THE Menendez brothers, Lyle and Erik, who have been behind bars for over three decades for the brutal murders of their parents, may soon be set free thanks to new evidence that has been unearthed. In a case that captivated the nation, José and Mary Louise "Kitty" Menendez, the heads of a wealthy family from Beverly Hills , were brutally murdered by their sons with a shotgun in 1989. But new evidence, according to their lawyer Cliff Gardner, would corroborate the brother's story and argued the pair should have been convicted of manslaughter instead of first-degree murder.
The new evidence includes a letter that Gardner says was written by Erik to his cousin, Andy Cano. The letter was written and sent in December 1988, about eight months before the murder took place. "I've been trying to avoid Dad," the letter starts.
Read More News "It's still happening, Andy, but it's worse for me now," Erik continued. "Every night I stay up thinking he might come in. .
.. I'm afraid.
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He's crazy." "He's warned me a hundred times about telling anyone, especially Lyle." Cano, who testified at the brothers' first trial in the 90s, said under oath that Erik told him his father was touching him inappropriately at age 13, years before the killings.
Most read in The US Sun But prosecutors argued that Cano was lying. The letter was never presented at either trial and was never previously mentioned by Cano, who died in 2003. Cano's mother found the letter in her son's storage within the last few .