The Menéndez brothers are getting the Monster treatment.
The second installment of Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s Monster anthology series — which premiered Thursday, Sept. 19, on Netflix — explores the high-profile case that took America by storm. Before O.J. Simpson’s freeway chase sparked a nationwide news frenzy, there was Lyle and Erik Menéndez. The duo murdered their parents, José (a highly successful record executive) and Kitty Menéndez in August 1989.
Lyle and Erik shot their mother, Kitty, 10 times; they shot José six times. The brothers stayed home, called 911 and claimed innocence, saying they were at a movie theater watching Batman when the crime happened. Initially, law enforcement officials believed the brothers. The notion that Lyle (21) and Erik (18), two young men who came from a privileged family, killed their parents seemed implausible.
But as the case unfolded, the brothers were eventually arrested and, after two trials, were convicted and imprisoned for
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