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Two Ivy League brothers. Two Beverly Hills parents. Two tabloid murders. The true crime spotlight refuses to let go of Erik and Lyle Menendez.

From the first news of their arrest in 1990, the Menendez brothers have been defined by sensationalized headlines. Their separate trials dominated cable television in 1993. Plot twists of witness tampering, an unscrupulously recorded therapy confession and claims of lifelong sexual abuse all played out in the public eye before juries deadlocked.

And in the immediate echo of O.J Simpson’s “not guilty,” their subsequent murder convictions, decades of incarceration and new shot at freedom continue to bring intense media scrutiny — from CourtTV to YouTube to Netflix and

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