March 7, 2026
Best of Serason 1: The Menendez Brothers: "FROM MONSTERS TO MARTYRS: How TikTok Might Free Two Killers" part 2
After 35 years in prison, the Menendez brothers are suddenly eligible for parole - and Erik is fighting for his life in a hospital. Reid Carter reveals how explosive new evidence, including allegations that Jose Menendez raped a Menudo band member, transformed America's most hated killers into TikTok heroes. The shocking May 2025 resentencing, Netflix's controversial dramatization, and the cultural revolution that changed everything. With their parole hearing just days away and Erik hospitalized with a serious condition, Reid exposes how two admitted murderers became Gen Z martyrs. Will society's changing views on male sexual abuse finally free the brothers who killed their parents?
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Callaroga Shark Media. Good morning, I'm Read Carter, and welcome
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back to Celebrity Trials. Yesterday we explored how two privileged
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brothers from Beverly Hills became convicted killers. Today we're diving
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into something even stranger, how those same killers became TikTok heroes,
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Netflix stars and possibly future free men. Because here's what's
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wild about the Menendez case. It won't stay in the past.
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Every generation READISCS, covers it and sees something different. In
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nineteen ninety six, when Lyle and Eric were sentenced to
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life without parole, that seemed like the end of the story.
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Two rich kids had murdered their parents for money, tried
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to blame it on abuse, and justice was served. Case closed.
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Except the case never really closed. It just waited. Waited
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for America to change its mind about male sexual abuse,
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waited for social media to turn true crime into entertainment,
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waited for new evidence to surface, and waited for a
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Los Angeles District attorney willing to take another look. On
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May thirteenth, twenty twenty five, just two months ago, Los
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Angeles County Superior Court Judge Michael Jessich did something that
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would have been unthinkable in nineteen ninety six, he resentenced
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the Menendez brothers to fifty years to life, making them
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immediately eligible for parole. After thirty five years behind bars,
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Lyle and Eric Menendez suddenly had what they'd given up
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on hope. But as I record this on Sunday, August third,
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twenty twenty five, Eric Menendez isn't preparing for his parole
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hearing in eighteen days. He's in a hospital bed with
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what his family describes as a serious medical condition. His attorney,
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Mark Geragos is pushing for an emergency medical furlough, and
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America is once again debating whether two admitted killers deserve freedom.
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Let me tell you how we got here. How two
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of America's most hated criminals became causes celebris, How Netflix
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and TikTok succeeded where million dollar defense lawyers failed, and
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why the Menendez brothers might actually walk free before the
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year is out. After their convictions in nineteen ninety six,
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Lyle and Eric Menendez disappeared into the California prison system.
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They were sent to separate facilities, the California Department of
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Correction's way of preventing them from coordinating stories or causing
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trouble together. For years, the brothers, who'd done everything together,
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including murder, couldn't even speak to each other. But here's
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what's interesting about their time inside. By all accounts, they
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were model prisoners, not just well behaved, actually productive. Both
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earned college degrees, Both became peer counselors. Both got married
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because yes, even convicted parent killers can find love through
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prison pen pal programs. Eric married Tammy Sackerman in nineteen
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ninety nine. She'd started writing him after watching the trials,
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and she's been his most vocal advocate ever since. Lyle
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married twice, first to Anna Erikson in nineteen ninety six,
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though she divorced him when she found out he was
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writing to other women. He married Rebecca snead in two
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thousand and three, and before you ask, no, California doesn't
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allow conjugal visits for life without parole. Inmates, these marriages
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are about as physical as a zoom relationship. In two
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thoasenty eighteen, after more than twenty years apart, the brothers
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were reunited at Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego.
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Witnesses say they burst into tears when they saw each other.
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Here were two men in their late forties who'd spent
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more than half their lives in prison, hugging like the
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boys they'd been when they decided to kill their parents,
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And that image two middle aged men who'd been boys
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when they committed their crime is crucial to understanding how
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public perception began to shift. In May twenty twenty three,
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something happened that would have seemed impossible during the original trials.
