After viewing this on Reddit, I am fully aware that I will get downvoted here. I'm just fascinated by the two schools of thought out there. That they were indeed abused and should have been found not guilty or convicted of manslaughter or people didn't believe them at all and they should get life in prison. I do indeed think they were sexually abused. The evidence is there. But I cannot get behind brutally murdering your parents as a way to get away from it. They were capable young men with ivy league education living in affluence. They were not children by this time in their lives living in poverty with no way to escape. I feel if they can travel the distance to go buy a gun, they have the capability of running away from Mom and Dad... making a life for themselves plus calling the authorities on the parents if they felt compelled to, which I admit would be an overwhelming thing to do back then because no one believed in men on men abuse like that. But what was the alternative? Blasting your Dad in the face with a gun while he watches tv? No one should get to be judge, jury and executioner no matter what trash these people were. Choosing when to end someones life? No one should get that power. Just like Jose shouldn't have the power to abuse his boys. He should be alive to feel the shame of being an abuser and Kitty, of a mom who stands and does nothing to protect her children.

I think they killed their parents because of the abuse, and because of the pressures Jose put on them in life but I'm not naive, they had to think about money as a reason as well. They spent quite a lot of money after they killed their parents? And I don't buy the excuse that they were just used to a certain lifestyle so they had to upkeep. There were alternatives. I can understand if Jose was in the middle of abusing one of the boys and one shot him in direct self defense, but these boys had time to escape and access to money. They had so many nice things they could have sold of theirs if indeed Mom and Dad quit giving them access to cash. So yes, I believe them. They were brutally abused, but I can't get behind murdering and then lying about it. I believe they will probably get a new trial, maybe be found guilty of the lesser offense and, get out on time served. By then they will have already served over 30 years of their life which is a solid amount of time to spend for murdering two people under special circumstances.