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[Music] you have a prepaid call from ly Menendez my name is Lyle Menendez I met AR in Donovan State
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Prison in San Diego California and I am here for killing my parents my brother and I were convicted together
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first-degree murder verdicts for both Eric and Lyall Menendez excuse us this is a special report from the vanise
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courthouse both Menendez brothers have been found guilty how big a deal was the Menendez case well when you think back
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it was huge the Mendez family was very wealthy this was Beverly Hills murders just don't typically happen Kitty was my
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baby sister there was a brutal murder everyone from the gardener to the president had a view of what happened
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I'm Jackie Lacy I'm the former elected district attorney of Los Angeles County a couple was sitting around watching TV
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when their adult sons came in with shotguns and slaughtered them what did these parents do to deserve them there
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must be a reason just never been a kid of Kil or innocence it was always about why it
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happened Jose Menendez was the self-made millionaire he was very driven very demanding the prosecutions theory was
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they got tired of their lives being micromanaged they wanted to spend the money the way they wanted to spend the
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money they were buying Rolex watches they were buying real estate the way that they acted was not like oh my
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goodness my parents are dead it was soulless it was strictly Greed from day one you believe they wanted a portion of
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the money they wanted it [Music] all my name is Cliff Gardner I represent Eric and ly Menendez
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it's not a complex case it's a simple case they abused their whole life my dad had been molesting me he Bap me did you
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ask him not to yes the brothers were claiming that we were molested by our father when we
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threaten to go public they threatened to kill us and so we had to go in and kill
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them before they killed us I thought he was going to kill me that night I never saw anything in the home never I have
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got to think that it was their attorney's ideas that if your only way you're going to save your ass is to say
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that you were molested and that's what they did it's divided the family immensely I love my cousins they
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shouldn't have gone through what they went through they're not lying they were being abused
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as you sit there in prison there is some news now that could really impact you and your brother's case right yes that's
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pretty just sort of shocking former mudo singer Roy roselo claims he was drugged and raped by Jose
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Menendez in the mid 80s menudo had just signed with RCA records where Menendez was a top executive we now have evidence
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that makes absolutely clear that those boys were molested and if those boys were molested it would have been
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manslaughter and they would be out the judge in this case if he finds that the New Evidence is credible and
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the conviction should be vacated do you think the DA's office would seek a new trial I think they would spend a lot of
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time thinking about it 34 years of incarceration you wonder when will there be fair review of this
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so maybe now my hope in the case is that they'll finally walk out of prison [Music]
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[Music] Lyall and Eric Menendez have been behind bars in California for more than three
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decades for the 1989 killing of their parents Jose and kitty Menendez convicted of first-degree murder and
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sentenced to life in prison I really can't anything in a case that captured the nation's
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attention they had no hope of ever walking free but new evidence may change that Eric chose not to speak with us for
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this broadcast but Lyle did you have a prepaid call from ly Menendez this call and your telephone number will be
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monitored and recorded Hi l can you hear me hi yeah I can hear you what did you think when you heard about these new
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claims and evidence I mean for me I just was happy just a burden to be telling what happened to and just have so much
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doubt in the public a the question is not whether the Menendez brothers killed their parents they admit that they did
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instead the focus of the case has long been why they did it they insist that they killed out of fear and in
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self-defense after a lifetime of physical emotional and sexual abuse suffered at the hands of their parents
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one of their lawyers Cliff Gardner says the New Evidence corroborates those claims and lessens their culpability if
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the judge finds this evidence credible I think it is sufficient to give them a new
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trial but to understand how we got here we have to go back to the beginning the evening of August 20th 1989 when Lyall
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Menendez made this call to 911 from the family's Beverly Hills mansion Beverly Hills emergency yes please uh what's the
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problem K my parents pardon me after officers responded to the scene then 21-year-old Lyle and 18-year-old
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Eric reported that they had arrived home to find their parents shot to death in the family room Jackie ly was a deputy
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district attorney in Los Angeles at the time I think one of the Beverly Hills Detectives described it as one of the
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most brutal crime scene he had ever seen in his life I've been in this business for over 33 years and I've heard of very
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few murders that were more Savage than this one was Jose Menendez a former top executive at RCA records and his wife
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Kitty had been shot multiple times at close range with a shotgun it was an expression of hatred for these two
