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The I'm Vidipolitan. The subject of my investigation is the Menendez brothers.

It was the first huge trial on court TV and now 30 years later, the convicted double murderers who escaped the death penalty are looking to get out on parole.

Here's the story.

On the night of August 20th, 1989, the Beverly Hills mansion of Jose and Kitty Menendez became the scene of unimaginable

horror.

Lyle and Eric Menendez, their sons, fired shot after shot, brutal, merciless, leaving

their parents unrecognizable.

The crime shocked the nation.

Two privileged young men drowning in wealth turned savage killers.

At trial, they claimed they weren't monsters but victims.

That their father was a tyrant and their childhood was a nightmare of abuse.

The juries were split.

Was it cold-blooded murder or a desperate act of survival?

The second trial answered that question.

Two life sentences, no parole for the Menendez brothers.

Now decades later, they are fighting for their freedom,

armed with new alleged evidence of abuse and support from advocates

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