Last year, the streaming platform Netflix released the first installment of the series Monsters: Dahmer. A terrible mini-series directed by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan and telling the story based on the real case of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. The aim of the series is to find out how far human cruelty can go from these true criminal cases. Now, another episode will be released on Netflix on September 19. Monsters: The Story of Lyle and Erik Menendez which tells the true story of two brothers 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 life sentences without the possibility of parole. This intense series has nine episodes and a luxury cast including 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 publicized. The defendant’s parents were shot dead in their Beverly Hills home on August 20, 1989, and Lyle and Erik, who were 21 and 19 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 shifted to the two brothers.
What does the series Monsters: The Story of Lyle and Erik Menendez bring?
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’ goal was to inherit the family fortune, both defendants maintained at all times that their actions were a consequence of the fear generated by physical and emotional violence and sexual violence to which their parents subjected them. This is the version that the two brothers continue to maintain today while serving life sentences without the possibility of parole.
The actor Javier Bardem plays the role of the murderers’ unhappy father. José was a Cuban immigrant who 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 Sevignythat we have seen in fiction Feud: Capote and the Swans, The Act either The Girl from Plainville. The cast of this series also includes actors Nicholas Alexander Chavez as Lyle Menendez and actor Cooper Koch as Erik Menendez. The cast also includes 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 third season of Monsters is already in progress
Netflix has just confirmed that there will also be a third season of the saga Monstersalso by Ryan Murphy. This new season will feature 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 famous murderer.
The Gein crime case has become one of the most talked about in 1957when investigators discovered that bodies had been exhumed from local cemeteries in their hometown of Plainfield and human remains had been found during a search of their property at the strange family’s home. Gein confessed to killing two women, Mary Hogan in 1954 and Bernice Worden in 1957, but he was suspected of killing 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 1984This bone collector and his horrible crimes have inspired many characters in horror films such as The Silence of the Lambs, Psycho or The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
