A dramatic, true-crime rendition of the 1989 Menendez brothers trial that perturbed the nation is arriving on Netflix from producer Ryan Murphy as part of his “Monster” anthology series. Last year, Season 1 of the show, which starred Evan Peters as serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, went on to earn six Emmy nominations and a win for supporting actress Niecy Nash. Now, “ Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story ” stars Javier Bardem as Jose Menendez and Chloë Sevigny as Kitty Menendez, along with Nicholas Chavez and Cooper Koch as their sons and killers Lyle and Erik Menendez, respectively.
It all started on the night of Aug. 20, 1989, when Lyle, then 21 years old, made a 911 call to the Beverly Hills Police Department, saying “Someone killed my parents!” When the police arrived at the Menendez family’s Beverly Hills mansion, they found Jose and Kitty brutally murdered by shotgun wounds while they had been watching TV. Jose was shot six times and Kitty was shot 10 times.
At first, investigators thought the murder was related to Jose’s business dealings at Live Entertainment and perhaps linked to mob activities. Erik and Lyle told police that they had been out at a movie theater watching “Batman” at the time of their parents’ murders. While the police investigated the crime, the brothers went on a spending spree.
In just six months after killing their parents, they spent $700,000 of their inherited fortune. Their purchases included a Porsche, a Rolex, a res.