''Menendez + Menudo: Boys Betrayed' plays a somewhat rigged game, and yet it does intriguingly suggest that Lyle and Erik’s abuse accusations would have been treated far differently today,' writes nschager
claimed that they killed their parents in 1989 because they feared for their safety following a lifetime of sexual abuse perpetrated by their father, José, an RCA Records executive, and condoned by their mother, Kitty. That defense earned them separate mistrials in 1993 but didn’t succeed in their subsequent 1996 retrial, which concluded with convictions and life sentences without the possibility of parole.
, thereby supporting Lyle and Erik’s story about the cruelty they suffered at their dad’s hands. This comes as explosive news to journalist and author Robert Rand and his colleague Nery Ynclan, who have spent years working to exonerate the Menendez brothers because they’re convinced that the siblings were wrongly convicted of first-degree murder rather than manslaughter, which would have saddled them with a lighter prison sentence.
Unfortunately, though, Roy’s encounter with José winds up being an afterthought for long stretches of. Part of the reason for that sidelining, it appears, is that Roy doesn’t fully remember what took place. After riding in a limo with Diaz and José, who looked like he “wanted to devour me,” and then being served wine that he now assumes was laced with a narcotic, Roy’s memory goes hazy and then outright blank.
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