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They testified that they were afraid that they would be killed by their parents, so went outside to load their shotguns, and Erik recalled, "As I went into the room, I just started firing." [32] [63] Under California law, the brothers could only be acquitted for manslaughter if they could prove they were in immediate or imminent danger. [64]
On the night of Aug. 20, 1989, hours before they told police they were shocked to find their parents' bullet-riddled bodies, the brothers burst into the room where the two were watching TV and ...
The Menendez brothers became household names in 1989 when Lyle, then 21, and Erik, 18, armed with 12-gauge shotguns, burst into the den of their family home in Beverly Hills, Calif., and fatally ...
The brothers admitted to killing their parents, but contended that they did so out of fear, especially of their father, who they claimed was a violent paedophile. As evidence, the defence called ...
There is no question that the brothers killed their parents, but Gascón has said the issue is whether the jury heard evidence that their father molested them, and whether that evidence might have ...
The Menendez brothers murdered their parents, José and Kitty, on the evening of Aug. 20, 1989, in their Beverly Hills home. Each armed with a 12-gauge shotgun, Lyle, then 21, and Erik, then 18 ...
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 ...
Killed his wife, 3 members of her family and 2 household servants [71] 2: George Hassell: Whittier: 1917, 1926: 13: Spree killer, killed his wife and three children in Whittier, then killed his second family in Texas in 1926 [72] [73] 3: Ralph Works: Pasadena: 1941-08-08: 2: Murder-suicide in which former professional baseball pitcher shot ...