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people and that was the last time I saw to her alive Milton Anderson Kitty's older brother still remembers receiving
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the news my brother called me and he said that kitty and Jose were were dead I loved her sister Kitty was a very
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ambitious girl she was a very beautiful woman Kitty and Jose met when they were in college in Illinois Jose had come to
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the US from Cuba they went on to marry and start a family like and Eric were their only children over the years with
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Kitty by his side Jose excelled in his career working for RCA records among other major companies he was going right
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up the ladder without any hesitation at the time of his death Jose was working for a film studio running their home
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video division investigators initially suspected that the killings may have been tied to his business dealings Lyall
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sort of indicated you know my my dad dealt with Shady characters and once you say something like that detectives are
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going to start to look at okay what were his business contacts family members and
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investigators wondered whether it may have been Mafia related at the time the home video industry was known for having
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ties to the Mob everybody said it was a mob headit because it was so brutal it it really was like a scene out of The
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Godfather movies initially Lyle and Eric Menendez were not even on investigators
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radar they didn't do any gunshot residue test on their hands they let him go back
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and get evidence without even thinking hey could it have been the kids but they didn't stay off investigators radar for
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long their behavior in the wake of the crime eventually Drew scrutiny the brothers appeared to be spending their
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parents' money and lots of it they were investing in businesses they acted like they had won
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the lottery and their Behavior at their parents Memorial Services raised some eyebrows at the podium L read a letter
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from Jose there was filled with love and pride for his sons did you see Lyall get
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emotional as he was reading that letter no l also made a statement that his father always said you can never fill my
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shoes and he jokingly said guess what I'm wearing my father's shoes today struck you as odd that he would say
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something like that I was very odd while all that may have seemed unusual it wasn't hard evidence but then about 6
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months later police got a tip from an unlikely Source the girlfriend of a psychologist who Lyle and Eric Menendez
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had been talking to she told police that the brothers had confessed to the killings in therapy and there was an
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audio taped recording of it but for that confession who knows whether they've ever been caught on March 8th 1990 after
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police got their hands on that tape ly Menendez was taken into custody Eric Menendez who was out of the country at
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the time surrendered to police days later not many Hollywood murder mysteries ever took a more dramatic turn
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than police are describing in a couple of savage Beverly Hills killings police say the motive was apparently money a 14
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million inheritance to be shared by the brothers but years later when the C made
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its way to trial the brothers would make it clear that it might not be so simple
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in August 20th 1989 did you and your brother kill your mother and father why did you kill your
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parents cuz we were afraid [Music] in the summer of 1993 nearly 4 years after Jose and kitty
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Mendez were gunned down in their home their sons Lyle and Eric Menendez went on trial they face the death
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penalty good afternoon the only question in this case is why did these killings occur why they
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were killed is what what the focus of all of our evidence will be on what the defense was arguing was that since this
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was a self-defense case the brothers were deserving of a lesser charge and Punishment the defense attorneys who
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tried the case didn't respond to our request for an interview Cliff Gardner represents Lyall and Eric Mendez today
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they had the defense of imperfect self-defense imperfect self-defense meaning the brothers honestly believe
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that they had to take action to save their their lives even though it might not seem rational and if it's honest but
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unreasonable you are coupable of manslaughter not of murder both brothers took the stand ly Mendez spoke of sexual
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abuse at the hands of his mother and father he said his father began sexually abusing him when he was only 6 years old
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he would uh fondle me and he would ask me to do the same with him over time he said it became worse
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and he break me but while Lyall said his father stopped sexually abusing him when
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he was eight Eric said it never ended for him and that he finally confided in his older brother days before the crime
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at age 18 I didn't know what to do at the time so I figured I'd tell Lyall and maybe he could help me he started
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telling me that one of the reasons he had never told me before was cuz my dad had always threatened his life the
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brothers testified that Lyall soon confronted their parents and that their mother indicated she knew about the
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abuse all along in Anger Lyle said he directed a threat at his father I told him that I would tell everybody then he
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said we all make choices in life son Eric made his you've made yours what did you think was going to happen I
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thought we were in danger I thought he had no he felt he had no choice but to what that he would kill us
