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Joseph Lyle Menendez (born January 10, 1968) [3] and Erik Galen Menendez (born November 27, 1970), [4] 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.
Lyle and Erik Menendez will be resentenced after spending more than 30 years behind bars for the grisly 1989 shotgun murders of their parents in a case that captivated the nation and spawned a ...
Erik Menéndez and Lyle Menéndez's murder case has played out in the public for over three decades from two high-profile trials to a life sentence — and now a renewed chance at freedom. After ...
The Los Angeles district attorney has released new “evidence” in the Lyle and Erik Menendez case that could potentially lead to a review of their life sentences for murder.
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 ...
Attorneys for the Menendez brothers file a habeas petition asking the court to reconsider the conviction and sentence in light of new evidence from the Menudo band member and from a letter Erik ...
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 ...
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 ...