Had Lyle and Erik not done what they did that night, we very well could have instead been looking at a news headline as follows:

'RCA executive kills family in a grisly Murder-suicide, leaving his wife, 2 sons, and himself dead.'

THIS is the reality I do not see many consider.

I don't doubt for a second that José would not have allowed himself or Kitty to live to answer for their crimes, if they were in fact intending to kill their children.

These weren't just 'regular' family secrets. These were secrets that if exposed would follow them through the course of their (sick) lives. The stigma surrounding child abuse has to end so that more victims can tell their stories to someone who will believe them, so that children like the Menendez brothers never have to EVER pick up a gun and take matters into their own hands.

Nobody protected them, so they protected themselves.

Free the Menendez Brothers.