I couldn’t visit Lyle Menendez because of the pandemic – until now!

I couldn’t visit Lyle Menendez because of the pandemic – until now!

The last time I visited Lyle Menendez at the R.J. Donovan Correctional Facility near San Diego was February 2020.

Within weeks, California, like the rest of the world, would be locked down because of COVID-19.

Sure, we were all unhappy to be stuck at home, but imagine trying to survive the plague while packed in prison!

The virus was not a problem at Donovan until December; that’s when a shock outbreak — 700 new cases in one week — turned the sprawling lockup into a pandemic penitentiary.

Lyle and Erik, luckily, were never infected. They are now fully vaccinated.

The 1993 Menendez Brothers murder trial is finally streaming online, plus I’m interviewed on Court TV’s new podcast

The 1993 Menendez Brothers murder trial is finally streaming online,  plus I’m interviewed on Court TV’s new podcast

Finally! Twenty-seven years after two juries were seated for the trial of Lyle and Erik Menendez, the rebooted Court TV has posted the ENTIRE six-month-long court proceedings (even the heated evidence hearings) on their website.

Two juries in the first trial – one for each brother – heard 101 witnesses and examined 405 exhibits over 85 days of testimony that ran from July 20 to December 3, 1993. The case ended with two mistrials in January 1994 after neither brother’s jury could agree on a verdict.

Now, you can watch the trial and see everything the juries saw.

The Menendez Verdict : A Miscarriage of Justice 30 Years Ago

The Menendez Verdict : A Miscarriage of Justice 30 Years Ago

In the eighteen months since the release of The Menendez Murders, I’ve heard from hundreds of people who have read (or listened) to my book. People reach out on social media, through this website and by writing reviews on Amazon.

Here’s an example of my favorite type of message — a reader who has changed her opinion about Lyle and Erik Menendez after learning the details of their case through my reporting.

This note came from Meg in Michigan a few days ago:

Erik and Lyle Menendez killed their parents 30 years ago today – but it didn’t have to be that way

Erik and Lyle Menendez killed their parents 30 years ago today – but it didn’t have to be that way

This is a tragedy that destroyed a family. All four of them had remarkable strengths as well as terrible weaknesses and it did not have to be. If at any time over the course of the lives of the four Menendez family members some effective person could have intervened, everyone would still be alive and well and healing. All four of them needed help. And there never was any help for this family.
Defense Attorney Leslie Abramson, the day before sentencing