Twenty-one years after being sentenced to life in prison without parole in 2003, brothers Erik and Lyle Menendez are given a new opportunity to prove their act was of self-defense with loads of new evidence being sent to their defense lawyer according to George Gascon after the release of the latest Netflix series “Monsters” based of the brothers directed by Ryan Murphy. The series is receiving serious backlash, with many saying that Ryan Murphy is the true “Monster” in this case, with Erik Menendez saying the show takes a step back with “Accurately portraying sexual abuse that men face.”
In the summer of 1989 Erik and Lyle Mendez killed both their mom and dad, shooting them a total of fifteen times from two 12-gauge shotguns. The story they gave the police was they both went to see a movie that night but went back to retrieve Erik’s ID and found their parent’s dead bodies, the officers that arrived at the scene recalled seeing 18-year-old Erik crying on the lawn before entering the house. However, after a while, the public began to become suspicious of the brothers because they had started to make expensive purchases and didn’t quite seem “upset” over the whole situation. Later in a therapy session with Dr Ozial, Erik admitted to killing his parents.
The true reason why they murdered their parents is because of the sexual abuse they faced, saying it was an act of self-defense, in fear their parents were going to murder them if stories ever got out about their alleged abuse to their sons. They both faced sexual abuse from their father and mother who was self-aware of everything that had been happening.
Once when their cousin Alan Anderson was over he recalled their father (Jose) saying “In the bedroom” and he would take showers with them and Kitty (their mother) wouldn’t let him near the door
“So I couldn’t hear what I might’ve heard”, he said.
Diane Vandermolen (another cousin) re-calls another similar situation saying Lyle told her, he and his father had been touching him down “there” when she went to go tell his mother she wouldn’t believe her.
Their mother on the other hand slept with her kids until they were 13 and washed them “everywhere” Lyle recalled that she enjoyed it as well. Despite all the evidence given the judge kept saying they didn’t have the right to murder their parents in an act of “self-defense.
George Gascon and his office are re-investigating the case due to evidence absent during Lyle and Erik’s trials. This trial is set to take place on November 29th of this year.
