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Erik Menendez (L) and his brother Lyle (R) listen during a pre-trial hearing, on December 29, 1992 in Los Angeles after the two pleaded innocent in the August 1989 shotgun deaths of their wealthy ...
The petition also details a recently discovered letter that defense attorneys say was written by Erik Menendez eight months before the 1989 shooting that suggests sexual abuse by his father ...
"The accusations were so widespread that even if you believed that a specific priest did not abuse a boy it was no longer credible to believe that sexual victimization of boys did not take place ...
The brothers' attorneys said the new evidence includes a letter Erik Menendez wrote in 1988 — the year before the murders — to his uncle Andy Cano, describing the sexual abuse he had endured from his father. The brothers asked their lawyers about it after it was mentioned in a 2015 Barbara Walters television special.
The petition also details a recently discovered letter that defense attorneys say was written by Erik Menendez eight months before the 1989 shooting that suggests sexual abuse by his father ...
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 ...
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 ...
Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story chronicles the case of the real-life brothers convicted in 1996 for the murders of their parents, José and Kitty Menendez. While the prosecution argued they were seeking to inherit their family fortune, the brothers claimed—and remain adamant to this day, as they serve life sentences without the possibility of parole—that their actions stemmed ...