The Menendez Brothers | Victims OR Killers??

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we're going to talk about them today and deep dive into what crimes they committed and a little update on what's going on and a new Netflix show that came out about them monsters and how that kind of tells the story in a loose kind of weird way we we'll talk about it we'll get into it but for those of you who don't know the Mena's Brothers Lyle and Eric became Infamous for the brutal murders of their parents Jose and kitty Menendez in 1989 the gruesome case not only captivated a but also opened up a conversation

about family media sensationalism and the criminal justice system and the trial which unfolded across three separate hearings saw both brothers sentenced to life without parole it's not really a spoiler alert they've been in there for a while although their guilt was never really in question but the reasons behind their actions remain subject to an ongoing debate and that's kind of what we're going to talk about today along with the show that just came out and the public perception of whether they should be in prison or not so without further Ado let's unbuckle our seat bels

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do what we always do and go back a little bit and talk about the family specifically obviously the Menendez family cuz to understand the full scope of this case one must go back and look at the family's background Jose Menendez firstborn in Cuba was a self-made success story he immigrated to the US after the Cuban Revolution determined to build a life through hard work and his determination led him from washing dishes to a high-profile career as an entertainment executive but first Jose would attend a Southern Illinois University where he would meet his future wife Mary

Louise Anderson otherwise known as Kitty and his wife Kitty Menendez was a former beauty pageant contestant and they would be married in 1963 and that is when they would move to New York where Jose would earn his accounting degree from Queen's college and the couple's first son Joseph Lyle who goes by his middle name Lyle was born January 10th 1968 in New York Kitty would quit her teaching job after Lyall was born and the family would move to New Jersey where Eric would be born November 27th 1970 in Glouchester Township and the family would live

in hell Township where both brothers would attend Princeton day school so the couple's image really reflected like the American dream especially at the time with successful careers wealth and two talented sons that they had Jose would later become an executive at Herz Global Holdings and later at RCA records and in 1986 the family would move moved to Beverly Hills California when he was appointed CEO of artisan entertainment then known as live entertainment and their Beverly Hills mansion had been previously owned by celebrities like Michael Jackson and Elton John symbolizing their High status and Lyle the

older son was basically primed to follow in his father's successful Footsteps in business he would attend Princeton University but he would be placed on academic probation for having terrible grades and he would also be suspended for plagiarism whereas Eric the younger brother earned average grades but had a remarkable talent for tennis he would even go on to become a nationally ranked tennis player at only 18 years old so outwardly the Menendez family wasn't all perfect but it seemed to be the American dream family but beneath the surface it was much much darker because according to

Lyall and Eric their picture perfect childhoods were a complete facade because the brother's defense during the trials centered around accusations of at the hands of their father and their mother by extension um I was like I was about 11 she help you with your baths yes and how old do you believe you were when that happened I was in sixth grade I guess I I'm pretty sure I was 12 and was that within a year of the episode you previously described at 11: yes Alan had begun thinking back to some very disturbing things he had

witnessed at the mendez's house as had cousin Diane Hernandez he would take their heads and push them underwater until they started panicking and kneed up he would let them up again cuz their father Jose was apparently a very domineering figure not only pressuring the boys to succeed at academics and Athletics but also allegedly them physically and mentally and kitty meanwhile was described as a very passive and distant mother who according to the defense was aware of the and didn't help to stop it and testimonies in the trial would reveal that she struggled with alcoholism and

also struggled with mental health issues rendering her a very ineffective protector of her kids the prosecution however painted a very different picture which we will get into further along so stay with me so let's get into the days leading up to the murder so like I said leading up to the murder Lyall and Eric would start planning their crime meticulously to prepare they would purchase their weapons that they would use later on on their parents so on August 18th 198 9 2 days before the murders the brothers would go to a Big Five Sporting Goods

store in San Diego and they would buy two 12 gauge shotguns which is still just crazy to me that you could just buy buy that the same day I I'm we're not going to get into that but they would choose this location because it was Far Enough from Beverly Hills minimizing the chance of anyone actually recognizing them and the brothers tried to be really obscure when purchasing the weapons using fake identification and claiming that the guns were for hunting they would also buy ammunition and other equipment such as shotgun shells loaded with Buckshot which we

