In the 1990s, the Menendez brothers were put on trial for their parents’ murder, becoming a media sensation that sharply divided public opinion on the brothers’ motives.
The 1993 Menendez murder trial, subject of Netflix’s ‘Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story,’ seemed like an open-and-shut case. Then defense attorney Leslie Abramson vowed to discredit therapist L. Jerome Oziel—and she was able to, thanks in part to his mistress, Judalon Smyth.