Kitty quit her teaching job after Lyle was born, and the family moved to New Jersey, where Erik Galen was born on November 27, 1970, in Gloucester Township.

The couple's first son, Joseph Lyle, who goes by his middle name, was born on January 10, 1968, in New York. They married in 1963 and moved to New York City, where José earned an accounting degree from Queens College.

José attended Southern Illinois University, where he met Mary Louise 'Kitty' Andersen (1941–1989). At age 16, shortly after the start of the Cuban Revolution, he moved to the United States. José Enrique Menéndez was born on May 6, 1944, in Havana, Cuba. For the second trial, they were tried together by a single jury, which found them guilty as a result, they were sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Both juries deadlocked, which resulted in a mistrial. They were first tried separately, with one jury for each brother. Joseph Lyle Menéndez (born January 10, 1968) and Erik Galen Menéndez (born November 27, 1970) are American brothers who were convicted in 1996 of the murders of their parents, José and Mary Louise 'Kitty' Menéndez.ĭuring the trial, the brothers stated that they committed the murders out of fear that their father would kill them after they threatened to expose him for years of sexual, emotional, and physical abuse, while the prosecution argued that they did it to inherit their father's multimillion-dollar estate.

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