In the Tabloid America of 1996 (it is, after all, eternal), the lurid saga of the Menendez brothers got big ink and big airtime.
That gambit didn’t work and the pair was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.Now, after almost three decades in the slammer, the Menendez brothers have an unusual ally in the form of Roy Rossello — a former member of the Puerto Rican boy band, Menudo.
“I always hoped and believed that one day the truth about my dad would come out, but I never wished for it to come out like this, the result of trauma that another child has suffered and it makes me very sad.”Article content In a preview of the series, Rossello dramatically points to a photo of Jose Menendez and claims: “That’s the man here that raped me. That’s the pedophile. It’s time for the world to know the truth.”
He added: “Certainly that would have made an enormous difference because the entire trial centred on the belief of these events. Hopefully, it will make a difference — you think in a fair world it would.”TEEN MURDER VICTIM FINALLY IDENTIFIED AFTER 47 YEARSHer body was discovered bound, gagged, wrapped in a tarp and dumped in a drainage ditch on Aug. 16, 1975 near East Haven, Connecticut. She had died from asphyxiation.
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