#439: Menendez + Menudo: Boys Betrayed | Part 1
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🗓️ 10 May 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
There are high profile cases you think you know, but the truth is far more nuance, complicated and terrible than anything the media could ever cover during a headline making trial. On the evening of June 20th 1989, Lyle Menendez (21) and his brother Erik Menendez (18) shot their parents Kitty and Jose Menendez to death in their Beverly Hills home. Of that there is no dispute. In 1996, the brothers were each finally convicted (after a first trial ended in deadlock) of two counts of first degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole.
At the time, their defense contended that years of horrific emotional, physical and sexual abuse at the hands of their father Jose, and the complicity of their mother Kitty, made the sons fear for their lives and kill their parents in self defense. However few in the media, the public and certainly on that jury, believed them. Until now. In the new explosive Peacock documentary "Menendez + Menudo: Boys Betrayed" there is a new corroborating witness, Roy Rosello, who claims Jose Menendez was a pedophile who sexually abused him when he was a young member of the boy band Menudo. Will these new revelations open the door for a new trial for the Menendez Brothers? Listen as we dig into this complicated and conflicting case.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Prime Members, you can listen to Real Crime Profile add-free on Amazon Music. Download the app today. |
| 0:12.0 | Jose Menendez and his wife Kitty, they were shot eight times at close range. |
| 0:18.0 | The infamous Menendez brothers. |
| 0:21.0 | The brutal murder of their own parents. |
| 0:25.0 | Please, for the rich and children, our Latin America's start-up. |
| 0:30.0 | I thought that there was some sort of connection. Jose Menendez was obsessed with the ban manoeuvre. |
| 0:40.0 | It's time for the wall to know the truth. |
| 0:45.0 | This is the testimony that Eric and Lyle need it when they were sentenced to life. |
| 0:51.0 | Are you ready to tell all the details? Because they're very shocking. |
| 0:55.0 | Yes. He is the key to getting action even after all these decades. |
| 1:01.0 | I know what he did to me in his house. |
| 1:09.0 | Hello and welcome to Real Crime Profile. This is Jim Clemente, retired at the Art Profile |
| 1:13.0 | a former New York City prosecutor and writer, producer of Criminal Minds. And with me today is... |
| 1:18.0 | Hello, I am Lisa Zambetti. I'm casting director for CBS's Criminal Minds. |
| 1:22.0 | Unfortunately, our co-host Laura Richards is not here with us today. She's doing trainings. |
| 1:27.0 | She's saving the world. She's doing so many things. |
| 1:30.0 | We want to just start talking about two cases actually. |
| 1:34.0 | We're going to talk about two cases that I never would have thought had any connection to each other at all. |
| 1:39.0 | This is based on the new peacock documentary called Menendez plus Menudo Boys Betrayed. |
| 1:47.0 | And some of you are going to know about the first case in this title, the cases of Menendez brothers |
| 1:53.0 | who were convicted in 1996 of murdering their parents, Kitty and Jose Menendez. |
| 1:58.0 | But the documentary draws a line, Jim, from that case, all the way to a case many people have never heard of. |
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