NETFLIX is back with its latest installment of its Monster series, this time looking at The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story. With a star-studded cast, the film portrays the horrors inflicted by two brothers on their parents. Who are the Menendez brothers? Joseph Lyle Menéndez and Erik Galen Menéndez are brothers who were convicted of the murders of their parents, José and Mary Louise "Kitty" Menéndez .
Their father, José, had moved to the US at the age of 16 during the Cuban Revolution in 1960. He attended Southern Illinois University where he met Mary Louise "Kitty" Andersen. The couple married in 1963 and had their first child, Joseph Lyle , on January 10, 1968.
Read more true crime tales The family moved to New Jersey from New York , and then Erik Galen was born on November 27, 1970. In 1976, Lyle confessed to his cousin, Diane Vander Molen, that he was being sexually abused by his father. Kitty sided with her husband and said Lyle was lying.
In 1986, José's career as a corporate executive at the then-known International Video Entertainment company, took the family to Beverly Hills , California. Most read in TV Only two weeks before the murders, Erik had reached the second round of qualifying in the Boys' 18 singles, being a gifted tennis player. Lyle enrolled at Princeton University, but his poor grades led to academic probation and he was eventually suspended for plagiarism.
When did the Menendez brothers kill their parents? On the evening of August 20, 1989 , a.