Rosie O’Donnell Supports the Menendez Brothers as Potential Re-Trial Emerges
Rosie O’Donnell Supports the Menendez Brothers as Potential Re-Trial Emerges
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00:00There's more legal news.
00:02Could the Menendez brothers go free?
00:04The two have been behind bars for almost 35 years,
00:07serving life sentences
00:09for the brutal killings of their parents.
00:11The L.A. District Attorney announced for the first time
00:13that they're reviewing the case.
00:15The attorney for the Menendez brothers are arguing
00:17that there are two key pieces of evidence that are new.
00:22The first is that Eric and Lyle's father
00:24molested someone else,
00:26and this was an individual named Roy,
00:28who was a member of the boy band Menudo,
00:31who's come forward.
00:32The other is that one of the brothers wrote a letter
00:35to their cousin talking about the abuse
00:38months before the murders happened.
00:41The fact that the boys were not allowed
00:43to use their defense of childhood sexual abuse.
00:47They had so many witnesses,
00:50and now there's new evidence.
00:52Stars are showing their support.
00:54Kim Kardashian, who recently visited the brothers
00:56in prison, says they are not monsters.
00:59She wrote an essay for NBC News calling for their freedom,
01:02adding that while the killings are not excusable,
01:05we owe it to those little boys who lost their childhoods,
01:08who never had a chance to be heard, helped, or saved.
01:12Rosie O'Donnell says she spoke to the brothers
01:14just before the bombshell announcement.
01:16They were like afraid to hope,
01:18and I was like their cheerleader,
01:20going, come on, boys, this is it.
01:24The new developments come amid heightened interest
01:26in the case, thanks in part to Ryan Murphy's
01:28Monsters, The Lyle and Eric Menendez Story.
01:31Ryan's take, I think they can be out of prison by Christmas.
01:35And streaming Monday, a new Netflix doc,
01:37The Menendez Brothers, featuring phone interviews
01:40from the men in prison.
01:41We looked like the perfect family,
01:43but behind the walls, something very wrong was happening.
01:47To be those two children at eight years old
01:51having torturous sex abuse,
01:55it happens, people.
01:57We weren't ready to accept that in 1989,
02:00and now we have to be ready to say,
02:03hey, we made a mistake.