The Menendez Brothers: The Official Companion Podcast | Part 3

You Can’t Make This Up

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True Crime, Documentary, Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Film Interviews

4.2 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Part 3: Hope for the Future. Today, over 30 years after their crime, Lyle and Erik feel they have healed and evolved. Alejandro learns how they've spent decades in search of peace and fulfillment in their lives behind bars. The brothers speak on the renewed interest in their case spawned from social media sites like TikTok, and share their hopes for the future. As their hours of conversation come to an end, Alejandro reflects on how his journey with the Menendez Brothers has personally impacted him as a storyteller. If you or someone you know has experienced sexual abuse, information and resources are available at www.wannatalkaboutit.com. The Menendez Brothers is streaming now on Netflix. --- CREDITS Netflix Podcasts Presents A Campfire Studios Production in association with Pod People The Menendez Brothers: The Official Podcast Written and produced by Angela Palladino, with help from Tony Mantia, Rebecca Chaisson, Natalie Grillo, Sam Gebauer, Alex Vikmanis, and Aimee Machado From Campfire Studios, Executive Producers: Ross M. Dinerstein and Rebecca Evans From Netflix, Executive Producer: David Markowitz Edited by Carter Wogahn and Morgane Fouse Sound design and mixed by Carter Wogahn Music composition by Jimmy Stofer Narrated by Alejandro Hartmann

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0:00.0	This podcast contains descriptions of physical and sexual violence.
0:04.0	Listener discretion is advised.
0:06.0	If you need to talk to someone, please check the show notes for resources. After were sentenced, a reception center where they evaluate every single inmate to go through every single prisoner and then they determine what prisons that they go to.
0:27.0	And then I don't know whether or not the officer told me that I'm going to a
0:33.0	different prison or I just realized it and I started screaming out to Lyle and they
0:38.4	set the door and it was the last time I saw him for 21 years.
0:47.0	This is one of the most sensational crimes ever to explode in Hollywood.
0:57.0	I really hope emergency.
1:01.0	I'm sorry to kill my bad.
1:04.0	Pardon me?
1:05.0	Don't tell me.
1:08.0	At first, Lyle and Eric Menendez weren't even on investigators radar.
1:12.0	They later confessed to the killings in therapy.
1:16.0	The brothers testified they killed their parents because they feared for their lives after
1:21.2	years of sexual and emotional abuse.
1:25.2	The jury spent days deciding between life and death.
1:28.8	The verdict here was life without parole.
1:32.3	Remorse is not the word.
1:34.0	I would have given my life to go back and change it.
1:40.5	Instead of running from it, trying to escape escape it and trying to forget it,
1:44.0	embrace who it has made you become. Life in prison. It's nearly impossible to imagine. The Menendez brothers have spent more than half their lives in prison.
2:04.6	They've each gone through different faces, anyone does, as they grow up.
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