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Twenty-seven years after Lyle and Erik Menendez were convicted of killing their parents, attorneys say new evidence supports the brothers' claims that they were sexually abused by their father.
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. [6] 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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Their protracted legal battle captivated audiences across the nation through the mid-1990s as the brothers claimed that they were sexually abused by their parents while prosecutors argued they ...
The brothers’ attorneys argued at trial that they had acted in self-defense following years of sexual and physical abuse at the hands of their father, with testimony supporting the accusations ...