The Case for Freeing the Menendez Brothers, According to Their Longtime Confidant Robert Rand
GQ: The Case for Freeing the Menendez Brothers, According to Their Longtime Confidant Robert Rand
Menendez Juror HAZEL THORNTON: Why I’m Boycotting MONSTERS from Netflix
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is a guest post by Hazel Thornton, a juror in the first trial who voted for manslaughter, not murder. It’s been 30 years since I served as Juror #9 on Erik’s first jury. In that time I’ve
Shocking New Witness Could Blow the Menendez Brothers Murder Case Wide Open!
Earlier this week, I had no idea how Tuesday would go. For the past three years, my reporting partner Nery Ynclan and I have been in the middle of an intense investigation. We couldn’t tell anybody what we were doing
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.
PLAYBOY JULY 1995: Menendez Confidential: True Crime
Lyle and Erik are headed back to court for their retrial. Here are all the odd facts, bizarre characters, and untold stories you need to appreciate round two including, of course, a cameo by OJ. himself.
The New Menendez Defenders: The international movement of supporters who want Lyle and Erik set free
As the only journalist who covered the 1989 investigation and the trials in 1993-94 and 1995, I want to welcome the thousands of new supporters of the Menendez brothers. You are collectively responsible for over 800 million views of Menendez TikToks as
PLAYBOY MARCH 1991: The Killing of Jose Menendez
On the night of August 20, 1989, the last night in the lives of Jose and Kitty Menendez, their elegant residential street in Beverly Hills was so still you could hear a leaf drop. That in itself was neither unusual nor something to arouse suspicion. People pay a steep price to live in such neighborhoods, and they cherish their peace and quiet.
A Princeton University freshman did a Q & A with me for my best interview yet
I’ve done hundreds of interviews since I began covering the Menendez Brothers story in the Fall of 1989. You never forget your first: on March 9, 1990, I appeared via satellite from my home in Miami Beach on Hard Copy 24 hours after Lyle Menedez’s
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
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: