Was the menendez brothers gay
The Menendez trial was only the second one for which the cable network presented gavel-to-gavel coverage, the first being the ten-day Williams Kennedy Smith rape trial in Following 's Dahmer, the second installment of Murphy and Ian Brennan's Monster series focuses on Lyle and Erik Menendez, two real-life brothers who killed their parents on August 20, and
“I met some guys who said Eric and Lyle were gay
That was some bizarre theory that the deputy district attorney, Lester Kuriyama, came up with during the closing arguments of the first trial
As part of Netflix’s Monsters anthology, the show has reawakened public interest in the Menendez brothers' case
Joseph Lyle Menendez (born January 10, ) and Erik Galen Menendez (born November 27, ), commonly referred to as the Menendez brothers, are American brothers convicted of killing their parents, José and Mary Louise "Kitty" Menendez, at their Beverly Hills home in In exploring the reasons behind the Menendez brothers gunning down their parents to death, the Netflix series suggests that one or both of the brothers may have been gay
The episode, "The Menendez Brothers: Murder in Beverly Hills", ends with a telephone interview of Lyle from jail with Chris Cuomo
[] In , the Menendez brothers were the subject of ABC's 20/20 special
Lyle was involved with a woman named Anna Eriksson who he would eventually marry then divorce
To answer the question first, no; Erik Menendez, in his own words, told Barbara Walters during the interview that he wasn’t gay