This podcast contains descriptions of physical and sexual violence.

Listener discretion is advised.

If you need to talk to someone, please check the show notes for resources. One of the core beliefs that my parents instilled in me was that the outside world was a dangerous and scary place where no one could be trusted

that the family was all I had. It was the carrot and the stick. The without the

family or nothing but with the family you have all of the

legends greatness which is supposed to be in your blood. When you're told as a child

that your bloodline is special you believe. When you're told that because you're Menendez, you're

supposed to win, that you are better then. It's a seductive story for a child.

There was a feeling that you were just different as my father's son

and you come from this historic bloodline and you can tolerate more than there

were just greater plans for you. This is one of the most sensational crimes ever to explode in Hollywood.

At the real emergency.

I'm sorry to kill my bad.

Pardon me?

Don't kill me. At first Lyle and Eric Menendez weren't even on investigators radar.

They later confessed to the killings in therapy.

The brothers testified they killed their parents because they

feared for their lives after years of sexual and emotional abuse.

The jury spent days deciding between life without parole.

Remorse is not the word.

I would have given my life to go back and change it.

Instead of running from it, trying to escape it and trying to forget it,

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