Warning! This post contains spoilers for Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.
This post contains mentions of abuse and murder.
Netflix's Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story briefly refers to Dominique Dunne's real-life trial, making it hard not to wonder what happened to her. Serving as a followup to Ryan Murphy's hit show Dahmer Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story centers on Jos and Kitty Menendez's murders, who were killed by their own sons, Lyle and Erik. Like the first season of the Netflix true-crime show, Monsters, too, attempts to present a neutral perspective on the central real-life crime instead of solely framing the titular brothers as "monsters."
Given how Netflix's Monsters has received mixed reviews like its predecessor, not everyone seems to be on board with the show's approach towards true crime. However, it is still interesting...
This post contains mentions of abuse and murder.
Netflix's Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story briefly refers to Dominique Dunne's real-life trial, making it hard not to wonder what happened to her. Serving as a followup to Ryan Murphy's hit show Dahmer Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story centers on Jos and Kitty Menendez's murders, who were killed by their own sons, Lyle and Erik. Like the first season of the Netflix true-crime show, Monsters, too, attempts to present a neutral perspective on the central real-life crime instead of solely framing the titular brothers as "monsters."
Given how Netflix's Monsters has received mixed reviews like its predecessor, not everyone seems to be on board with the show's approach towards true crime. However, it is still interesting...
- 10/1/2024
- by Dhruv Sharma
- ScreenRant
“Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” is shining the spotlight on a completely separate murder – one that happened a decade before the brothers’ trial.
Episode 7 of the series – titled “Showtime” – features a long dinner party scene where Nathan Lane’s character Dominick Dunne breaks down the Menendez case as he sees it through the context of having sat through his own daughter’s murder trial. It’s also a trial that earned significant media attention a decade earlier.
Dunne’s daughter Dominique was a 22-year-old rising actor fresh off a lead role in 1982’s “Poltergeist.” She was strangled to death by her ex-boyfriend John Sweeney after their breakup on Oct. 30, 1982. Sweeney confessed to the murder – and an attempt to kill himself after – when the police arrived on the scene.
Here’s what we know about Dominique, the night she was killed, and where Sweeney and the rest of her family is today.
Episode 7 of the series – titled “Showtime” – features a long dinner party scene where Nathan Lane’s character Dominick Dunne breaks down the Menendez case as he sees it through the context of having sat through his own daughter’s murder trial. It’s also a trial that earned significant media attention a decade earlier.
Dunne’s daughter Dominique was a 22-year-old rising actor fresh off a lead role in 1982’s “Poltergeist.” She was strangled to death by her ex-boyfriend John Sweeney after their breakup on Oct. 30, 1982. Sweeney confessed to the murder – and an attempt to kill himself after – when the police arrived on the scene.
Here’s what we know about Dominique, the night she was killed, and where Sweeney and the rest of her family is today.
- 9/27/2024
- by Jacob Bryant
- The Wrap
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