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The Menendez Brothers case: Timeline of events explored

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Lily Fisher

Published Dec 28, 2025

The Menendez Brothers, Lyle and Erik Menéndez, are at present carrying out life punishments at the Richard J. Donovan Restorative Office in San Diego Region for the homicide of their folks José and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menéndez. The stunning episode occurred at the family’s Beverly Slopes manor on August 20, 1989, when the senior brother, Lyle, discharged on different occasions at his folks with a Mossberg 12-check shotgun.

After José and Kitty died, their children didn’t run away from the area, however rather trusted that the police will show up. At the point when the police appeared, the brothers made sense of that they had headed out to watch a film when their folks were killed.

The brothers were subsequently caught for their violations. It was then that Lyle and Erik uncovered that they killed their folks because on the grounds that they were being s*xually manhandled for quite a long time.

This alarming case will be made sense of exhaustively on Peacock’s impending docuseries named Menendez + Menudo: Young men Sold out, to be delivered on May 2, 2023. Individuals likewise as of late revealed that the second time of Ryan Murphy’s Beast series on Netflix will zero in on the two brothers.

Lyle and Erik’s dad Jose was born on May 6, 1944, in Havana, Cuba. At 16, he moved to the US, where he went to Southern Illinois College. He then met Mary Louise “Kitty” Andersen and wedded her in 1963. That very year, the couple moved to New York City.

Joseph Lyle Menéndez was born on January 10, 1968, in New York. After two years, the family invited another child named Erik. They before long moved to New Jersey, where the family resided in Hopewell Municipality. The two brothers were shipped off Princeton Day School.

In 1976, when the brother’s cousin Diane Vander Molen visited the family, Lyle uncovered to her that his dad continually s*xually manhandled him.

On August 20, 1989, Lyle and Erik shot their folks. Jose was shot multiple times, while his significant other made 10 efforts. Following their passing, the brothers went through foolishly on a time on earth of extravagance, making the police aware of the way that the brothers might have had a monetary rationale in the killing of their folks. They attempted to fool them into an admission, however it didn’t work, until Erik at long last conceded to perpetrating the wrongdoing to his psychotherapist.

On Walk 8, 1990, Lyle was captured. Erik was captured three days after the fact. They were prosecuted by the L.A. Area Fabulous Jury on December 8 of that very year. Their most memorable preliminary occurred from July 20, 1993 to January 27, 1994, and the subsequent one crossed from August 23, 1995, to Walk 20, 1996.

On July 2, 1996, the brothers were condemned to life in jail without the chance of parole. They were shipped off various penitentiaries before they were at last rejoined in 2018. They are presently being held at the Richard J. Donovan Restorative Office in San Diego.
Menendez + Menudo: Young men Deceived summation and different subtleties The authority summation of the impending Menendez + Menudo: Young men Deceived peruses:

“Lyle and Erik Menendez scandalously killed their folks in 1989. Menudo was the first uber teeny-bopper group to surprise the world. In this dangerous restricted series, watchers will learn of the association that connects the two stories and could substantiate the brothers’ many years old allegations against their dad, Jose Menendez.”
It further states:

“One previous Menudo part could be the way to changing how the public perspectives the brothers’ case while at the same time crusading for his own equity.” The series will be founded on detailing by writers Robert Rand and Nery Ynclan. Menendez + Menudo: Young men Deceived will debut on May 2, 2023, on Peacock.