Menendez brothers 1993 Trial
00:00:00 Donovan Goodreau (former friend of Lyle Menendez)
01:27:40 reporter Robert Rand
01:47:53 Donovan Goodreau
01:59:36 Donovan Goodreau (defense's case)
**Goodreau was recalled back to the stand during the defense case-in-chief.
02:42:44 Craig Cignarelli (former friend of Erik Menendez)
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According to Robert Rand's book, The Menendez Murders, Donovan Goodreau told Rand on December 7, 1990 ( before the defense in the case was made public) about the molestation in a taped interview. "I'm not gonna lie about the abuse talks, but I won't be the first to step forward," Goodreau said.
Rand: I heard something this week that sexual abuse might be the kind of defense they try to do.
Goodreau Oh, no, no, don't tell me they're gonna do that.
Rand: Yeah, that's what I heard. Nothing definite.
Goodreau: You know what's gonna happen. Lyle's gonna tell heim, well, if you don't believe me, ask Donovan. (laughter) I told him, they're just gonna have like a microscope all over me. Are you kidding?
Rand: I don't think they'll try to pull you in if it's bullshit.
Goodreau: No, see, the reason he told me that - he did tell me a lot of things about his father and stuff, but it's like I always thought he was doing that to lure meinto maybe believing his objective, but he never told me why he was doint it, why he was telling me. It didn't make sense until afterwards. You know what I'm saying - he told me a lot about their past and stuff and it was similar to my past. I too, was molested as a child, and I told him and I guess that opened the gate and he told me and it was like, wow!
Rand: Did he say that he was molested?
Goodreau: I, uh, yeah. Lyle and his brother were molested. But it's like he didn't - he wasn't clear. He was never clear.
October 1991 - Rand had lunch with Goodreau in New York.
Goodreau: "Lyle started telling me stories about Jose sexually abusing Erik when he was little. He said they took showers and baths together. The big bathtub in the new house was for sex scenes."
(October 1989 - Erik Menendez told Rand in a tape recorded interview: "Instead of going to the movies with my friends I would just stay home with him [Jose]. And, uh, in fact it was weird. We'd even take showers together. With Lyle, my - he got this big bathtub and Lyle, me, and my dad would just - we would take showers together, we would do everything together....")
Goodreau told Rand a few days before taking the stand that he was "very nervous" that he'd be asked about sexual molestation when he testified. "I'm not going to lie, but I'm not going to volunteer the information."
About his reunion with Glenn Stevens in October 1989 Goodreau said: "He walked over and gave me this big hug, and we walked inside and we were talking and he mentioned it [the abuse], and I almost fell off the seat becasue I thought I was the only one in the whole world who knew."
A year before Goodreau's testimony he met with Lyle Menendez' attorney, Jill Lansing at a New York hotel.
