Renewed interest in the case involving Lyle and Erik Menendez has reportedly turned the family’s former mansion into an unintended tourist trap, with the Beverly Hills Police receiving 18 calls in the last month concerning loud noise and trespassing.
Residents around the Elm Drive home told the Los Angeles Times that their once quiet neighborhood has become a magnet for rubberneckers who want to catch a glimpse of the place where the brothers murdered their parents in 1989.
“There’s people all hours of the night,” one resident told the newspaper. “People are getting out of their cars, blocking our driveway. I didn’t register that [the mansion] was across the street from me. It’s been pretty quiet until the Netflix show came out.”
Making matters worse, multiple videos of the house have showed up on TikTok that serve as a veritable beacon for tourists looking for unique attractions to visit in L.A. Naturally, tour buses also drive past the Mediterranean-style mansion that was sold for $17 million in March. The seven-bedroom, 9,063-square-foot home is under renovation so no one is living there.