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Menendez Brothers Won't Be Released This Year

New DA says he needs time to review the case

(Newser) - Erik and Lyle Menendez won't be getting out of prison until 2025 at the earliest. At a preliminary hearing Monday, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Jesic pushed back a resentencing hearing from Dec. 11 to Jan. 30, saying he needed time to review 17 boxes of evidence, People...

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What's Next for Menendez Brothers

LA County district attorney is now supporting their clemency bids

(Newser) - LA County's district attorney said Wednesday that California's governor should grant the clemency requests the Menendez brothers submitted to him Monday, NBC News reports. "I strongly support clemency for Erik and Lyle Menendez, who are currently serving sentences of life without possibility of parole," George Gascó...

During Prison Stay, Menendez Brothers Made It Beautiful

Erik and Lyle Menendez launched beautification project in 2018 at San Diego detention center

(Newser) - Nearly 30 years after they killed their parents, Erik and Lyle Menendez launched a beautification project in the California prison where they're serving life sentences. Their project was inspired by the Norwegian approach to incarceration that believes rehabilitation in humane prisons surrounded by nature leads to successful reintegration into...

Resentence Menendez Brothers, Prosecutors Will Urge Judge

Decision could lead to convicts being paroled or released

(Newser) - Prosecutors will recommend that a judge resentence Erik and Lyle Menendez for the 1989 killings of their parents in the family's Beverly Hills home, providing the brothers with a chance at freedom after 34 years behind bars. Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon announced Thursday that his office...

Menendez Relatives Gather to Call for Release of Brothers

'As their aunt, I had no idea of the extent of the abuse they suffered'

(Newser) - Dozens of relatives of Erik and Lyle Menendez gathered outside a Los Angeles courthouse Wednesday to call for the release of the brothers, who were sentenced to life in prison with no hope of parole almost 30 years ago. People reports that family members described the brothers as victims, not...

Kim Kardashian: It's Time to Free the Menendez Brothers

In op-ed, Kardashian says of brothers who killed their parents: 'They are not monsters'

(Newser) - With a TV series now airing on Netflix about Erik and Lyle Menendez, the brothers who shot their wealthy parents to death in 1989 and are spending life in prison, their case has drawn new attention. On that list is Kim Kardashian, who's studying to become a lawyer . In...

Menendez Brothers Could Be Re-Sentenced

DA is re-evaluating the case

(Newser) - New evidence in the 1989 murders of Jose and Kitty Menendez is being reviewed, Los Angeles prosecutors say, in an effort to re-evaluate whether the couple's sons, Lyle and Erik Menendez, should be serving life sentences after being convicted of the murders. Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascó...

Menendez Brothers to Break Silence for Netflix Show

Announcement follows Erik Menendez's criticism of Ryan Murphy's Monsters

(Newser) - Convicted killers Lyle and Erik Menendez will participate in an upcoming Netflix documentary after bashing a series about them now airing on the platform. Erik Menendez's wife, Tami, shared a statement Thursday in which her husband criticized Netflix and Ryan Murphy Productions for the brothers' portrayal in Monsters: The ...

Menendez Brothers Case 'Is a Manslaughter Case': Lawyer

'This is a manslaughter case, not a murder case. It's just that simple'

(Newser) - Following the discovery of a letter and other evidence that their lawyer says should get the Menendez brothers' murder convictions vacated, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office is investigating the claims in the habeas petition filed by the attorney last year. In the meantime, 48 Hours took a...

Former Menudo Member: I Was Raped by Menendez Dad

Years before Jose Menendez was killed by his sons Lyle and Erik

(Newser) - "I know what he did to me in his house," former Menudo member Roy Rossello says of the father of the Menendez brothers in an upcoming docuseries. Rossello, one of dozens of former members of the Puerto Rican boy band, says he was drugged and raped by Jose...

After 22 Years, Menendez Brothers Are Reunited

They're now in the same unit at a California prison

(Newser) - The Menendez brothers, who were convicted of killing their parents in their Beverly Hills mansion nearly three decades ago, have been reunited in a southern California prison. Erik Menendez, 47, has moved into the same housing unit as his 50-year-old brother, Lyle Menendez, Corrections department spokeswoman Terry Thornton said Thursday....

Silence Broken: A Menendez Brother Speaks


Silence Broken:
A Menendez
Brother
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Jan 8, 2017 6:33 AM CST

Silence Broken: A Menendez Brother Speaks

'No river of tears has changed that': Lyle Menendez on killing parents with younger brother Erik in 1989

(Newser) - In 1989, two young brothers from Beverly Hills shocked the nation by shooting their parents to death. Now, 27 years later, Lyle and Erik Menendez remain incarcerated in different prisons—each received two consecutive life sentences with no parole—and Lyle, now 48, recently spoke to ABC News for a...

New Law & Order Series Features Menendez Case

Notorious '90s case will be back in the spotlight

(Newser) - The sensational trials of the '90s have rolled back around faster than some of the era's fashions. Parent-killing rich kids Lyle and Erik Menendez will be in the spotlight once again in a new Law & Order series that the Los Angeles Times describes as NBC's attempt...

Rich Kids Who Went Terribly Wrong
 Rich Kids Who 
 Went Terribly Wrong 
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Jan 12, 2010 9:54 AM CST

Rich Kids Who Went Terribly Wrong

From John Hinckley to Abdulmutallab, sometimes privilege corrupts

(Newser) - Being born with a silver spoon doesn't automatically make you a golden child—or adult. Newsweek takes a look at children of privilege who took an extremely sharp turn away from very-well-to-do families and toward lives of terrorism and murder:
  • Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab: The son of one of the wealthiest
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