It was only last week that they were readying to release a documentary with the Menendez brothers, a project that would feature Erik and speaking for the first time in decades about the sensational double murder that sentenced them each to life in prison back in 1996. The announcement came only days after Netflix’s scripted series on the brothers — — had become the No. 1 show on the streamer, which prompted from , who came out against that take on the brothers’ 1996 murders of their parents, José and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menendez.
Amid the whirlwind two weeks of press since first launched — where producer and the have also on the series in a public forum — and then advocated for their release in Now, in the latest turn of events in the case, following a habeas corpus petition filed by the brothers in 2023, Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón that their case was again under review, paving the way for the brothers to be possibly retried, resentenced to a lesser term or even released. All of this, meanwhile, is now coming just ahead of Monday’s documentary. The producers on the nearly two-hour doc, Ross Dinerstein and Rebecca Evans of Campfire Studios, are no stranger to high-profile projects, having been behind recent hit offerings like Netflix’s and , as well as Max’s , to name a few.
But their experience with is different. Below, Dinerstein and Evans talk to about how long documentary has been in the works; how their conversations with .