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The family members of Erik and Lyle Menendez — popularly recognized simply because the Menendez brothers — are standing up for the 2 males convicted of taking pictures each their dad and mom to demise of their Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, mansion in 1989.
Joseph Menendez, who goes by his center identify Lyle, and his brother, Erik, shot their dad and mom, Jose and Mary “Kitty” Menendez. They have been each convicted within the murders and ordered to serve life in jail in 1996, however they’ve lately been in search of decreased sentences.
“We’re nearly all the prolonged household of Erik and Lyle Menendez. We’re 24 robust and as we speak we would like the world to know we help Erik and Lyle,” their household wrote in a press release that Erik’s spouse, Tammi Menendez, posted to X on Thursday in response to a brand new collection about their lives and crimes. “We individually and collectively pray for his or her launch after being imprisoned for 35 years. We all know them, love them, and need them dwelling with us.”
Their group assertion is available in response to a brand new Netflix present referred to as “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story,” which premiered on Netflix final week.
MENENDEZ BROTHER, WHO GUNNED DOWN PARENTS, SLAMS NEW SHOW FOR ‘DISHONEST PORTRAYAL’
Erik and Lyle Menendez pay attention throughout their trial within the Nineteen Nineties. (Ted Soqui/Sygma)
“Monsters” is marketed as a “true-crime drama probes the lives of the Menendez brothers, convicted of the brutal 1989 murders of their dad and mom in Beverly Hills.”
However the Menendez brothers’ members of the family describe it as “a phobic, gross, anachronistic, serial episodic nightmare that’s not solely riddled with mistruths and outright falsehoods, however ignores the newest exculpatory revelations,” they stated of their assertion posted to X.
“We all know these males. We grew up with them since they have been boys.”
“Our household has been victimized by this grotesque shockudrama. Murphy claims he spent years researching the case however in the long run relied on debunked Dominick Dunne, the pro-prosecution hack, to justify his slander in opposition to us and by no means spoke to us,” the assertion reads. “The character assassination of Erik and Lyle, who’re our nephews and cousins, below the guise of a ‘storytelling narrative’ is repulsive. We all know these males. We grew up with them since they have been boys. We love them and to this very day we’re near them.”
Lyle, left, and Erik, proper, are pictured in latest mugshots from 2023. After years aside, they have been moved into the identical housing unit at Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego in 2018, in response to the New York Each day Information. (California Division of Corrections)
Erik Menendez printed his personal assertion by Tammi on X previous to his household’s message, saying the present creates “a caricature of Lyle rooted in horrible and blatant lies rampant within the present.”
“It’s unhappy for me to know that Netflix’s dishonest portrayal of the tragedies surrounding our crime have taken the painful truths a number of steps backward — again by time to an period when the prosecution constructed a story on a perception system that males weren’t sexually abused, and that males skilled rape trauma otherwise than ladies,” Erik stated in his assertion shared by Tammi.
THE MENENDEZ BROTHERS: MONSTERS OR MISUNDERSTOOD?
Menendez brothers, Erik, left, and Lyle on the steps of their Beverly Hills dwelling in November, 1989. (Ronald L. Soble / Los Angeles Instances)
Lyle’s members of the family posted a separate response to the present on Fb.
“So these ‘writers/creators’ obtained up within the morning, ate their cornflakes, and went to an workplace the place they determined to lie about rape survivors who’ve suffered each single day of their life. The professionals did this for cash. How ironic,” they wrote on a public Fb web page the place they communicate on Lyle’s behalf whereas he’s in jail. “Always remember: There was extra proof of abuse within the first trial than there’s in most profitable little one abuse prosecutions.”
LYLE MENENDEZ, WHO SHOTGUNNED PARENTS TO DEATH WITH BROTHER, PLANS FOR LIFE AFTER PRISON AMID NEW APPEAL
His household went on to explain the present as “essentially the most terrible fictional mini collection” that they “have ever seen.”
Trial of the Menendez brothers in Los Angeles – Lyle Menendez together with his lawyer : Jill Lansing. Los Angeles, ninth March 1994. ( Ted Soqui/Sygma)
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The brothers’ attorneys have argued they need to have been convicted of manslaughter somewhat than homicide, wherein case they already would have been launched from jail.
A separate documentary concerning the brothers titled “The Menendez Brothers” is scheduled to premiere on Oct. 7. The movie guarantees to “supply one other perspective — that of the brothers themselves, supplied in all-new audio interviews,” in response to a press launch. It would additionally element the brothers’ allegations that their father sexually assaulted them.
Fox Information’ Michael Ruiz contributed to this report.
Menendez brothers, convicted of killing dad and mom, defended by family members as they struggle for freedom
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