Twenty-seven years after Lyle and Erik Menendez were convicted of killing their parents, attorneys say new evidence supports the brothers' claims that they were sexually abused by their father.
uhm, we would be in the bathroom, and uh, it would, he would put me on my knees. i m lookin to see, is he tellin the truth or not? tonight, we ll ask the brother at the center of it all about truth. to this day i m still dealing with with the controversy of it, obviously, my own guilt in what in in what happened. what really happened and why. so to understand, where to begin? how about here illinois. the 1940 s. everybody who knows this story knows her as kitty. but that wasn t really her name, was it? no. it was mary louise. she was the baby of the family, said her older sister joan vandermolen. it was one of their brothers who came up with the nickname that stuck for life. how did she get to be known as kitty? i think it was when brian went out to get her for dinner one night or something. and he said, here, kitty, kitty, kitty. and she came. and then, when kitty was three, her dad left the family for another woman. and as that little girl watched her mo
reporter: by the young men themselves. they weren t real. wax. reporter: the real-life details of the defense that shocked america. uhm, we would be in the bathroom, and uh, it would, he would put me on my knees. i m lookin to see, is he tellin the truth or not? reporter: tonight, we ll ask the brother at the center of it all about truth. to this day i m still dealing with with the controversy of it, obviously, my own guilt in what in in what happened. reporter: what really happened and why. so to understand, where to begin? how about here illinois. the 1940 s. everybody who knows this story knows her as kitty. but that wasn t really her name, was it? no. it was mary louise. reporter: she was the baby of the family, said her older sister joan vandermolen. it was one of their brothers who came up with the nickname that stuck for life.