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the brothers testified that they got into another argument with their parents on the night of the crime and that they
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believed their parents were about to kill them to keep the family secret from coming out so they said they grabbed
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shotguns that they had bought 2 days earlier for protection went into the family room and started shooting their
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parents at one point even stopping to reload and what did you do after you Reloaded
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I ran around and shot my mom the defense may call its next witness to bolster their claims of abuse
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the defense called to the stand numerous relatives friends and acquaintances of the family who described incidents of
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physical and emotional abuse that they said they observed Alan Anderson ly and Eric's cousin was one of those Witnesses
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growing up Allan would spend summers at the Menendez home he had a lot to say about Jose hitting the kids with a belt
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never had a problem with that and kitty she wouldn't get up to consult the children nothing while none of the
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witnesses including Allan ever saw Lyle or Eric Mendez being sexually abused Allan did recall something that struck
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him as odd Jose would tell the boys in the bedroom and then he would close the door and then he'd take showers with him
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he says during that time Kitty wouldn't let him go near the room so I was not allowed while the boys were alone with
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Jose with the door closed in the master bedroom to go down the hall to probably not hear whatever I may hear another
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cousin Diane Vander Molen gave similar testimony and she also recounted a conversation she says she had with Lyle
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when he was eight um he proceeded to indicate to me by touching himself uh down and and saying that his dad and him
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had been touching each other down there and what did you do I went and got Kitty
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and uh told her what was going on and what happened when Kitty came down she didn't believe me Andy Cano yet another
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cousin also took the stand and testified about a conversation he says he had with
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Eric when Eric was about 13 He told me his father was massaging his he told me never to reveal it to
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anybody still prosecutors argued that even if Lyle and Eric Mendez were abused it doesn't give them the right to kill
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and they pointed out that when the brothers confessed to that psychologist they never mentioned abuse use or
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self-defense then the timing of disclosure was convenient the prosecutors who tried the case didn't
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respond to our request for an interview former Los Angeles County DA Jackie Lacy
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reviewed portions of the trial at our request and people do make things up when their life is on the
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line but all these years later Lyall Menendez maintains they are telling the truth and the reason they didn't come
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forward then was complicated what was holding you back just shame just not wanting it to be public the pure nature
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of the crime however says Lacy doesn't support the brother's claim that they acted in
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self-defense prosecutors pointed out that Jose and kitty were watching TV at the time they were killed and they
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weren't armed in order to get close enough to blow somebody away you would have been been able to see that they
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didn't have weapons ly Menendez is adamant that he and his brother were in fear for their lives for me it was
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just dark and confusing and total belief that there was danger you know it's fight or flight to a degree it was Panic
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the prosecution argued the evidence proves the killings were premeditated when the brothers purchased those
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shotguns prose computer said that they took steps to cover their tracks like driving to a gun store all the way in
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San Diego San Diego is not a Round the Corner Drive last time I checked it was two hours sometimes after they killed
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their parents they went around and picked up the expended shotgun shell casings so that their fingerprints
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wouldn't be discovered on those shells there was a lot of thought and a lot of deliberation that went into it they also
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got rid of the shotguns made that 911 call who is the person that was shot my mom and my dad and misled the initial
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investigators prosecutors pointed to money as the motive they said Jose Menendez told his sons he had removed
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them from his will and based on their investigation they suggested that after the crime Lyall Menendez attempted to
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destroy o will on the family computer Lyle denies doing that and insists money had nothing to do with what happened if
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there was a new will it was never found we never had any financial problems with
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my parents although the brothers were tried together there were two separate juries deciding their fate when
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deliberations began they stretched on for weeks before both juries determined they were divided over whether Lyall and
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Mendez should be convicted of murder or manslaughter therefore I find that the jury is hopelessly
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deadlocked a mistrial was declared it was just a devastating result I needed it to be over one way or
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the other but it was far from over prosecutors would try the case again they needed a win the heat was on
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[Music] [Music] nearly two years passed as Lyall and Eric Mendez sat in jail awaiting a
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second trial some of their family members like Alan Anderson believed that they were justified in the killings I
