Convicted killer Lyle Menendez is reportedly the ‘prison wife’ of another muscle-bound, goateed convict, despite being in a 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 out his life sentence for killing 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 laid up in the same bunk cuddling. I just straight up asked, “Lyle, what’s up with you and Chino? I seen y’all hugged up. Are you gay?”‘ Weems recounted.
‘The answer that he gave me was somewhat shocking: “Chino is my man.”
‘He’s pretty open about it,’ Weems noted, ‘and says he likes to act like he’s the girl in the relationship.’
But Lyle is also in a relationship with blonde student Milly Bucksey, 21, whom he first met on a Facebook group in his name that is 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 smitten student.
Lyle Menendez, 56, is said to have become a ‘prison wife’ to another inmate at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility near San Diego, California , where he is serving out his life sentence for killing his parents, Kitty and Jose
But Lyle is also in a relationship with blonde student Milly Bucksey, 21, whom he first met on a Facebook group in his name that is run by his wife Rebecca Sneed , 55
Their romance has since gotten spicier, leading Lyle to get busted by prison guards at the top-security prison for possessing a contraband cell phone he was using to contact his new squeeze.
A record of that incident was included in ousted Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón’s resentencing memo, filed in Los Angeles at the end of October. It showed he was caught with the phone on March 15 in the cell he shares with ‘multiple other people’.
But DailyMail.com learned that Lyle has since acquired a second illicit cell phone, which he has been using to stay 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 – who he married in 2003, the same month before his new love was born – for a divorce.
‘Lyle adores Milly’, an insider with knowledge of the romance told DailyMail.com. ‘And she refers to him as her boyfriend even though he’s married.’
Sneed, though, has since told her friends on Facebook she and Lyle had been ‘separated for a while now but remain best friends and family.’
She said she is continuing to run his Facebook page ‘with input from him’, and she is committed to fight on for Lyle and his brother, Erik, 53.
Milly, meanwhile, seems smitten with the convicted killer as well, even making the 5,300-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, exclusively obtained by DailyMail.com, show the pair inside the prison on September 14 – a date corresponding with the Friday to Sunday visiting hours at the lock-up and nine days before Milly’s university started its fall semester
Milly made the 5,300-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, exclusively obtained by DailyMail.com, show the pair inside the facility.
In one they pose in front of one of the distinctive murals in the prison yard with their arms wrapped lovingly around each other.
In another they pose with a large dog, and a third has Milly sitting on Lyle’s knee.
A time stamp on the picture shows it was taken on Saturday, September 14 – a date corresponding with the Friday to Sunday visiting hours at the lock-up and nine days before Milly’s university started its fall semester.
Milly also changed the cover photo on her Facebook page to a picture of Ocean Beach in San Diego on November 17.
The beach in the laid-back surfer neighborhood has a distinctive palm-fringed promenade and cream lifeguard towers, both of which can be seen in Milly’s photo.
In an ironic twist, Ocean Beach is just 20 miles from Imperial Beach – the southern San Diego neighborhood where Lyle’s lawyer wife has lived since relocating from California state capital of Sacramento in October 2020 to be closer to him.
But Lyle’s latest fling is not the first time he has been caught cheating on his spouse from prison. His first marriage to Chicago-native Anna Eriksson came to a juddering halt in 2001 after she caught him sending love letters to another woman.
This time, though, the stakes are higher for Lyle and Erik,, who have become a cause célèbre following the smash-hit 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 he was pursuing a lighter sentence for the brothers. But Gascón’s ousting by the new DA Nate Hochman has put his initial decision in jeopardy, as Hochman declared he had to view the case in its entirety before making a decision
Los Angeles County DA George Gascón announced in October he was planning to pursue a lighter sentence for the brothers, telling reporters that the pair ‘have paid their debt to society’.
But he was voted out of office in this month’s election and will step down on December 1.
His replacement, Republican-turned-Independent Nate Hochman, 60, has thrown the brothers’ bid for freedom into jeopardy by saying he plans to review Gascón’s decision.
The revelation that Lyle had a second contraband cell phone could also have implications for the case, particularly as California Governor Gavin Newsom declined to offer the brothers immediate clemency – instead saying he intends to wait for the outcome of Hochman’s review, which won’t happen until after Hochman takes office.
A resentencing hearing scheduled for December 11 is likely to be postponed as a result.
In a statement to CNN following his victory, Hochman said: ‘Before I can make any decision about the Menendez brothers’ case, I will need to become thoroughly familiar with the relevant facts, the evidence and the law.’
The former federal prosecutor added: ‘I will have to review the confidential prison files for each brother, the transcripts from both trials and speak to the prosecutors, law enforcement, defense counsel and the victims’ family members.
‘If for some 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 1989 shotgun slayings of their parents
The brothers have been locked up since March 1990 when they were arrested for the brutal 1989 shotgun slayings of their parents.
Both confessed to the gruesome killings at the family home in Beverly Hills but said they snapped after enduring years of sexual abuse at José’s hands.
That argument fell flat at their 1993 trial with prosecutors successfully arguing that the murders were carried out for financial gain after the brothers went on a $700,000 spending spree in the weeks after the shootings.
As a result, they were both handed life without parole and sent to separate prisons, although they were eventually reunited at the San Diego lock-up in 2018.