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Menendez Brothers Lose Bid for New Trial | Crime Alert 6AM 09.26.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, breaking crime news now Lylin Eric
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  Speaker 1: Mendez will not be getting out of jail. Lawyers for
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  Speaker 1: the brothers convicted of killing both parents, Jose and Kitty,
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  Speaker 1: filed a petition with the court signing two new pieces
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  Speaker 1: of evidence. They claim the evidence supports claims of sex abuse.
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  Speaker 1: LA Superior Court Judge William Ryan rejected the motion, saying
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  Speaker 1: the new evidence was not compelling enough to produce a
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  Speaker 1: reasonable doubt in the mind of at least one jurrr Lyln,
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  Speaker 1: Eric Menendez will be eligible to apply for parole again
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  Speaker 1: in three short years.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Sidney Sumner. That's right. The Menandez brothers will not
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  Speaker 2: be getting another trial. It's the conclusion of a two
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  Speaker 2: year legal process reviewing a hebeas corpus petition filed by
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  Speaker 2: the brothers' attorneys, Cliff Gardner and Mark Garragos. The petition
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  Speaker 2: argued that two new pieces of evidence support the brothers
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  Speaker 2: claim that their father, Jose Menendez, sexually abused them for years.
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  Speaker 2: The evidence included a late nineteen eighty eight or early
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  Speaker 2: nineteen eighty nine letter written by Eric Menendez to his
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  Speaker 2: cousin Andy Cono, vaguely describing the abuse. The attorneys also
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  Speaker 2: mentioned allegations from Roy Rosello, a former member of the
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  Speaker 2: boy band Menudo, that Jose Menendez molested him as a teenager.
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  Speaker 2: The attorneys claimed this proved that Jose Menendez was a violent,
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  Speaker 2: brutal man that was still abusing his children just months
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  Speaker 2: before his death. Prosecutors argued the new evidence is not new,
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  Speaker 2: but a thirty five year old letter that Andy Cono
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  Speaker 2: never mentioned despite testifying in both trials. Prosecutors said in
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  Speaker 2: a habeas motion, new evidence must be submitted in a
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  Speaker 2: timely manner, typically within five years, for the motion to stand.
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  Speaker 2: They also claimed the letter likely would not have swayed
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  Speaker 2: a jury to provide a different outcome, and ultimately, Judge
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  Speaker 2: William Ryan agreed this decision on the heels of unsuccessful
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  Speaker 2: parole hearings for both brothers, the separate boards both citing
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  Speaker 2: anti social personality traits as reasons the brothers still pose
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  Speaker 2: a threat to the public. Lyle Menendez expressed his frustration
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  Speaker 2: with the decision in a Facebook post, calling the judge's
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  Speaker 2: disregard of Rossello's allegations an exercise in mental gymnastics. Menendez
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  Speaker 2: says their fight for freedom continues. Both Eric and Lyle
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  Speaker 2: Menendez are eligible to be reconsidered for parole. In twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty eight, a sixteen year old North Carolina boy was
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  Speaker 2: shot in the face by one of a group of
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  Speaker 2: friends of a sleepover in Charlotte on Sunday. His family
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  Speaker 2: said in a GoFundMe that they were told by doctors
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  Speaker 2: Jeremiah Gonzalez would not survive his injuries. The crowdfunding page
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  Speaker 2: reads quote on the night of September twenty first, sixteen
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  Speaker 2: year old Jeremiah Gonzalez was doing what any teenager should
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  Speaker 2: be able to do, spending time at a sleepover playing
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  Speaker 2: video games with friends. Jeremiah was a bright, kind and
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  Speaker 2: loving young man with his whole future ahead of him.
