Season 2 of Ryan Murphy's MONSTER Anthology Series Will Focus On Erik and Lyle Menendez

Netflix has released a teaser for the second season of Ryan Murphy’s Monster anthology series and it announces that it will focus on the two infamous killers, Lyle and Erik Menendez.

The series is titled Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story and it will tell the story of the brothers, who were convicted in 1996 for the murders of their parents. In addition to that, Netflix also will be developing a documentary feature, and they’ve been granted exclusive access to Lyle and Erik Menendez.

The announcement video that was shared features the actual 911 call from the murders, as Lyle sobs on the phone as he tells the 911 operator that his mom and dad have been shot. José and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menendez were murdered in their Beverly Hills home in 1989. Erik and Lyle were not the initial suspects in the killings, but that all changed as the police began to investigate their involvement months later.

Erik eventually confessed to his psychologist Jerome Oziel, who told his mistress, Judalon Smyth. “Smyth would become a key witness in the brothers’ trial. During the trial, the brothers said they’d committed the murders out of self defense after a lifetime of abuse from their parents, particularly their father. They were tried separately, and both juries deadlocked, resulting in a mistrial.”

They were later tried together and ultimately found guilty and sentenced to life without parole and remain incarcerated at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in Southern California.

I remember when all this was going down and the trail was heavily covered in the media. I was in high school at the time and it was the thing everyone seemed to be talking about. As for me, at the time, I was too busy doing lots of other things to care about what was going on with all that stuff.

The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story will follow the incredibly popular first season of Murphy’s anthology series, Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, which starred Evan Peters. Each installment of the anthology will “tell the stories of other monstrous figures who have impacted society.”