Lyle and Erik Menendez would be eligible for immediate parole if a judge agrees with L.A. County District Attorney George Gascón, who said in a press conference, "I believe that they have paid their debt to society.

Netflix's new true crime series Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story also focuses on the pair's relationship with their father, saying in the trial scenes – as in the real trials in the 1990s – that the two killed their parents not for the inheritance but out of fear of a life of physical, emotional and sexual abuse.