{"id":217773,"date":"2021-04-02T20:37:23","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T17:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/how-tiktok-put-the-menendez-brothers-back-in-the-spotlight\/"},"modified":"2021-04-02T20:37:23","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T17:37:23","slug":"how-tiktok-put-the-menendez-brothers-back-in-the-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-tiktok-put-the-menendez-brothers-back-in-the-spotlight\/","title":{"rendered":"#How TikTok put the Menendez brothers back in the spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#How TikTok put the Menendez brothers back in the spotlight<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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An army of teens have learned about a closed 1980s double homicide, and they think the convicted killers\u2019 case deserves revisiting.\u00a0<\/p>\n

No member of Gen Z was alive to watch the high-profile court trial of Lyle and Erik Menendez\u2019s 1989 murder of their parents play out in real time, but many young social<\/a>-media users have recently discovered the sensational case during the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n

Now, they\u2019re taking to TikTok to express their dismay at Lyle and Erik\u2019s life sentences, which they\u2019ve been serving since their conviction in 1996. <\/p>\n

And of course, leave it to Gen Z to zero-in on the sex app<\/a>eal: Some are calling them the \u201chottest criminals ever.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The brothers will be part of a \u201c20\/20\u201d special Friday night<\/a>, revisiting the murder in light of its recent TikTok attention. <\/p>\n

In addition to the brothers\u2019 good looks, many teens are moved by their defense team\u2019s argument that for years the men were sexually abused by their wealthy father.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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An Oct. 31, 2016 photo provided by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shows Erik Menendez (left) and a Feb. 22, 2018 photo provided by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shows Lyle Menendez (right). The Menendez brothers, who were convicted 25 years ago of killing their parents in their Beverly Hills mansion, have been reunited<\/a> in San Diego\u2019s R.J. Donovan Correctional Facility. The brothers are serving life sentences for fatally shooting their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez, in 1989.<\/figcaption>
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\u201cWatching someone describe these types of experiences is always very sad and very compelling,\u201d an 18-year-old German woman named Janne told ABC News<\/a>. After YouTube recommended a video of the trial to Janne, she watched it and additional testimonies in full and became an impassioned supporter of the Menendez brothers. She now posts videos of their sexual-abuse testimony set to sad music on her TikTok, which has close to 45,000 followers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Numerous accounts have been created for the same purpose, with usernames including \u201cMenendezHelper\u201d and \u201cMenendezGuardians\u201d posting edited trial footage of the men, demanding justice for them and calling them \u201cthe most attractive murderers\u201d in the world.<\/p>\n

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Other members of Gen Z, however, are disgusted by the idea that the brothers deserve \u201cjustice\u201d for their crimes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe must stop romanticizing the Menendez brothers,\u201d reads an op-ed<\/a> in the Los Angeles Times High School Insider after recounting various reasons the men were given life sentences: the brutal details of the murder, the motivation of their parents\u2019 wealth \u2014 which they spent tens of thousands of dollars of in the days following the killing, and why their sexual abuse defense is undermined by the siblings\u2019 history of being \u201cseasoned liars,\u201d robbing expensive houses and being complicit in burglary and grand theft.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI do not know if the brothers were abused. All that I know for certain is that these rich, white, Beverly Hills boys murdered their parents and still were not strip<\/a>ped of their privilege,\u201d the article concludes. \u201cWe must stop blindly defending white criminals, while simultaneously not giving criminals of color a second glance.\u201d\u00a0\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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