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Crime Analyst

Ep 271: Inside Erik and Lyle Menendez’s Parole Board Hearings with Robert Rand Part 13

Crime Analyst

Laura Richards

True Crime

4.92.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Laura and investigative reporter and author, Robert Rand, take you inside Erik and Lyle Menendez’s Parole Board Hearings on August 21 and 22. Erik and Lyle were denied parole. Laura and Robert share why this is unsurprising, as well as new information that was learned about Erik and Lyle’s behaviour in prison and the next steps. It’s not over.   Watch the YouTube video of this interview @crimeanalyst Watch the exclusive episode and behind the scenes deeper dive into the Parole Board Hearings in the Crime Analyst Squad: www.patreon.com/CrimeAnalyst   #MenendezMurders #MenendezBrothers #ParoleBoardHearings #LyleMenendez #ErikMenendez #JusticeForErikAndLyle #Menudo #CrimeAnalyst #TrueCrime #Podcast #MenendezMenudo #Menudo #BoysBetrayed #DomesticAbuse #CoerciveControl   Clips https://www.today.com/video/lyle-menendez-denied-parole-a-day-after-brother-s-bid-was-rejected-245640261832   Sources http://menendezmurders.com/about-robert-rand/ Media Pool Reports (available in the Crime Analyst Squad www.patreon.com/CrimeAnalyst)     REGISTER For Laura’s 2025 Masterclasses – Criminal Behavioural Analysis: Coercive Control and Stalking, Preventing Murder and Suicide in Slow Motion, DASH, DASH Train the Trainer, Coercive Control and Stalking: https://bit.ly/LRMasterclassRegistration    More Training Info: www.dashriskchecklist.com    www.thelaurarichards.com       Crime Analyst YouTube, Socials and Website    YouTube @crimeanalyst     Facebook Crime Analyst Podcast    Instagram @crimeanalyst @laurarichards999    Threads @crimeanalyst    X @thecrimeanalyst @laurarichards999     TikTok @crimeanalystpod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Overnight, a California board denying parole to Lyle Menendez, a day after a separate panel made the same decision about his younger brother Eric.

0:08.4

Lyle's hearing, like Eric's, lasted several hours, with the board also pressing him about his repeated use of contraband cell phones.

0:15.7

Lyle saying he was worried as prison monitored communications were being sold to tabloids.

0:22.2

In May, a judge reduced the brother's sentences, making them eligible for parole for the first time since they were convicted

0:26.4

of the 1989 murders of their parents, Jose and Kitty, in their Beverly Hills mansion,

0:31.5

which they say was self-defense after years of abuse. I just told him that I didn't want to do this.

0:37.3

Throughout the hearing, the 57-year-old addressing what he says was sexual abuse not only by of abuse. I just told him that I didn't want to do this.

0:37.5

Throughout the hearing, the 57-year-old addressing what he says was sexual abuse not only

0:41.5

by his father, but also his mother.

0:44.0

It's something Lyle testified about during his 1993 trial saying it happened up until he

0:48.5

was 13.

0:49.5

She would wash me everywhere.

0:52.4

She would wash your genitals?

0:55.9

Yes.

0:57.0

Lyle crying throughout his closing statement telling the board he takes responsibility for all this pain.

1:02.4

My mom and dad did not have to die that day.

1:05.2

Ultimately, the board finding Lyle still poses an unreasonable risk to the public.

1:09.9

One commissioner saying, incarcerated people

1:12.2

who break the rules are more likely to break rules in society. Despite the denials, the family

1:17.3

remaining hopeful. We are making progress and that we had these hearings and that yes, there was a

1:22.4

denial and that is intensely disappointing. But at the same time, there is, you know, there is still light at the end of the

1:30.0

tunnel. The board saying both brothers can seek parole again in just three years. And as for that

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