How New Evidence Could Free the Menendez Brothers in Weeks
After serving 35 years behind bars for a bloody and notorious crime, the Menendez brothers might actually walk free—thanks to two documents, one a lost-and-found letter, and the other a sworn statement revealing a decades-old secret.
Their case has taken a sudden and dramatic twist as public fascination with a gruesome crime in one of America’s most exclusive enclaves is whipped up by a controversial Netflix drama series, and a follow-up documentary released Monday.
In 1989, Lyle and Erik Menendez shotgunned their parents 16 times in the family room of their Beverly Hills mansion. Lyle was, 21 and Erik was 18. They are now 56 and 53.