will see down the line will cause significant damage to whatever you shoot and after that Lyall and Eric would begin working on their Alibi so on the night of the murder they would purchase tickets to go see the movie Batman I can never think of Batman the same after this case which they claimed to have seen at a local theater this was the cover up cuz they would actually be going to their parents house and doing what they did so on the night of the murder Jose and kitty would be relaxing in their den in

their family Beverly Hills mansion Jose would be seated on the couch watching the television and kitty was lying on the other end of the couch either sleeping or reading we're not quite sure and ly and Eric would wait until their parents were more vulnerable and in an unsuspecting State and once that happened Lyall and Eric would enter The Den with armed shotguns Lyall the older brother would take the lead first without warning he would aim the shotgun at the back of Jose's head and pull the trigger firing at Point Blank Range and this is with

a shotgun so the force of the blast killed Jose instantly obviously and he would slump over the couch after the fact and blood would be splattered everywhere around the room the crime scene photos I do not recommend looking at and I will not show them here and kitty obviously being awakened by The Gunshot would be next she would attempt to escape but disoriented and in a state of panic she managed to get up from the couch but before she could run out of the room Eric chased after her firing multiple rounds as she tried to

flee she would be hit in the leg and she would collapse near the entrance of the den But Eric would just continue to shoot aiming at her head and her body ensuring that she was fatally wounded Kitty would be shot a total of 9 to 10 times I've kind of seen they were collectively Shot 14 to 15 times I feel like it's maybe hard to determine how many times because a shotgun blast is so widespread but according to forensic analysis the bullets left her face completely unrecognizable and she would suffer massive injuries across her torso

as well and the nature of the injuries were so severe that investigators initially thought that this had to be part of a mob style execution which ended up working in Lyall and Eric's favor but after Kitty collapsed from being shot the first initial times Eric and Lyall would Circle back to Jose and kitty and make sure that they were killed so the entire attack really only took a few minutes but Kitty and Jose's body were left in a extremely gruesome State and by the end of the massacre about 14 to 15 rounds were fired six

into Jose and about 10 into Kitty and to cover their tracks after the Mur Mur the brothers would drive to mhand drive to dispose of the shotguns by dumping them into the canyon and after they would return home back to their house in the Beverly Hills where they would place a frantic call to 911 and Lyall would be just sobbing on the phone claiming that they had found their parents shot to death in their house after returning from the movie and their Alibi at first really held up and the police really didn't suspect them at

all they didn't even actually swab them for for shotgun residue which helped them later on in the case but obviously we know how it it up but initially it did help them however they would act very odd after their parents would die which would then make them look suspicious starting off with very extravagant spending and erratic behavior following the murders which raised some big red flags to the to the people investigating the case and the 911 call is like believable which kind of adds to the whole trial and stuff to really good really good acting

cuz we know that they killed them like we know that much they they admitted to that so we know that Eric was faking the call so that that doesn't work into their favor but anyway here it is that really emergency yes please uh what's the problem s uh what's the problem what's the problem I'm s to kill my parents pardon me don't what who are they still there yes the people no no were they shock hey man were they shock yes they were shock [Laughter] yes what happened I have a hysterical person on we're trying

to get P further other units is the person still there what happened happened we have units in around what happened I don't know who shot who I don't hear anything I came home he came home and found who shot mom and dad you know what they're still in the house the people that did the shooting get away from him okay hey let me talk to Eric let me let who is the person that was shot my mom and my dad your mom and dad my mom and my dad okay hold on a second okay we're

on our way over there with an ambulance okay I got to go so like I said following the murders instead of displaying signs of grief like most people would you think especially if they did it I feel like people would like overly act like they were sad if they didn't want to go to jail but the boys didn't Lyall and Eric uh just began spending lavishly within 6 months they would spend $700,000 of their father's money Lyle would purchase a Rolex a Porsche and an entire restaurant in Princeton while Eric would invest in a personal

