Convicted murderer Lyle Menendez is reportedly the “prison wife” of another muscular convict with goatees, despite being in a prison. relationship with a British university student.
Menendez, 56, has apparently developed a close relationship with another inmate known as Chino at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility near San Diego, California, where he is serving his life sentence for the murder of his parents, Kitty and Jose.
He has even become the Chino’s “prison wife,” fellow inmate Eugene Weems told Radar Online.
“I saw Lyle and Chino cuddling in the same bed. I just immediately asked, “Lyle, what’s going on with you and Chino? I saw you all hugging. Are you gay?” Weems shared.
‘The answer he gave me was somewhat shocking: ‘Chino is my husband.’
“He’s pretty open about it,” Weems noted, “and says he likes to pretend he’s the girl in the relationship.”
But Lyle is also dating blonde student Milly Bucksey, 21, who he first met on a Facebook group in his name run by his wife Rebecca Sneed, 55, DailyMail.com previously revealed.
According to those familiar with the situation, he initially approached her under an alias before confessing his true identity to the beaten student.
Lyle Menendez, 56, allegedly became a “prison wife” for another inmate at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility near San Diego, California, where he is serving his life sentence for the murder of his parents, Kitty and Jose.
But Lyle is also dating blonde student Milly Bucksey, 21, who he first met on a Facebook group in his name run by his wife Rebecca Sneed, 55.
Their romance has since heated up, resulting in Lyle being picked up by prison guards at the maximum security prison for possessing a smuggled mobile phone which he used to contact his new boyfriend.
An account of that incident was included in ousted Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón’s memo filed in Los Angeles in late October. It showed that on March 15 he was caught with the phone in the cell he shares with ‘several other people’.
But DailyMail.com discovered that Lyle has since acquired a second illegal mobile phone, which he has used to keep in touch with the University of Manchester student.
He is now said to be so in love with Milly that he has asked his wife – whom he married in 2003, the same month before his new love was born – for a divorce.
“Lyle is crazy about Milly,” an insider with knowledge of the romance told DailyMail.com. “And she calls him her boyfriend, even though he’s married.”
Sneed has since told her friends on Facebook that she and Lyle “have been separated for a while, but are still best friends and family.”
She said she continues to manage his Facebook page “with input from him,” and that she is determined to continue fighting for Lyle and his brother, Erik, 53.
Milly, meanwhile, also appears to be smitten with the convicted killer, even making the 6,000-mile journey from her home in Altrincham, Greater Manchester, to San Diego to visit her much older boyfriend and was photographed with him in prison.
Photos obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com show the pair in jail on September 14 – a date that corresponds with Friday-Sunday visiting hours in the lockup and nine days before Milly’s university began its fall semester.
Milly made the 5,000 mile journey from her home in Altrincham, Greater Manchester, to San Diego to visit her much older boyfriend and was photographed with him in prison
Photos, obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com, show the couple inside the facility.
In one, they pose in front of one of the striking murals on the prison grounds with their arms lovingly wrapped around each other.
In another they pose with a large dog, and in a third Milly sits on Lyle’s knee.
A time stamp on the photo shows that it was shot on Saturday, September 14 – a date that corresponds with Friday through Sunday visiting hours in the lockup and nine days before Milly’s college started the fall semester.
Milly also changed the cover photo on her Facebook page to a photo of Ocean Beach in San Diego on November 17.
The beach in the laid-back surfer neighborhood has a striking promenade with palm trees and cream-colored lifeguard towers, both of which can be seen in Milly’s photo.
Ironically, Ocean Beach is just 20 miles from Imperial Beach – the southern San Diego neighborhood where Lyle’s wife, a lawyer, has lived since moving from California’s capital Sacramento in October 2020 to be closer to him.
But Lyle’s latest affair isn’t the first time he’s been caught cheating on his wife from prison. His first marriage to Chicago-born Anna Eriksson came to a halt in 2001 after she caught him sending love letters to another woman.
This time, however, the stakes are higher for Lyle and Erik, who have become a cause célèbre following the smash success of Ryan Murphy’s biographical crime drama anthology, Monster: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.
Former LA DA George Gascón initially said in October that he was seeking a lighter sentence for the brothers. But Gascón’s ouster by new District Attorney Nate Hochman has jeopardized his original decision, as Hochman stated that he had to look at the case as a whole before making a decision.
Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón announced in October that he planned to pursue a lighter sentence for the brothers. He told reporters that the couple had “paid their debt to society.”
But he was voted out of office in this month’s elections and will step down on December 1.
His replacement, now independent Republican Nate Hochman, 60, has jeopardized the brothers’ bid for freedom by saying he plans to review Gascón’s decision.
The revelation that Lyle had a second smuggled cell phone could also have implications for the case, especially since California Governor Gavin Newsom declined to offer the brothers immediate clemency — instead saying he plans to wait the outcome of Hochman’s investigation, which will not happen. until after Hochman took office.
A hearing on the criminal case, scheduled for December 11, will likely be postponed as a result.
In a statement to CNN after his victory, Hochman said, “Before I can make any decision regarding the Menendez brothers’ case, I will need to become thoroughly familiar with the relevant facts, evidence and law.”
The former federal prosecutor added, “I will need to review each brother’s confidential prison records, the transcripts of both trials and speak with prosecutors, law enforcement, defense counsel and the victims’ family members.
“If for any reason I need additional time, I will ask the court for that time.”
The brothers have been locked up since March 1990 when they were arrested for the brutal murder of their parents in 1989.
The brothers have been locked up since March 1990 when they were arrested for the brutal murder of their parents in 1989.
Both confessed to the gruesome murders at the family home in Beverly Hills, but said they succumbed to years of sexual abuse at José’s hands.
That argument failed at their 1993 trial, with prosecutors successfully arguing that the murders were committed for financial gain after the brothers spent $700,000 in the weeks after the shooting.
As a result, they were both given life sentences without parole and sent to separate prisons, although they were eventually reunited in San Diego’s lockup in 2018.