Menendez brothers’ outrage ignores brutality of Kitty’s execution, lawyer says: ‘It looked like a mob hit’

The Los Angeles district attorney’s move to give two convicted murderers, the Menendez brothers, a chance to get out of prison despite being sentenced to life in prison without parole, floored his Florida counterpart, who recognized the deliberate brutality Erik and Lyle Menendez inflicted on their mother.

On August 20, 1989, siblings Jose Menendez and Mary “Kitty” Menendez entered their parents’ Beverly Hills mansion armed with shotguns and opened fire while they were eating dinner in front of the living room television at 10:30 p.m.

“I think there hasn’t been enough discussion about the murder of the Menendez brothers’ mother, Kitty,” Palm Beach State’s Attorney Dave Aronberg told Fox News Digital. “There is no credible allegation that he was involved in sexual abuse, and as far as we know… both parents were sitting on the couch, with their backs turned, watching television (and) eating ice cream, when two disturbers came up behind them and killed them.”

Facing a tough re-election in less than two weeks, Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon invited the media and some relatives of the Menendez brothers to his announcement Thursday afternoon, declaring that “outrage is appropriate” and promising to ask the question. A court order to make the brothers immediately eligible for parole.

They were sentenced to life imprisonment with more than 30 years without the possibility of parole for a 1989 double murder. The brothers claim they killed their father in self-defense because they feared he would kill them after warning them that they planned to expose him as a child sexual abuser.

After killing their father and injuring their mother, whom they accused of molesting and abusing the child, they had to go out to buy more bullets. In a bloody scene, they reloaded and went back inside to finish him off, a forensic investigator later told a detective on Fox News Digital. held an umbrella To prevent blood dripping from the ceiling.

“I understand why the district attorney did this when it came to the murder of the father,” Aronberg told Fox News Digital. “The father has allegedly been sexually abusing his boys, and there is some new evidence that may be true.”

But he said there was nothing to mitigate their mother’s murder.

“There was so much blood it looked like a mob hit, and Kitty didn’t die right away,” he continued. “He was actually crawling away, trying to save his life, trying to get away. And Lyle Menendez went back to his car, got out and reloaded the car.”

While Kitty Menendez’s 92-year-old sister, Joan Andersen VanderMolen, and many other members of the family openly support reduced sentences for her killers, her 90-year-old brother, Milton Andersen, strongly opposes any leniency.

“Milton Andersen continues to believe that the allegations of abuse are fabricated and false, and he believes that the jury made the right decision and also imposed the right sentence,” his attorney, Kathleen Cady, said in a statement to Fox News. he said. Digital.

Cady said Gascon made the situation worse when he repeatedly met with VanderMolen’s side and ignored her brother.

“We have Marsy’s Law on the books in Florida, California and other states where you have to listen to families,” Aronberg said. “You don’t necessarily have to follow the parents’ advice, but you should listen to them.”

Andersen, through his attorney, said he denied the defense’s allegations of child abuse and agreed with trial prosecutors who showed the siblings went on a $700,000 spending spree following their parents’ deaths.

“Milton Andersen continues to believe that the allegations of abuse are fabricated and false, and he believes that the correct verdict was made by the jury and also that the correct sentence was imposed,” Cady told Fox News Digital. “One of the concerns for him, and really what should have been for everyone, was at the trial, where the Menendez brothers tried to get two special witnesses to come and lie on their behalf.”

The court will need to reapprove the sentence for it to become official, and then the parole board will need to approve their release before they can be released.

Andersen’s team is asking the court to dismiss the resentencing and noted in court filings that the brothers tried to persuade two friends to lie on their behalf at trial.

Because they were under 26 at the time of the murders, under current California law, a 50-year sentence would make them eligible for an immediate parole hearing.

During Thursday’s briefing, Gascón also rejected the suggestion that the father’s abuse suggested the brothers may have committed manslaughter rather than murder. He said the premeditation for this defense was too much to handle.

“They have been in prison for about 35 years,” he said. “I believe they have paid their debt to society.”

Gascón is up for re-election in less than two weeks and faces a strong challenge from independent candidate Nathan Hochman, a former federal prosecutor.

Critics called his involvement in the high-profile case an act of political desperation.

However, there is also some public support for the brothers’ release after a series of recent documentaries, including one airing on FOX Nation, brought renewed attention to the case and the defense introduced two new pieces of evidence that may support the brothers’ claim. his father was a child molester.

Fox News’ Mollie Markowitz contributed to this report.

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