‘The Menendez Brothers’: Erik and Lyle Menendez Will Retell Their Case ‘In Their Own Words’ in Netflix’s Upcoming Documentary

Thanks to NetflixThe world will have the opportunity to hear the voices of convicted murderers Plum And Lyle Menendez For the first time in 30 years.

On Monday, the publisher released the game’s official trailer Menendez BrothersAn upcoming documentary about two brothers who brutally murdered their parents in 1989 will “revisit the case that shocked the nation… in their own words.” Netflix summary.

“Everybody asks why we killed our parents,” Lyle says in an audio recording from prison. “Maybe now people will understand the truth.”

In addition to audio interviews with Erik and Lyle from the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility (both serving life sentences), the documentary will also feature interviews with their cousin Diane Vander Molen and prosecutor Pamela Bozanich. Others featured in the documentary, directed by Alejandro Hartmann, include journalists who followed the case and attorneys involved in the case. Diversity.

In the trailer, Lyle criticizes the “media spectacle” of their case. PeopleErik then adds: “Two kids wouldn’t do this crime for money.”

After the broadcast on September 19 Ryan Murphy‘S Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez StoryPlum one expression On his wife Tammi’s X account, he denounced the new crime drama as a “dishonest portrayal of the tragedies surrounding (their) crimes.” The nine-episode-long series Nicholas Alexander Chavez And Cooper Koch as Lyle and Erik respectively Javier Bardem And Chloe Sevigny portraying parents Jose and Kitty Menendez.

Their story is told as follows: Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez MurdersStarring Miles Gaston Villanueva (Lyle) and Gus Halper (Eric) Edie Falco as Leslie Abramson, the brothers’ attorney.

Menendez Trailer It will be released on Netflix on Monday, October 7. Watch the trailer above.