60 Minutes flip its consideration to a profile crime case following a latest TV dramatisation.
Villains or Victims?
Again when it occurred, greed was the easy clarification that went with the headlines. Lyle and Erik Menendez had shot useless their rich mother and father within the household’s Beverly Hills mansion to get their palms on a $14 million inheritance. In fact, the brothers denied that was the case. In court docket they stated they killed as a result of their evil father had been sexually abusing them. However they weren’t believed. Discovered responsible, the pair have been sentenced to life behind bars, with out parole. Now although, 35 years later, Tara Brown reviews there’s not solely new proof however huge assist from armchair detectives all over the world who’re satisfied the Menendez brothers actually are victims, not villains. So ought to they be freed?
Reporter: Tara Brown
Producers: Serge Negus, Sheree Gibson
Get Shorty
Rotting in jail for many years now, Stephen “Shorty” Jamieson’s file is marked “By no means to be launched”. He’s one in all Australia’s most reviled criminals, as a result of in 1988 Jamieson was the ringleader of group of younger thugs who kidnapped, raped and murdered 20-year-old Janine Balding. It was a very stunning crime. However Jamieson has at all times denied any involvement within the homicide, repeatedly saying he wasn’t even there. Most individuals would simply dismiss the pleas of a despised assassin, however as Nick McKenzie reviews, a lot of eminent consultants have listened. They’ve been reviewing Stephen “Shorty” Jamieson’s file and at the moment are questioning his conviction.
Reporter: Nick McKenzie
Producers: Amelia Ballinger, Anthony Dowsley
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