Lyle and Erik Menendez; Jose and Kitty Menendez. Lyle and Erik Menendez became household names after murdering their parents , Kitty and José Menendez, on Aug. 20, 1989.

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The six-bedroom home would become an infamous crime scene on Aug. 20, 1989, when Jose and Kitty Menendez were shot multiple times in the family room with two 12-gauge shotguns.

Lyle and Erik Menendez were 21 and 18, respectively, when they purchased shotguns and executed Kitty and José — a wealthy music producer — in the living room of their Beverly Hills mansion.

Erik, 54, and Lyle Menendez, 57, have been serving life sentences without the possibility of parole since they killed their parents Jose and Kitty Menendez on Aug. 20, 1989.

The brothers have resentencing hearings scheduled for April 17 and 18 in the killings of their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez, whom they gunned down in their Beverly Hills home in 1989.

Kitty Menendez’s sister Anamaria Baralt entering court on May 13, 2025. New York Post/David Buchan David Thompson (RedThink Media). 310-484-4952 [email protected] Stotts ...

In August 1989, as José and Kitty Menendez were watching TV in their living room, the brothers walked inside and shot them to death with newly purchased 12-gauge shotguns.

Erik and Lyle Menendez killed their parents in 1989 in a case that became a national spectacle. The Menendez brothers are pursuing resentencing as one possible pathway to freedom from prison.

Erik and Lyle Menendez, who were arrested in March 1990, were initially sentenced to life without the possibility of parole for the 1989 murders of their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez.