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  • 10/7/2024
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00:00Everyone asks why we kill our parents.
00:08Maybe now people can understand the truth.
00:15My name is Eric Menendez.
00:16My name is Lyle Menendez, calling you from Donovan Correctional Facility.
00:23Lyle was the only person that had ever protected me.
00:28The truth behind the death knife is very well known, but so much hasn't been told.
00:33If anyone had written this for a script in Hollywood, the Hollywood people would have
00:36gone no way.
00:39The Menendez case is one of the most infamous criminal trials in America.
00:43The brothers accused of the murder of their wealthy parents in Beverly Hills.
00:47It was like an incredible soap opera.
00:51Jose was a successful businessman.
00:53Kitty was the caring mother.
00:56Two boys, emblematic of wealth and privilege.
01:01Why would you kill your parents?
01:04As the prosecutor, I knew it was plain old greed.
01:07There was a media spectacle from the beginning, so we were not the ones who told the story
01:13of our life.
01:14We looked like the perfect family, but behind the walls, something very wrong was happening.
01:22What did he do to you?
01:23I'm sorry.
01:25I'm sorry.
01:29Now, there's a TikTok movement to free the Menendez.
01:33There's a new generation that's for the brothers.
01:36People are looking at the case with fresh eyes.
01:39Two kids don't commit this crime for money, and there's people who believe I shouldn't
01:44spend the rest of my life in prison.
01:46That judge was determined he was going to get a conviction.
01:49These kids went through some horrible things.
01:52What I'm telling you now is all fake, and if you don't know it's fake, that pisses me
01:56off.
01:57There is no evidence saying they're not guilty.
02:03We would much rather lose the murder trial than talk about the six secrets of the family.
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