Menendez brothers 'deserve a break,' says ex-mob boss who spent months with them in prison
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Lyle and his brother, Eric Menedez, were serving life in prison after they were convicted of gunning down their parents at their Beverly Hills mansion in 1989, though they were eventually separated into different prisons after being accused of trying to escape together.
"I think the boys were trapped in their own minds." Audrey Conklin is a digital reporter for Fox News Digital and FOX Business. Email tips to audrey.conklin@fox.com or on Twitter at @audpants.
"They were definitely abused. I mean, they told me things about their dad, and more disappointment with their mom because she didn't step in and help, and she was ruled by the dad," Michael Franzese, who had been serving time in the federal facility for a parole violation charge before the case was resolved, told Fox News Digital. "Just from my conversations with [the Menendez brothers] — and I take everything with a grain of salt because you never know if somebody's telling you the truth or not — but . . . I believe that the abuse was real and that they were scared."
The Menendez case has garnered renewed attention after the release of two Netflix productions — a nonfiction documentary called "The Menendez Brothers" and a fictionalized TV series based on true events, titled "Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story" — between September and October. Both productions detail the brothers' abuse allegations against their parents.
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