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Lyle and Erik Menendez are speaking out from prison, claiming they were sexually abused by their music executive father.
The jailhouse calls, some 20 hours worth, came in 15-minute increments from the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego, Calif. Lyle and Erik Menendez, now serving life sentences without parole for murdering their wealthy parents in 1989, purportedly to inherit the family fortune, come across as polite middle-aged men as they explain their motive to the director of a new Netflix documentary.
Among their claims: they acted after a lifetime of sexual and physical abuse at the hands of their controlling father and as a result of their motherβs determined silence and refusal to put a stop to it.
βTwo kids donβt commit this crime for moneyβtheyβre already going to get the money,β says Erik, 53. βThey donβt commit this crime for any reason other than something very, very wrong was happening in the family.β