Real-life killer slams Netflix series Monsters after shocking Menendez brothers murder

Netflix play Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story has been slammed by Erik, who is successful situation on with his brother, Lyle, for the execution of their parents, Jose and Kitty

Netflix has been slammed by the real-life slayer its caller smash-hit series, Monsters, is based upon.

The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story tells the shocking communicative of brothers Erik and Lyle, who are some successful situation with nary accidental of parole aft being recovered blameworthy of the execution of their parents, Jose and Kitty.

The Netflix amusement follows the events of 1989 erstwhile the siblings claimed they killed their parents retired of fearfulness and successful self-defence aft a beingness of physical, affectional and intersexual abuse. The proceedings became a media sensation, but immoderate person present criticised what they assertion are factual errors successful the show, including implications of an incestuous narration betwixt the brothers.

One of the complainants is felon, Erik, who took to a Facebook leafage tally by Lyle's family, portion successful prison, to rubbish Netflix's mentation of events.

He fumed: “I believed we had moved beyond the lies and ruinous quality portrayals of Lyle, creating a caricature of Lyle rooted successful horrible and blatant lies rampant successful the show. I tin lone judge they were done truthful connected purpose. It is with a dense bosom that I accidental I judge Ryan Murphy cannot beryllium this naïve and inaccurate astir the facts of our lives truthful arsenic to bash this without atrocious intent."

Continuing, Erik wrote: “It is bittersweet for maine to cognize that Netflix’s dishonest portrayal of the tragedies surrounding our transgression person taken the achy truths respective steps backward - backmost done clip to an epoch erstwhile the prosecution built a communicative connected a content strategy that males were not sexually abused, and that males experienced rape trauma otherwise than women…"

He concluded, criticising creator, Ryan Murphy: “So present Murphy shapes his horrible communicative done vile and appalling quality portrayals of Lyle and of maine and disheartening slander. Is the information not enough? Let the information basal arsenic the truth."

Erik's wife, Tammi Menendez, who helium joined portion successful jail, has besides taken to societal media to echo his statement. Taking to X, formerly known arsenic Twitter, she said: “I'm atrocious to cognize I was right,” she wrote. “The Netflix amusement was [an] insane perversion of the information and a implicit and tragic misrepresentation of Erik and Lyle!”

The brothers were 18 and 21 erstwhile they were charged with sidesplitting their parents, alleging their begetter Jose had sexually abused them since the property of six. However, prosecutors argued that they did it for fiscal summation arsenic their begetter was an enforcement astatine RCA Records astatine the clip of his death.

Erik and Lyle were handed blameworthy convictions successful 1996 aft being convicted of first-degree execution and sentenced to beingness without parole.

Monsters boasts a star-studded cast, including A listers specified arsenic Javier Bardem and Chloë Sevigny, portion rising stars Nicholas Alexander Chavez and Cooper Koch play Lyle and Erik Menendez, respectively.

Following the occurrence of the series, a documentary is owed to beryllium released connected Netflix successful October, which volition look astatine the lawsuit closely, and volition see interviews from Erik and Lyle conducted implicit the telephone from prison.

The Mirror has contacted Netflix for remark connected this story.

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