Los Angeles County’s top prosecutor announced on Thursday that his office was reviewing new evidence in the case of Lyle and Erik Menendez, a development in the notorious true-crime case that could lead to a retrial or resentencing for the brothers who were convicted of the 1989 murder of their parents.
George Gascón, the county district attorney, said in a news conference that his office had received evidence that the brothers were sexually molested by their father, José Menendez, a former top executive at RCA Records.
The evidence consists of a newly discovered letter one of the brothers sent to a relative months before the murders, describing his father’s alleged sexual abuse, as well as allegations by a former boy band member, who alleged in a docuseries last year that José drugged and raped him as a teenager in the 1980s.
