Lyle Menendez and Eric Menendez's Wife: What to Know About Married Brothers in Prison – E! Online

Lyle MenendezThen 28, married model and salon receptionist Anna Erickson July 2, 1996, the day he and Bro Eric Menendez In 1989, they were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the double murder of their parents. Jose And Kitty Menendez.

Anna began writing to Lyle in 1993 during his first trial, which ended in a mistrial, and then moved to California to be near him the following year. He became a reliable presence in the month-long retrial that began in 1995 and was convicted in March 1996, Los Angeles Times.

They couldn't say their vows in person, however, with Lyle instead on speaker phone, custodial bride and groom immersed in the defense attorney's office. Leslie Abramson.

He apparently hoped that he would be able to marry Anna personally, once he knew where she would end up.

“We have a marriage process going on,” California Correctional Institution spokesman Lt. Jack Pitko said LA Times Once in September 1996, Lyle and Eric were ordered to separate prisons. “There is a waiting list…but I don't see why she can't get married according to all the rules.”

Anna filed for divorce in 2001, alleging that Lyle was exchanging letters with other women, according to multiple reports at the time.