Eric Menendez
Eric, the younger brother, is now 53. He has been incarcerated in a San Diego jail since his conviction and was only reunited with his brother Lyle in 2018 after he was transferred to the same jail.
In 1999, he married Tammy Ruth Saccoman at Folsom State Prison. According to him, neither brother has the right to conjugal visits. Today’s program.
In 2023, the brothers requested a new trial after former Menudo member Roy Rosselló said José Menéndez drugged and sexually abused him when he was 14 years old.
Lyle Menendez
Lyle’s older brother is now 56. In 2018, his request to be transferred to the same institution where his younger brother, Richard J. Donovan, was in San Diego, was granted.
Just as Eric met his first wife through letters, their wedding ceremony was conducted over the phone. Two years later, they separated after the Department of Corrections refused to recognize it as a legal marriage.
Eric married his second wife, Rebecca Snead, in November 2003.
Leslie Abramson
The defense attorney, who chain-smoked throughout both trials, became a “surrogate mother” to Eric’s younger brother, as Sharon Waxman wrote in the Washington Post’s TheWrap. 1996He had previously secured a lesser sentence for voluntary manslaughter for Arnel Salvatierra, a 17-year-old who killed his father during an alleged rape.
Abramson was an ABC legal commentator on the OJ Simpson case, another “trial of the century,” and also wrote the 1997 memoir, “The Prepared Defense: A Life in the Criminal Law Underworld.”
In 2004, he replaced Simpson’s “Dream Team” attorney Robert Shapiro to replace music producer Phil Spector, who was accused of murdering actress Lana Clarkson in her home. He later resigned and, with new advice, was eventually convicted of Clarkson’s murder.
At the time of Menendez’s trial, she was married to Los Angeles Times reporter Tim Rutten. She told TheWrap in 2017 that she wouldn’t watch Edie Falco play her in True Crime: The Menendez Murders. “Oh, son. I have nothing to say. Absolutely nothing. Well, she said then.
Dominique Dunn
The acclaimed journalist, who stars in Nathan Lane’s Monsters, began writing about crime for Vanity Fair while covering the trial of the man who killed his daughter, Poltergeist actress Dominique Dunn. His article, “Justice: A Father’s Account of the Trial of His Daughter’s Killer,” appeared in the March 1984 issue of Vanity Fair. He went on to cover the trials of O.J. Simpson, Klaus von Bülow (whose story was featured in the 1990 film The Return of Fortune), and the Menendez brothers. His article on the brothers, “A Nightmare on Elm Drive”, appeared in the October 1990 issue.
Dunn died of bladder cancer in 2009 at the age of 83. He is also the father of actor, writer and director Griffin Dunn, whose films include After Hours and An American Werewolf in London.
Zellers
A Beverly Hills police officer was the lead investigator in the Menendez case and also “Billionaire Boys Club,” and the murders at the Van Cleef & Arpels jewelry store robbery in Beverly Hills. In 1996, he spoke out Los Angeles Times who immediately assumed the brothers had killed their parents, but was unable to prove it for seven years.
Zeller, played by “Sugar” actor Jason Butler Harner, retired in 2002 and Died in October 2021..
Tim Rutten
Rutten, played on Monsters by Mad Men alum Michael Gladis, was part of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Los Angeles Times writing team that covered the 1994 Northridge earthquake. After being fired from the Times in 2011 due to layoffs, he became a columnist for the Los Angeles Daily News.
At the time of Menendez’s trials, he was married to defense attorney Leslie Abramson. He was previously portrayed by Chris Bauer of True Blood and Companions in the 2017 NBC film starring Edie Falco as Abramson.
Path He died in November 2022. after falling in his house.
Dr. Jeronimo Oziel
The brothers’ therapist, who first confessed to the crime, later revealed the client’s secret to his mistress, who then called the police. Oziel argued that the usual confidentiality agreement did not apply because Eric and Lyle had threatened his life.
Violating confidentiality and being accused of having sexual relations with female patients led Oziel Licensed in California in 1997.as reported by the LA Times.
In 2017, when he was portrayed by Josh Charles in the remake of Law & Order: True Crime, he said noise that the allegations about his professional inadequacy were “completely false” and that the television drama was an “unsolicited opera” that was “totally fictional.”
Oziel is portrayed by The Good Wife actor Dallas Roberts in the Netflix series.
All episodes of “Monster” are now streaming on Netflix.
