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    How the Menendez brothers case blazed a trail for the true crime genre

    LOS ANGELES — If there were a Mount Rushmore of true crime, the faces of Erik and Lyle Menendez would certainly be on it. The 1989 murder case of the two brothers who gunned down their parents Jose and Kitty Menendez in their Beverly Hills mansion predates the era of podcasting and YouTube sleuths that saturate the internet today. But their sensational trials were inescapable in the 1990s and ...
    by Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times Mar 25, 2024 4 minutes
    A 1992 file photo shows double murder defendants Erik, right, and Lyle Menendez during a court appearance in Los Angeles.

    LOS ANGELES — If there were a Mount Rushmore of true crime, the faces of Erik and Lyle Menendez would certainly be on it.

    The 1989 murder case of the two brothers who gunned down their parents Jose and Kitty Menendez in their Beverly Hills mansion predates the era of podcasting and YouTube sleuths that saturate the internet today. But their sensational trials were inescapable in the 1990s and now resonate with a new generation of obsessives.

    The public's enduring fascination with the case — and the changing perceptions of the brothers' defense that they were sexually abused by their father — is the focus of "Menendez Brothers: Victims

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