The Menendez case is one of the most infamous true crime stories in American history, and it still won’t stay buried. In this episode of the NVus Alien Podcast, Heather Woodward revisits the murders of José and Kitty Menendez, the Beverly Hills crime scene that stunned the country, and the trials that turned Lyle and Erik Menendez into a permanent cultural obsession.
The media framed it as greed. The prosecution framed it as cold-blooded murder. The defense framed it as survival after years of alleged sexual abuse and family violence. For decades, the public has fought over which story is real, and why the justice system only seemed interested in one of them.
Heather breaks down the key details of the Menendez brothers case, including the brutality of the killings, the first televised trial that became national theater, and the second trial that reshaped the outcome. She also digs into why public opinion has shifted in recent years, fueled by documentaries, social media, and renewed attention to trauma, coercive control, and the ways abuse is misunderstood in courtrooms.
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