Clemency or Denial Governor Newsom Holds the Key to the Menendez Brothers’ Freedom-WEEK IN REVIEW
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🗓️ 9 March 2025
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Week in review. |
| 0:02.4 | I look back at the most prolific stories of the week. |
| 0:05.2 | This is a true crime in real time update from True Crime Today and the Hidden Killers podcast. |
| 0:12.1 | You know a case is truly haunting when 35 years later, it still refuses to rest. |
| 0:17.8 | Lyle and Eric Menendez have spent more time behind bars than they did as free men. |
| 0:22.5 | They were just 21 and 18 when they pumped their parents full of shotgun rounds in their |
| 0:27.0 | Beverly Hills mansion, a crime so brutal, so theatrical, that it became the courtroom |
| 0:33.1 | obsession of the early 90s. America watched, transfixed as the two rich boys, clad in pastel |
| 0:39.8 | sweaters, wept their way through a murder defense that painted their father, Jose Menendez, |
| 0:44.9 | as a monster lurking behind the gilded gates of their perfect life. The first trial ended in a |
| 0:50.8 | hung jury, split right down gender lines. The second trial, a conviction, |
| 0:56.8 | life without parole. That was the story's ending, until now. Because something's happening, |
| 1:03.9 | something that, for the first time in decades, is threatening to crack open the ironclad door of |
| 1:09.1 | their conviction. For the last 30 years, |
| 1:11.6 | the Menendez brothers have had nothing but time. And time is a strange thing in the legal world. |
| 1:16.8 | It dulls the public's outrage. It allows new evidence to surface. It reshapes laws. And now, |
| 1:23.7 | for the first time in over three decades, their lawyers are back in court, arguing that |
| 1:28.2 | the case the world thought was closed is anything but. |
| 1:31.6 | The Menendez brothers are fighting for a new trial, and their case hinges on one thing, |
| 1:37.0 | proof that their father was not just a ruthless Hollywood executive, but a serial predator. |
| 1:43.4 | Here's what changed. In 2018, a letter written by Eric Menendez in |
| 1:49.3 | 1988, a year before the murders, surfaced. It was addressed to his cousin, Andy Canoe. In it, |
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