The family members of Erik and Lyle Menendez– commonly understood equally as the Menendez bros– are defending both guys founded guilty of capturing both their moms and dads to fatality in their Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, manor in 1989.
Joseph Menendez, that passes his center name Lyle, and his bro, Erik, fired their moms and dads, Jose andMary “Kitty” Menendez They were both founded guilty in the murders and gotten to offer life behind bars in 1996, yet they have actually lately been looking for decreased sentences.
“We are virtually the entire extended family of Erik and Lyle Menendez. We are 24 strong and today we want the world to know we support Erik and Lyle,” their family members composed in a declaration that Erik’s spouse, Tammi Menendez, uploaded to X on Thursday in reaction to a brand-new collection regarding their lives and criminal offenses. “We individually and collectively pray for their release after being imprisoned for 35 years. We know them, love them, and want them home with us.”
Their team declaration can be found in reaction to a brand-new Netflix reveal called “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story,” which premiered on Netflix recently.
MENENDEZ SIBLING, THAT ASSASSINATED PARENTS, SLAMS NEW PROGRAM FOR ‘DISHONEST PORTRAYAL’
Erik and Lyle Menendez pay attention throughout their test in the 1990s. (Ted Soqui/Sygma)
“Monsters” is promoted as a “true-crime drama probes the lives of the Menendez brothers, convicted of the brutal 1989 murders of their parents in Beverly Hills.”
But the Menendez bros’ member of the family define it as “a phobic, gross, anachronistic, serial episodic nightmare that is not only riddled with mistruths and outright falsehoods, but ignores the most recent exculpatory revelations,” they stated in their declaration uploaded to X.
“We know these men. We grew up with them since they were boys.”
“Our family has been victimized by this grotesque shockudrama. Murphy claims he spent years researching the case but in the end relied on debunked Dominick Dunne, the pro-prosecution hack, to justify his slander against us and never spoke to us,” the declaration checks out. “The character assassination of Erik and Lyle, who are our nephews and cousins, under the guise of a ‘storytelling narrative’ is repulsive. We know these men. We grew up with them since they were boys. We love them and to this very day we are close to them.”
Lyle, left, and Erik, right, are imagined in current mugshots from 2023. After years apart, they were relocated right into the exact same real estate device at Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego in 2018, according to the New York Daily News. (California Department of Corrections)
Erik Menendez released his very own declaration with Tammi on X before his family members’s message, claiming the program produces “a caricature of Lyle rooted in horrible and blatant lies rampant in the show.”
“It is sad for me to know that Netflix’s dishonest portrayal of the tragedies surrounding our crime have taken the painful truths several steps backward — back through time to an era when the prosecution built a narrative on a belief system that males were not sexually abused, and that males experienced rape trauma differently than women,” Erik stated in his declaration shared byTammi
THE MENENDEZ BROTHERS: MONSTERS OR MISUNDERSTOOD?
Menendez bros, Erik, left, and Lyle on the actions of their Beverly Hills home in November, 1989. (Ronald L. Soble/ Los Angeles Times)
Lyle’s member of the family uploaded a different response to the program on Facebook.
“So these ‘writers/creators’ got up in the morning, ate their cornflakes, and went to an office where they decided to lie about rape survivors who have suffered every single day of their life. The professionals did this for money. How ironic,” they composed on a public Facebook web page where they talk on Lyle’s part while he remains in jail.”Never forget: There was more evidence of abuse in the first trial than there is in most successful child abuse prosecutions.”
LYLE MENENDEZ, THAT SHOTGUNNED PARENTS TO FATALITY WITH SIBLING, PREPARES FOR LIFE AFTER JAIL AMID NEW ALLURE
His family members took place to define the program as “the most awful fictional mini series” that they “have ever seen.”
Trial of the Menendez bros in Los Angeles – Lyle Menendez with his lawyer:Jill Lansing Los Angeles, 9th March 1994. ( Ted Soqui/Sygma)
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The bros’ lawyers have actually said they need to have been founded guilty of murder as opposed to murder, in which instance they currently would certainly have been launched from jail.
A different docudrama regarding the bros entitled “The Menendez Brothers” is arranged to premiere onOct 7. The movie guarantees to “offer another perspective — that of the brothers themselves, provided in all-new audio interviews,” according to a news release. It will certainly likewise information the bros’ accusations that their dad sexually attacked them.
Fox News’ Michael Ruiz added to this record.
