Nearly two dozen family members of Lyle and Erik Menendez gathered in front of a Los Angeles courthouse on Oct. 16 for a news conference and what they described as a “show of unity.”

In her statement, the brothers’ aunt, Joan VanderMolen, said the “outpouring of support” in recent weeks has led the family to launch this “formal initiative.”

They were joined by the brothers’ attorney, Mark Geragos, and Rosie O’Donnell, both of whom are among the speakers, according to a news release.

Erik and Lyle Menendez are serving life sentences without the possibility of parole for the 1989 murders of their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez.

The press conference comes nearly a month after the release of “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story,” a controversial Ryan Murphy-produced Netflix series that takes a kaleidoscopic look at the murders.

Furthermore, the brothers’ case is under review by the LA District Attorney’s office in light of new evidence. Geragos told NBC Los Angeles on Oct. 14 that the brothers felt “cautiously optimistic” about the impact of the evidence on their case.

The Menendez brothers were tried for the first time before two separate juries in a televised trial that ended with two hung juries in 1993. Lyle and Erik Menendez’s testimony about their father’s alleged sexual abuse was deemed inadmissible during the second trial, which ended in a conviction in 1996.

Which family members were present at the press conference?

A press release stated which of Lyle and Erik Menendez’s family members will gather outside the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in LA for the press conference.

Speakers include Anamaria Baralt, Jose Menendez’s niece; Joan Andersen VanderMolen, sister of Kitty Menendez; Karen VanderMolen, niece of Kitty Menendez; and Brian A. Andersen Jr., cousin of Kitty Menendez.

Attorney Geragos and co-counsel Gardener will speak, as will Rosie O’Donnell.

Other attendees from the Menendez brothers’ family include:

• Natascha Leonardo, niece of Jose Menendez
• Arnold VanderMolen, cousin of Kitty Menendez
• Kathleen Simonton, niece of Kitty Menendez
• Karen Copley, niece of Kitty Menendez
• Diane Hernandez, niece of Kitty Menendez
• Alicia Barbour, niece of Jose Menendez
• Erik VanderMolen, grandnephew of Kitty Menendez
• Sarah Mallas, grandniece of Kitty Menendez
• Alexander Hernandez, grandniece of Kitty Menendez

Also listed are Sylvia Bolock, Rebecca Frascone and Tamara Goodell.

Joan VanderMolen, Kitty Menendez’s sister, and Diane VanderMolen, Kitty Menendez’s niece and the brothers’ cousin, both participated in the recent Netflix documentary “The Menendez Brothers.” They were also interviewed in the Peacock documentary “Menendez + Menudo: Boys Betrayed.” Peacock is owned by NBCUniversal, the parent company of TODAY.

Of the two, only Joan VanderMolen will be present at the press conference.

Many family members testified during their first televised trial in 1992 and 1993, but Diane VanderMolen was the first defense witness to tell jurors about the brothers’ alleged sexual abuse by Jose Menendez, journalist Robert Rand wrote in his book “The Menendez Murders’.

She said during her testimony that Lyle, then 8, came to her basement room and told her that “he and his father had touched each other in the genitals.” Diane VanderMolen then told her Aunt Kitty, who she said didn’t believe her.

“After that, it was never talked about again,” VanderMolen said. “I convinced myself I was wrong.”

Diane VanderMolen also testified that “unusual things” happened between the boys and their mother, Rand reported.

Other family members testified to the character of Jose and Kitty Menendez. Teresa Baralt, Jose Menendez’s sister, said during the first trial that Jose could be “tough” but did not see him “offending the children.”

“I just saw that their way of parenting was completely different than mine,” she testified, according to Rand’s book.

What have the Menendez brothers’ family members shared recently?

Family members previously shared their thoughts on “Monsters,” a Netflix dramatized series about the murders, in a Sept. 25 statement.

Like Erik Menendez, who had a scathing response to the show, 24 family members condemned the Ryan Murphy-produced series. The September 27 statement, shared by Tammi Menendez, Erik Menendez’s wife, did not identify which family members wrote or agreed with the sentiments.

The family members called the show “a phobic, gross, anachronistic, serial episodic nightmare.”