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...Lyle has been painting a picture of Jose and Kitty as monsters who ran their sons' lives in the tiniest detail, crushing any aspirations to independence by handing out cruel punishments for trivial offenses. Much worse, he testified, when he was seven, Jose "would be in the bathroom, and he'd put me on my knees. He'd guide me in all my movements, and I'd have oral sex with him." Also, "he used objects, a toothbrush, some sort of utensil brush . . . he'd take my pants off, lay me on the bed. He'd have a tube...
...Lyle's own testimony, his father's sexual abuse stopped when he was eight -- 13 years before the killings. Kitty, though, or so Lyle said, continued to bathe him "everywhere" and invite him into her bed and instruct him to touch her "everywhere" until he was 13. From then on, he said, he avoided her bed, but "we had arguments over that for a long time -- my whole life, really." On Tuesday, Aug. 15, during one loud argument, Kitty ripped off Lyle's toupee in front of Erik, who allegedly had not known his older brother was bald...
...that, if Lyle is to be believed, started the fatal sequence. Moved by his brother's pain and embarrassment over the toupee incident, Erik impulsively confessed to Lyle that Jose was continuing his sexual abuse of the younger brother. Two days later, said Lyle, he confronted Jose and told his father to leave Erik alone, which started three days of escalating arguments. Jose, according to Lyle, told him, "What I do with my son is my own business. Don't throw your life away. Stay out of it." Lyle interpreted that and some later remarks by his father, he said...
...Sunday morning, after another alleged attempt by Jose to enter Erik's room, the brothers concluded that Erik had to get out of the house. Lyle, making conversation, asked his father for the phone number of a tennis camp he planned to attend. Jose replied, "What does it matter anymore?" Lyle said he took that "to be my dad's sarcastic way of saying, 'You're dead!' " The boys told Kitty they were going out to meet some friends; she ordered them to stay in the house. Jose told Erik to go upstairs and wait for him. Lyle screamed...
...this story believable? Prosecutor Pamela Bozanich accuses Lyle of tear- jerking hamminess. "The level of ((Lyle's)) acting," she once remarked, "has fallen from Laurence Olivier to Sylvester Stallone." But she has been unable to shake his story much despite a pounding cross-examination. At one point, she asked why the brothers had not told the police of their fears that they would be killed. Lyle said, "We discussed: Would the police side with us, believe us?" Their conclusion: no, but "filing charges would definitely have put us in a position to be killed" by a still more outraged father...