"Kitty and Jose Menendez were watching TV and eating ice cream in their Beverly Hills mansion on August 20, 1989, when their sons, Erik and Lyle, came in and shot them. Lyle blamed organized crime, deflecting the investigation, but a guilt-ridden Erik confessed to a therapist. The young men were arrested. They went through two sensational trials before both were finally convicted."
"To bust some myths about rape, she'd conducted research with a colleague in sociology. They'd documented long-term trauma for sexual assault victims and identified power and domination rather than sexual gratification as the motive for rape. This research had drawn the attention of FBI Special Agent Roy Hazelwood, a member of the budding Behavioral Science Unit. He'd invited Burgess to assist his team. She'd helped them to organize their research on criminal personalities."
Kitty and Jose Menendez were shot and killed by their sons, Erik and Lyle, on August 20, 1989, leading to two sensational trials and eventual convictions amid later release speculation. Ann Wolbert Burgess, trained in psychiatric nursing at Boston College in the 1970s, conducted research documenting long-term trauma in sexual assault victims and identified power and domination as motives for rape rather than sexual gratification. FBI Special Agent Roy Hazelwood invited Burgess to assist the Behavioral Science Unit and she helped organize research on criminal personalities. In 1990 Burgess worked with Erik Menendez, using memory-drawing techniques that led him to disclose confronting his father about repeated sexual abuse prior to the murders.
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