From The Vault: The Real Lyle Menendez

The FOX True Crime Podcast w/ Emily Compagno

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True Crime

4.8 • 708 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Emily revisits her conversation with author, speaker, and former Colombo Caporegime Michael Franzese as he sheds light on his unique relationship with Lyle Menendez. Michael spent nearly a year in solitary confinement with Lyle and discusses how the prison system impacted them. Later, he sheds light on the things that Lyle confided in him and shares a message of hope within the criminal justice system. For more on the Menendez brothers case, listen to the FOX Nation Investigates Podcast. Follow Emily on Instagram: @realemilycompagno If you have a story or topic we should feature on the FOX True Crime Podcast, send us an email at: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.1	I'm Emily Camponio, and this is the Fox True Crime podcast. You may be familiar with the Menendez
0:36.3	brothers, but how many people can say they
0:39.2	actually know them? Today, I'm revisiting my conversation with my friend, Michael Francis,
0:45.4	who spent nearly a year in solitary confinement with Lyle Menendez, and who depicts a different
0:51.5	side of Lyle, often ignored by the media.
0:58.4	For more about this case, follow the Fox Nation Investigates Podcasts. You can listen to Menendez Brothers, Monsters or Misunderstood, and Menendez Brothers, victims or villains.
1:06.9	Full series now available at foxtruecrime.com.
1:31.0	Many of us know Eric and Lyle Menendez from newspapers, magazines, and television screens. But how many of us can say that we actually know them? My guest today spent 11 months in solitary confinement with Lyle Menendez
1:38.6	and saw a different side of him, never shown by the media. Michael Francis is a former Kappa regime of the Colombo crime family, who, with the help of a second chance, is now a mentor, author, and speaker.
1:53.0	He's also my friend.
1:55.0	And today, Michael joins me to discuss his unique experience with Lyle, as well as his reaction to the resentencing opportunity
2:02.2	of the Menendez brothers.
2:05.2	Well, you know, I was doing federal time. I was actually on a parole violation in Northern
2:10.1	California when the state, actually, L.A. County picked me up and they were trying to indict
2:15.4	me basically on the same charges that I was
2:18.4	already doing the parole violation for. So they took me to LA County Jail. And you know, it's funny,
2:23.9	Emily, when I was leaving the federal jail, the correctional officer, the lieutenant said to the state,
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