Lyle and Erik Menéndez

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pWotD Episode 2697: Lyle and Erik Menéndez
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With 664,166 views on Thursday, 19 September 2024 our article of the day is Lyle and Erik Menéndez.
Joseph Lyle Menéndez (born January 10, 1968) and Erik Galen Menéndez (born November 27, 1970), collectively referred to as the Menéndez brothers, are American brothers who were convicted in 1996 of the murders of their parents, José and Mary Louise "Kitty" Menéndez.
During their trial, the brothers stated that they committed the murders out of fear that their father would kill them after they threatened to expose him for years of sexual, emotional, and physical abuse, while the prosecution argued that they did it to inherit their father's multimillion-dollar estate. They were first tried separately with one jury for each brother. However, both juries deadlocked, resulting in a mistrial. For the second trial, they were tried together by a single jury that found them guilty after the judge excluded the evidences of abuse for the defense. Both brothers were sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.
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