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know they did what they did because they were in fear of their life While others
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like Kitty's brother Milton Anderson considered them coldblooded Killers I don't believe that Jose or Kitty would
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do any of the things that they were accused of Jose was changing his will and that's when they went out and bought
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the shotgun at the retrial which began in October 1995 one jury instead of two would hear
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the case no video cameras were allowed in court and a new team of prosecutors would employ a different strategy the
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first TR was okay there may have been abuse but we don't allow vigilantes in our society the second trial of the
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prosecution's case there was no abuse at all and what made it easier for prosecutors to argue that says attorney
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Cliff Gardner is the fact that the prosecution raised new and successful objections to the admission of a large
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amount of Defense evidence now the jury would hear from only some not all of the
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witnesses who knew the Menendez family and helped corroborate the brother's claims of abuse the da was not going to
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take another loss they could not take another loss the judge who had also presided over the first trial excluded
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the testimony on the grounds that it was irrelevant repetitive and in some instances lacking in Foundation because
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this time Lyall Menendez would not take the stand Eric did testify why did you decide not to
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speak uh for two reasons I was just done after the first trial and I didn't have
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the attorney that I trusted so much to asking me these deep personal questions but Carol Nara the only surviving lead
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prosecutor from the second trial who declined to speak with us suggested in a 1996 interview there might have been
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another reason why Lyall didn't take the stand there were things that had been developed since the first trial that
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would have damaged his credibility a great deal prosecutors said they had new evidence that Lyle had asked a friend
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and a former girlfriend to fabricate testimony Lyall admits to 48 hours that he did do that but says he later
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withdrew those requests because Lyle didn't take the stand his cousin Diane Vander Mullen was
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prohibited from testifying about that conversation she says she had with Lyle when he was eight in which she says Lyle
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told her that his father was touching him the jury did still hear from cousin Andy Cano about that similar convers
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ation he claimed to have had with a 13-year-old Eric but the prosecution attacked his credibility the state's
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position was that Andy was a liar and when cousin Alan Anderson took the stand prosecutors attacked his credibility too
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bringing up the fact that Lyall Menendez gave him money after the crime Anderson
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says it was to help pay for a medical procedure he didn't say anything like well if I go to court you know or no he
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it was just straight up between him and I him being a nice cousin knowing I was in financial bind he knew he had the
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resources to help me at the second trial prosecutors placed more of a focus on the brutality of the crime and they
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painted Jose as a restrained loving father someone incapable of molesting his children prosecutors referred to the
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brother's defense as the abuse excuse in the first trial that defense called more than 50 Witnesses this time
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they called about half it wasn't that they didn't want to present them they were not
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allowed the jury deliberated for days and then the verdicts are in in the retrial of Eric and Lyle
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Menendez guilty of first-degree murder I hugged my brother we cried and I said look we're going to be okay I was
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not happy at all at the jury's recommendation the brothers were sentenced to life in prison without the
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possibility of parole and you believe they deserve that oh what they did to my sister they
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should have gotten a death penalty Lyall and Eric Mendez were sent to separate prisons more than two
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decades past and then around 2020 the case made a surprising Resurgence on social
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media following a documentary that aired on the case in which Eric Mendez repeated his claims of abuse droves of
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people took to Tik Tok and Instagram to express support for him and his brother Dr Judy ho is a neuroschistosomiasis
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that just because the brothers delayed reporting abuse it doesn't mean they made it up that's all very consistent
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with people who have been through trauma and maybe feel like it was even their own fault in some ways or they're
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ashamed of the trauma and there's a lot more self-stigma and shame associated with male victims she also says that the
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abuse the brothers describe could even help explain why the crime was so brutal it makes sense that in that moment it's
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almost like a break down and that's not to make an excuse for anything that they've done but it's just to describe
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the State of Mind of this is years and years of abuse where they couldn't act to protect themselves and once they
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pulled the trigger it was like there was no turning back but could Lyall and Eric
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Mendez have truly been in fear for their lives that night they're 18 and 21 why couldn't they leave right well certainly
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there was a path that they could have taken is to try to get away from the family but it sounds like even at that
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age they were very much under the control of their father still I think that often times what people are not
