The Psychology of the Menendez Bros (Chapter 3: The Murders)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 30 May 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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00:00 Writing about murder 05:17 The day before the murders 11:03 The murders 25:08 The 911 call
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Desirving listeners, this is chapter three in our deep dive on the Menendez brothers, |
| 0:04.5 | in which I know nothing about the story, and Berto knows everything about it, and he's walking |
| 0:09.8 | me through it and shocking me as I go. So let's continue with that. Where do you say, Burdo? |
| 0:13.9 | Let's do it. This is the Psychology in Seattle podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Kirk Honda, I'm a therapist and I'm also a professor. My name is Umberto Castaneda and I discover new colors. |
| 0:22.7 | That led us up to the murders themselves. |
| 0:25.7 | We're basically, because remember, it was 1988, it was 1988, the robberies happen, the house |
| 0:32.2 | robberies, they have to move again. |
| 0:34.0 | This is when they moved to Beverly Hills. |
| 0:36.0 | And Eric starts therapy because, hey, |
| 0:39.7 | what's wrong with this kid, you know? So Lyle wasn't required to go to therapy? Okay, |
| 0:44.6 | because he wasn't convicted. Yeah. Remember, Eric took the fall. Okay. So late 1988, |
| 0:52.1 | something interesting happens. Eric has a friend named Craig and the two of them want to write a screenplay or they're working on a screenplay. |
| 1:02.0 | So they're collaborating on the screenplay and the title is Friends. |
| 1:07.0 | It features a wealthy young man who murders his parents to inherit their fortune. |
| 1:16.0 | I'm not making this up. In 1988, Eric and his friend Craig were writing a script. Now, you know, |
| 1:23.1 | people write scripts, but anyways, it was a script specifically. So for the people who listened to |
| 1:28.5 | this episode is about a year ago-ish, I don't know, this podcast company reached out to me to |
| 1:34.1 | interview me about this case that was similar to this. And I ended up making, I think, an episode |
| 1:38.7 | about this, that a woman, I think in Portland, if I'm not mistaken, in Oregon. She was a fiction writer and had been convicted of murdering her husband and had previously |
| 1:53.6 | written a, you know, quote unquote fictional piece of how to murder your husband, essentially, |
| 2:00.6 | and get away with it. I think it was literally |
| 2:02.2 | called that. Oh, wow. And it's kind of like OJ's, if I did it. Well, no, because it was written before. |
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