The second instalment of Netflix's 'Monster' true crime series, 'The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story' is coming soon. What is is about? And why is there already backlash? Read more on Grazia.
Netflix, for one, has an impressive slate of hit true crime shows that rarely forsake the rankings. Its first iteration of the, reaching one billion view hours in its first 60 days. It chronicles the brutal murders committed by Jeffrey Dahmer between 1978 and 1991.
The series follows brothers Lyle and Erik who fatally shot their parents in their Beverly Hills home in 1989. During their trials, the brothers cited years of abuse as the reason for murdering their parents. However, prosecutors argued that their motive was to claim the family fortune.At the time of their parents' deaths, Joseph ‘Lyle’ and Erik Menendez were 18 and 21 years old.
It wasn’t until Erik confessed to his psychologist, Jerome Oziel, who told his mistress Judalon Smyth, that the brothers were arrested as suspects. Oziel was reportedly furious that his mistress went to the police and ended the relationship. Lyle was arrested in March 1990 and his brother turned himself in three days later. Oziel’s tapes were used as evidence and the brothers were charged with murder in 1992.
It paints the familiarly chilling image of a crime series, but are viewers growing tired of murder cases, and in this case alleged victims of sexual assault, being glamorised in the name of a good true crime series? While it is a complex and disturbing story, it is also real life and centres two men who are still serving a life sentence. There is something uncomfortable about the way these stories are extracted for commercial gain and entertainment.
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