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you have a prepaid call from ly Menendez my name is l Menendez I'm at R Donovan stay prison in San Diego California and
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I am here for killing my parents my brother and I were convicted together first-degree murder verdicts for both
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Eric and Lyall Menendez excuse us this is a special report from the vanise courthouse both Menendez brothers have
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been found how big a deal was the Mendez case well when you think back it was huge the Mendez family was very wealthy
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this was Beverly Hills murders just don't typically happen Kitty was my baby sister there was a brutal
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murder everyone from the gardener to the president had a view of what happened I'm Jackie Lacy I'm the former elected
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district attorney of Los Angeles County a couple was sitting around watching TV when their adult sons came in with
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shotguns and slaughtered them what did these parents do to deserve them there must be a reason just never been a casid
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of guilt or innocence it was always about why it happened Jose Menendez was the self-made
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millionaire he was very driven very demanding the process utions theory was they got tired of their lives being
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micromanaged they wanted to spend the money the way they wanted to spend the money they were buying Rolex watches
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they were buying real estate the way that they acted was not like oh my goodness my parents are dead it was
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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 [Music] my name is Cliff Gardner I represent Eric and ly Mendez
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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 braed me did
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you ask him not to yes the brothers were claiming that we were molested by our father when we
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threatened to go public they threatened to kill us and so we had to go in and kill them before they killed us I
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thought he was going to kill me that night I never saw anything in the home never I have got to think that it was
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their attorney's ideas that if your only way you're going to save your ass is to
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say 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
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abused as you sit there in prison there is some news now that could really impact you and your brother's case right
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yes that's pretty just sort of shocking former Mano singer Roy roselo claims he was drugged and raped by Jose
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Menendez in the mid 80s Mano 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 the
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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 be fa a review of this so
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maybe now my hope in the case is that they'll finally walk out of prison