The house the place Erik and Lyle Menendez brutally murdered their mother and father simply offered for giant cash … and coincidentally, the transaction closed on a case-related anniversary.
In accordance with the Los Angeles Occasions … the mansion offered for $17 million on Wednesday only a couple months after being put in the marketplace in December.
The house comprises seven bedrooms, a pool, a tennis court docket, and a two-story visitor home. It was bought for $3.7 million in 2001 — a reasonably spectacular ROI for the earlier proprietor. Realtor.com stories the home offered for beneath its prevailing market worth — maybe unsurprising given the grizzly occasions that happened there.
As we mentioned — the sale of the home simply so occurred to fall precisely 28 years after Erik and Lyle had been convicted of first-degree homicide for killing their mother and father, Jose and Kitty, with a shotgun. They had been convicted on March 20, 1996.
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After all, the Menendez case obtained a complete bunch of media consideration final yr after the discharge of the docuseries “Menendez + Menudo: Boys Betrayed” wherein a member of the band Menudo claimed Jose Menendez had raped him whereas he was a teen.
Erik and Lyle’s lawyer Mark Geragos was pushing for a brand new trial primarily based on the declare … and, although that hasn’t occurred but, it undoubtedly renewed curiosity within the case.
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No phrase but on who the client could be … however, it seems like they bagged themselves one heck of a property — with one heck of an unpleasant historical past. Good luck!