Erik Menendez

All signs are pointing to both teams winning this match because finally, I'm thinking last couple of weeks, Birthright are being booked like a legit threat.

And the Wagners, of course, they had that segment with the Menendez brothers a couple of weeks ago back in...

Sorry, a couple of weeks ago, they appeared to telegraph that both those teams would be in the finals of this tournament because they are on opposite sides of the brackets and they talked at each other.

And we know that Shawn Michaels likes to telegraph things all the bastard time.

Hey-oh! Apparently, according to what I just said a few seconds ago.

More promos, this time from the Vanity Project, who are walking through the backstage area before Chantel Monroe says they have taste, and she hopes the VP saw the reflection of perfection video.

The Jackster is about to say no, I think, but then Eric Menendez cuts off the Jackster and says he loved it, as he's always on the pole.

The VP are now off to Stone's office, as they have been called in there.

Elisa Donovan here, and this is Killer Thriller.

In 1989, Lyle and Eric Menendez shot and killed their parents, Jose and Kitty, inside their Beverly Hills home.

Prosecutors said they killed for money.

The brothers said years of abuse left them fearing for their lives.

Caught in the middle was Jose's sister, Marta Cano, an aunt who ultimately testified for the nephews who killed her brother and remained one of their strongest supporters.

Marlene Forte plays Marta in Netflix's Monsters, the Lyle and Eric Menendez story.

She joins us today to talk about stepping into this extraordinary family story and what she discovered about one of the most complicated

figures in the Menendez case.

Their killers are not strangers.

They are their own sons, Lyle and Erik Menendez, two young men who appear to have everything: wealth, privilege, opportunity, and a future most people could only dream of.

But behind the doors of that Beverly Hills mansion, the brothers claim there was another reality, one of fear, control, and years of sexual abuse.

The prosecution tells a very different story: two greedy sons who murdered their parents for a multi-million dollar inheritance.

Then, more than 30 years later, a Netflix series called Monsters introduces their story to an entirely new generation.

Suddenly, America is asking the same questions all over again.

Were Lyle and Erik calculating murderers, or were they traumatized young men who believed their lives were in danger? And now, with the brothers eligible for parole, another question has become impossible to ignore.

After more than three decades behind bars, should they finally be released? I'm investigative journalist Erica Voss, and over five chapters, we'll examine the murders, the allegations, the trials, the Netflix controversy, and the latest fight for freedom.

Easy for me to say, but I need to say it.

There was some great tag teaming once again from the Menendez brothers with Eric reversing the momentum of Starboy so Lyle could nail a Boss Man slam, um, on his little bum.

[laughs] I've put in my notes here.

What was that about there? I'm sure it's an adequate size arse.

He's refusing to break it up, and that's not because he doesn't care about his tag team partner and he doesn't care about his prospects in the Dusty Cup, everybody.

It's because wrestlers are now robots, I've put in my notes here, and they must follow the next spot and not deviate from the plan they worked out backstage.

Because in the middle of this, Vikingo uses Lyle, who as I say is in the middle of a pinfall attempt, to alley-oop himself onto Eric Menendez's shoulders so he can do a poisonrana.

That bit looked cool, but the bit when he stood there in the corner just letting the pinfall happen, that looked bollocks there for the setup.

Love.

The Eric Menendez and Lyle Menendez one... sell off some but it was still worth watching the last two i'm lizzie borden and um ed gain i was not able to the storytelling was all over the place i just see ryan and and then you couple that with like the shards on on hulu i'm like it's a lot going

on it was like oh i know the way this is going

no yeah

Um, this is the direction of our world, the, the legalization of murder.

It's like when the Menendez brothers, remember them? Lyle and, uh, forgot the other one's name, uh, murdered their parents in cold blood, and Leslie Abramson, the attorney in the first go-around, was able to succeed as she was defending them with the argument that, "You know what? These kids were abused by their father, so if they murdered their parents, it's okay." Uh, yeah, Eric and...

There we go.

Eric and Lyle Menendez.

Uh, you remember them.

And, um, of course, at the time [chuckles] we said to ourselves, "Well, was the abuse imminent?" In other words, were they imminently trying to protect themselves via self-defense? 'Cause that would be a justifiable homicide.

I mean, if someone is coming at me and they put my life or the life of my family for that matter in imminent danger, then I think the legal system would allow me kil- to kill that person, to defend myself.

Self-defense, justifiable homicide.