The Psychology of the Menendez Bros (Chapter 2: Pre-Murders)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 28 May 2025
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00:00 The history of the Menendez family 13:21 Who was Jose Menendez?
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May 28, 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, deserving listeners, this is chapter two in our deep dive on the psychology of the Menendez brothers. |
| 0:06.6 | So Berto has been leading the way, and he's doing a great job, which is bad news for him, |
| 0:12.8 | because that means he's going to be doing more of these, which I'm really quite happy with. |
| 0:17.5 | I should have broken the dishes, is what you're saying. |
| 0:19.2 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:20.3 | So what we're going to do in |
| 0:21.8 | this chapter is we're going to go back to the start. We're going to learn a little bit of the family |
| 0:26.4 | background. But to catch us up a little bit where we left off, essentially what we have learned |
| 0:31.1 | so far is that there was a gruesome murder on August 20th of 1989. |
| 0:38.1 | By the way, trigger alert, we will be discussing murderous things, violent things, |
| 0:44.6 | potentially some abuse, and so know that that will be discussed in this episode. |
| 0:48.9 | And so we learned that there was this murder. |
| 0:51.0 | We also learned that these two brothers, Eric and Lyle Mnandez, |
| 0:55.2 | are the ones that they themselves say killed their parents. And they killed them with shotguns, |
| 1:01.5 | and it was this gruesome, the cops said it was one of the most gruesome things they've ever |
| 1:05.6 | seen. And we also know that a few months later, Eric, the younger brother, confessed to his therapist that he had done this, that him and his brother had done this. |
| 1:15.7 | And we also know that they had gone because they were rich, they were inheriting a lot of money and they were spending a lot of this money. |
| 1:23.0 | But we don't know, like, who are they? |
| 1:25.5 | Where do they come from? |
| 1:26.4 | Why did they even do this? |
| 1:28.0 | Right? So we're going to explore their family background a bit and see if this can illuminate anything for us. |
| 1:34.0 | All right. So they, the father, Jose, is originally from Cuba. He was born in Cuba. He came from an affluent family in Cuba. |
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