTrue Crime: The Menendez Murders, seeks to tell their story and that of their firebrand attorney Leslie Abramson, played with blustering intensi...
Similar to FX’sThe People v. O.J. Simpson, the eight-episode first season will be a recreation of the trial of Lyle and ErikMenendez. The brothers were convicted of murdering their parents and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in 1996. The siblings, who were...
Intriguingly, Dunne also tracked down the witness who led to the arrests of the brothers: Judalon Smyth, a woman who happened to be sleeping with the married therapist who had worked on-and-off with the brothers. He relayed his conversation with Smyth in the piece. “The Menendez Murder Tr...
The Emmy winner plays attorney Leslie Abramson in Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders, premiering Tuesday.
Brothers Erik and Lyle Menendez became infamous in 1989 after they killed their parents, José and Kitty Menendez, in their Beverly Hills home. The brothers claimed they acted in self-defense due to years of physical and sexual abuse. However, in 1996, a jury convicted the brothers… ...
Law & Order True Crimestands as the first series dedicated to the dramatizations of specific high-profile crimes and their trials. The first season,Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders, depicted the trial of Lyle and Erik Menendez. Actress Edie Falco starred as the Menendez brothers’...