Lyle and Erik Menendez became household names after murdering their parents , Kitty and José Menendez, on Aug. 20, 1989.

The Menendez brothers, born into a life of wealth and privilege, testified that they killed their mother and father in self-defense after a lifetime of emotional, physical and sexual abuse. At the time, Lyle was 21, and Erik was 18.

The case, which is featured in Ryan Murphy 's Netflix series Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story , took two different trials to reach a unanimous jury verdict, and the siblings were each found guilty of two counts of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder in 1996.

" It's really a regret every day , but at the same time ... I can't escape what happened anymore than I can escape the memories of what happene

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