The Gruesome, Real-Life Murders Behind Netflix’s ‘Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story’
variety.comMonsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” stars Javier Bardem as Jose Menendez and Chloë Sevigny as Kitty Menendez, along with Nicholas Chavez and Cooper Koch as their sons and killers Lyle and Erik Menendez, respectively.
It all started on the night of Aug. 20, 1989, when Lyle, then 21 years old, made a 911 call to the Beverly Hills Police Department, saying “Someone killed my parents!” When the police arrived at the Menendez family’s Beverly Hills mansion, they found Jose and Kitty brutally murdered by shotgun wounds while they had been watching TV.
Jose was shot six times and Kitty was shot 10 times. At first, investigators thought the murder was related to Jose’s business dealings at Live Entertainment and perhaps linked to mob activities.
Erik and Lyle told police that they had been out at a movie theater watching “Batman” at the time of their parents’ murders.
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