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aware of is that trauma completely rewires the brain they probably did think at one point it was either them or
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their parents that it was a fight ORF flight conditioning that had come up attorney Cliff Gardner believes the case
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would be tried differently today the idea back then was a dads don't molest their children and if by chance it
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happened these are 18 and 21 year old kids they're strapping young men they just leave and both those I think
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undercut in what we know today still a better understanding of the effects of sexual abuse and some social media
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support would do little on their own to make a difference in the brother's case legally instead what their defense
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needed was new evidence and eventually that's what it got did you or Eric think that another person would accuse your
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father of child molestation I did not I could not believe it [Music] over the years Lyall and Eric Mendez
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appealed their convictions but were unsuccessful it seemed unlikely that they would ever see beyond Prison Walls
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but then new evidence began to the surface the first piece in the form of a letter just kind of out of the blue one
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of uh my father's sister found a letter in store appet attorney Cliff Gardner says
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the letter was written by Eric Menendez to his cousin Andy Cano in December 1988 about 8 months before the crime
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it's not dated but you were able to get a frame of reference of the timing of it
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based on the contents of the letter exactly he talks about the Christmas party we know the Christmas party that
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they put on was in Christmas of 88 he talks about hiring a new tennis coach there's a number of things in the letter
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that allow us to authenticate when it was written and it's a particular section of the letter that Gardner says
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is key he says I've been trying to avoid Dad it's still happening Andy but it's worse for me now every night I stay up
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thinking he might come in I'm afraid he is crazy he's warned me a 100 times about telling anyone especially
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ly no one knew about it a child it was never presented remember Andy Cano did testify
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at both trials he said that Eric Mendez at age 13 confided in him that his dad had been touching him prosecutors
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suggested that Cano was lying he explained to me that these massages that his father was giving him were beginning
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to hurt the letter is significant why well the state's position was that Andy was a
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liar Andy was making it up this shows that Andy wasn't making it up it's contemporaneous evidence from Eric to
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his cousin Andy about what was happening but the letter was just the beginning more evidence has surfaced that Gardner
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says further supports Lyall and Eric Mendes's long-standing claims that they were sexually
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abused a man named Roy roselo has come forward claiming that he was sexually abused by Jose Menendez too Roy was a
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member of the boy band menudo which was big in late 70s mid 80s there a sensation in the
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Spanish-speaking world and throughout Latin America their appeal has caught on big menudo originated in Puerto Rico the
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band is best known were producing bigname Talent like singer Ricky [Music] Martin the idea behind the band was to
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keep it perpetually young few of the performers remained in the group beyond the age of 16 instead being rotated out
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for younger Talent it turns out Jose Menendez had ties to the group Jose Menendez was working at RCA at the time
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and RCA signed menudo to a recording contract former Mano member Roy roselo now 54 was not available for an
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interview with 48 hours but in a sworn affidavit filed just last year he claims he went to Jose Mendes's home in the
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early 80s at the direction of the band's then manager Edgardo Diaz roselo would have been between 14 and 15 years old at
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the time he says he drank a glass of wine then felt like he had no control over his
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body he says Jose Menendez took him to a room and raped him roselo first spoke publicly about
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the allegations in a [Music] documentary roselo also alleges that he was sexually abused by Jose Menendez on
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two other occasions right before and right after after a performance at Radio City Music Hall in New York I met Roy
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and he talked to me about it it was a difficult conversation for him it was difficult for me to hear but I thought
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Roy was credible it can take years for people to recognize what happened to have the
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courage to come forward when I first heard that I I cried for me it was very meaningful to
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just have things come out that caused people to really realize okay at least this part
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of what it's about is true ly Menendez says he remembers menudo band members coming over to the
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family home when they lived in New Jersey before moving to Beverly Hills he does not recall Rella
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specifically what do you remember about the menudo band members going to your home only that my father had intimate
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involvement with that particular group they usually would not have too much involvement with groups other than
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negotiations but with Mano and Ardo Diaz he traveled with them he went to their concerts he stayed in hotels that they
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stayed at Li Mena says he didn't think much of it until rumors began surfacing towards
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the end of he and his brother's first trial people in Industry were talking about that maybe something had happen
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because there was a sex scandal in the group Rell along with other former menudo members have long accused Edgardo
