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If your idea of relaxing is sitting down and turning on a five-part docuseries about serial killers, you’re not alone. According to a YouGov survey, one in three Americans watches a true crime show at least once per week. And while fascination with true crime has always been prevalent, it has reached an all-time high in the past few years.

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Seven years before Netflix got into the Erik and Lyle Menendez business with Monsters and now its new docuseries that dropped Oct. 7, Hollywood was practically obsessed with the 1989 murders of Jose and Kitty Menéndez.

First there was the ABC documentary Truth and Lies: The Menendez Brothers – American Sons, American Murderers, followed by the Dick Wolf-produced Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders for and the telefilm Menendez: Blood Brothers for Lifetime. There was even an episode of Hln’s How it Really Happened With Hill Harper that featured a telephone interview with Lyle Menendez from prison with Chris Cuomo.

And then, there was A&e’s The Menendez Murders: Erik Tells All, a 2017 five-parter in which documentarian/EP Nancy Saslow interviewed the younger brother via telephone from the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego. Besides the hours of audio with Erik Menendez — Saslow could only conduct...

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The shocking true story of the Menendez brothers is back in the spotlight thanks to the new Netflix series, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.

The Ryan Murphy-produced show focuses on the high-profile murders of José and Kitty Menendez, with their sons, Lyle and Erik, later convicted of carrying out the killings. Per prosecutors, the kids were out to inherit their parents’ fortune; others, however, believe...

This article contains discussions of sexual assault.

Ryan Murphy's latest entry in his "Monsters" anthology series, "The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story" -- a series which began in 2022 with Evan Peters as infamous serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer -- focuses on Erik and Lyle Menendez (Cooper Koch and Nicholas Alexander Chavez), two brothers accused and subsequently convicted of killing their parents José and Kitty Menendez (Javier Bardem and Chloë Sevigny) in the late 1980s. Unsurprisingly, it's already courting controversy the way Murphy portrays the siblings and their family dynamic.

This happened with the "Monster" season focusing on Dahmer as well, with relatives of the real-life killer's victims saying the series "retraumatized" them and more or less glamorized Dahmer himself, so it's not entirely surprising that Murphy's often sensational approach to real stories is making waves again. Adapting a true crime story is absolutely a tricky thing to do, but still,...

Ryan Murphy’s latest installment in the “Monster” anthology series has been called “exploitative” by some fans, criticizing the portrayal of the sexual abuse experienced by the Menendez brothers.

“Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” follows the murder case that captivated America’s attention in the 90s. While the two brothers are still serving time behind bars, recent discoveries about their music executive father’s inappropriate behavior have led to a more nuanced inspection of their claims of sexual abuse.

While showrunners Murphy and Ian Brennan’s portrayal of the brothers dips a toe into incest territory, the following documentaries provide a glimpse into the real events that inspired the campy, Murphy reimagining.

Here are the seven documentaries you should watch after finishing “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.”

A Tubi original documentary “Surburban Nightmare: The Menendez Brothers” (Credit: Fox Entertainment) Suburban Nightmare: The Menendez Brothers

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