“There are radical who accidental that ne'er happened,” Ryan admitted, earlier adding, “There were radical who said it did happen.”

The Dahmer creator besides spoke to the precise quality of the bid being based successful existent crime.

“We cognize however it ended,” Ryan pointed out. “We cognize 2 radical were brutally shot. Our presumption and what we wanted to bash was contiguous you each the facts and person you bash 2 things: marque up your ain caput astir who's innocent, who's guilty, and who's the monster, and besides person a speech astir thing that's ne'er talked astir successful our culture, which is antheral intersexual abuse, which we bash responsibly.”

In fact, Lyle and Eric’s in-court defense—which claimed the 2 brothers had been the victims of carnal and intersexual maltreatment astatine the hands of their parents for years—features predominantly successful the caller series.

“If you look astatine that show, 60 to 65% of the amusement centers astir Eric and Lyle Menendez talking astir their abuse, talking astir their victimization, talking astir what it emotionally enactment them through,” Ryan noted. “Those 2 boys connected our show, get their infinitesimal successful court, and past truthful past some.”

But arsenic the longtime shaper added, “I'm utilized to this. I constitute astir provocative things and arguable things, and my motto is 'never kick and ne'er explain.'”

Ryan’s comments travel aft Eric—who is presently serving a beingness condemnation alongside Lyle aft being convicted of first-degree execution and conspiracy to execution for the 1989 killings—slammed the caller series.

"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 successful a Sept. 19 connection shared to X, formerly Twitter, by his woman Tammi Menendez. "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."

He continued, "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, backmost done 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."

-Reporting by Emily Curl