Relatives Lyle and Eric Menendes On Wednesday, they spoke in an interview about their long -term fears that the brothers were subjected to violence for many years before they killed their parents.
After a Press conference In which they called for the freedom of prisoners of brothers and sisters, family members told Chris Kuomo to Newspaper About how their suspicions only deepened over time.
“Over the past years, we really knew that there was abuse at the intestinal level. But over time, we all spoke more and more with each other, this confirms fears and reactions at the intestinal level, ”said Kuomo, cousin, Karen Wandermolen-Kopli. “This strengthened the knowledge that sexual violence actually happened because it is not what you want to believe in, and then, as soon as you talk to each other, it is becoming more and more obvious.”
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Lyle and Eric were condemned for mortal shooting in 1989 by their parents Jose and Kitty Menendes in the Beverly HiLS mansion when the brothers were 21 and 18 years old. They spent the last 35 years behind bars, but all the time they said that they were motivated by physical, emotional and fall asleep with their father.
The accusation of the case, however, claimed that the abuse was “General manufacture. The brothers simply wanted to inherit the multimillion -dollar estate of the family, it is said in the prosecution, as evidenced by the fact that they went shopping on those days after the murder, and did not turn.
The jury, obviously, agreed, sentenced the murder with a lifelong imprisonment in prison without the possibility of conditionally alarmous release. But now the district prosecutor's office of Los -Angeles is currently considering new evidence that the brothers have actually underwent violence – the circumstances of the family Believes Explains the behavior of the brothers both during and after the murder, they said Kuomo.
“If you look at how much pain they suffered, how much torture they survived, how much violence they survived, it turned out as they committed an act,” said Tamara Gudell's cousin.
Describing the violent murder and its consequences as “studied behavior”, she continued: “When I think about it now, this is an act out of pain, this is an act of suffering, and this is that they so desperately wanted to come out.”
Kitty's sister Joan Wandermolen said that Kitty was silent while her sons are subjected to violence, except that her sister perhaps her husband and his wealth were influenced by her sister.
“When we finally realized the depth of terrible processing [Erik] received from his father, and then [Kitty] Recognizing that she knew all the time … It’s outside of everything that we can even describe right now, because it hurts so much, ”said Vandermolen Kuomo, adding:“ The kitten I grew up would never have allowed this to happen in her house. ”
The brothers' lawyer submitted an order for Habeas Corpus More than a year ago The presentation of new evidence of abuse and disputes that the brothers acted for self -defense, along with a request for re -receipt, claiming that the brothers were rehabilitated and must be released.
District Prosecutor of Los -Angeles George Gacon appointed a hearing for November 29 to consider new evidence.
Meanwhile, the hit -show Ryana Murphy Netflix Monsters: the story of Lyle and Eric Menendes caused a frantic interest in business, although the brothers He slammed shut Their image in the series.