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  Speaker 2: Yosu Ramos, twenty, has been charged with assault with a
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  Speaker 2: deadly weapon with intent to kill in possession of a
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  Speaker 2: stolen firearm. An arrest affidavit says that Gonzalez and Ramos
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  Speaker 2: were at the home of friends twenty one year old
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  Speaker 2: man and his seventeen year old brother. The seventeen year
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  Speaker 2: old witness to the shooting told investigators that Ramos brought
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  Speaker 2: two guns into the house, a smith and wesson. In
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  Speaker 2: an ar style pistol. Ramos picked up the Smith and Wesson,
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  Speaker 2: pointed it at Gonzales and pulled the trigger, the teen said,
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  Speaker 2: adding that he had a habit of pointing unloaded weapons
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  Speaker 2: at them and pulling the trigger. After the shooting, the
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  Speaker 2: twenty one year old tried to offer aid while the
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  Speaker 2: seventeen year old called police. Ramos grabbed the ar pistol
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  Speaker 2: and fled. Police tracked his vehicle and arrested him. Investigators
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  Speaker 2: found the gun used to shoot Gonzales on the bed
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  Speaker 2: near the boy. Its serial number showed that it was stolen.
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  Speaker 2: Court records show a pending charge of carrying a concealed
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  Speaker 2: weapon against Ramos from twenty twenty four. He is being
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  Speaker 2: held in the Mecklenburg County Jail on a one hundred
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  Speaker 2: thousand dollars bond. He is due back in court in
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  Speaker 2: October and charges are likely to be upgraded by that time.
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  Speaker 2: More crime and justice news after this. A South Carolina
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  Speaker 2: man has been arrested for keeping four people captive in
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  Speaker 2: his basement, some allegedly for years. Police began investigating thirty
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  Speaker 2: five year old Donnie Ray Birchfield Junior in August after
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  Speaker 2: one of the people he was holding died. The warrants
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  Speaker 2: for Birchfield's arrest accuse him of holding the four people
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  Speaker 2: against their will, denying them food, medical treatment, and a
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  Speaker 2: means to communicate with the outside world. The warrants say
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  Speaker 2: one of the victims died, but her death was not
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  Speaker 2: reported until the following day. They also say that Birchfield
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  Speaker 2: kept a girlfriend prisoner and routinely choked her, telling her
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  Speaker 2: he knows how to dispose of a body because of
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  Speaker 2: past experience. He's also accused of stealing money from the
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  Speaker 2: victims and using it to pay his credit card bills
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  Speaker 2: and shop at Walmart. He was arrested on August first
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  Speaker 2: and charged with abuse of a vulnerable adult, false imprisonment,
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  Speaker 2: and domestic violence, but the charges were not made public
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  Speaker 2: until last week. He has also been charged with fraud
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  Speaker 2: and exploitation as well. Warrants say the woman who died
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  Speaker 2: on July twenty fourth and her husband, who was also
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  Speaker 2: kept in the basement, were vulnerable adults in Birchfield was
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  Speaker 2: their caregiver. The other two victims were women in romantic
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  Speaker 2: relationships with Birchfield. According to the court documents, one had
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  Speaker 2: been at the home since September twenty twenty four, and
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  Speaker 2: the other had lived there since twenty fifteen. The document
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  Speaker 2: say Birchfield controlled every aspect of the victims' lives, when
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  Speaker 2: they ate and used the bathroom, when they could leave
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  Speaker 2: the basement, and when they could access their cell phones,
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  Speaker 2: which he kept to prevent them from calling for help.
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  Speaker 2: Teresa Henson said that the man found in the basement
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  Speaker 2: was her developmentally disabled brother who was living independently until
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  Speaker 2: he disappeared a few years ago. His wife was the
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  Speaker 2: woman who died in July.
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  Speaker 1: Hey really didn't say anything because I think he was
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  Speaker 1: still like trauma and a shock. Now walked down the
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  Speaker 1: room and just busted out crime because it was just
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  Speaker 1: so heartbreaking.
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  Speaker 2: Birchfield, who maintains his innocence according to his attorney, is
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  Speaker 2: being held on a one hundred and fifty thousand dollars
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  Speaker 2: bond and more charges are possible. For the latest crime
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  Speaker 2: Crime Alert. I'm Sydney Sumner, Engian