After shooting their parents, Lyle and Erik embarked on a rather erratic shopping spree where they burned through over a million dollars on ski trips, tennis tournaments, and expensive watches in the two months leading up to their October 31, 1989 confession.

And although the Menendez brothers' estate was thought to "be worth $14,501,342, according to a probate document filed Aug. 22, 1990," per the Los Angeles Times, all of that has now been run through. 

From the very start, the brothers had asserted that money had nothing to do with the brutal shotgun slaying of their parents. As TIME puts it, "Lyle and Erik decided they would rid themselves of their abusive father and save their mother the anguish of living without him by killing her too."