S3 Ep206: The Menendez Brothers: Double Homicide (Part 4)

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🗓️ 10 May 2024

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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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0:16.7	Hello everybody welcome back to crime weekly I'm Stephanie Harlow and I'm Derek Levasse so today we're diving into part four of the Menendez murders and
0:21.4	where we're getting into the actual murders today which are quite graphic.
0:26.2	But before we do, I know that Derek would like to address something.
0:30.5	Yes, please, thank you. I'm going to try to go as quick as I can, but I won't lie to you. This may be lengthy. So just bear with me. Last week, I made some comments on the episode and it definitely upset a lot of people, understandably so, looking back at it,
0:45.4	going and watching the video and listening to it, it was very poorly worded and
0:49.7	I could see how some people took it the wrong way and were really hurt by what I said.
0:54.3	So I initially put up a comment on YouTube to explain what I was talking about, which was
0:59.7	the testimony of Eric at that point, the video.
1:02.6	And I think for the most part, a lot of people
1:04.6	got the clarification, but there were still
1:06.3	some people who were upset by it,
1:08.2	understandably again, I get it.
1:10.5	But I wanted to address it on here because one not everyone goes to the comments after they watch the video and on audio you may not come over so there's a lot of people there's hundreds of thousands of people who listen to the audio version and I can only imagine
1:24.7	That where there were some people upset over there as well. So I wanted to cover it right here and I know this is kind of a lose lose like some people will say,
1:33.0	nope, we still don't agree with what you were trying to say or some people will say
1:36.7	I'm backtracking.
1:38.2	I think my record speaks for itself.
1:40.5	There's a lot of things that I say on this channel where I have a certain
1:43.9	opinion. Many of you don't agree with it and I'm okay with that as long as you're
1:47.9	understanding what I'm trying to say. I think this is a case where I just
1:52.0	really didn't say it the right way and it wasn't taken that way so I have to
1:56.8	re-address it which is what I'm going to do right now. So first off when we're doing these
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