The Psychology of the Menendez Bros (Chapter 4: Monster)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 2 June 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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00:00 Pretrial
13:06 The trial & opening arguments
23:04 Dr. Oziel's testimony
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June 2, 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, deserving listeners, this is Chapter 4 in our deep dive on the Menendez brothers. |
| 0:05.0 | Umberto is leading this deep dive. He is going over the details and then asking me some very interesting questions about psychology and psychotherapy. |
| 0:16.0 | So, Berto, where did we leave off in Chapter 3? |
| 0:20.0 | Well, our brothers are in jail. |
| 0:23.2 | They have been arrested. |
| 0:24.8 | As we will recall, Lyle was arrested first, and Eric, although was out of the country, |
| 0:32.5 | he was playing tennis in Tel Aviv. |
| 0:35.4 | He was convinced to come back to the States and then he turned himself in. |
| 0:38.7 | So they are now arrested, awaiting trial. |
| 0:42.3 | Of course, these things do take time. |
| 0:44.8 | So this is where I think a lot of our confusion also stems from because even though the |
| 0:49.8 | murderers happened in August of 1989, the trial didn't start till 1993. |
| 0:58.0 | Wow. |
| 0:58.5 | Right. |
| 0:58.8 | So, okay, so between 1990 and 1992, the brothers are in jail, and they're awaiting all the, you |
| 1:06.7 | know, doing all the pre-trial motioning, finding lawyers, all these kinds of things. |
| 1:12.3 | They couldn't get out on bail or anything? |
| 1:14.3 | Nope. |
| 1:14.9 | Wow. |
| 1:15.2 | Not because probably the severity of the crime, maybe. |
| 1:19.9 | Yeah, maybe. |
| 1:21.4 | Okay, so a couple of things. |
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