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<\/a>The Menendez brothers and their parents whom they murdered in cold blood.<\/p><\/div>\n
After two trials, they\u2019ve been in prison since 1996, having been sentenced to life with no possibility for parole, which most of us totally agree with for such heinous crimes.<\/p>\n
Fast-forward to\u00a0now<\/em>, and, (although I don\u2019t understand why,) they were recently re-sentenced, and might get out on parole this month!\u00a0 I think that would be a disgrace.<\/p>\n First I\u2019ll give you my friend\u2019s arguments, and then share my own.\u00a0He<\/em>\u00a0believes their claim that their father\u00a0did<\/em>\u00a0sexually abuse them when they were younger. Period. That\u2019s his argument. So, he feels that Jose deserved to be killed and his wife did, too, because she knew about the abuse and didn\u2019t step in to protect her sons.<\/p>\n While\u00a0I<\/em>\u00a0agree that the abuse is a genuine possibility, there doesn\u2019t seem to be much proof of it, except for perhaps a letter one of the bros wrote to his cousin, (which was found several years\u00a0after<\/em>\u00a0the trials,) and that a former member of the singing group Menudo, (whom Jose managed,) said the same thing happened to him. And if true, Jose definitely deserved to be imprisoned, (where perhaps he would have gotten a taste of his own medicine!)<\/p>\n BUT, killing their parents was not even close to the self-defense that they claimed it was!!! No one was abusing them right at the moment. The murders were wholly premeditated!!! The brothers went to another city to buy guns, for goodness sake! And the younger one, Erik, had even taken a friend\u2019s ID to make sure he would be able to purchase the firearms. And then the brothers practiced with their new weapons at a shooting range.<\/p>\n And here\u2019s the kicker: Lyle was twenty-one and already out of the house and in college, (so he wasn\u2019t even around to be the subject of abuse at the time of the murders,) and Erik was eighteen, making him very capable of leaving the home and living elsewhere.<\/p>\n To my mind, they wanted their parents’ money. And to be rid of their rule. Period!<\/p>\n Lyle and Erik Menendez.<\/p><\/div>\n As promised, this is how the brothers got caught, with their real motive exposed: In post-crime sessions with his therapist, Erik confessed to the murders! And said their motive was wanting to be free of their controlling father who set standards that were too high for his sons! Lyle later joined in the confessions, and guess what? Neither of them\u00a0ever\u00a0mentioned sexual abuse. There are tapes of a bunch of their admissions.<\/p>\n On one of those tapes they told the therapist that their dad \u201cdeserved to die\u201d for having an affair that upset their mother to the point of despair, and that they then killed their mother to \u201cput her out of her misery.\u201d Ri-ight.<\/p>\n And, oh yeah, there\u2019s\u00a0this<\/em>\u00a0little peccadillo: In high school, a few years before this horror show, Erik and a pal wrote a screenplay about a young guy who\u2026kills his parents to inherit their money! Talk about prescient.<\/p>\n So I don\u2019t care that many of Lyle and Erik\u2019s relatives are\u00a0politicking\u00a0for their release. And I can\u2019t understand why they\u2019re doing that at all. I\u2019m scratching my head over their motives. I just want evil murderers to stay in prison.<\/p>\n And oh, there\u2019s a new<\/em> little wrinkle on the topic.\u00a0\u00a0Erik was recently admitted to a local hospital with what his very creepy attorney, Mark Geragos, described as a \u201cserious medical condition.\u201d So that might garner some sympathy for the murdering bros.<\/p>\n<\/a>