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True crime fans flock to Beverly Hills to see the Menendez mansion where the brothers killed their parents
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True crime fans flock to Beverly Hills to see the Menendez mansion where the brothers killed their parents

Netflix’s “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” has drawn true crime fanatics from all over the world to see the mansion where the 1989 murders happened.

By Jireh DengStaff Writer 
In recent weeks, the quietude of this affluent Beverly Hills neighborhood has been filled with the buzzing of tourists and true crime fanatics all swarming to peek at the infamous Menendez mansion on Elm Drive — where two brothers murdered their parents in 1989.

The case has received renewed attention after a Netflix show and documentary profiled their case and L.A. County Dist. Atty. George Gascón announced he recommends they be resentenced after new evidence that they were molested by their father came to light, which could make them eligible for parole.
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Jireh Deng

Jireh Deng (they/them) was a 2023-24 fellow at the Los Angeles Times. Deng, a queer Asian American writer and filmmaker, was born and raised in the San Gabriel Valley. Their freelance reporting and writing have been published in the Guardian, the Washington Post, Teen Vogue, NPR, the Los Angeles Times, the Huffington Post, PopSugar, LAist and more. In prior positions, they were a fact-checker at the labor magazine In These Times, managed NPR’s Diverse Sources Database as an intern and worked as an associate producer on CapRadio’s limited podcast series on Asian American identity, “Mid Pacific.” Deng currently co-directs the Asian American Journalists Assn. LGBTQIA+ affinity group.

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