1.   Each brother claims a favorite DVD feature.

2.   Gessler was referring to pressure that the brothers claim Jose and Kitty Menendez placed on them to succeed at any cost.

3.   His brother also once claimed to be shy, only to turn up on the cover of Vanity Fair shirtless and wild-haired in leather pants.

4.   The brothers claim they shot their parents out of fear for their own lives.

5.   The brothers claimed they killed in fear and panic following a lifetime of physical, emotional and sexual abuse.

6.   The brothers claimed they killed out of fear after years of sexual, physical and mental abuse.

7.   The brothers claimed they killed their parents following years of abuse.

8.   The brothers have claimed a motive of imperfect self-defense, meaning that they had a genuine but misguided fear that their parents were going to kill them.

9.   The brothers have claimed they killed out of fear heightened by years of physical and sexual abuse, while prosecutors claim the slayings were motivated by hatred and greed.

10.   The brothers claim that only after shooting their parents did they realize the couple had not intended to kill them.