Tammi Menedez and Erik Menendez. Courtesy of Tammi Menendez/Instagram
Extra particulars about Erik Menéndez‘s life behind bars have been revealed — beginning with how he celebrates the vacations together with his roommates.
Erik’s spouse, Tammi Menéndez, took to X earlier this month to deal with an article that claimed the inmates on the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility created Halloween sweet bowls. Tammi, 62, denied the report earlier than sharing how Erik, 53, has honored the Christmas season whereas behind bars.
“What’s true is that Erik has performed Secret Santa for his roommates for the previous 5 years!” she wrote earlier than including in a separate put up, “Let’s not enable him to spend one other birthday, Thanksgiving or Christmas behind bars. It’s time for somebody to step up and do what’s proper!”
Tammi has been outspoken about Erik and brother Lyle Menéndez‘s makes an attempt to enchantment their life sentence. The siblings had been arrested in 1990 on two counts of first-degree homicide after their dad and mom, Kitty and José Menéndez, had been discovered shot of their house.
Erik and Lyle, 56, admitted to killing their dad and mom following years of alleged bodily, emotional and sexual abuse. They had been in the end discovered responsible of and sentenced to life with out parole in 1996 after two high-profile trials. Whereas their prior makes an attempt to enchantment the choice had been denied, current high-profile TV initiatives, reminiscent of Monsters and The Menéndez Brothers, provided Erik and Lyle an opportunity at freedom.
In October, the Los Angeles District Legal professional advisable {that a} choose resentence Erik and Lyle to 50 years, which may make them eligible for parole and jail launch.
“I received’t converse as to whether [Erik and Lyle] have a plan [after their potential prison release]. I simply assume that so as to get via every day, you’ve received to simply floor your self,” their legal professional Mark Geragos completely advised Us Weekly at a press convention that very same month. “It’s a protracted highway from life with out [parole] for nearly 17 years to being hopeful.”
Whereas serving out his sentence, Erik received married to Tammi in 1999. The couple met when she began writing letters to him in jail and Tammi has remained by Erik’s facet amid his incarceration.
“Tammi is what will get me via,” Erik defined to Folks in 2005. “I can’t take into consideration the sentence. After I do, I do it with an ideal unhappiness and a primal worry. I break into a chilly sweat. It’s so scary I simply haven’t come to phrases with it.”
He continued: “Tammi’s love was a significant step in my selecting life. Having somebody who loves you unconditionally, who you might be utterly open with, is sweet for anyone — to know that this individual loves me as I’m.”
Lyle, in the meantime, discovered love with Rebecca Sneed, and so they received married in 2003 after corresponding through letters for almost a decade.
“Persons are judgmental, and he or she has to place up with rather a lot,” Lyle shared with Folks in 2017 about how he felt “responsible” for what his spouse has endured due to their marriage. “However she has the braveness to take care of the obstacles. It could be simpler to go away, however I’m profoundly grateful that she doesn’t.”