Who was Lyle Menendez’s college buddy Donovan Goodreau and did his roommate testify in the brothers’ court case?

DONOVAN Goodreau was a person of Lyle Menendez earlier helium testified successful tribunal astir his erstwhile pal's execution charge. 

The proceedings was watched crossed America and involvement successful Erik and Lyle’s lawsuit has surged aft it was dramatized by Ryan Murphy successful his Netflix bid Monsters. Here’s everything you request to cognize astir Donovan.

Lyle’s assemblage friend

Very small is known astir Donovan earlier helium testified astatine the Menendez brothers’ trial, but for the information that helium met Lyle astatine Princeton University. 

In court, helium opened up astir his ain experiences with kid intersexual maltreatment and claimed to person discussed this with Lyle. 

He besides claimed that Lyle did not sermon the intersexual maltreatment helium had allegedly suffered by his father, contempt Donovan’s frankness with him. 

In Ryan Murphy’s Monsters, helium is played by Anthony Turpel and confirms that Lyle opened up to him astir the abuse. 

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In reality, an relationship of Donovan saying that helium did perceive astir José’s maltreatment of Lyle aboriginal surfaced, which weakened his credibility. 

The Menendez brothers

On August 20, 1989, the Menendez brothers murdered their parents Kitty and José successful their household home. 

The brothers past claimed that they had conscionable travel location to find their parents dead, portion the constabulary speculated that they mightiness person been the victims of a mob killing. 

Erik and Lyle lived a lavish lifestyle utilizing their parents inheritance, with Erik hiring a backstage tennis manager and Lyle buying a buffalo helping shop.

The brothers besides baffled friends and relatives erstwhile they played Milli Vanilli’s Girl I’m Gonna Miss You astatine their parents’ funeral.

They were aboriginal arrested for their transgression aft Erik confessed to Dr Jerome Oziel, his therapist, who told his mistress Judalon Smyth.

Judalon past went to the polcie.

Their archetypal proceedings was broadcast to homes crossed America by Court TV and gripped the nation. 

The brothers alleged successful tribunal that they had been victims of intersexual maltreatment astatine the hands of their begetter and said that fearfulness for their ain information motivated their killing.

A hung assemblage forced the lawsuit to spell to a retrial.

Despite the efforts of the brothers’ lawyer Leslie Abramson, they were handed beingness sentences without the anticipation of parole.

Netflix and the Menendez brothers

Interest successful the Menendez brothers surged aft Ryan Murphy’s Netflix play Monsters landed connected the streaming platform. 

The series, starring Cooper Koch arsenic Erik and Nicholas Alexander Chavez arsenic Lyle, dramatized the events of the 2 brothers’ lives.

A documentary called The Menendez Brothers followed, which featured interviews with the brothers themselves. 

This led to a question of enactment for the brothers, with celebrities including Kim Kardashian calling for their release.