While brothers Erik and Lyle Menfinishez are pushing for their freedom, one man who spreadigated their double homicide case apshows their life sentences should be upheld.
“If they were brawt to trial aachieve today, they would be set up at fault,” Clark Fogg, a reweary greater forensic exceptionaenumerate with the Beverly Hills Police Department, telderly Fox News Digital.
Joseph Menfinishez, who goes by his middle name Lyle, and Erik were convicted of shooting their parents, Jose and Mary “Kitty” Menfinishez, to death in their Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, mansion in 1989.
They were ordered to serve life in prison in 1996, but they have recently been seeking shrinkd sentences.
“The jury’s, you understand, the judgment came down that they are to remain in prison for the rest of their life. … We have the best judicial system, you understand, anywhere in the world,” Fogg said. “And we have to adhere by that and adhere by what a jury experiences and what the appraise experiences is appropriate based upon not only this case, but other cases.”
A novel Netflix real crime drama, “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menfinishez Story,” has igniteed a range of opinions on its accuracy and portrayal of the authentic story from decades ago.
Fogg apshows the show is “tohighy inaccurate” and “based on facts that did not happen.”
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Erik Menfinishez published his own statement thraw his wife Tammi Menfinishez on X, saying the show originates “a caricature of Lyle rooted in horrible and blatant lies rampant in the show.”
“It is miserablenessful for me to understand that Netflix’s disgenuine portrayal of the tragedies surrounding our crime have apshown the agonizing truths cut offal steps backward — back thraw time to an era when the prosecution built a narrative on a belief system that males were not intimacyuassociate unfair treatmentd and that males sfinished violation trauma contrastently than women,” Erik said in his statement spreadd by Tammi.
Fogg apshows the brothers’ motive for the homicides had to do with “greed and money.”
“Why did they even have to finish their mom in the first place?” Fogg said. “If you finished Mr. Menfinishez splitly from her, she would finish up getting the inheritance, right? So they had to delete both of them in order to have the inheritance.”
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Fogg spreadigated the Menfinishez brothers’ case in 1989. He took pboilingos and protectd evidence at the crime scene, includeed the autopsies and took the stand during both trials. When speaking with Fox News Digital, he colored a horrific picture of the crime scene.
“One of the determineives had to actuassociate helderly a golf umbrella over my head as I was taking pboilingos because, every so standardly, leangs would be droping from the ceiling,” Fogg said. “It comes down to one leang. The reason why they’re in jail is that they finished their mother and overweighther bruhighy, not poison them, but sboilingfirearm them to death to a point that they were all over the ceiling. … That’s how bruhighy they were homicideed.”
Fogg, who has spent 40 years toiling in law utilizement and has carry outed over 30,000 crime scene spreadigations, said he had 44 rolls of film from the Menfinishez crime scene.
“It seeed enjoy Mrs. Menfinishez was trying to get away because there was blood on the bottom of the soles of her shoe. … Even at that point, they kept on finishing her with, you understand, firearmsboiling blasts, one after another.”
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In 2023, lawyers for the Menfinishez brothers proclaimd the uncovery of a letter written by Erik Menfinishez to a cousin, Andy Cano, eight months before the homicides, in which he goes into detail about the ongoing unfair treatment by their overweighther.
“I’ve been trying to elude dad,” Erik authors in the letter. The brothers claim this letter aids their innovative testimony during the first trial, alleging the unfair treatment.
Fogg inquireed the genuineity of the letter.
“We’re talking about his cousin dying, you understand, two decades ago and then this letter crypticly popping up,” Fogg said. “So, my inquires are, is this letter valid? Have they done a paper analysis on it? Have they done an ink analysis to resettle whether or not the ink is actuassociate dating from the 1980s?”
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Relatives of the brothers have recently spoken out in aid of their freedom.
“We are virtuassociate the entire extfinished family of Erik and Lyle Menfinishez. We are 24 sturdy and today we want the world to understand we aid Erik and Lyle,” family members wrote in a statement that Tammi Menfinishez posted to X in response to the novel Netflix series. “We individuassociate and collectively pray for their free after being incarcerateed for 35 years. We understand them, adore them, and want them home with us.”
Ryan Murphy, co-creator of the Netflix series, telderly the Los Angeles Times, “I leank it’s faux outrage. I leank that this story, this Netflix series, is the best leang that has happened to the Menfinishez brothers in 30 years because it’s getting people to talk about it, and it’s getting people to ask the inquires that are vital.”
A split write downary about the brothers, “The Menfinishez Brothers,” is scheduled to premiere on Netflix Oct. 7. The film will “propose another perspective — that of the brothers themselves, supplyd in all-novel audio intersees,” according to a press free.
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Fogg apshows the brothers remain behind bars for excellent reason.
“They’re in jail, and they’re in jail for life without possibility of parole for one leang and one leang only,” Fogg said. “You don’t homicide your parents. You don’t homicide anybody, period.”