Chapter 84 Section 6

In order to ease the tense atmosphere at home, on August 19, 1989, Jose Monadez chartered a family-sized whaling boat and led his family to hunt whales in the Pacific Ocean.According to the later reports of the sailors on the ship, the Monadez looked very divided, not like a family.For most of the day, Lyle and Eric were in the bow, José was alone in the stern, and Katie stayed in the cabin. According to records at the time, the Pavillon Hills Police Department received a 911 call from Joseph Lyle Monadez at 11:47 p.m. on August 20, 1989: Station Watchman #1: Pavillon Hills Police Station.

Lyle Monadez: Is it the police station? Police Station Duty #1: What's the emergency? Lyle Monadez: We are their sons (sob)... Police Station Duty #1: What's going on?what happened? Lyle Monadez: (continues to sob) They shot my parents! Police Station Duty #1: What?who?are they still there Lyle Monadez: Yes. Police Station Duty #1: You mean the murderer... Lyle Monadez: No, no. Police Station Watchman #1: They got shot? Lyle Monadez: Eric, boy, come on. (screaming yelling in the background) Eric, shut up! Police Station Watchman #1: (to Police Station Watchman #2) This man is very hysterical. (into microphone) Is that man still there?

Police Station Duty #2: What's going on?Do you know what's going on? Lyle Monadez: I don't know. Police Station Watchman #2: Who was shot when you got home? Lyle Monadez: My parents. Police Station Duty #2: Are they still in the house, I mean the murderer? Lyle Monadez: (shouting) Eric, get away from them! Police Station Watchman #2: Who got shot? Lyle Monadez: My parents! The call was only recorded for a minute and a half in total.About a minute and a half later, two detectives, Mike Bakas and John Koranoj, arrived at 722 Elm Road.The police station was close to Monadez's house, three blocks to the southwest.

Contrary to the expectations of the detectives, the monadez mansion was dark and eerily quiet.Michael Bacchus and John Koranocki walked through the large iron gates on the driveway, inspected the garden first, then guarded the two gates respectively, and shouted at the dark building. Suddenly, two young men cried and rushed out from the double doors in front.They were shoulder to shoulder, and even their steps were almost uniform.The two ran past Miko and John, rushed through the big iron gate, and finally fell to their knees on the narrow lawn between the sidewalk and the street.They cried and howled like crazy, yelling over and over again: "Oh! My God! I can't believe it! I can't believe it!" The two detectives tried to ask them some questions. But the two boys didn't seem to hear it, they just ran back and forth between the trees, bumping their heads against the trunk from time to time.On several occasions, the older young man seemed to be soothing his partner.

Michael Bakas and John Koranokei called more police on their walkie-talkies, and the two-lane Elm Road was soon filled with police cars and ambulances.The police did not know whether the perpetrator was still hiding near the scene. As a result of the search, they only found two dogs from the Monadez family in Katie's bedroom. Sergeant Kirk West, who was the first to enter the building, heard the faint sound of the TV.He followed the sound to the living room. Under the dim light of the TV screen, Officer West said later that he saw a bloody scene that he would never forget. Blood, brains, and bullet-shattered flesh were splattered all over the floor, walls, and furniture in the living room, and the victim's internal organs were spread out from the victim's wounds on the blood-soaked carpet.Both the Monadizes were mutilated, their faces battered so badly that they were almost completely unrecognizable.Katie was lying on her back in a pool of blood, her mouth was wide open, as if she was screaming silently, the upper left part of her lip and a row of teeth were smashed off by bullets, her nose and one eye were gone, and the other one was left. One eye was opened round, filled with terror.José leaned on the sofa with his head bowed, and the big hole on the back of his head was clearly visible.

For a long time after that, whenever the news about the double murder of Monadez was reported on TV, two gurneys with body bags would appear on the screen being pushed from the white mansion to the emergency room. car shot.What the TV viewers didn't see was that as Hosse's body was bagged, a clump of brain tissue fell to the ground through the massive bullet hole in his head. At about the same time, Marvin Lennon, Chief Detective of the Pavillon Hills, called the home of Chief Detective Les Zoyler and informed Les that he would be in charge of the Jose-Katie Monadez double murder case. investigative work.According to Les Zoyler's notes on the first site visit, there was no sign of forced entry at the Monadès home.Although the living room where the murder took place was a mess, it was clear that the perpetrator had not come for the robbery.

Around one o'clock in the morning, Joseph Lyall and Eric Monadez were taken to the Bavell Hills Police Station in the same car.The brothers were not yet listed as suspects at the time, and the police acted as a protective measure because they weren't sure if the killer was still near the scene. Lyle has returned to normal, and Eric has calmed down a lot.Inspector Sergeant Thomas Edmund began to talk to them separately, and he asked the brothers in detail about the whereabouts of the 20th of August.During the conversation, Eric became very nervous again and kept crying. Sergeant Edmund only talked to him for less than 20 minutes.Talking to Lyle was much easier by comparison.

According to Lyle, he and Eric played tennis on the backyard tennis court at home that morning, and then went inside to watch a tennis match on TV.In the afternoon, the two of them went to the nearby "Bavillie Center" shopping point to shop. Around 5, the brothers agreed with a friend, Perry Polman, to go to Santa Monica's annual Taste of Los Angeles food festival.Lyle said that he and Eric left home at around 8:00 p.m. and went to West Tree Village to watch the newly released 007 film "License to Kill" at the theater there, but there were too many people queuing in front of the box office. The brothers then diverted to Century City Center, where they watched a "Batman."After the movie ended, they got lost on the drive to Santa Monica and failed to meet Perry Polman.Lyle and Eric then called Perry from a roadside phone booth, and the three agreed to meet again at a bar called the Cheesecake Factory in Bavill Hills.After the call, the brothers drove home to get Eric's fake ID because Eric was under 21 and couldn't go into the bar.