The Netflix documentary The Menendez Brothers features interviews with Erik and Lyle Menendez from prison.
have never denied killing their parents in their Beverly Hills mansion on Aug. 20, 1989, but they have long been asking for the public to better understand their story.
But the brothers weren’t arrested until seven months later, and they both say in the documentary that they were surprised they weren’t treated as suspects sooner. According to Erik, “The gunpowder residue was all over our hands…There were gun shells in my car.” And, “If they would have just pressed me, I wouldn't have been able to withstand any questioning. I was in a completely broken and shattered state of mind. I was shell-shocked.
Lyle says that while he may have been acting like a playboy, he wasn’t truly having fun. He describes sobbing at night and being unable to sleep. He says, “Without my father helping direct my life, I was quite lost” and that “a part of Erik and I died on that night.”Erik explains that he and his brother committed the crime because “something very, very wrong was happening in the family.”
And yet, the Menendez brothers want Netflix viewers to know that they were terrified about speaking out about their father. They say they didn’t want to destroy his father’s reputation. Erik explains: “telling sick secrets of the family would be like killing my parents again.”
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