From Court TV to TikTok — The Menendez Effect

Truer Crime

Celisia Stanton

True Crime

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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I’m going off the record with my co-producer, Olivia, to break down our Menendez Brothers series, from how the story evolved during production to what it reveals about our culture’s fascination with crime and punishment. We talk about the ethics of telling familiar stories, the lasting impact of media coverage, and the newest developments in the brothers’ case more than 30 years later. Want early access to every episode, all at once? Tenderfoot+ subscribers get the full case at the start of each month—plus ad-free listening and exclusive content from over 30 shows. Sign up at tenderfootplus.com. Find all action items, sources, and resources in the show notes at ⁠truercrimepodcast.com⁠. Follow @truercrimepod on ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠X⁠⁠⁠. Follow me @celisiastanton on ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠. Sign up for my weekly Substack newsletter, ⁠⁠⁠Sincerely, Celisia⁠⁠⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:08.3	Hi friends, it's Licia. We just wrapped our three-part series on the Menendez brothers, and before we move on, I wanted to take a moment to go off the record with you, because honestly, this case really surprised me.
1:20.9	I thought that I knew it going into it.
1:23.8	Two rich kids, Beverly Hills, the sensational trial that turned into this kind of national soap opera.
1:31.2	But once I really started watching the original courtroom footage, I realized that this story was a lot different than I had heard about it previously.
1:42.6	What was being said on the stand, how the media covered it,
1:46.1	the cruelty that we were normalizing without even noticing,
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