In information that would, relying on how issues shake out, remodel Ryan Murphy even additional into probably the most irritatingly self-satisfied man in your entire world, Selection reviews that Erik and Lyle Menendez have been granted a brand new listening to to look at proof referring to their homicide convictions—practically 30 years after being convicted of the killing of their mother and father, however a scant two weeks after the discharge of Murphy’s new TV present about them, Monsters. Los Angeles District Legal professional George Gascón made an announcement this week that new proof has been introduced ahead suggesting that each Erik and Lyle Menendez could have been molested by their father, José—which each brothers have lengthy alleged, and which the Murphy present acknowledges—and that stated proof must be thought of in gentle of their present sentences of life with out parole.
In fact, the reality of the timing of all that is that it’s more likely that Murphy (who not too long ago asserted that his present was “the most effective factor that’s occurred to the Menendez brothers in 30 years”) merely did the Ryan Murphy factor right here and managed to glom on to a rising development that was already choosing up steam. There’s been elevated curiosity within the Menendez case lately; particularly, it feels like a few of the proof being thought of right here—which incorporates, in accordance with Gascón, allegations that RCA Information head José Menendez molested one of many members of the band Menudo—is of a bit with materials coated in final 12 months’s Peacock documentary Menendez + Menudo. None of which, we think about, will cease Murphy from at the least evenly taking credit score if, as Gascón floated in his assertion, the brand new proof results in a possible re-examination of the brothers’ sentences.
The Menendez household has fairly extensively condemned Monsters, not least of which due to the incestuous overlay the present applies to the brothers’ relationship. (Murphy says he was simply making an attempt to meet an “obligation for storytellers” and characterize the various rumors and theories floating across the crime. This has not made the household much less mad.) Netflix really has one other Menendez challenge out this week, a documentary that each Lyle and Erik gave interviews for, so welcome to 2024: The Yr Of The Menendez Brothers (Once more).
