Hi, welcome to the Wolves and Sheep podcast. I'm Roberta Glass. And today I'm going to be talking to you about what nobody talks about when they talk about the Menendez Brothers trial. Now, the Menendez brothers were two brothers, Lyle and Eric Menendez, who were at the time 18 and 21 when they

murdered their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez on August 20, 1989 in Beverly Hills, California.

Now, what nobody talks about when they talk about this trial is the defense strategy.

It's really misunderstood.

Now, before we talk about the defense strategy, let's talk about how the Menendez brothers got arrested.

Now, the Menendez brothers had an alibi. They said they went to see Batman, then they went to the cheesecake factory, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

So they had it all planned out what they were going to tell the police.

And they came home and they found their parents murdered.

And there's this famous 911 call where Lyle's like,

Someone killed my parents.

That's the first thing that he says.

And the police, it took the police a long time to figure out it was the brothers.

Now there were little hints that the brothers were just not acting right.

Dominic Dunn, the crime writer, went to the funeral, and he saw Lyle walking down the aisle of the church at the funeral, and he thought he's just a little too cocky. He did it. That was his impression. Lyle told a relative at that service,

who says I can't fill my father's shoes?

And he pointed at his shoes and said,

these are my father's shoes.

Very odd statement.

They also went out and spent large amounts of money

on things like Rolex watches, a car.

Eric got a private tennis instructor.

These are not things you want to do when you murder your parents.

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