Last year the streaming platform Netflix premiered the first installment of the series Monsters: Dahmer. A terrible miniseries that came from Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan and told the story based on the real case of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. The goal of the series is to discover how far human cruelty can go from these true crime cases. Now another installment premieres on Netflix on September 19 Monsters: The Story of Lyle and Erik Menendez which tells the real case of two brothers who were arrested in 1996 for the murder of their parents José and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menendez. Although they have always denied the charges against them, both are serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole. This intense series has nine episodes and a luxury cast made up of actors such as Javier Bardem, Chlöe Sevigny, Cooper Koch and Nicholas Alexander Chavez.
The series Monsters: The Story of Lyle and Erik Menendez analyzes what happened in this case that shocked the world and became one of the most covered in the media. The parents of the accused were shot to death in their Beverly Hills home on August 20, 1989, and Lyle and Erik, who were 21 and 19 years old at the time of the murder, were convicted of first-degree murder in 1996. Although they were not initially suspected as the investigation progressed The focus was placed on the two brothers.
The series ‘Monsters: The Story of Lyle and Erik Menendez’ can be seen on Netflix.
What does the series deliver Monsters: The Story of Lyle and Erik Menendez?
The series tells the story of two real-life brothers who were arrested in 1996 for the murder of their parents José and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menendez. Although the prosecution argued at trial that the brothers’ objective was to inherit the family fortune, the two defendants maintained at all times that their actions were a consequence of the fear generated by physical and emotional abuse and sexual abuse to which their parents subjected them. This is the version that the two brothers continue to maintain today when they are serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole.
The actor Javier Bardem plays the role of the ill-fated father of the murderers. José was a Cuban immigrant who had arrived in the country in the 1960s and, after studying accounting, he worked in several companies until he became an executive at International Video Entertainment and had to move with his family to California. A wealthy family that from the outside had a perfect life that changed forever with the double crime.
The role of Kitty Menendez, the mother of the two accused, is played by actress Chloe Sevignywhich we have seen in fictions Feud: Capote and the Swans, The Act either The girl from Plainville. Also in the cast of this series are actors Nicholas Alexander Chávez as Lyle Menendez and actor Cooper Koch as Erik Menéndez. Also in the cast are actors Nathan Lane who plays journalist Dominick Dunne, Ari Graynor as Leslie Abramson, Dallas Roberts as Dr. Jerome Oziel, Leslie Grossman as Judalon Smyth, Jason Butler Harner as Detective Les Zoeller and Enrique Murciano as Carlos Baralt, among others.
The series ‘Monsters: The Story of Lyle and Erik Menendez’ can be seen on Netflix.
The third season of Monsters is already underway
Netflix has just confirmed that there will also be a third season of the saga Monstersalso by Ryan Murphy. This new season will star serial killer Ed Gein, known as the Plainfield Butcher. Actor Charlie Hunnam, known for his roles in Rebel Moon and The Gentlemen: Lords of the Mafia, will step into the shoes of the well-known murderer.a
The Gein crimes case became one of the most talked about in 1957when in this strange family’s home investigators discovered that bodies had been exhumed from local cemeteries in their hometown of Plainfield and human remains were found during a search of their property. Gein confessed that he had killed two women, Mary Hogan in 1954 and Bernice Worden in 1957, but he was suspected of having killed more.
He was initially found unfit to stand trial, but was later tried for Worden’s murder in 1968, and died in a mental health facility in 1984. This bone collector and his horrible crimes served as inspiration for many characters in horror films such as The Silence of the Lambs, Psycho or The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
