THIRTY-FIVE years after Lyle and Erik Menendez killed their parents, Jose and Kitty, with 16 shotgun blasts as the couple T watched TV in the den of their Beverly Hills mansion, the brothers are back in the headlines. The Netflix series Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story scored big ratings, followed by the streamer's documentary The Menendez Brothers. Based on 20 hours of phone interviews, it paints a sympathetic portrait of the pair, who were convicted of murder in 1996 and sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. Alongside a Tik Tok campaign to reconsider the brothers' two trials the first ended with a hung jury; the second excluded extensive testimony about childhood sexual abuse there is striking new evidence in the case of Lyle and Erik, now 56 and 53, respectively. Los Angeles D.A. George Gascón has announced his office is taking it seriously, saying, "We have a moral and ethical obligation to review what is being presented to us.
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