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Joseph Lyle Menendez (born January 10, 1968) [3] and Erik Galen Menendez (born November 27, 1970), [4] colloquially referred to as the Menendez brothers, are American brothers and convicted murderers who killed their parents, José and Mary Louise "Kitty" Menendez, at their Beverly Hills home in 1989.
Oct 5, 2024 · Police had just gotten a hysterical call from a sobbing Lyle Mendendez, then 21, who screamed into the phone, “They shot and killed my parents!”
- KC Baker
Oct 24, 2024 · Lyle and Erik Menendez were sentenced to life in prison for killing their parents. Now, more than three decades later, they are hoping new evidence could reopen the case.
- The Menendez Brothers’ Privileged Upbringing
- Inside The Murder of Jose and Kitty Menendez
- The Sordid Trials of The Menendez Brothers
- Where Are Lyle and Erik Menendez Today?
As children, Lyle and Erik Menendez seemed to have it all. Born in 1968 and 1970, respectively, the two boys grew up in a wealthy New Jersey suburb with their parents, Jose, a self-made Cuban immigrant, and Kitty, a former beauty queen. But the Menendez brothers later claimed that their picture-perfect childhood was all a facade — which hid some ex...
On August 20, 1989, a seemingly hysterical Lyle Menendez, then 21, called 911. “They shot and killed my parents,” he sobbed. Outside the house, his 18-year-old brother, Erik, wailed into the night as the police arrived. As the Menendez brothers put it, they’d spent the evening at the movies. Because Erik needed his I.D. for their next stop that nig...
While arguments continued over whether or not Oziel’s tapes were admissible in court, Erik and Lyle Menendez’s trial captivated the nation. In 1993, the case played out on the nascent Court TV — and brought the drama of the Menendez family straight into Americans’ living rooms. As the Menendez brothers told it, their parents’ murder had come after ...
Though Lyle and Erik Menendez were sentenced to life in prison in 1996 — they were originally in separate prisons but are now housed together in Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego — they’ve continued to make headlines from behind bars. Both of the Menendez brothers have married, and they’ve opened up to the media about their infa...
- Kaleena Fraga
Sep 19, 2024 · Lyle and Erik Menendez are the subject of Netflix's Monster season 2, 35 years after brutally murdering their parents José and Kitty. The brothers were sentenced to life in prison after killing...
Jan 5, 2017 · Jose and Kitty Menendez were murdered by their two sons, Erik and Lyle, in 1989. Tonight, ABC News will investigate their deaths in a two-hour documentary.
Mar 22, 2022 · Lyle and Erik Menendez claimed their mother was a neglectful drunk — and so in August 1989, they got revenge on her and their father. When affluent Beverly Hills couple Jose and Kitty Menendez were found murdered in their home on Aug. 20, 1989, an entire nation waited for answers.
