March 11 1990: 7 months after the murders Erik is arrested. The Menendez Murders II
The Menendez brothers: the Media goes wild. ibid. Oliver Stone
The father would shower with the boys. The Menendez Murders III, William Vicary, Erik’s psychiatrist
I never saw them be nice to the kids. ibid. Charles Wadlington, former tennis coach
In Los Angeles two brothers have pleaded innocence. The Menendez Murders IV, television news
The more I came to believe their story. ibid. juror
August 23 1995: Jury selection begins 2nd trial. ibid.
Judge Moves to Block Menendez Abuse Experts. ibid. Times staff article Alan Abrahamson
April 17 1996: Jury returns sentencing verdict. The Menendez Murders V
They all feel a sense of failure. ibid. reporter, re defense team
Jurist Suggests Retrial Was Rigged: Kozinski Accuses Judge of Ensuring Menendezes’ Convictions. ibid. newspaper article re appeal
I wanted to please him. That’s all I ever wanted: to please my boys. The Menendez Killings: Blood Brothers, mother, Lifetime 2017, mother
One of the most sensational criminal cases in the country. ibid. television news
Police are looking for a motive tonight in the murders of a prominent showbiz executive and his wife – they were found just before midnight last night shot to death in their exclusive Beverly Hills home. ibid.
You don’t understand what our dad was like. ibid. Lyle to shrink
In 1989 brothers Lyle and Eric Menendez gunned down their parents in the family room of their Beverly Hills mansion. They claim that a lifetime of their father’s abuse pushed them over the edge, but in the end the jury didn’t buy it. Now new evidence has come to light which could reignite their case. True Crime Recaps: The Menendez Brothers: Shocking New Details of the Notorious Case! Youtube 21.23, 2023
The brothers say that they’re victims of unspeakable abuse driven to desperate measures. ibid.
By the time police connected them to their parents’ murder they had already spent almost a million dollars. ibid.
Roy’s allegations against Jose marked the first time someone outside the family has corroborated Eric and Lyle’s story. ibid.
A letter Eric mailed his cousin months before the murders: it says in part, It’s still happening, Andy, but it’s worse for me now. ibid.
MERCER, SEAN: Crimes that Shook Britain TV - Ross Kemp on Gangs TV - Real Crime TV - The Murder of Rhys Jones: What Happened? TV - The Murder of Rhys Jones: Police Tapes TV - Rhys Jones: 5 Clues that Caught the Killer TV -
He was an innocent victim killed by a hooded youth near a pub in Liverpool just yards from his home. He was only eleven years old. The shocking news of Rhys Jones’s murder made national headlines as the country faced the serious issue of escalating gang crime and gang violence. It was a crime that terrified every parent in the country. It was a crime that shook Britain. Crimes that Shook Britain s2e5: Rhys Jones, CI 2008
On 22nd August 2007 schoolboy Rhys Jones was walking home from football practice. He was shot dead by a teenage gunman on a bike. ibid.
Eleven-year-old Rhys Jones lived on the Croxteth Park Estate in Liverpool. ibid.
Across the country, there was stunned disbelief. ibid.
In December 2008 in Liverpool an 18-year-old youth Sean Mercer was sentenced to twenty two-years for the murder of Rhys Jones. Ross Kemp on Gangs s4e6: Liverpool, Sky 2004
An innocent boy caught in the crossfire of gang warfare. A son shot on his way home from football. A crime that stunned a city and sickened a nation. This is the story of a senseless murder. The Murder of Rhys Jones: What Happened, Channel 5 2017
A boy on a bicycle had fired three shots across the car park of the Fir Tree pub. He had then ridden off. ibid.
‘Sean Mercer has shown no remorse whatsoever.’ ibid. rozzer
When football-loving Rhys Jones was shot as he walked home from practice by a teenage gang member, the tragedy was felt across the country. Now, detectives at the heart of the case are ready to share for the first time exactly what they were up against … A criminal conspiracy that would take detectives months to expose. Susanna Reid, The Murder of Rhys Jones: Police Tapes, ITV 2018
His killer fired three shots across the car park of the Fir Tree pub. ibid.
Sean Mercer has lied to police about where he was the night of the murder. ibid.
An 11-year-old schoolboy gunned down on his way home from football training. It was a crime that shocked Britain. And for months a case that seemed impossible to solve. Rhys Jones: 5 Clues that Caught the Killer, Chan, Channel 5 2019
A gang war that was threatening to explode at any moment … In the hunt for Rhys’s killer police could now focus their attention on local gangs, in particular the notorious Croxteth Crew. ibid.
Callers to an anonymous hotline also claimed Mercer had an accomplice. ibid.
‘They bugged their houses. Stroke of genius.’ ibid.
MEREDITH, GENE: The Killer Speaks TV - The New York Times online -
‘I was taking her out! It was good! It’s full of rage! It’s full of anger!’ The Killer Speaks s2e1: The Devil Inside, Gene’s rozzer interview, A&E 2014
Great Falls, Montana ... On June 11th 2006 Great Falls is shaken: 70-year-old Dorris Henderson is found brutally beaten in her apartment building laundry room. ibid.
‘When I’d started to hear the voices was at the age of 18. They’re outside of my head.’ ibid.
‘I took out my knife, and I said, “Now this is for you”,’ Gene Meredith, the murderer in the second-season premiere, says in a jailhouse interview. ‘I stabbed her here, here, here, here and then there.’ On the there, he makes a slashing motion across his throat. The New York Times online article 30th April 2014