tennis coach and even would try his hand at concert production spending $40,000 on a failed Rock concert the brothers would also travel extensively vacationing in the Caribbean and enjoying a lifestyle far removed from morning Suns so naturally their extravagant spending raised some red flesh within the investigation team at a time when they probably should have been grieving at least fake grieving you know they were indulging in a high rolling lifestyle that seemed very out of ordinary for what had just happened to their family so it wasn't long before law enforcement began to view them as

suspects and despite their initial escape from suspicion it was actually Eric's overwhelming guilt that ultimately led to the brother's downfall Eric had been in therapy with dror Jerome oil before the murders and after the killings the therapist reached out to him again so in a series of therapy sessions Eric eventually confessed to Dr Ozil that he and his brother had killed their parents and unbeknownst to Eric oil had actually taped the therapy session and ozil's involvement would later become pivotable PIV pivotable what ozil's involvement would later become pivotal to the trial he would confide in

judalon Smith a woman who he was having a extramarital affair with and Smith reported the tape confessions to the police and the issue of whether these tapes were protected by doctor paat confidentiality became a focal point later in the legal battles over the next 2 years but ultimately two of the tapes containing confessions were admitted into evidence so the first trial began in 1993 and the courtroom drama captivated the nation separate juries would be compiled for each brother and the trials would be broadcast on court TV which had basically just launched and really capitalized on

the Public's fascination with high-profile legal cases which we have seen with OJ Simpson's case Ted Bundy's case even like Johnny Depp and Amber herd's cases Etc and the trial became a media sensation drawing endless analysises and attention both for its soap opera like elements and for The Sensational claims made by the defense and let's get into the defense you said at some point your father had with you is that right yes just started with after Sports practices he would massage me and uh we would have these talks and he would show me and he would

uh fondle me and he would ask me to do the same with him and I would I would touch him and we would undress so what was so pivotal in the case for the defense on their side was that Eric and Lyall had been driven to murder because of years of and emotional from their parents ly's and Eric's testimony would provide very graphic accounts of their father's alleged and misconduct Lyle's testimony would provide very graphic accounts of their father's misconduct she harassed me what do you mean she harassed you he just kept um exposing herself

picking me up in at the clubs with you know in a robe exposed with leaving her underwear around calling me into the room when she was she knew that she was you know changing and he would describe a cycle of manipulation and fear and control that continued throughout Their Lives Eric would also recount very similar stories saying that the continued well into his teenage years these episodes with your father what time of day did they usually occur at night before or after dinner either before or after usually before when he when he right got home

from work but sometimes it would happen after if it were before dinner would you still be expected to come down to dinner yes unless I was unable to and were there times when you were unable to eat dinner there were times when I was unable to come down to dinner why was that because I was crying too much or I was too much of a mess and I was shaking and I couldn't and the defense portrayed Kitty as just a broken woman who was overwhelmed with depression and alcohol and drug use unable to protect their

kids from Jose's tyranny basically and there's also accounts that she was also guilty in said as well allegedly she would uh come in after I'd been in there a while she would help wash my hair and uh wash wash me with a sponge and Eric's attorney Leslie Abramson became a household name basically due to her vigorous defense on her client she argued that the brothers genuinely feared for their lives and according to the defense the murders weren't premeditated but an act of desperation to free themselves from their father however the prosecution would present a very

different narrative arguing that the menendez's brothers were motivated by greed and greed alone prosecutors would point to the brothers Reckless spending after the murders as evidence of their true intent they argued that the brothers killed their parents just to gain control of the family inheritance essentially which at the time their life insurance policy was worth about $14 million which in today's money is $35.5 million roughly so a lot of money and this would add weight to the argument although legal technicalities did prevent the brothers from collecting on it so the first Trials of Lyall and

