How the Menendez Brothers’ Therapist and His Mistress Became the Murder Trial’s Circus Sideshow

The 1993 Menendez murder trial, subject of Netflix’s Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, seemed like an open-and-shut case. Then defense attorney Leslie Abramson vowed to discredit therapist L. Jerome Oziel—and she was able to, thanks in part to his mistress, Judalon Smyth.