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Menendez Brothers Moved Into Same San Diego Prison Unit
By kpbs.org
Published: 04/06/2018

Erik and Lyle Menendez, whose 1989 shotgun murders of their wealthy parents in Beverly Hills made them two of the nation's most notorious convicts, this week got their first chance in more than two decades at a reunion due to a housing-unit transfer at the Otay Mesa prison where they are incarcerated.

On Wednesday evening, Erik Menendez, 47, was transferred into his 50-year-old brother's designated section at Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility, said Terry Thornton, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

The younger of the siblings has been at the San Diego County prison since 2013. Lyle Menendez was moved there from Mule Creek State Prison in Amador County in February, but assigned to a separate unit that afforded no chance at a face-to-face meeting between the siblings.

Now, if they wish, they can spend time together at meals and during recreational and exercise periods as they continue serving out their lifelong sentences.

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