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Did the Menendez Brothers Kill Their Therapist? Unpacking the Life of Dr. Jerome Oziel

Here’s everything you need to know about Dr. Jerome Oziel, the psychologist to whom Erik Menendez confessed the murders in 1989.

Image Credit: Netflix Lyle and Erik Menendez continue to serve life sentences for the brutal murders of their parents on August 20, 1989, when the brothers—then 21 and 18—shot and killed them in their family’s Beverly Hills mansion. In 1997, Oziel was stripped of his psychology license after being “accused by a state panel of breaking confidentiality rules and having sex with female patients,” according to the Los Angeles Times. Smyth initially told police that she had overheard the Menendez brothers talking about how they had shot their mother’s eye out of its socket, as Oziel had allegedly instructed her to listen in on their conversation.

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