The Menendez Brothers

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.

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Chapter three: The trials that divided America.

By 1993, the Menendez brothers had become household names.

Their parents had been murdered four years earlier.

same person right yeah

but that one was more it didn't seem like there was any like fictional stuff in there because you kind of everyone kind of knows the story of dahmer and it's like it seemed pretty like oh okay cool that's why i thought the other ones were and then when the menendez brothers one came out and they were like a bunch of shit in this just didn't happen i was like wait wait what like i thought i thought this was like yeah like documentary style but it it wasn't

um no

But yeah, Charlie Hunnam's in the Lizzie Borden one too.

So yeah, definitely don't watch that as a documentary.

It did make me wonder about, because I had watched, like, the Menendez Brothers one.

Oh, yeah.

And now I'm like, but was that accurate? Like, I knew about Lizzie Borden before watching-

... piece

... it's got some, like, paranormal overlap, so, like, it makes sense that we'd be interested in that one.

The Menendez Brothers one, um, is, like, straight true crime.

Yeah.

They did Jeffrey Dahmer and those brothers.

Menendez Brothers.

Yes, Menendez Brothers.

They did a new one of Lizzie Borden.

And I love Creepy and Weird, but I don't watch it.

Like, I couldn't even, this is how much of a baby I am.

I couldn't even finish The Menendez Brothers.

Yeah.

That's fucked.

The Menendez Brothers is fucked up.

I

couldn't even finish it.

time for that verdict.

Now with social media and true crime docs and series like Netflix's The Menendez Brothers, Marcia says cases involving social issues get even more attention and ignite feedback.

It

was like an incredible soap opera.

Dahmer.

Dahmer, Ed Gein, which I also never watched that one, and then the Menendez Brothers.

The Menendez Brothers.

Which is

you.

You were the Menendez Brothers.

I was the Menendez Brothers, and I

got, like, in trouble.

Are you talking about like Dateline?

Well, so Ella was telling me last night she likes to watch these like Menendez Brothers, the Jeffrey Dahmer series, like that stuff.

I don't know if it's a girl thing.

It's a girl thing.