According to The Sun, Tammi watched the Menendez brothers’ trial on TV and was drawn to Erik. She proceeded to write to him and eventually, those letters turned into phone calls. Tammi moved from Minnesota to California after they confessed their love to each other. They got married in Folsom State Prison in June 1999. However, this was Tammy’s second marriage as her first husband committed suicide.

Tammi has been candid about her marriage and has described it as incredibly difficult (more than she expected) due to the circumstances (via In Touch Weekly). She also wrote a memoir, “They Said We’d Never Make It: My Life With Erik Menendez” in 2005 about her marriage. Tammi and Eric have no children together and have never been intimate. Although Tammi’s daughter from her previous marriage was only a baby when she married Erik, she refers to him as her “Earth dad.”

As for Lyle, he’s been married twice since his imprisonment (per All That’s Interesting). In 1996, he married a Playboy model who divorced him in 2001 after she discovered he was writing letters to other women. In 2003, he married Rebecca Sneed. As of 2021, the brothers are still married and according to a different article of The Sun, they are both imprisoned at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego.