Lyle Menendez

09/26/23 • 59 min

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This week on Onward, Rosie has a fascinating conversation with Lyle Menendez.
Many of a certain age will remember the sensational trials of Lyle and his brother Eric, found guilty of the murder of their parents. So sensational within the American zeigeist; this case has been made into movies and tv shows, it has also been studied in law school as well as a mainstay of cultural conversation.
Recently, new information and evidence has been revealed in a documentary that now gives room for the brothers' to file a Habeas; which could mean freedom, after serving 34 years in prison.
Join us as Rosie and Lyle talk about the past, the possible future of what this new evidence could mean; and, how one has to find it within themself to remain hopeful, but truthful, even in the worst of circumstances.
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Trigger Warning: Rape, Sexual and Emotional Child Abuse, and Incest is discussed in this episode.
Please Note: This discussion is not graphic in nature, but, this is a truthful account of events.

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Onward with Rosie O'Donnell - Lyle Menendez

Transcript

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Well, hey everybody, it is me Rosie O'Donnell. How are you on this Tuesday? Are you doing well? Listen, I gotta tell you what happened. I wake up on this school morning and I hear the freaking lawnmower guy going and it's seven fifteen, and I don't know what to do. I'm thinking I should go out there and go across the street and talk to them, or next to my where it must be right next door, you know. So I get up, I do my morning routine, I come dow