Aug. 22, 2025
**BONUS** - "BREAKING: LYLE MENENDEZ DENIED - Both Brothers Will Die in Prison"
BREAKING NEWS: Lyle Menendez joins brother Erik in parole denial, ending the Kardashian-backed campaign to free the Beverly Hills parent killers. Reid Carter reveals how Lyle's multiple 2024 cellphone violations and continued rule-breaking doomed his chances, just 24 hours after Erik's disaster hearing exposed prison gangs, tax fraud, and heroin use. Despite Netflix documentaries, celebrity support, and 20 family letters, both brothers who shotgunned their parents for millions will die behind bars. The California Parole Board saw through 36 years of lies, proving sometimes even Hollywood can't wash away blood. Weekend preview: Phil Spector and Martha Stewart's classic trials.
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Callerogus Shark Media. This is Reed Carter with breaking news
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from celebrity trials. Lyle Menendez has been denied parole. Just
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like his brother Eric yesterday, the older Menendez brother couldn't
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convince the California Parole Board he deserved freedom after thirty
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six years. The brothers who killed together will now die
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in prison together. This is your Friday Night bonus episode. Well, folks,
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the Menendez brothers are two for two, two parole hearings,
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two denials, zero surprises. Lyle Menendez, now fifty seven years old,
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appeared before the parole board today via video from Richard J.
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Donovan Correctional Facility, and just like Eric yesterday, he walked
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away empty handed, or more accurately, he rolled away in
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his prison wheelchair, still wearing his inmate number. The hearing
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lasted several hours, but the outcome was never really in
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doubt out after yesterday's disaster with Eric. Remember, Eric admitted
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to multiple cell phone violations, prison gang associations, participating in
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tax fraud schemes, using heroin, and basically being a one
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man crime wave behind bars for three decades. Today, Lyle
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faced similar scrutiny about his own contraband cell phone violations.
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The man was caught with phones multiple times in twenty
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twenty four, not once, multiple times. These weren't ancient violations
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from the nineties. This was last year. Deputy District Attorney
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Habib Balian, the same prosecutor who ha viscerated Eric yesterday,
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was back for round two, and he came with receipts.
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Lyle's disciplinary record, his rule violations, his continued minimization of
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responsibility for executing his parents. Let me remind you what
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these brothers did since Netflix and Kim Kardashian want you
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to forget. They bought shotguns with fake IDs, drove home,
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and ambush their parents while they watched TV. Jose Menendez
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was shot five times. Kitty Menendez crawled across the floor
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wounded before they reloaded and delivered the kill shot. Then
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they went shopping with the blood money rolex'es Porsches tennis coaches.
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Lyle bought a restaurant. They sat courtside at NBA games,
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all while playing the grieving orphans. The parole board asked
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Lyle the same kinds of questions they asked Eric, Why
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didn't you leave, Why didn't you call police? Why did
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you kill your mother too. The answers were variations on
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the same theme, abuse, fear, no other choice, the same
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story they've been telling for thirty six years, the same
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story that two juries ultimately rejected when they convicted them
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a first degree murder. But here's what really sank both brothers.
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They've been in the same facility since twenty eighteen, coordinating
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their stories, their rehabilitation narratives, their parole strategies. They thought
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they could present united front of transformation and redemption. Instead,
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they presented a united front of ongoing criminal behavior. The
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California Parole Board has to determine if someone poses an
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unreasonable risk to public safety. Two brothers who can't stop
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breaking rules in maximum security prison, that's the definition of
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unreasonable risk. The celebrity machine worked overtime for these boys.
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Kim Kardashian visited them, wrote essays, said we owed it
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to those little boys who lost their childhoods. Tammy Menendez,
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Eric's wife, posted support messages on x Over twenty family
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members wrote letters. None of it mattered, because at the
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end of the day, you can't polish a double homicide.
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You can't rehabilitate someone who's still committing crimes, and you
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can't convince a parole board that you've changed when you're
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getting caught with contraband phones the year before your hearing.
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The Board of Parole Hearings will now conduct a review
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process that could take a to one hundred twenty days.
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But let's be real, these denials aren't getting overturned. Governor
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Newsom isn't riding to the rescue. The Menendez brothers shot
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their shot at freedom and missed, just like they didn't
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miss when they shot their parents. Under California law, they'll
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have to wait between three and fifteen years for another hearing.
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Given their moderate risk assessment, it could be as soon
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as one year. But after these catastrophic hearings, after all
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the cell phone violations and gang associations came to light,
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who's going to believe they've changed in just twelve months.
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The Menendez brothers wanted us to believe they were different
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people than the ones who walked into that Beverly Hills
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mansion with shotguns in nineteen eighty nine, but they proved
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they're exactly the same criminals who think rules don't apply
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to them today. The California Parole Board said what needed
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to be said, life without parole means life without parole,
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even with Netflix documentaries, even with seletelebrity support, even with
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thirty six years of claiming you're reformed while simultaneously proving
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you're not. The Menendez brothers killed together, they lied together,
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they got caught together, and now they'll die in prison together.
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Justice doesn't always get it right, but sometimes it does
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back in a moment that's your bonus. Breaking news, both
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Menendez brothers denied parole Within twenty four hours Monday on
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Celebrity Trials, will have complete analysis of what went wrong,
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why the celebrity campaign failed, and what this means for
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their pending Habeas corpus petition. But first, don't miss our
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weekend special episodes. Tomorrow Saturday, We're diving deep into Phil Specter,
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marking the anniversary of when California's Supreme Court slammed the
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door on his appeals fourteen years ago. From the wall
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of Sound to the sound of Lana Clarkson's final moments,
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we'll examine how the music producer who worked with the
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Beatles became just another prison number who died of COVID
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behind bars. Then Sunday, it's Martha Stewart's journey from billionaire
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to federal inmate five five one seven zero dash zero
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five to four. How a two hundred and thirty thousand
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dollars stock sale led to five months in Camp Cupcake
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and the greatest comeback in celebrity criminal history. Two weekend
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stories of celebrity justice, One who died denying his guilt,
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One who served her time and rebuilt an empire. Plus Monday,
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we'll look at how these Menendez denials affect other high
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profile prisoners seeking parole. If the Menendez brothers can't get
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out with Netflix and the Kardashians in their corner, who can.
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I'm reed, Carter. The Menendez brothers are staying exactly where
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they belong, behind bars until they die. Phil Spector already
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died there. Martha Stewart walked out and became a billion
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and air again character. Folks, it makes all the difference.
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Have a great weekend and see you tomorrow for our
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classic celebrity trials.
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