Menendez brothers should be able to live ‘free from the shadow of their past,’ aunt says

Joan VanderMolen, the sister of Kitty Menendez, told a press conference Wednesday that Lyle and Erik Menendez “were failed by the very people who should have protected them — by their parents, by the system, by society at large. Family members have argued that the brothers should be re-sentenced after new evidence was brought forward in the brothers’ case.

• Menendez brothers’ family asks for their release as new evidence emerges