The family of Lyle and Erik Menéndez has denounced Ryan Murphy ’s Netflix show about the brothers as a “gross, anachronistic, serial episodic nightmare”. Erik Menéndez’s wife, Tammi Menéndez, released a statement from 24 family members criticising the “repulsive” storytelling on Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menéndez Story , which is meant to be a retelling of the 1989 murder of José and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menéndez by their children. “We are virtually the entire extended family of Erik and Lyle Menéndez.
We are 24 strong and today we want the world to know we support Erik and Lyle,” the statement reads. “We individually and collectively pray for their release after being imprisoned for 35 years. We know them, love them, and want them home with us.
“Ryan Murphy’s Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menéndez Story is a phobic, gross, anachronistic, serial episodic nightmare that is not only riddled with mistruths and outright falsehoods but ignores the most recent exculpatory revelations. “Our family has been victimised by this grotesque shockudrama. “Murphy claims he spent years researching the case but in the end relied on debunked Dominick Dunne, the pro-prosecution hack, to justify his slander against us and never spoke to us.
“The character assassination of Erik and Lyle, who are our nephews and cousins, under the guise of a ‘storytelling narrative’ is repulsive.” “We know these men. We grew up with them since they were boys.
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