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After two decades apart, Erik and Lyle Menendez were reunited one year ago today

The Menendez brothers were reunited a year ago today, after not having seen each other for almost 22 years.

The brothers were reunited at the R. J. Donovan Correctional Facility near San Diego.

The last time they’d been together was in 1996, two months after they were sentenced to life without parole following their first-degree murder conviction.

The day of the sentencing, the Beverly Hills Police filed a motion asked the judge to place the brothers in separate prisons because they had been co-conspirators in committing a crime.

The judge agreed.

Canadian reader Darknoir likes it, she really really likes it!

I want to express my thanks to everybody who has taken the time to read or listen to my book, The Menendez Murders, since it was released last Fall.

I was recently contacted by a reader who posted a review on Amazon Canada that can’t be easily seen on Amazon U.S. or any of the other foreign Amazon sites.

Darknoir has written an insightful, concise overview of the Menendez Brothers story. I appreciate her kind words:

The Menendez Brothers’ conviction was a miscarriage of justice

On March 20, 1996, 23 years ago today, a jury of eight men and four women returned with a verdict after deliberating less than four days:

Erik and Lyle Menendez were both found guilty of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder.

It was a miscarriage of justice.

The Menendez Brothers have been in jail for 29 years

On March 8, 1990, Lyle Menendez was arrested in Beverly Hills and charged with killing his parents.

Brother Erik Menendez surrendered several days later.

The Menendez brothers have been in jail for more than half their lives.

The Menendez Brothers make their first court appearance (video)

On Monday, March 12, 1990, Erik and Lyle Menendez – who were being held without bail – were arraigned at Beverly Hills Municipal Court.

The charges against the brothers were read to a packed courtroom that included many supportive family members.

Erik Menendez looked exhausted because he hadn’t slept since his voluntary surrender and return from Israel a day before.

It was the beginning of the end the lives the boys once knew.

Erik Menendez wrote a screenplay: Kid kills parents, inherits $157,000,000 (video)

Yes, Erik Menendez was the co-author of a screenplay about a young man who kills his parents and inherits $157,000,000. The script that was completed — and shopped around Hollywood — before the murders.

No, it was never included as evidence in either of the two trials.

Did the media firestorm influence the verdicts?

Everything we know about that Menendez Brothers basketball card

I’ve written Facebook posts and Tweets on this subject already; I’m hoping this post drives a stake in the heart of this “story.”

Welcome to the curious case of a photo on a basketball card of the Menendez brothers at an NBA game — a story that won’t die.

Is that Lyle and Erik? What’s the real story?

IN YOUR FACE: The Menendez Brothers were killers, not murderers!

On the Donnie and Grace In Your Face podcast, I explain why the second trial was so different from the first trial, what happened at the April 2018 reunion of the brothers after not seeing each other for 22 years, and why I believe that manslaughter – not murder – should have been the resolution of the case.

I was a guest on ‘Good Day L.A.’ (video)

I was a guest on GDLA – the local morning show on Fox 11 in Los Angeles – with co-hosts Megan Colarossi and Elex Michaelson where we discussed was how different the media is today with the Internet, the 24-hour news cycle and social media compared to 1993 when the first Menendez trial took place.

If the trial were held today, I believe the verdict would have been manslaughter – not a murder.

In the current era of #MeToo, #MenToo, and the report by the Pennsylvania attorney general’s office about abuse in the Catholic Church, people are more open and willing today to believe that boys as well as girls can be abuse victims.

I’ve been on the road – spreading the truth – for two months

It has been two months since the release of The Menendez Murders.

I am grateful for all the TV shows, podcasts, radio interviews, newspapers, and websites that have helped me share a new version of this story – the truth.

In the 2018 era of #MeToo, #MenToo, and the revelations about the Catholic Church, people are more willing to accept that Erik and Lyle Menendez’s emotional testimony of being abused was the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.