New Evidence May Lead to Retrial for Menendez Brothers
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.