Eric Mendez actually had a hung jury with the jurors divided on whether the brothers actually committed the murders or were acting in self-defense the trial would last 6 months and was an absolute cultural phenomenon reflecting the nation's deep divisions on family wealth and Justice some viewers would sympathize with the brothers believing that their claims and saw the murders as just a tragic consequence of their tortured childhood and others would view them as just spoiled wealthy young men that took advantage of their parents and committed a monstrous crime so immediately after the trial a retrial was

announced and the second trial would be held in 1995 and because of the media circus that happened with the first trial judge Stanley Weisberg decided to ban television cameras from the courtroom for this trial additionally the judge would rule that there was insufficient amount of evidence to rule that the claims were valid severely limiting the defense's arguments so in March 1996 after the second trial Lyall and Eric Mendez would be convicted of two counts of first-degree murder murder of a Maria Menendez human being for financial gain while lying in weight with a firearm the prosecution

had successfully portrayed the brothers as coldblooded killers motivated purely by greed and on July 2nd 1996 the day after I was born which is weird I just know that my mom was probably watching this while giving birth which is weird to think about I think she was actually I got to check in on that but this makes a lot of sense for me doing this kind of stuff now now that I think about it sorry I'm having like a moment right now anyway on July 2nd 1996 both brothers would be sentenced to life in prison

without the possibility of parole and the public who had been absolutely encapsulated by this case for 7 years had seen all this drama finally come to an end and people were still divided and Lyall and Eric would initially be sent to separate prisons for their sentencing but in 2018 they were actually reunited and allowed to serve their time together in San Diego and over the years the brothers have actually become mentors to the other inmates particularly those who have suffered Eric leads self-help groups while Lyall continues to advocate for his and his brother's innocence insisting

that the that this effort Justified their actions and the Menendez brothers case continues to Fascinate the public as we've seen with documentaries TV shows and books revisiting the tragic story because the case opened a larger conversation about the nature of family and its potential long-term effects but it also underscored the ways in which wealth and media can influence the public perception of crime which we've talked about and which we've seen so like I said numerous documentaries have chronicled this case exploring the different aspects of the trial and the crime one of the earliest documentaries was

the 2000 episode of Menendez brothers Blood Brothers from Court TV series mug shots and this was followed by American scandals in 2015 with Barbara Walters which featured an episode titled menendez's Brothers the bad Sons the story continues now the scene being set for murder describe your relationship with your father what words come into your mind brutal uh uh painful and other documentary specials like truth and lies the Menendez brothers 2017 have aired on ABC shedding light on the psychological and familial Dynamics at play in the murders and in 2021 ABC's 2020 aired a special titled

inside the bandes movement highlighting a growing trend on social media particularly Tik Tok where younger Generations Express Sympathy for the brothers focusing on the alleged that they suffered but I do not think that anyone in their right um state of mind would do what they did to their parents looking at the case of the men's Brothers is literally so heartbreaking and I don't know how they're not at a jail but when I tell you that if I was the people that were in their lives and I was hearing all the stories that was coming out

about their parents do you I would have turned into a whole different person I would have been calling the police CPS I would have been calling the FB freaking eye I would have be calling everybody in their mama so the documentary basically examines how them and and his brothers have become controversial figures in modern discourse with many questioning whether their sentence was justified and the Menendez case has adapted into several films and television specials in 1994 CBS aired Menendez a killing in Beverly Hills a made for TV movie depicting the murders and subsequent trial the

brothers were also portrayed in 2017 lifetime film called Menendez Blood Brothers and that same year NBC released a Law and Order True Crime the Menendez murders in eight episode series that provided a more sympathetic view to the brothers focusing on the alleged that Jose put upon them allegedly and this one specifically would Garner a significant praise earning them actually a prime time Emy nomination for outstanding lead actress in a limited series given to Eddie Falco and even in comedy spaces like Saturday Night Live there was a parody of the brothers trial in 1993 and in

the 1994 movie natural board killers they Loosely referen the brothers and their story even made brief appearances on shows like the fresh prince of Belair and The Sopranos underscoring how the case really permeated the public Public's Consciousness the Menendez brothers will be free before I am the Menendez brothers got home on time which brings us to today and recently only a few days ago a new Netflix series called monsters which is actually the second installment from the first installment which was about Jeffrey dmer the Jeffrey dmer story now Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan made Monster

