The Menendez Brothers
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Anonymous
If what you said is true, what a disgusting, vile lifestyle to teach kids. Why would anyone think that's the way to raise kids with good character traits and decent values? |
Anonymous
Not entirely true. There’s a hearing scheduled for November 29 to reevaluate their sentencing based on physical evidence of their molestation claims. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/10/03/us/prosecutors-review-new-evidence-menendez-brothers-murder-conviction Netflix is also releasing a new documentary next week (on top of the Monsters mini-series.) |
Anonymous
| What’s up with the goody grin and bald head the older brother was sporting in one of his more recent mug shots? He looked absolutely deranged. |
Anonymous
goofy |
Anonymous
I agree with that. I mean, it’s hardly surprising that there was something seriously seriously wrong in that house when you have two young men who would brutally murder both parents, even if it was “for the money.” So the abuse is extremely credible. I think it’s their age that gets them so much less sympathy and (to a lesser extent) the money. One of the brothers at least had already moved across country. Even after failing out of Princeton, he could have gone to some community college and gotten a job like any other schlub and never seen his parents again. What’s more amazing to me is that trafficked teenage girl who shot her rapist and still got convicted and is in prison. I mean, she really didn’t have other good options and was still in the captured mindset. The menendez brothers had already been largely out of the house for a good period of time. I might also be more sympathetic if they only killed the dad — like they didn’t want him to molest anyone else. But was there any suggestion the mom was a more general danger to other kids? |
Anonymous
| I think they'll be re-sentenced and eventually let out. I don't think that they're going to be a danger to the public. Normally the victims family comes forward to try to keep people locked up but they are the victims family so I do think they'll get out. I don't know when but I don't think they'll die in prison. |
Anonymous
DP. They grew up with a ton of money. Having killed their abusive parents isn’t going to transform them into middle class boys wanting to live the simple life. Also one of my ILs was sexually and physically abused by their father. They were also well off. It’s a lot more common than you think. There are tons of spoiled kids amongst the wealthy. There are even some psychotic spoiled kids who kill for money but have you ever heard of another case where, in the absence of abuse, both siblings work together just to kill both of their parents? Seems unlikely |
Anonymous
They’ve already served 30 years. Don’t act like a punishment has not already been handed out. |
Anonymous
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I haven't watched the Netflix special - don't need to, I was in college when they killed their parents and saw exhaustive coverage on TV over the course of the two trials.
At this point they should just commute their sentences and release them. At least one of them was being regularly raped by the father, and more likely both of them. Their mother knew and did nothing. They were young and emotionally distressed and the crime was an act of passion/distress. The father raped at least one other boy and who knows if there are other victims too ashamed to come forward. It is highly unlikely that either brother poses a risk to the public at large. They killed a child rapist and his enabler. I guess we can't give them a medal, but let them out to live their lives. |
Anonymous
Dunn was extremely biased. He was traumatized by the murder of his daughter and the weak and disgusting sentence the judge imposed on her murderer. The murder of his daughter led him to believe that all suspects were guilty. And if a jury came back with a verdict of not guilty it was because the defense attorney was deceitful and the jury gullible and dumb. |
Anonymous
The manner in which the parents were killed made me believe at the time it was about rage and hate, not money. So at the time I believed the parents were monsters who raped and abused the mini-monsters they created. I think it was more second degree murder of a depraved heart and they served their time. |
Anonymous
Erik reported the abuse to a cousin almost a year before the murders. That letter was not admitted into evidence. Another cousin testified that the father used to take showers with his sons and then go into their bedroom and lock the door behind them. Mother protested her husband and not her children. There’s a special place in hell for her. |
Anonymous
Yes. Apparently the father was sexually abused by his mother. And she was abused by her father. It was generational sexual abuse. |
Anonymous
It depends on the wrong. If I found out somebody was sexually abusing my young children, yeah i would kill him or her to ensure that person doesn’t live long enough to sexually abuse another child, maybe yours. Women sexually abuse children as well. |