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Menendez Brothers: Victims or Villains (2024)
Lyle and Erik Menendez were two greedy rich kids from Beverly Hills who murdered their parents for their inheritance, or so it seemed. But a swirl of media and politics influenced this infamous case.
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Sun, May 26, 2024
Country: US
Language: En
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Country: US
Language: En
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Lyle Menendez
Self
Erik Menendez
Self
Season 1:
It's a gruesome murder scene, with wealthy, innocent parents as the victims and their good-looking sons, the perpetrators. But is the TV-movie-of-the-week narrative what really happened?
After the prosecution rests, the defence launches their case: years of horrific abuse made Lyle and Erik Menendez so fearful that they believed they had no choice but to kill or be killed.
The Menendez murder trial is a courtroom spectacle that ends in deadlocked jurors and public outrage, the culmination of a series of high-profile losses for the Los Angeles District Attorney's office.
In the brothers' retrial, a new prosecution strategy is aided by a judge more amenable to ruling in favour of the D.A. the second time around. The resulting verdict is controversial to this day.
