When she first met Erik Menendez, Burgess would later say how she was intrigued by the fact that he did not seem to fit the typical profile of what she describes as a “cold-blooded killer.”
“There’s a line people cross when they commit something horrific. It changes them,” she writes in “Expert Witness.”
“But Erik had none of that. He was different.”
Burgess would come to attribute that difference to the trauma Menendez and his brother say they experienced, claiming years of being sexually abused by their father.
That day in April 1990, as Erik sketched crude stick figures of his family’s life, Burgess says Menendez told her that – mere days before the murders – he and Lyle had confronted their parents about their father’s alleged sexual abuse and molestation. They later testified that they feared for their lives.
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