, erik menendez was a complete mess. he was emotionally distraught, and several days after the murders, craig cignarelli claims that erik menendez confessed to him and told him that he was responsible for the deaths of his parents. >> it was a friend of mine that called me and said, "dude, turn on the tv." >> how many shots do you think went off? >> about six in a row. >> my first instinct was to -- to call erik and get to erik and find out what happened. we went back to the house, and -- and eventually sat down at a chessboard, and he looked up from the chessboard and as he had his fingers on the pieces, he said, "do you wanna know what happened?" and i made a big mistake and said, "yes." i can remember him telling me where the blood and the skin landed, and literally being in the room where it happened. it was a very intense, heavy moment. i realized that conversation was gonna change my life and change his life. and, you know, he had now burdened me with something that i was stuck with a -- a pretty heavy moral dilemm