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New evidence supporting the brother's abuse claims surfaced, and it
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came from the most unexpected source. Roy Rosello, a former
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member of the Puerto Rican boy band Menudo, came forward
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in the Peacock docuseries Menudo plus Menendez Boys betrayed his
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allegation that Jose Menendez had drugged and raped him in
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the nineteen eighties when he was a teenager. Let me
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put this in context for you. Menudo was the bts
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of the nineteen eighties Latin music world. They were massive,
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and Jose Menendez, as an executive at RCA Records, had
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power over their careers. Rossello claims that Jose assaulted him
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in a New York hotel room and that this wasn't
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an isolated incident with the band. Now one allegation from
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decades ago doesn't prove the Menendez brothers were abused, but
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it does something crucial. It establishes that Jose Menendez may
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have been exactly the predator his sons claimed he was.
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It provides independent corroboration that the successful executive had a
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pattern of abusing young boys. But wait, there's more, because
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attorney Robert Rand, who's been investigating this case for decades,
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found something in twenty eighteen that could have changed everything
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if it had surfaced earlier. A letter allegedly written by
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Eric Menendez to his cousin Andy Cano months before the murders.
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The letter, which Rand says he found an addresser in
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ca Hanno's bedroom, appears to show Eric discussing the abuse.
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The exact contents haven't been made fully public, but court
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documents indicate Eric wrote about the abuse getting worse than
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his fear of his father. Think about what this means.
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The prosecution's whole case rested partly on the idea that
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the abuse allegations were fabricated after the murders as a
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legal strategy. But if Eric was writing about abuse months
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before he killed his parents, that destroys that narrative. It
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suggests the abuse claims weren't made up for trial, they
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were the ongoing reality the brothers were living with. Of Course,
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former DA Nathan Hawkman, who took office after these developments,
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isn't buying it. He's compiled a list of what he
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calls sixteen unacknowledged lies the brothers have told over the years.
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He points out that self defense claims don't work when
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you buy guns in advance and ambush your parents while
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they're watching TV. He's got a point, But here's what
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Hawkman is up against. Public opinion has shipped did dramatically,
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and a lot of that shift has to do with
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how we consume true crime. In twenty twenty five, back
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in a moment. In September twenty twenty four, Ryan Murphy,
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the guy behind American Horror Story and Glee, released Monsters
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the Lyle and Eric Menendez Story on Netflix. It was
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the second season of his true crime anthology following the
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Jeffrey Dahmer series, and just like with Dahmer, Murphy's show
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turned a decade's old case into water cooler conversation. But
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Eric Menendez wasn't happy about it. In a statement released
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through his wife, he called out the show's horrible and
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blatant lies and accused Murphy of taking the case back
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to an era when the prosecution built a narrative on
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a belief system that males were not sexually abused. Here's
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what's fascinating. Eric's criticism of the show might have done
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more for his cause than the show itself. It reminded
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people that these weren't just characters in a Ryan Murphy production.
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They were real people, still alive, still in prison, still
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maintaining their abuse claims after thirty five years. Then in
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October twenty twenty four, Netflix doubled down with a documentary
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simply titled The Menendez Brothers. This one featured actual prison
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interviews with Lyle and Eric, no actors, no dramatization, just
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two middle aged men in prison uniforms telling their story.
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The timing couldn't have been better for the brothers or worse,
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depending on your perspective, because suddenly everyone was talking about
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the Menendez case again, and this time the conversation was
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very different than it had been in nineteen ninety six.
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TikTok exploded with Menendez content gen Z creators, most of
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whom weren't even born when the murders happened, and started
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making videos defending the brothers. The hashtag Menendez Brothers has
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billions of views. Young people who've grown up in an
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era of hashtag me too and greater awareness of male
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sexual abuse victims saw the case through completely different eyes
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than the nineteen nineties jury. The TikTok argument goes something
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like this, the brothers were abused children who killed their abusers.
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They've served thirty five years. Actual child molesters often get
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less time free them. It's simplified. Sure, it ignores the premeditation,
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the brutality, the lies, but it resonates with a generation
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that's more willing to see victims as complex and violence
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as sometimes understandable, if not justifiable. October twenty fourth, twenty
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twenty four, Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon dropped a bombshell.
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After reviewing the new evidence, the shifting cultural understanding of
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male sexual abuse, and the brothers exempt flurry behavior in prison,
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he was recommending resentencing. Gascon's reasoning was careful and political.
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He said, I don't believe that manslaughter would have been
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the appropriate charge given the premeditation that was involved, But
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he also added, I do believe that the brothers were
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subjected to a tremendous amount of dysfunction in the home
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and molestation. Translation, they're guilty of murder, but maybe not
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the kind of murder that requires life without parole. The
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reaction was immediate and predictable. Victims' rights advocates were furious.
