Kim Kardashian believes the Menendez brothers must be free of jail.
The fact star is the most recent particular person to weigh in on the controversial pair of convicted murderers.
Prosecutors in Los Angeles are reviewing new proof to find out whether or not the siblings must be serving life sentences for killing their mother and father of their Beverly Hills mansion greater than 35 years in the past, the town’s district legal professional stated on Thursday.
The case is being highlighted in a brand new Netflix scripted collection and an upcoming documentary.
An undated photograph of the Menendez household because it seems throughout a panel at CrimeCon 2024 in Nashville, Tennessee, on Sunday, June 2. The brothers Lyle and Erik have been convicted of fatally taking pictures each of their mother and father in 1989. (Michael Ruiz/Fox Information Digital)
“You think you know the story of Lyle and Erik Menendez,” Kardashian wrote in her opinion essay for NBC Information revealed on Thursday. “I certainly thought I did.”
“In 1989, the brothers, aged 21 and 18, respectively, viciously shot and killed their parents in their Beverly Hills home,” she wrote. “In 1996, after two trials, they were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. As is often the case, this story is much more complex than it appears on the surface.”
Kim Kardashian believes the Menendez brothers must be free of jail. (Rodin Eckenroth/WireImage/Getty; Reuters)
Kardashian is a jail reform advocate who beforehand labored with the Trump White Home to scale back sentences for a number of convicts discovered responsible of non-violent offenses. She additionally spoke on the White Home earlier this yr about prison justice.
The mom of 4 centered the argument in her essay primarily on the brothers’ claims that they have been emotionally, bodily and sexually abused by their mother and father and feared for his or her lives.
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“Following years of abuse and a real fear for their lives, Erik and Lyle chose what they thought at the time was their only way out — an unimaginable way to escape their living nightmare,” Kardashian wrote.
She stated that after the jury was deadlocked of their first trial, the choose determined lots of their abuse claims have been inadmissible within the second trial.
Kim Kardashian spoke on the White Home in June 2019 on the significance of prison justice reform. She additionally spoke on the Biden White Home earlier this yr. (Sarah Silbiger/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photographs)
“Their only way out of prison now is death,” Kardashian stated, writing that their first televised trial turned “entertainment for the nation,” and that they have been portrayed as “monsters and sensationalized eye candy” by the media, “two arrogant, rich kids from Beverly Hills who killed their parents out of greed.”
“There was no room for empathy, let alone sympathy,” she famous.
“Following years of abuse and a real fear for their lives, Erik and Lyle chose what they thought at the time was their only way out — an unimaginable way to escape their living nightmare.”
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“Erik and Lyle had no chance of a fair trial against this backdrop,” the 43-year-old claimed, including that there was a stigma on male victims of sexual abuse on the time.
“Can anyone honestly deny that the justice system would have treated the Menendez sisters more leniently?” she postulated, including, “Many people believe the crimes the brothers committed are unforgivable — but what about the decades of alleged abuse they suffered as children?”
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She stated she had just lately hung out with the brothers, who she stated have “exemplary disciplinary records” in jail.
They “are not monsters. They are kind, intelligent, and honest men,” she argued.
Kardashian additionally stated that one of many jail wardens advised her he could be comfy having the brothers as neighbors.
Whereas Kardashian known as the murders of their mother and father “inexcusable,” she stated the brothers have been handled extra like “serial killers” than two males who had “endured years of sexual abuse by the very people they loved and trusted.”
She added, “I don’t believe that spending their entire natural lives incarcerated was the right punishment for this complex case. Had this crime been committed and trialed today, I believe the outcome would have been dramatically different.
“I additionally strongly consider that they have been denied a good second trial and that the exclusion of essential abuse proof denied Erik and Lyle the chance to totally current their case, additional undermining the equity of their conviction.”
However, not everyone agrees with Kardashian’s assessment.
The Menendez brothers were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in 1996 for the murders of their parents. (Ted Soqui/Sygma/Getty Images)
“In the event that they have been dropped at trial once more at the moment, they might be discovered responsible,” Clark Fogg, a retired senior forensic specialist with the Beverly Hills Police Department who investigated the murders, told Fox News Digital this week.
Fogg believes the brothers’ motive for the murders had to do with “greed and cash.”
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“Why did they even need to kill their mother within the first place?” Fogg said. “When you killed Mr. Menendez individually from her, she would find yourself getting the inheritance, proper? So that they needed to remove each of them so as to have the inheritance.”
Fogg investigated the Menendez brothers’ case in 1989. He took photos and preserved evidence at the crime scene, attended the autopsies and took the stand during both trials.
Erik Menendez, left, and is brother Lyle, in front of their Beverly Hills home. They are prime suspects in their parents murder. (Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
When speaking with Fox News Digital, he painted a horrific picture of the crime scene.
“One of many detectives needed to truly maintain a golf umbrella over my head as I used to be taking photographs as a result of, occasionally, issues could be falling from the ceiling,” Fogg said.
Defense attorney Barry Levine (L) pats the back of double murder defendant Erik Menendez (C) while attorney Leslie Abrahmson (R) listens as Erik and Lyle are declared guilty of first degree murder with special circumstances, March 20 in the second trial of the 1989 shotgun slayings of their parents Jose and Kitty Menendez. (Reuters)
“It comes down to 1 factor. The explanation why they’re in jail is that they killed their mom and father brutally, not poison them, however shotgun them to demise to some extent that they have been all around the ceiling. … That is how brutally they have been murdered.”
Fogg said it appeared their mother was trying to escape when she was killed because there was blood on the soles of her shoes.
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“Even at that time, they saved on killing her with… gunshot blasts, one after one other,” he advised Fox Information Digital.
Fox Information Digital’s Mollie Markowitz and The Related Press contributed to this report.
