Why the Menendez Brothers Trial Is Worth Revisiting

Erik Menendez is speaking retired against Ryan Murphy's bid astir him and his member Lyle Menendez, who are serving beingness sentences for murdering their parents in 1989.

Erik's shared his thoughts astir Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story successful a connection his woman Tammi Menendez shared connected X, formerly Twitter, Sept. 19, the time the amusement premiered connected Netflix.

"I believed we had moved beyond the lies and ruinous quality portrayals of Lyle, creating a caricature of Lyle rooted successful horrible and blatant lies rampant successful the show," Erik said. "I tin lone judge they were done truthful connected purpose. It is with a dense bosom that I say, I judge Ryan Murphy cannot beryllium this naive and inaccurate astir the facts of our lives truthful arsenic to bash this without atrocious intent."

E! News has reached retired to Murphy and Netflix for remark connected the 53-year-old's remarks and has not heard back.

In 1996, following 2 trials, Erik and Lyle, 56, were convicted of first-degree execution and conspiracy to execution for the 1989 shotgun killings of their begetter and parent successful their Beverly Hills home. The brothers were sentenced to beingness successful situation without the anticipation of parole.

Prosecutors had said Erik and Lyle's motivation for the murders stemmed from their tendency to inherit the household fortune. The siblings had alleged their parents had physically, emotionally and sexually abused them for years and their ineligible squad argued they killed their parent and begetter successful self-defense.

"It is bittersweet for maine to cognize that Netflix's dishonest portrayal of the tragedies surrounding our transgression person taken the achy truths respective steps backward," Erik said successful his statement, "back though clip to an epoch erstwhile the prosecution built a communicative connected a content strategy that males were not sexually abused, and that males experienced rape trauma otherwise than women."

He continued, "Those atrocious lies person been disrupted and exposed by countless brave victims implicit the past 2 decades who person breached done their idiosyncratic shame and bravely spoken out. So present Murphy shapes his horrible communicative done vile and appalling quality portrayals of Lyle and of maine and disheartening slander."

Erik added that "violence is ne'er an answer, ne'er a solution, and is ever tragic."

"As such," helium continued, "I anticipation it is ne'er forgotten that unit against a kid creates a 100 horrendous and soundless transgression scenes darkly shadowed down glitter and glamor and seldom exposed until calamity penetrates everyone involved."