Lyle and Erik Menendez’s August 1989 killing of their dad and mom, José Enrique and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menendez, at their Beverly Hills dwelling is without doubt one of the most notorious true crime tales in current historical past. The brothers had been apprehended in March 1990 and are presently serving time behind bars.
They had been sentenced to life imprisonment in 1996 with out the potential for parole. Nevertheless, issues have modified, and there’s an actual likelihood they might be out by the top of 2024 (they’re even being lined up to star in a actuality present upon their potential launch).
Whereas the brothers claimed they killed their dad and mom on account of being subjected to years of sexual, emotional, and bodily abuse by them, their makes an attempt to border the murders on unknown intruders (and, at one level, the mob), along with their lavish spending upon receiving their subsequent multi-million greenback inheritance, led to suspicions that in the end noticed them jailed.
However their allegations towards their late dad and mom gained added weight in recent times when one other particular person got here ahead with accusations towards José Enrique Menendez. The person in query is named Roy Rosselló.
Who’s Roy Rosselló?
Born Could 1, 1970, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Roy Rosselló is a 54-year-old Puerto Rican businessman and pop and gospel singer who was once a member of the favored Puerto Rican boyband Menudo within the Eighties.
Rosselló’s life within the leisure world has seen him showing (as per IMDb) as himself on tv reveals like The Morning Present, Strong Gold, Good Morning America, Soul Practice, and the Brazilian actuality present A Fazenda 7, in addition to appearing within the romantic comedy-drama sequence The Love Boat. On the 1984 Grammy Awards, he offered the award for Finest Recording for Youngsters to the enduring late Michael Jackson for his narration of the audiobook and soundtrack companion album E.T. the Additional-Terrestrial.
After leaving the music business, Rosselló returned to it in 2009, forming a band that performs axé and Caribbean music
As per Folks, Rosselló’s story is featured within the 2023 Peacock docuseries Menendez + Menudo: Boys Betrayed. He claims that, when he was a teen, José Enrique Menendez drugged and raped him.
The allegations might show to be extremely important within the fates of the Menendez brothers, as they’ve fashioned a part of a petition the siblings’ attorneys have filed with the Los Angeles County Superior Courtroom to have their homicide convictions overturned.
The petition describes how, in 1983, Menudo’s supervisor requested Rosselló “to ‘do a favor,’ and instructed him to go downstairs on the lodge and be a part of Jose Menendez in a limousine.” At that time, it’s alleged that Rosselló was pushed to Menendez’s New Jersey dwelling, plied with wine till he misplaced consciousness, and raped by Jose, earlier than waking up again in his lodge room. A second rape allegedly befell at a later date in a New York Metropolis lodge room.
Rosselló has additionally alleged that he and Ricky Martin had been victims of sexual abuse by music producer Edgardo Diaz whereas Rosselló and Martin had been members of Menudo.
It stays to be seen whether or not justice finds the fitting door to knock and if Rosselló case will lastly enable the Menendez murders to achieve a rightful conclusion after a long time.