the Lyall and Eric Menendez story and it's basically just a retelling of the infamous crime with its leadup and aftermath that took place on August 20th 19 1989 and I watched it and hm um I just I don't know Hollywood specifically telling these kinds of stories similar to dmer I love Evan Peters let's just talk about that for a minute I think he's a fantastic actor and he does an amazing job of any role that he plays and that's kind of how I feel about the actors in The Lyle and Eric uh Mendez story I

think everyone acted so well and it was so well done that if it was just like a fake you know story i' be more enthralled in it and and impressed by it but since it's a real story and it plays on things that are true and things that maybe are true and very sensitive topics it it's just like they Hollywood IE it I guess I don't know and they really draw it out to where near the end of it it kind of just got like stale and lost for me but we'll talk about it a

little bit so basically it follows the brother Lyle and Eric Lyall being played by Nicholas Alexander Chavez and Eric being played by Cooper [ __ ] and it's about them having endured emotional physical and the series argues at the hands of their father so it plays into that that happened or at least they show it because they bounce back in different time frames so it's it's kind of showing that that was the case and it may very well be the case but in the sentencing it doesn't turn out that way so it's it's a bit

like again very hollywoodized but Jose played by Javier bardam which is one of my favorite actors okay by far again amazing performance he plays a evil dad basically so well I I'd recommend just watching it because it is it is a good show like besides all of it you know the things being Hollywood eyes and all that kind of stuff and also Kitty played by Chloe savini she did also an extremely extremely good job very convincing characters and it basically tells the chronicles of the brother's upbringing and the murders and everything thereafter so the show

attempts to unpack the circumstances that led up to the crime while highlighting Eric and lyall's trauma but in the end again the narrative almost feels like futile and I'm not alone in my opinion either other outlets feel like this but also more importantly well I guess kind of importantly the brothers themselves at least Eric spoke out about it saying he he was not happy basically he said the 53-year-old criticized the show calling it a dishonest portrayal of the 1989 murders of his parents Jose and Marie Lis Kitty Menendez a crime he and his brother obviously

committed he would also go on to say I believed we had moved beyond the lies and ruinous character portrayals of Lyle creating a charicature of Lyall rooted in horrible and blatant lies rampid in the show I can only believe they were done so on purpose it is with a heavy heart that I say I believe Ryan Murphy cannot be this naive and inaccurate about the facts of our lives so as to do this without bad intent Eric when continue it is sad for me to know that Netflix's dishonest portrayal of the tragedies surrounding our crime

have taken the painful truth several steps backwards back through time to an Era when the prosecution built a narrative on a belief system that males were not and that males experienced trauma differently than women and he also stated that Murphy the creator of monsters shapes his horrible narrative through vile and appalling character portrayals of Lyall and me in a disheartening slander he went on is the truth not enough let the truth stand as the truth how demoralizing is it to know that one man with power can undermine Decades of progress in shedding light on child

Ood trauma and that's I don't know like I know that you know they're in prison and and we don't know what happened before but I mean I mean what he says in a whole is true in just talking about you know um of of boys in general over girls or or just in general you know how it's undermined so I I I don't know how Ryan Murphy would feel about that after portraying that but again they are murderers so it's like it's just a big this like I don't even know where I stand I'm not

going to say where I stand and do I think they should be in prison I'm not going to say honestly hurting a child like in any awful way you should burn in hell kind of and then is that justified if that happened to you and there probably um but do we know if it I don't know so it's just a big I don't know but essentially let's go back to the show and obviously there are spoilers not really spoilers cuz if you listen this far in the video you know exactly what happens but basically it

opens in October 1989 2 months after Kitty and Jose's death Eric and Lyle are riding in a limo as Kenny G song bird plays on the radio Lyall and Eric head to their parents memorial service Lyall the older brother seems unbothered and controlled But Eric begins sobbing uncontrollably seemingly out of nowhere so the scene immediately illustrates who the men are one brother is emotional and all feeling and the other is tightly wound and rageful and from there The Narrative jumps back and forth in time it unpacks the reign of terror that permeated the menendez's household

