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Lyle, left, and Erik Menendez in a courtroom in Santa Monica on Aug. 6, 1990. In 1996, the brothers were convicted of first-degree murder for the slayings of their parents in the family's Beverly ...
More than three decades after Erik and Lyle Menendez killed their parents, the L.A. County district attorney will review what he described as new evidence that the brothers were molested.
A Change.org petition titled "Appeal for Menendez Brothers" has over 365,000 signatures and aims to get a new trial, a reduced sentence, or another equitable remedy for Erik and Lyle Menendez.
The new evidence presented in a petition includes a letter written by Erik Menendez that his attorneys say corroborates the allegations that he was sexually abused by his father. The brothers have said they killed their parents out of self-defense after enduring a lifetime of physical, emotional and sexual abuse from them. Their attorneys argue ...
And in a moment that felt like a pivotal plot twist on Thursday, the Los Angeles DA filed a petition to resentence Erik and Lyle Menendez, citing new evidence that shed light on sexual abuse the ...
The first Menendez brothers trial for the 1989 shotgun murders of their parents Jose and Kitty resulted in a hung jury. In 1996, after a second trial, Lyle and Erik, who do not dispute that they ...
The brothers' attorneys and the coalition of family members have said the judge overseeing the second trial excluded substantial evidence of the abuse the Menendez brothers had suffered.
During the brothers’ trials, which took place from 1993 to 1996, Lyle and Erik – who were 21 and 18 at the time of the killings – claimed they had endured a lifetime of abuse at the hands of ...