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...
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...
- 10/7/2024
- by Lynette Rice
- Deadline Film + TV
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