They murdered their own parents - The Menendez Brothers Story

so one night these two brothers bust into their parents' living room and they're each holding a pew pew and they start blasting blam blam and they un alive their own parents so the brothers their names are Eric and Lyle and they're 18 and 21 and these two are living the dream they live in Beverly Hills with their parents their family is Rich cuz their dad is some kind of Hollywood executive but then one day Eric and Lyall decide they've had enough of their parents and they want to get rid of them for good a few days later their mom and dad who we'll just call mom and dad mom and dad are chilling in the living room watching TV and suddenly boom Eric and Lyall bust into the room and they're holding shotguns and they just start blasting like blam blam they shoot dad six times blam they shoot mom 10 times and dad dies immediately but Mom she's still alive but she's hurt she's trying to crawl away so the brothers run back outside to Eric's Car where the ammo is and then they reload and then Lyall shoots mom one last time and unives her the Brothers then decide they need to cover their tracks so they shoot Mom and Dad both in the knee to make it look like a mafia hit and then they pick up all the shell casings so they can get rid of them and then they drive to a nearby movie theater and they buy two tickets to see Batman because seeing the movie is going to be their Alibi and after Batman they return to the family home and that's when they call 911 and they tell the operator they had just come home from the movie theater and they found their parents there dead minutes later police show up and Eric and Lyall tell them the same thing that they just came home and found their parents there and it worked police believe them I mean in that moment they have no reason to suspect them of any wrongdoing in fact police see that Mom and Dad had been shot in the kneecaps and they start thinking well maybe this was a mafia hit so basically the brothers have just successfully gotten away with murder and I don't know if they're celebrating or what but pretty quickly they go out and with their dead dad's money they start spending like crazy they buy a couple of luxury condos a Jeep Wrangler a Porsche a Rolex Eric hires a $50,000 a year tennis coach and Lyall buys a whole ass buffalo wings restaurant So within 6 months the brothers had spent $700,000 of their dad's Fortune I mean from the looks of it things seem to be going pretty great for them until this guy tries to impress his girlfriend and he screws everything up we'll just call him doc now Doc is a psychiatrist and one day he gets a little too close to one of his patients and they start smashing we'll just call the patient mistress now Doc is married with kids but he doesn't care he just keeps on smashing with mistress on the regular now mistress isn't his only patient doc also has other patients including one named Eric and another named Lyle and Doc he has regular therapy sessions with both Eric and Lyle and one day in one of those sessions Eric comes out and tells doc that he and Lyle had un alived their parents and while doc hears this and he continues to counsel them he actually ends up tape recording one of their therapy sessions so here's the thing about doc he apparently likes to flex and when he's not at work he likes to gossip about his patience to mistress and one day he basically tells her and by the way those Brothers in the news Eric and Lyall they're my clients and they totally unived their parents they told me so and then months later Doc and mistress's affair ends and their breakup is apparently ugly like real ugly allegedly he assaults her so mistress she gets pissed off and she's like F this guy and she steals Doc's tape recordings of his session with Aman ly and she takes them straight to the police because she wants to get Doc in trouble by accusing him of knowing about the murder but not reporting it so police listen to the tapes and they hear Eric and Lyall confessing to unal living their parents and they go out and they immediately arrest Lyall while Eric turns himself in a few days later so here's Eric's mugshot and here's ly's so now the brothers are in jail and they're charged with murder and they might get the death penalty for this and this scares the [ __ ] out of them so they sit in jail for 3 years before they finally get to go to trial and there the state argues that Eric and Lyall un alived their parents because they wanted to inherit their parents' Fortune which is why they were out spending all that money but Eric and Lyle they argue that they did it because their dad had subjected them to years of mental physical and sexual abuse and they argue that getting rid of their parents was the only way out of that toxic situation it's sort of a self-defense argument now this self-defense argument is important because it would give them a manslaughter conviction instead of a murder conviction and a manslaughter conviction would would have a much lighter sentence so 6 months later both sides have made their argument and the trial ends and unfortunately they end up with a hung jury so it's a mistrial then a year and a half later they go back to court to try again with a new jury but this time the judge doesn't allow the brothers to present the allegations of physical and sexual abuse to the jury because of some legal precedent or something which means this time the jury doesn't even have the option to convict them of manslaughter instead of murder so of course then Eric and Lyall are both found guilty of first-degree murder and while lucky for them they don't get the death penalty they're both sentenced to life in prison without parole but here's the crazy thing 27 years later a former member of the famous boy band manuto he comes forward with new information he claims that back in the 80s when he was 14 he was also a victim of sexual abuse by Eric and ly's dad because remember dad was a Hollywood executive and he worked with manuto at the time and this accusation is important because it gives credit ability to the brothers claim that their dad had been abusing them all those years and if that's true and if the brothers had proven in court that they had been abused by their dad that would greatly strengthen their self-defense argument and they would have gotten that manslaughter conviction instead of that murder conviction and they would be out of prison by now so now with this new evidence and some other evidence people found Eric and Lyall are actively petitioning to get out of prison but for now they're still there here's Eric's updated mugshot and here's ly's so shout out to Beverly Hills

Channel: Ray William Johnson

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Length: 6min 1sec (361 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 25 2024