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valleyrogue

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4. No evidence the parents did anything to "abuse" them.
Fri Aug 22, 2025, 02:02 AM
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Last edited Mon Aug 25, 2025, 12:17 AM - Edit history (1)

NONE. That was Leslie Abramson's bullshit to spare the brothers the death penalty. This was all about the 10 to 12 million dollars the brothers stood to gain but Jose Menendez was threatening to cut them off from.

The brothers' behavior following their execution of their parents was damning. They couldn't WAIT to get the money and spend it like drunken sailors.

Hardly the behavior of "abused" "children." Neither "child" was living at home, by the way, at the time they massacred their parents in front of the TV set while eating ice cream.

ETA: I want to add the often forgotten fact that the sons had been arrested for burglary shortly before the murders. No doubt in my mind the parents decided to put their feet down and perhaps refused to help them any further or else threatened to cut them off. The brothers were clearly afraid of losing their inheritance. The brothers were and are sociopaths, pure and simple, and slaughtered their parents without blinking an eye. They even went out to the car to get reloaded so they could shoot their mother further. Then they went to the movies. Jose and Kitty Menendez were parents of monsters.

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