Ryan Murphy’s ‘Dahmer - Monster’ Followup to Focus on Menendez Brothers
Lyle and Erik Menendez will be the focus of the second season of Ryan Murphy's Monster anthology Netflix series, following up 2022's The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.
According to reports, Netflix ordered two more seasons of the anthology series, with Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story set to be one of the two. In addition, the streamer noted that it has “exclusive access” to the Menendez Brothers for a documentary from Campfire Studios.
The Menendez Brothers were found guilty of murdering their parents, José and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menéndez, in 1996 and are currently serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole. While the prosecution suggested that the brothers killed their parents for the multimillion-dollar inheritance, the brothers claimed that they murdered José and Kitty in fear of their father killing them after they threatened to publicly reveal their father's sexual, emotional and physical abuse.
Two family members, Diane Vander Molen and Andy Cano, testified during trial that both Lyle and Erik admitted to them that José was sexually abusing them during different parts of their lives. Vander Molen shared the information with Kitty who supposedly labelled Lyle's claims as lies, and it was never spoken about again. However, in the recent Peacock docuseries Menendez + Menudo: Boys Betrayed, Roy Rosselló of the Puerto Rican boy band Menudo also claimed that he was sexually assaulted as a teen by José.
Stay tuned for an official trailer and release date.
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