ERIK Menendez's wife has revealed he is "overwhelmed" by the support he has received as a trial decision nears. Tammi Menendez was speaking as brothers Lyle and Erik faced the possibility of freedom after more than 30 years in prison. On August 20, 1989, Lyle and Erik Menendez, then 21 and 18 respectively, shot their parents dead in their mansion in Los Angeles , California .
Their father, Jose Menendez, was a successful 45-year-old entertainment executive, while mother Kitty, 47, was a homemaker. After gunning down their parents, the siblings splashed out on designer clothes, Rolex watches, and luxury cars using their family's $14 million fortune . Following a mistrial in their first trial, the brothers were sentenced to life in prison in 1996 without the possibility of parole.
READ MORE ON THE MENENDEZ CASE Interest in the siblings' case has spiked again in recent years in the wake of Ryan Murphy's drama series, a number of prominent crime documentaries , and ongoing coverage on social media from true crime obsessives. Earlier this month, LA County District Attorney George Gascon announced that his office is reevaluating the Menendez brothers' convictions based on new evidence. Calls for the brothers to be freed were amplified when a new bombshell letter supposedly written in 1988 came to light after decades.
The letter, included in a filing to the Los Angeles Superior Court last year, seemed to back up the brothers' claims that they committed the murders in self-defense af.