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In Aug. 1989, Lyle and Erik Menendez blasted their parents with shotguns so many times that police initially thought it was a mob hit. After months of extravagantly spending their inheritances, the brothers were arrested, and convicted of the murders in a widely publicized 1996 trial—despite their attempts to argue that the grisly attack was incited by sexual abuse at the hands of their father and fear for their lives.
Now, a new season of the Ryan Murphy true-crime anthology, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, has brought renewed attention to their crimes.
The brothers have lived relatively quietly over the last three decades—at least compared to the media frenzy that enveloped them in the 90s. But being locked up isn’t the end of their story: since then, the pair has fought to reunite with each other, found love with women through the prison mail system, and uncovered new evidence that they hope will set them free.
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