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Oct 5, 2024 · After a lengthy investigation, authorities arrested Lyle and Erik in March 1990, charging them with first-degree murder in the deaths of their parents, Kitty, 47, a stay-at-home mom, and Jose,...
- KC Baker
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.
- 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 21, 2024 · Lyle and Erik Menendez became household names after murdering their parents, Kitty and José Menendez, on Aug. 20, 1989. The Menendez brothers, born into a life of wealth and privilege,...
- Jessica Sager
The disappearance of the 'Princes in the Tower', Edward V and his brother Richard, Duke of York in 1483 is one of the most intriguing 'murders' of the Tower of London. The mysterious episode unfolded with sinister speed over a single summer, yet is still being debated by historians centuries later.
Nov 20, 2023 · Author and history detective Philippa Langley, discoverer of Richard’s burial site, has taken on the case to find out what really happened to the Princes in the Tower and how to investigate a...
Click here to find out more about the Tower of London! He was part of a group of 13 conspirators, led by a man called Robert Catesby. It was Catesby’s idea to try to blow up Parliament, and in doing so they hoped to kill the King and members of the Royal family, who were Protestant, and not Catholic.
