FAMILY members of the Menendez brothers have gathered to demand the prosecutors reconsider the life sentences assigned to the notorious duo for killing their parents over 30 years ago.
Nearly two dozen relatives of Erik and Lyle Menendez united in Los Angeles on Wednesday to hold a press conference urging prosecutors to recommend the duo be resentenced for the murders.
Erik and Lyle are currently serving life behind bars in a California state prison for shooting their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez, to death in their Beverly Hills home in 1989.
Interest in the highly publicized murder trial has spiked again in recent years due to Ryan Murphy’s drama series, a Netflix documentary, and ongoing TikTok coverage of the case.
The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced earlier this month that the brothers’ convictions will soon be reevaluated.
“I want to be clear; we have not conceded one way or the other,” LA County District Attorney George Gascón said on October 3.
“We’re not saying there was anything wrong with the original trial. We have been given evidence.”
Calls for the brothers to be freed were amplified when a new bombshell letter came to light after decades seeming to back up the brothers’ claims that they committed the murders in self-defense after years of abuse from their parents.
The letter, written by Erik, says in part “I never know when [the abuse] is going to happen and it’s driving me crazy. Every night, I stay up thinking [my father] might come in.”
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