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Diaz the band's one-time manager of sexual abuse Diaz has always denied the allegations and no charges have been
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filed against him the Los Angeles Police Department is currently investigating a
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specific incident in which roselo alleges Diaz raped him at this hotel in the 1980s but what does this new evidence
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mean in terms of Lyall and Eric mende his case the importance of the New Evidence you have to look back and
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understand what the state's position was at the second trial the state's position
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was that the sexual abuse never happened and the state's position as to Jose Menendez was he wasn't the type of
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person who would molest a young boy this new evidence takes both those arguments
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and undercuts them entirely Gardner has filed a hius petition asking that his client's
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convictions be vacated the boys were Abus AB his children they abused their whole life
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and this is a manslaughter case not a murder case it's just that simple and if they were convicted of
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manslaughter they would have received a much shorter sentence and been out a long time ago but will a judge by
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Gardner's argument it is very very possible that Jose Mendez was a child molester but you don't get to murder him
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and his wife in Cold Blood what do you make of the New Evidence to see a timeline of how the
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case unfolded go to 48 [Music] hours.com after attorney Cliff Gardner filed the habus petition in May 2023
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asking that Li and Eric Menendez convictions be vacated it turned into a waiting game for a judge to rule we ask
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former da Jackie Lacy what she makes of the New Evidence starting with that letter the one that appears to have been
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written by Eric Menendez to his cousin Andy Cano months before the crime the interesting thing about the letter is
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that there are only two people who can authenticated Andy Kano and Eric Menendez Andy Cano died in 2003 and Lacy
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points out that he never mentioned the letter when he testified you would think when Andy was
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on the stand twice he'd have brought that up and oh yeah he told me about it recently and here's the letter the
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timing of that letter though you are able to sort of pin down because you know is the holidays because he writes
00:36:47
about his Christmas plans but Natalie look at it another way and you could include those details and get that
00:36:54
letter together after they were caught this letter for all we know could have been written by Eric Menendez shortly
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after the murder given to Kano and Kano may have gotten cold feed about it and not submitted it but Gardner argues the
00:37:11
New Evidence is sound he says the reason the letter was not brought up at trial is likely because Eric Menendez and Andy
00:37:19
Cano forgot about it if you look at the letter it's not just about what Jose's been doing it's about all sorts of other
00:37:26
things it was just one of many letters that they wrote to each other there really shouldn't be any doubt about the
00:37:32
authenticity of the letter and as for Roy roselo the former mudo band member can you discount his claims altogether
00:37:41
no I think what the judge has to weigh and consider is is this newly discovered evidence that would have changed the
00:37:48
verdict and Lacy says she does not believe it would have they're still stuck with the planning the cover up the
00:37:57
money that they spent afterwards I think that you could argue the sexual abuse occurred on the other hand at the moment
00:38:07
these men are driving down to San Diego paying for the murder weapons coming back and waiting for an opportune time
00:38:18
to go in and kill their parents the molestation is not occurring right then I do not believe that at the time they
00:38:26
murdered them that they were in danger at that particular minute of being murdered by those people I think they
00:38:32
hated them they might have had a good reason to hate them but we can't condone vigilantism when you calmly and
00:38:41
logically looked at the facts surrounding the killing it's a murder but Gardner believes the New Evidence
00:38:50
would have made a difference to the jurors he says evidence of abuse can mitigate a crime and that's why
00:38:56
prosecutor uers fought so hard to keep it out of the second trial when sexual abuse physical abuse is relevant to your
00:39:04
state of mind uh and state of mind is the key in determining whether something's murder or whether
00:39:09
something's man what this evidence does is it puts you back in the situation that they were
00:39:15
in with the first trial that there was corroboration for the abuse and in the first trial remember two juries were
00:39:21
divided over whether the brothers should have been convicted of murder or manslaughter the declares a mistrial
00:39:29
Gardner thinks this new evidence combined with that of the first trial rules out murder entirely My Hope in the
00:39:37
case is that the judge will realize that this new evidence is indeed credible and
00:39:41
persuasive and he'll vacate the convictions if that happens it would be up to the Los Angeles County District
00:39:47
Attorney's Office whether to retry the case in a statement the District Attorney's office said it is
00:39:53
investigating the claims made in the habius petition Alan Anderson wants to see his cousins released what I would
00:40:01
say to the prosecutor as a judge would be please look at all of the evidence they are speaking the truth they
00:40:07
shouldn't be in there as long as they've been but still Kitty Mendes's brother Milton
00:40:14
Anderson feels just the opposite he says he doesn't believe the New Evidence is credible I don't think it's evidence and
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he wants his nephews to stay put I think they should die of old age in prison I loved my sister and I protected her in
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life and I will love my sister and protect her in her death ly Mendez says he understands his uncle's Pain part of
00:40:40
my remorse is for the pain I caus people like him as they await a judge's decision Lyle and Eric Menendez who
00:40:48
reside in the same prison since 2018 are focused on Rehabilitation and continuing their
00:40:55
education I connect with other prisoners that have sex abuse histories and work with them both brothers are married to
00:41:02
women outside prison I think it has made a huge difference to have love and support like
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that I try not to be defined by that one night that's s of a lifelong journey not to be defined by that one
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