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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 ...
The prosecution argued that the murders were premeditated, that allegations of sexual abuse were fabricated, and that the brothers were motivated by hatred and a desire to receive their father's multimillion-dollar estate after being disinherited from his will. [4] The juries were unable to reach a verdict, resulting in mistrials for both brothers.
The Menendez brothers, born into a life of wealth and privilege, testified that they killed their mother and father in self-defense after a lifetime of emotional, physical and sexual abuse. At the ...
Lyle and Eric Menendez, who viciously gunned down their parents Jose and Kitty in 1989, received a lifeline from LA DA George Gascon, who will review new evidence of sexual abuse in their case.
Morin says those high-profile cases were a turning point: "Mental health professionals, who have been aware that men can be sexually abused, used the media frenzies about those court cases to shed ...
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.
After the brothers were charged in the murders of Jose and Kitty Menendez, they said they gunned down their parents after years of horrific sexual abuse at the hands of their father — an ...
The brothers were ultimately convicted of the murders and have admitted to the deed, but they have argued they did so in self-defense after enduring years of their father’s abuse ...