Menendez Brothers Could Go Free Soon On Time Served For Murdering Their Parents After L.A. District Attorney Recommends Resentencing

On Thursday morning, Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón recommended the Menendez brothers be resentenced to be eligible for immediate parole.

Later on Thursday, Gascón asked for the brothers to be resentenced to 50 years in prison. He stated, “I believe that they have paid their debt to society.” If the judge agrees, the brothers could potentially be set free immediately with time served.

Lyle and Erik Menendez first made headlines decades ago when they shot and killed their parents José and Kitty Menendez at the age of 21 and 18. The murders took place on August 20, 1989. Despite defense attorneys’ argument that the brothers acted in defense after physical and sexual assault at the hands of their father, prosecutors concluded Erik and Lyle acted out of greed and cited the brother’s spending spree after the killing. Convicted in a joint trial that excluded testimony with allegations of their father’s abuse, the brothers were sentenced to life without parole.

Gascón’s office has been reviewing a Habeas Corpus petition since 2023, which cites new evidence in the brothers’ case. Although Gascón previously acknowledged that the brothers were “clearly the murderers,” he maintained, “We have a moral and ethical obligation to review what has been presented to us.”

New allegations of assault by Roy Rosselló have brought the severity of the brothers’ sentence into question.

A member of the Puerto Rican boy band Menudo, Rosselló alleged that José raped him in the 1980s. Also included in the new evidence was a letter Erik had written to his cousin in the months before the murder occurred, in which he described the sexual assault he and Lyle experienced from their father.

Controversial show runner Ryan Murphy recently reignited public interest in the Menendez brothers’ story in his Netflix docuseries Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, which premiered in September. 

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Gascón revealed that the brothers’ media presence had played a major role in the re-examination of the case. “Frankly, our office got flooded with requests for information, and even though this case was already scheduled to be heard in late November,” he said. “I decided to move this forward because quite frankly, we do not have enough resources to handle all the requests.”

The brothers are serving their time at Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility near San Diego.

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