Lyle and Eric Menendez get lifeline as DA considers new evidence of sexual abuse which could lead to resentencing over parents gruesome 1989 slay
The District Attorney for Los Angeles announced Thursday that his office will review new evidence of alleged molestation in the case of the parent-murdering Menendez brothers — potentially leading to their resentencing three decades after the horiffic slaying.District Attorney George Gascon announced that new evidence of sexual abuse against the brothers will be reviewed more than 30 years after the notorious trial that captivated America.“We’re not at this point ready to say we believe or do not believe that information,” the DA said.
“But we’re here to tell you that we have a moral and ethical obligation to review what is being presented to us and make a determination.”In 1989, Erik and Lyle Menendez blew their parents away with a pair of shotguns in their tony Beverly Hills home as the couple watched a movie in the family room.The brothers shot their father, music executive Jose, a total of five times — and needed to reload before finishing off their mother, Kitty, who crawled in agony on the ground.
Erik was just 18 at the time, while Lyle was 20.Last year, the brothers filed a petition following revelations from the Peacock docuseries “Menendez + Menudo: Boys Betrayed,” which includes allegations that their father sexually assaulted a former underage member of the 1980s boy band, Menudo.
In that docuseries, Roy RoRossello claims he was roughly 13 years-old when Jose Menendez, an executive at RCA Records, drugged and raped him.“This new evidence is indisputable,” Nery Ynclan, one of the journalists behind “Menendez + Menudo,” told the Los Angeles Times Thursday.“After 35 years, it’s past due to show these victims of incest the mercy they deserve.”Lyle and Erik Menendez believe that this new evidence lends credibility to their claims that their father and mother sexually abused them from the time they were young children.
Testimony to that affect was prohibited during the brothers’ joint trial — though was included in th...