Name: Law & Order: True Crime
Genre: Drama, Crime

Law & Order: True Crime

Category

TV Series

Genre

Drama, Crime

MPAA Rating

Seasons

1 minute(s)

Production Co

Universal Television, Wolf Entertainment

Distributor

NBC

Official Site

http://www.nbc.com/law-and-order-true-crime-menendez

Cast and Crew

Starring

Edie Falco as Karen
Gus Helper
Miles Gaston Villanueva
Cliff Chamberlain
Julianne Nicholson
Constance Marie
Sam Jaeger
Josh Charles as Iggy
Heather Graham as Factory Girl
Elizabeth Reaser as Molly
Sterling Beaumon
Molly Hagan
Dominic Flores
Larry Cedar
Mark Moses
Kate Beahan

Synopsis

The eight-episode first season anthology series "Law & Order: True Crime" is called 'The Menendez Murders' which focused on a recreation of the trial of Lyle and Erik Menendez's trial. The brothers were convicted of murdering their parents and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in 1996. The brothers, who were 21 and 18 years old, respectively, at the time of the murders, were tried separately but eventually found guilty in a third trial after no verdicts were rendered in the first two trials because of hung juries. Like the O.J. Simpson trial, the Menendez brothers trial became an early hit for then-burgeoning cable channel CourtTV.