Lyle and Erik Menendez are two brothers who have been convicted of killing both of their parents, Kitty and Jose Menendez,both men are currently serving life sentences without the possibility of parole. They claimed the reason why their killed their parents were because their father had been physically and sexually abusing them since they were both young children and they killed their mother because she never tried to stop their father from hurting them. Some people believe that they were lying about the abuse and just using it as an excuse so they would not look so bad to the public. After watching the courtroom footage Lyle describing what his father had done to him and what he had done to Erik it is clear to me that the brothers were telling …show more content…
The only fact that was known to be true was that they had killed their mother and father on August 20th, 1989. No one knew why they decided to kill their parents that night. According to both Erik and Lyle, the final straw was when their father, Jose Menendez, told Erik to get to his room and that he would be there in a minute to have sex with him. If they had been abused for over a decade that would give them ample motive to kill their father. Unfortunately, since they killed their mother as well no one that was in that house other than the Menendez brothers can confirm what really happened between them and their father all those …show more content…
It is true that the parents of the two brothers were changing the will and giving Lyle and Erik extremely less than what they would get in the original will. A few weeks before the murder Erik had overheard his mother talking about changing the will to one of her friends. Kitty had known that Erik was within earshot when she was talking about giving both brothers less money. According to the prosecution money was the only reason the Menendez brothers killed their parents. They had a strong case because after the parents had been murdered the were out the next few weeks buying expensive items such as Rolexes, a Porsche, a Jeep Wrangler, condos for both of them, a buffalo wing restaurant in New Jersey, and Erik even hired a tennis coach that charged $50,000 a year. They bought more stuff, but those were all of the major purchases. It's estimated the spent between $500k-$700k from the time they killed their parents died to when they were both arrested. This shows that money was for sure a reason why they killed their parents, but it was not the most important reason. If money was the motive they would have hired someone or had gotten quieter weapons at the very least. There was emotion behind the shooting, this can be discerned from the crime scene both parents had been shot multiple times. The photos and video shows both parents laying dead, Kitty on the floor and Jose on the