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Brother. Have you seen the Menendez Brothers show on Netflix?
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No dude. Like I wasn't talking about it though.
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Yeah, even my parents are like me.
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Because they grew up with it?
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You know what I mean?
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They grew up with that.
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It's so good brother.
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It's crazy how these high profile murders are getting turned into shows
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But you know what the most on Netflix they'd be like,
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oh who died. Let's do a documentary.
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It's works, it works while all the attention the show has
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received actually is helping the brothers case.
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So here's the details of the case.
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So Lyle and Eric Menendez were convicted for the brutal murder of
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their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez on August 20th of 1989
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in their Beverly Hills mansion.
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Yep. Ok. So I didn't even know the story.
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good breakdown for me.
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of course. I'm going to keep going on.
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The dad. Jose Menendez was shot in the back of the
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head and Katie, the mom was shot multiple times while trying
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to flee. Both were killed with shotguns.
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Damn, the brothers initially told police they discovered their parents' bodies
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after returning from the movies.
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However, their crazy spendings after the deaths was a major red
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flag. So they were spending spending gas,
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gas and maybe it was a retail therapy or something.
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But like that's crazy therapy.
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I mean, you could call it that.
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I mean, I don't know,
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this is weird but like,
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yeah. Ok. Sorry continue.
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So the case turned when Eric Menendez confessed to the murders
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during a session with his psychologist whose tapes were later used as
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evidence. Then during their trial,
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the brothers admitted to the murders but claimed they acted in self
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defense after years of sexual emotional and physical abuse by their father
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And they also claimed that their mother enabled the abuse.
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Yeah, that's crazy because again,
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I've only heard that they killed their parents.
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That's all I ever Yeah,
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this show is kind of shining light on the actual details of
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Yeah. So their first trials ended in hung juries with the
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defense focusing on the abuse claims and the jury was split on
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whether the killings were premeditated murder or self defense.
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So in the second trial,
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the judge disallowed much of the defense's abuse claims and the brothers
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were convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to life in prison
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without the possibility of parole.
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This whole breakdown kind of reminds me that one show was it
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based on the actual thing too with the gypsy rose,
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like her mom was kind of like abusing,
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right? And then she killed her in self defense because she
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gets like, I got to get out of this freaking lifestyle
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yeah, it's very similar.
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And now because of the show L A County D A George
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Gascon spoke to Newsweek about potential new evidence in the Menendez brothers
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case which may reopen their path to justice.
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And Kim K is hopping on the bandwagon too.
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She's speaking on their behalf and saying that,
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you know, because of all the abuse and all this new
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evidence, she's saying that they're not the monsters that they paint
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them to be. I don't know,
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it was self defense and what are they going to say about
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I mean, what would you do?
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Can you imagine like the mom wants things to stop and then
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it's like that's the only way it's going to stop and then
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the man is powerful.
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The dad was powerful.
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I'm not justifying it,
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but I mean, I can see why the Menendez brothers did
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what they did. Yeah,
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but it'll be interesting.
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we'll see if Netflix comes out with the documentary after the case
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I don't know who knows.
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They might open it back up.
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