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The brothers were After their parents, José and Kitty Menéndez, were found dead in 1989, Erik and Lyle became the prime suspects. A Complete Timeline of Erik and Lyle Menendez’s Murder Case ...
Joseph Lyle Menendez (born January 10, 1968) and Erik Galen Menendez (born November 27, 1970), commonly referred to as the Menendez brothers, are American brothers convicted of killing their parents, José and Mary Louise "Kitty" Menendez, at their Beverly Hills home in 1989.
In the summer of 1989, Erik and Lyle Menendez burst into the den of their family’s Beverly Hills home armed with shotguns and opened fire, killing their mother and father. After the brothers ...
Erik Menendez was never supposed to keep the 17-page, soul-baring letter his older brother Lyle wrote to him in May 1990 when they were being held in county jail.. Lyle wrote the letter two months ...
July 1993: The Menendez brothers go on trial, each with a separate jury. Prosecutors argued that they killed their parents for financial gain. The brothers’ attorneys don't dispute the pair killed their parents, but argued that they acted out of self-defense after years of emotional and sexual abuse by their father.
On the evening of Sunday, Aug. 20, 1989, Jose and Kitty Menendez were watching TV inside their Beverly Hills mansion when their sons, Lyle, 21, and Erik, 18, burst into the room with 12-gauge ...
In 1996, the Menendez brothers were convicted and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the shooting deaths of their parents, Jose and Kitty, in their Beverly Hills home.
The court reexamining the Menendez case indicates an institution reckoning with change. And it's not just one case bringing attention to sexual abuse of male victims .