Menendez Brothers image raises value of, interest in Basketball Card

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The 1990-1991 Hoops Brand Basketball Card for former New Yorks Knicks Point Guard Mark Jackson has gone viral and collectors are snapping up the once worthless card after someone noticed that Lyle and Eric Menendez can be seen in the crowd in the background of the card and, by all accounts, this picture was taken between when they murdered their parents and when they were arrested for it.

https://bleacherreport.com/articles...-on-former-knicks-pg-mark-jacksons-hoops-card

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JoeMorgue said:
The 1990-1991 Hoops Brand Basketball Card for former New Yorks Knicks Point Guard Mark Jackson has gone viral and collectors are snapping up the once worthless card after someone noticed that Lyle and Eric Menendez can be seen in the crowd in the background of the card and, by all accounts, this picture was taken between when they murdered their parents and when they were arrested for it.

https://bleacherreport.com/articles...-on-former-knicks-pg-mark-jacksons-hoops-card

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Menendez brothers are sure interesting.
Society has complete ownership.
This is the default position, and completely inviolate.
Memorobilia is tedious though, you can't eat it, drink it, or make love to it.
 
Samson said:
Menendez brothers are sure interesting.
Society has complete ownership.
This is the default position, and completely inviolate.
Memorobilia is tedious though, you can't eat it, drink it, or make love to it.
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100% Wrong on all 3 counts.
 
When reading the OP I was reminded of this.

On a blazing July day in 1895, Robert and Nattie Coombes, aged 13 and 11,went from their East End home to Lord’s to watch the Gentlemen v Players cricket match. They left their mother dead in the bed she had shared with Robert; he had stabbed her, perhaps in collusion with Nattie. They went back to Lord’s the next day and saw WG Grace score a century.
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https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/...stery-of-a-victorian-child-murderer-1-4129201
 
JoeMorgue said:
The 1990-1991 Hoops Brand Basketball Card for former New Yorks Knicks Point Guard Mark Jackson has gone viral and collectors are snapping up the once worthless card after someone noticed that Lyle and Eric Menendez can be seen in the crowd in the background of the card and, by all accounts, this picture was taken between when they murdered their parents and when they were arrested for it.

https://bleacherreport.com/articles...-on-former-knicks-pg-mark-jacksons-hoops-card

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NBA front row seats huh? They don't come cheap.... probably bought with money their parents gave them, before they murdered them of course.

ETA: Just checked - in 2018, Madison Square Garden - Knock v Opponents; floor level front row sideline seats go for between $763 and $1269...... each!
 
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smartcooky said:
NBA front row seats huh? They don't come cheap.... probably bought with money their parents gave them, before they murdered them of course.
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According to the OP, the photo was taken after they killed their parents (but before they were arrested and charged).
 
Some crossover appeal there for collectors of Menendez Brothers cards, too.

I wonder if there are any of their trial with NBA stars visible sitting in the public gallery.
 
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Does it matter?
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No, but it was just a correction to your point.

smartcooky said:
NBA front row seats huh? They don't come cheap.... probably bought with money their parents gave them, before they murdered them of course.
ETA: Just checked - in 2018, Madison Square Garden - Knock v Opponents; floor level front row sideline seats go for between $763 and $1269...... each!
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Brainster said:
According to the OP, the photo was taken after they killed their parents (but before they were arrested and charged).
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I'm bumping this thread -- the only one I could find about the Menendez brothers -- as I don't have time to start a new one, rehashing all that happened. Suffice to say, lawyers for the Menendez brothers, who have been imprisoned for almost thirty years, are making a bid to try and get the brothers released or to at least get a new trial. Evidence that their father sexually abused them for years was omitted from their second trial. That trial ended with the brothers being convicted and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

The Los Angeles County District Attorney's office has said of the appeal -- on the basis evidence of sexual abuse was not allowed to be presented during the second trial -- that they are looking at it very carefully and have "an open mind."

Jose Menendez, the head of RCA Records at the time of his murder, was shot multiple times. including point blank in the head. [His wife and the boys' mother] Kitty, 47, suffered 15 gunshot wounds, including one to the face. The killings, according to the brothers, came after years of sexual abuse by their Hollywood executive father — abuse which they insisted was ignored by their mom, a former pageant queen. However, prosecutors at the time said the two brothers’ motive was greed... People Magazine article link
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Given the controversy over the case, where one side claimed a sort of burning bed defence, sexual abuse, and the other, they were greedy, soulless offspring who couldn't wait for their inheritence, I'm surprised a thread from back then isn't active here and on Part 217.


Anyway, resentencing is imminent. Knock yourselves out!
 
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They sure timed this bite at leniency well, what with Netflix showing their story called Monsters.

They look crazier now in their current pics than they did then.
 
I had just searched for a thread on this, but for some reason or not, couldn't locate one. I have been following this from the beginning.

If the brothers are "crazy", I believe they were driven to it. Few of us can relate to what they endured. Their parents were monsters. The brothers did not have any help. People knew what was happening to them, but it seemed no one had their back. The sense of helplessness must have been profound.

I don't condone murder, but I understand how it came to be. I hope they have a retrial at minimum. I hope they are released. While the spending-spree is held against them, who would know how any of us would react.
 
All this angst of the Mendez Brothers is fascinating and the image of them as poor victims is also fascinating.

I happen to agree that they were probably abused by their father and do think they should have been released c. 10 years ago.

But the idea of them as pure victims amuses me. The murders were carefully planned ahead of time. The Brother's version of events that night are obviously absurd. The story of a mob hit a concoction dreamed up ahead of time. Daddy had cut them out of the Will and they knew it. Mom had to go so they would get the cash. (They tried to get rid of the actual Will.) One of the Brother's tried to get a friend to support them by coming up with a bogus claim of abuse by their father.

All of this reeks of calculation and doing it in part for the cash. Since I think the abuse happened I would accept them serving 20 years and then being released and of course no cash from dead Daddy and Mom.
 
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