Menendez Brothers: From Tennis Stardom to Prison

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Erik and Lyle Menendez had everything. Good looks. Wealth. Tennis. As top ranked tennis juniors, they were destined for great things in life, until a shocking double homicide within the family changed their lives forever. Though the Menendez mansion in Beverly Hills seemed perfect from the outside, a look into the chilling secrets that lay within reveal a family embroiled in scandal, with two boys faced against a maniacal tennis parent who may have just pushed them to their limit.
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[@CULTTENNIS]

Thank you Skillshare!! The first 1000 people to use the link will get a free trial of Skillshare Premium Membership:

[@Pootisbird01]

See, I've learned through my decades of experience in tennis that the secret to winning is to not kill your parents.

[@kianshayegan2947]

Even after they killed their parents they continued to practice 10 hrs a day seems a bit ironic

[@ceb7894]

I am a tennis teaching pro.... I have seen parents like this.... the media NEVER gave the boys side of the story. Not condoning what they did but it does shed much light on why.... thanks for some REAL reporting

[@FootFaultTennis]

A nice cheery subject for a friday afternoon.

[@tfredrick01]

Maybe Unpopular opinion but Life without Parole seems too severe for them. Those parents mentally broke their own children. Life without parole means they are a danger to society with no chance of rehabilitation, I'd say they were just a danger to their parents and theyre gone lol

[@Paperbagman555]

Under the circumstances and all of the abuse they endured, I would have expected the brothers to get more sympathy and a reduced sentence - 25 years is cruel. What a sad story, programmed to work > driven to insanity and then all of that hard work led wasted after getting imprisoned. The fact that they kept shooting their parents after they were already dead says a lot

[@vitekkozov3980]

Wow, I consider myself to be sort of a tennis nerd, but I've never heard of this. Thank you cult tennis!

[@DaPeePeePooPooCheck]

While what they did was wrong, those parents got what was coming to them.

[@trustytrest]

So basically two victims of decades of abuse ended up fighting back against the horrible people who made it their personal goal to ruin the boys' lives. They should be given a medal, not a prison sentence.

[@Rosario_Verano]

It's a well known fact that some people are not meant to be parents.

[@Nikko_no_Tabi]

I'm suddenly very glad to have normal, caring, and understanding parents

[@sumaiyxa]

The case of the Menendez brothers always makes me sad, they suffered so much abuse at the hands of their parents.

[@James-bs3bm]

Tennis parenting is already commonly known to give negative effects on players. Cases like Tomic’s efforts on court is reflected on what goes on at home probably.

[@unknownyoutuber466]

Parents should not force their children to do anything to the extreme. Pushing them to work harder is ok, but making them play when they are sick is not a healthy decision. If you ask every tennis player that became successful, you will notice they all love the sport and their parents never forced the sport on them. Andree Agassi is an exception to this rule but I don't think parents should follow in his footsteps since he is in the 0.0001% of people.

[@thebigsquirrel50]

I'm sorry, what?

[@Callaghan_212]

I think that the court should have acknowledged the abuse of Jose and reduce the sentence

[@28-3]

I love how he made a multi year case with so many details about mental, physical and sexual abuse to a case of a phyco tennis dad who’s tennis kids killed him and his wife

[@m3shook]

this channel is deadass underrated

[@dm2060]

They look so happy in their prison mugshots. I am leaning towards believing their story.