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(Los Angeles, CA) — The Los Angeles County DA says his office will review new evidence in the case of Lyle and Erik Menendez, who were convicted of killing their parents in Beverly Hills back in 1989. The brothers have said they killed their parents out of self-defense after enduring a lifetime of sexual and emotional abuse from them. The case has gained new attention in recent weeks after Netflix began streaming a true-crime drama about the double murder.
The new evidence in question reportedly involves a letter Erik Menendez penned a few months before he and his brother killed their parents. In the letter Menendez details the sexual abuse he claims was carried out by the boy’s father, Jose Menendez.
It was August. 20, 1989, that Jose and Kitty Menendez were shot multiple times with a shotgun inside their Beverly Hills home. Their two sons have spent 34 years in prison for the murders.
