30 years after the murders, the brothers tell their story. Watch The Menendez Brothers on October 7, only on Netflix.
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00:00Lyle wrote me this emotional letter
00:03when I was in the county jail.
00:06Lyle couldn't express what he did in that letter in person.
00:14It was easier for him to put it on paper.
00:19He felt that telling the sick secrets of the family
00:25would be like killing my parents again.
00:29And he did not want to do it.
00:41Ultimately, it became clear,
00:43particularly after they found that jail letter,
00:45that there was no way around saying what happened.
00:48Because they had that note, they had a confession
00:51that we were responsible for my parents' death.
00:55I was supposed to destroy that letter.
00:58But it was a precious letter to me.
01:02It was one of those moments where Lyle was
01:07really expressing his own pain.
01:10And I didn't want to just throw it away
01:14because that didn't happen often between us.
01:20Two weeks later, the sheriff's department
01:22quietly put out a statement.
01:24Gee, sorry. Eric and Lyle never tried to escape.
01:27My bad.
01:31As a result of them finding this letter
01:34in the summer of 1990,
01:36we now had to confess to everyone.
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