When positioned on trial, the brothers claimed that their father, José Menendez, had abused them every since childhood and that their mother, Mary Louise “Kitty” Menendez, enabled his conduct.
The sequence is the latest offering from producer Ryan Murphy, who’s most interesting acknowledged for helming the “American Horror Story” anthology sequence, along with true-crime reveals along with “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” and “The People v. O. J. Simpson.”
“The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” takes some dramatic license with the brothers’ non-public lives and streamlines just a few of the licensed proceedings to swimsuit the restricted sequence.
Here’s what the current will get fallacious regarding the case.
José Menendez seemingly didn’t see who killed him
The sequence depicts José and Kitty Menendez seeing their sons, Erik (Cooper Koch) and Lyle (Nicholas Chavez), stroll into their room holding shotguns sooner than fatally taking photos them. Inside the current, José even asks, “What are you doing? What’s that?” when he sees them enter.
However, as reported by The Los Angeles Times in 1990, José was shot behind the highest “at stage clear range” whereas watching TV at residence.
This seemingly signifies that he didn’t see that his sons had been his attackers. Kitty tried to flee, nevertheless they shot her 4 events throughout the head, and 6 events all through her physique.
The brothers didn’t go to a film present as an alibi for the murders
Inside the second episode of “Monsters,” the brothers are seen heading to a Los Angeles film present after which getting meals at a busy restaurant to create an alibi for the murders.
Actually, the Menendez brothers suggested the authorities they’d been at a Los Angeles theater watching a movie on the time of the killings nevertheless they didn’t actually go away their mom and father’ residence to fabricate the lie.
Erik Menendez suggested ABC News in 1996: “Twelve pictures within the midst of Beverly Hills on a Sunday night, and no one calls the police. We’re prepared on the house, and no one reveals up. I nonetheless can’t think about it.”
He added: “We didn’t have an alibi, all we did was say we had been on the movement photos.”
There isn’t any proof the brothers had an incestuous relationship
“Monsters” suggests on a few occasions that the brothers had an incestuous relationship, along with a fast scene after the murders the place Lyle kisses Erik.
In episode seven, Self-esteem Truthful journalist Dominick Dunne (Nathan Lane) discusses his idea that the brothers killed their mom and father because of that they’d discovered a secret about their youngsters.
The scene then reveals Kitty Menendez strolling in on Erik and Lyle Menendez kissing throughout the bathe. There isn’t any proof that this occurred.
If Dunne suspected in precise life that the brothers had an incestuous relationship, he didn’t embody it in his 1990 operate regarding the case, “Nightmare on Elm Drive,” which moreover alleged that José Menendez sexually abused the sons.
A Facebook page that gave the look to be run by a member of the Menendez family slammed the sequence in a put up shared on Friday: “That they’d a plethora of material to draw from, and that’s what they chose to do????? It’s laughable. It’s pathetic. And it’s re-victimizing. It’s imaginary. It’s fiction. And to position out into the world the absurd notion that the brothers had been lovers is the height of pure evil.”
Erik Menendez has said he’s not gay
The current implies that Erik is gay, and in a single episode, he particulars a secret relationship as a teen with one different teenage boy after being sexually abused by his father.
By the ABC interview, Erik said that he wasn’t gay, no matter what was said about him in the middle of the trial.
He said: “No. The prosecutor launched that up because of I was sexually molested and he felt in his private pondering that if I was sodomized by my father that I might want to have beloved it and subsequently I needs to be gay.
“And folk which might be gay available on the market needs to be sexually molested or they’d not be. It was upsetting to hearken to, nevertheless I’m not gay. Nonetheless quite a few gay people write and actually really feel associated to me,” he added.
Erik married Tammi Menendez in 1999, they usually’re nonetheless collectively.