Author: Adam Affandy

In 1989, José and Kitty Menendez were killed by their two sons, Lyle and Erik. This case has been revisited by showrunner Ryan Murphy in Netflix’s latest biographical crime anthology, ‘Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story’. The title itself exposes a predisposition that the brothers were evil and vile men, akin to notable serial killers like Jeffery Dahmer or Ted Bundy. However, one could argue the real ‘monsters’ here are actually the men responsible for greenlighting the series. It is impossible to discuss the Menendez case without acknowledgement that it is such a nuanced situation. To this day, the…