This is an L.A. Times Studios podcast.

Hi, listener. My name is Madison McGee, and I'm the host of the new show, L.A. Crimes.

In a moment, you'll listen to a sneak peek of the first episode where I'm joined by Dateline's

Josh Manchewitz to discuss recent updates to the 1980s Menendez Brothers case.

We get into the original murder,

how the brothers have permeated into pop culture, and whether or not they have an actual shot at

freedom. I hope you enjoy. On today's show, our first ever episode, we will be discussing

one of America's biggest murder cases, the Menendez brothers.

Later on the show, we'll have L.A. Times reporter Richard Witten to update us on why the decades-old murder is back in the news and whether the brothers have any kind of shot at freedom.

But before we go any further, I want to introduce you to today's guest, Dateline correspondent Josh McEwitz. Josh, thanks for joining me.

I'm Madison. Josh, I don't want to get too ahead of myself, but part of why this case has become so popular again is because of some TV programs about it that you really can't escape. And you are not new to this phenomenon of television impacting or

bringing back old cases or cold cases into the public sphere. Do you have any examples of cases

that you've covered that that's happened with or stories that you've seen? Yeah, I ended up doing a

dateline piece about the Tiger King case because of the charges that he, now we're in the weeds, that he made about Carol.

Right.

Which the popularity of the Tiger King documentary and the Menendez documentary drove the coverage.

There's no question the coverage drove people in the criminal justice system to reevaluate those cases,

or certainly the Menendez case, to reevaluate that.

You will not convince me that the, the, the, the, A. Gascon was not looking for votes when he started

talking about maybe changing their sentence right before he was up for reelection. So it's a,

it's a wind that sort of blows back on itself. And that happens all the time. There's no

question about it. Yeah, it's really interesting because I think a lot of

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