In 2010, a young woman from Ontario staged a robbery that killed her mother and injured her father. She was convicted of murder and attempted murder and received a life sentence.
On August 20, 1989, brothers Erik and Lyle Menendez killed their wealthy parents, Jose and Kitty, with a shotgun in their Beverly Hills home. Upon the 30 year anniversary of the murders, we take a look back on the most memorable moments from the intriguing double-murder trial.
When Lizzie Borden was arrested and charged with the gruesome 1892 axe murders of her father and stepmother, no one could have predicted the widespread, lasting fascination with the case. A&E True Crime spoke with lawyer Cara Robertson about her new book, 'The Trial of Lizzie Borden,' about the most intriguing elements of the murder case.
Why was Borden acquitted so quickly? And is there any relationship between Borden's rumored crimes and the homicides of other famed Victorian-era female killers like Belle Gunness?
Over 20 years later, Dr. Stuart Hart, a child psychologist and expert defense witness in the trials of Erik and Lyle Menendez for the 1989 shotgun murder of their parents, still believes the brothers were abused.
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