Law & Order True Crime (TV Mini Series)
The Menendez Murders: Episode 1 (2017)
Sam Jaeger: Detective Les Zoeller
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Quotes
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Detective Les Zoeller : Chief said this was a doubleheader.
Detective Tom Linehan : Jose and Kitty Menendez. Neighbors heard pops around 10. The sons, Lyle and Erik, came home, found the gate open and the alarm off.
Detective Les Zoeller : Where are the sons now?
Detective Tom Linehan : Sarge brought them to the station.
Detective Les Zoeller : Did you run the plates on these yachts?
Detective Tom Linehan : The Alpha's Lyle's. This Mercedes is registered to Mr. Menendez. The other is loaner while his wife's Rolls is being serviced.
Detective Les Zoeller : [scoffing] Mercedes loaner. My wife takes the car in for service, she gets a bus ticket.
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Detective Les Zoeller : Hey, Tom, check this out. It was broken in the night of, but with the front door open, there'd be a draft. Hey, Sergeant?
Sgt. Edmonds : Yeah.
Detective Les Zoeller : When you interviewed Erik Menendez, he said something about gun smoke?
Sgt. Edmonds : Yeah, he saw and smelled gun smoke when he and his brother came home.
Detective Tom Linehan : Two hours after the shooting? Gun smoke would have dissipated by then.
Detective Les Zoeller : Especially with a draft. When they brought those boys back to the station, you do a GSR on them?
Sgt. Edmonds : Well, nah, I mean, they were so broken up. Yeah.
Detective Les Zoeller : [Edmonds leaves] So you give 'em a pass. The rich kid's get out of jail pass.
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Detective Les Zoeller : Get rid of your parents. Get rid of the new will. Sounds like a plan to me.