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contexts > named groups > persons > criminals > Lyle and Erik Menendez

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Lyle and Erik Menendez  

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  • Lyle and Erik Menendez were convicted of murdering their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez, in 1996, after two trials. Their parents had been murdered on August 20, 1989, and had received several close-range shotgun wounds. [Source: The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America: An Encylopedia; Menendez, Lyle and Erik]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-KL7FLJZB-T

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