S3 Ep204: The Menendez Brothers: Kill or Be Killed (Part 3)

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🗓️ 3 May 2024

⏱️ 140 minutes

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Summary

Beverly Hills, located just southwest of the Hollywood Hills, was and still is a place that the rich, famous and glamorous choose to make their homes. Known for its opulence and luxury, the homes in Beverly Hills are some of the most expensive in the United States, with some properties worth tens of millions of dollars. But behind the country clubs, cocktail hours and shopping trips, there was something much darker brewing in a high end Beverly Hills neighborhood. On August 20th, 1989, business executive Jose Menendez and his wife Kitty were brutally murdered while sitting in the living room of their sprawling Mediterranean style mansion, and what seemingly made this tragedy worse was the fact that their two son’s, Lyle and Erik, were the ones to make the gruesome discovery of their bodies. Suddenly orphaned, the Menendez brothers were initially looked at with sympathy, but soon they would be on trial for the murder of their parents. Lyle and Erik didn’t deny that they had taken their parents' lives, but according to them it was because they were scared and broken down after a lifetime of abuse. At the time, most people believed this was a fabricated excuse, and the prosecution gave greed and money as the true motive. A tragedy and trial played out for the world on television, ending with both Erik and Lyle confined at the Richard Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego for life, with no chance of parole. Recently, newly discovered evidence and testimony has raised questions of whether Erik and Lyle were being honest about the constant state of stress and fear their parents forced them to live under.

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0:00.0	Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island?
0:03.8	Jane Gaskin did exactly that,
0:06.2	trading in the family home to begin a new life in the tropics.
0:09.9	But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets.
0:13.4	I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise,
0:17.8	the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder.
0:23.0	Wish you were here.
0:24.0	Follow the price of Paradise Now, wherever you listen to podcasts. Hello everybody welcome back to Crime Weekly I'm Stephanie Harlow and I'm Derek
0:46.8	Lovasser. Today we are diving into part three of the Menendez murders and
0:51.4	we're kind of bringing ourselves up to the timeline of when
0:56.2	the murders happened and we have a lot to talk about today.
1:00.5	There's going to be a lot of testimony from Eric and Lyle because honestly when we're talking about their experiences of this alleged abuse it is best to have them tell talk about it in their own words. That is it is their story, it is
1:17.2	their words and I think that's the best way to do it. But I do know that we have a
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