What ??? I have never heard that before ... or maybe I found it unbelievable.Their mother also sexually abused them
The quotes you used are from their meetings with Oziel. It was established in the first trial that these tapes/notes weren’t super credible because:
1) Oziel was essentially blackmailing them and looking to profit off of this
2) Oziel was speculating a lot and trying to come up with his own theories/conclusions as to why the murders happened. He himself had previously met one or both of the parents and had already formed his own impressions.
3) Lyle and Erik didn’t trust Oziel and didn’t want to reveal their abuse to him. They both have said that they let Oziel form his own conclusions, went along with whatever he said, didn’t correct him on things he got wrong. I believe even experts testified to this (that in a lot of parts in the tape, the brothers were just repeating Oziel’s words back to him)
Again, I would suggest watching the complete first trial. It’s easy to have no sympathy and just believe the narrative that the prosecution ran with. But once you listen to the testimony, witnesses, and the experts it’s clear that this wasn’t a case of greed and how a lifetime of severe, ongoing abuse affects the brain/development of a child. It doesn't justify what happened, but it explains why they were in fear of their lives and why they didn’t just leave as so many have argued. JMO
So Kitty Menendez was a sex offender too. Interesting.
It sounds like Kitty and Jose were a bit like Fred and Rosemary West - jointly sexually assaulting their own children.
There it is - from humble beginnings, to beauty pageant winner, to school teacher, to housewife who put family before career, to pedophile who wanted to die (according to Lyle and Erik). I bet there aren't too many women with that history!
Kitty dragged Lyle around the house by his short hair - could that explain his teenage baldness? She must have been very strong to drag a 12 year old around by the hair.
“She was stunningly beautiful, and I mean beautiful on the outside and even more so on the inside,” her brother Brian Andersen told ABC’s 20/20. In 1962, Kitty won the Miss Oak Lawn beauty pageant. By this time, her good looks had already caught the attention of a young Cuban immigrant named José Menendez.
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Kitty initially worked as a school teacher. But upon the birth of their two sons—Lyle in January 1968 and Erik in November 197o—Kitty put her own aspirations aside to become a full-time housewife at José’s urging. The family eventually settled near Princeton, New Jersey, where the brothers attended the private Princeton Day School.
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During his testimony on September 13, 1993, Lyle claimed Kitty invited him to bed and asked him to touch her “everywhere” beginning when he was around age 11 until after he turned 13. He also testified she would frequently appear fully or semi-nude in front of him inside their house.
The elder brother also accused Kitty of physical and psychological abuse, saying she kicked him and dragged him to his room by his hair. He claimed she would punish him by throwing his prized possessions, including stuffed animals, out of his window."
The Complicated Life of Kitty Menendez
The Menendez brothers’ mother, portrayed by Chloë Sevigny in the new Netflix show ‘Monsters,’ faced her own challenges before her 1989 murder.
www.biography.com