A Summary Of Erik Lyle's Murder Case

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Once the police arrived the scene was a filled with blood and brain matter with both Kitty and Jose getting shot in the head. The shot to Jose caused him to get partly decapitated and Kitty was shot several times in the face causing her to become unrecognizable and they were both shot in the knee caps. With the placement of the bullets in both knee caps the police assumed that the murders were a mob hit. The police did not correctly search and questions at the crime scene, because if they had they would have found that the weapons the brothers used to commit the crime were thrown into the back of Erik’s car and the brothers still had gun powder residue on their hands. The nature of the killings led the police to classifying the killings as a mob hit.
Time passed and each day Erik found it harder and harder to find a reason to live, and was very close to commiting suicide. He decided to find help, so he went to the family therapist Jerome Oziel.While speaking to Oziel, Erik confessed that him and Lyle killing their parents. Erik shared this information to …show more content…

Lyle’s lawyer was Jill Lansing, and the very famous Leslie Abramson represented Erik. This was to be the first ever trial to be put on national television with the whole trial being on court Tv. On July 20, 1993 the trial began, and the lawyers of both brothers came out by saying that the brothers did indeed kill their parents. The brothers had already confessed to the killings however the no one knew what the motive for the crime was. To support that the brothers had killed their parents in a ruthless, and senseless manner the prosecutors presented to the jury images of what Kitty and Jose Menendez looked before and after the killings. The brothers alleged they committed the crime after years of sexual abuse. Lyle had been molested from age six to about the age of eleven, and Erik had been molested from six until the day of the

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