S3 Ep212: The Menendez Brothers: Monster Behind the Mask (Part 7)

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🗓️ 31 May 2024

⏱️ 111 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	Hello everybody welcome back to Crime Weekly I'm Stephanie Harlow and I'm Derek
0:16.8	Levasseer and this is part seven of the Menendez Brothers series. Finally.
0:23.0	Yes, this is the last part.
0:25.0	Derek and I in a few days are going to be getting on planes, flying to Nashville,
0:28.0	going to CrimeCon, meeting a bunch of you.
0:30.0	We're super excited, but we are very tired right now. However, we're very very
0:35.9	much looking forward to seeing everybody in Nashville and we will not be tired
0:39.2	then. We will be rejuvenated, rested rested and ready to hang out have fun and talk true crime
0:46.4	yeah now we're gonna finish strong we're gonna finish strong on this one because you
0:50.8	you were kind of giving me a little bit of a heads up we have a lot to cover tonight
0:53.7	things that are important to this story and I was actually making some notes today as
0:58.4	far as my final thoughts on on this case overall because I got about eight pages of notes from all the episodes so I wanted to consolidate and hopefully at least give my opinion on some of the questions that we posed when we first started covering this series as far as the child abuse, the premeditation
1:18.1	versed, you know, just a spontaneous crime of passion, and then finally the most important thing should
1:24.7	the Menendez brothers still be in prison now so at the end of the episode we're
1:28.8	going to give our opinions on those questions as well.
1:31.8	Yeah it's a great episode actually.
1:34.0	Lots of information.
1:35.0	I think that I think that a seven parts
1:38.0	for the Menendez murders,
1:40.0	obviously we can't get all the information in.
1:42.0	There was so many little tidbits I found
1:44.8	along the way that I kind of wanted to insert,
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