On Aug. 20, 1989, two sobbing brothers called 911 claiming they had just discovered their parents shot to death in the living room of their Beverly Hills mansion — an apparent gangland killing resulting from their father’s business dealings, the brothers later claimed. But in a shocking reversal, Lyle Menendez, then 21, and Erik Menendez, then 18, were charged and eventually convicted in the brutal shotgun killings of their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez.
In 1996, they were sentenced to life in prison..