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How could the DA recommend leniency for two men who'd
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admitted to shotgunning their parents, But supporters, including more than
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twenty Menendez family members, were ecstatic. Joan Vandermuhlen Kitty Menendez,
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his own sister, held a press conference saying, if Lyle
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and Eric's case was heard today, with the understanding we
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now have about abuse and PTSD, there is no doubt
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in my mind their sentencing would have been very different.
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Think about that the murder victim's own sister was advocating
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for her killer's release. That's how much the narrative had shifted.
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But then came a plot twist worthy of Murphy's show.
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In November twenty twenty four, Gascon lost his re election
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bid to Nathan Hakman, a former federal prosecutor who ran
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on a tough on crime platform. Hawkman made it clear
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he opposed the resentencing, calling the abuse claims fabricated and
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the brother's various explanations over the years lies. For a moment,
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it looked like the brother's hopes had died with Gascon's
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political career, but the legal process had already been set
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in motion, and on April eleventh, twenty twenty five, Judge
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Michael Jessex ruled that the resentancying could proceed despite Hawkman's objections.
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Then came May thirteenth, twenty twenty five, Judge Jesich resentanced
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the brothers to fifty years to life. Because they committed
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their crimes when they were under twenty six, they immediately
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became eligible for parole after thirty five years. The Menendez
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brothers finally had a realistic path to freedom, but freedom
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isn't guaranteed. They still need to convince a parole board
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that they're no longer a threat to society, and that's
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where things get complicated. Back in a moment. As I
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speak to you on August third, twenty twenty five, Lyle
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and Eric Menendez are just eighteen days away from the
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most important hearings of their lives. On August twenty first
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and twenty second, they'll face the California Parole Board. If
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they can convince the board they're rehabilitated, they could be
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free by fall. But Eric might not make it to
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that hearing. He's currently hospitalized with what his family describes
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as a serious medical condition. His attorney, Mark Geragos, the
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same guy who defended Michael Jackson and Chris Brown, is
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pushing for an emergency medical furlough. He wants Eric released
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immediately for medical treatment and to prepare for the parole hearing.
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It's a dramatic turn that even Ryan Murphy couldn't have scripted.
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After thirty five years in prison, Eric Menendez might get out,
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not because of changing attitudes about abuse, not because of
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TikTok campaigns, but because he's too sick to stay inside. Meanwhile,
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Nathan Hashman isn't giving up. He's submitted a recent psychological
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evaluation that found the brothers at moderate risk of committing
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violence if released. He's compiled his list of sixteen lies
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to present to the parole board. He's fighting this release
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with everything he's got. But here's what Hawkman is really fighting.
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A cultural shift that's bigger than any one case. In
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nineteen ninety six, male sexual abuse victims were punchlines, not
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sympathetic figures. The idea that boys could be raped by
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their fathers was something people didn't want to believe. The
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Menendez brothers were rich kids who killed for money, end
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of story. In twenty twenty five, we live in a
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different world. We've seen powerful men exposed as predators. We've
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learned that abuse victims don't always act the way we expect.
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We've recognized that trauma can make people do terrible things.
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The Menendez brothers haven't changed we have. Does that mean
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they should go free. That's for the parole board to decide.
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But I'll tell you this, if Eric and Lyele Menendez
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walk out of prison this year, it won't just be
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because of new evidence or good behavior. It'll be because
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America itself has changed its mind about who deserves sympathy
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and who deserves a second chance. You know what strikes
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me most about revisiting this case. It's not how much
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has changed, it's how the fundamental question remains the same.
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Do abuse victims who kill their abusers deserve mercy, and
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if so, how much? The Menendez brothers have no now
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spent more time in prison than they spent free. They
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went in as young men and might come out as grandfathers.
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They've earned degrees, counseled other inmates, maintained marriages without physical
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contact by any measure except the one that matters most,
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bringing their parents back. They've been rehabilitated, But Jose and
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Kitty Menendez are still dead, still shot multiple times at
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close range by their own children. No amount of TikTok
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videos or Netflix documentaries changes that fundamental fact. What has
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changed is our capacity for nuance. In nineteen ninety six,
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you were either team prosecution their greedy killers or team
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defense their abuse victims. In twenty twenty five, most people
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acknowledge it can be both. They can be killers and victims.
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They can deserve punishment and mercy. They can be guilty
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