Episode 2707
Lyle and Erik Menendez
Mon, 2024-Sep-30 01:55 UTC
Length - 1:52
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With 892,577 views on Sunday, 29 September 2024 our article of the day is Lyle and Erik Menendez.
Joseph Lyle Menendez (born January 10, 1968) and Erik Galen Menendez (born November 27, 1970), collectively referred to as the Menendez brothers, are American brothers who were convicted in 1996 of the murders of their parents, José and Mary Louise "Kitty" Menendez.
During their trial, the brothers first stated that they committed the murders out of fear that their father would kill them after they threatened to expose him for years of sexual, emotional, and physical abuse, while the prosecution argued that they did it to inherit their father's multimillion-dollar estate. They were first tried separately with one jury for each brother. However, both juries deadlocked, resulting in mistrials. For the second trial, they were tried together by a single jury that found them guilty after the judge excluded evidence of abuse from their defense. Both brothers were sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 01:55 UTC on Monday, 30 September 2024.
For the full current version of the article, see Lyle and Erik Menendez on Wikipedia.
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