and pushed the brothers to homicide barom as I said is terrifying and vile as Jose in a good way like acting wise and savini portrays a a compassionless pathetic excuse of a woman in the best way and for their parts Eric and Lyle are a grotesque blend of entitlement and prey which is probably why Eric doesn't like how he was portrayed in the film or how his brother was portrayed in the film and the first episode ends with a gruesome the gruesome killing of the manda's parents my God it is it is jaw-dropping and it

it's it's you know well done for Hollywood again did it happen exactly like that I don't know all we have is a accounts but it it is gruesome all the same and then it goes into the months following the murders where the brothers specifically Eric are very tortured by the images of his dead parents in his brain and Eric would end up confessing to the therapist Dr Jerome Ozil played by Dallas Roberts which eventually leads to the arrest of Lyall and Eric so like I said again the first half of the Menendez show is is

pretty good but by episode five uh the hurtman it is really a standout among the other episodes cuz basically there's no um visual actually uh depicted in which I did appreciate But Eric speaks to his lawyer Leslie at length in a vivid detail about the lifetime grape and abuse he endured at the hands of his father and this episode is cleverly shot in one long take as the camera slowly Zooms in on his face but unfortunately following this fifth episode the show kind of falls off for me it kind of Teeters between ominous and like

a light Camp there's also a weird scene where where like the the tupe it's kind of weird and over done you'll see it if you watch the show but the rest of the episodes are like just kind of repetitive essentially like in episode 6 Don't Dream It's Over It kind of goes over more of Jose and Kitty's relationship and how their courtship happened and everything and while it showcases savini and Bam's abilities to act it doesn't really add to anything and the remaining episodes are are equally as taxing in addition to the bandz family just

as they did in dmer Monster the the Jeffrey dmer story Murphy and Brennan platforms some major players orbiting the brothers and their trials like Vanity Fair reporter Dominic Dune played by Nathan Lane and how he fixates on the case and its details after losing his own daughter to an act of violence he becomes absolutely consumed with making sure that Eric and Lyle are punished especially in the court of public opinion and in episode 7 showtime and nine in hangman it reimagines Kitty and Jose's murder in Dominic's perspective essentially he also narrates how the brothers navigate

prison including the relationship inside and outside of prison walls so that part was was pretty great and it does add uh to to the story overall and in the series as in real life the brothers have two trials spanning over seven years but the courtroom scenes in Menendez are just very dragged out and and tiresome almost because the tone is already so off-kilter these sequences are like strange and never ending so despite like the extremely gripping uh subject matter and outstanding performances Monsters the L and Eric manunda Story kind of fell flat in my opinion

therefore it just kind of dissolves into a retelling of unspeakable and gruesome crimes again very hollywoodized but I do think that they did a good job of like imitation almost like there's a lot of Tik toks that are side by side of like Eric and Lyle in real life and Eric and Lyle in the show kind of doing the same movements and all that so there is aention to detail but not in like the right ways kind of I guess hard to explain not saying you shouldn't watch it it's just you know I always think

you should keep that in mind especially watching real life to TV versions of what actually happened like they're always going to romanticize it in Hollywood there there there's always going to be something they missed or some over overarching idea that they they missed but with the release of the show The public's interest has naturally reignited as each generation discovers the case a new The Narrative surrounding the brothers continues to evolve and shaped by New Media interpretations and cultural shifts in how Society views crime and justice but the Mena brother story is is one of tragedy

on multiple layers it is a story about a wealthy family torn apart by and violence and conflicting narratives about the motive and responsibility and whether driven by genuine fear or greed Lyle's and Eric's actions resulted in the brutal deaths of their parents and a trial that captivated the world and decades later as we are doing right now the case continues to resonate in both True Crime community and in the broader discussions about interactions of wealth media and Justice so it just just goes to show just like read a book basically don't believe everything you on

TV necessarily you know everything's dramatized and romanticized and hollywoodized and all that kind of stuff but this case is truly interesting and I and I still think about it to this day I mean there it's very Infamous and whether whether they should be set free or whether it was justified is up to you talk about it in the comments below I would actually really like to hear what you guys thought and if you watch the show I would love to hear what you thought but until then I uh I'm done I'm done today if you

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