The latest updates on Lyle and Erik Menendezs' murder case that the Netflix shows about them miss out

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Lyle Menendez, and Nicholas Alexander Chavez in "Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story."

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Netflix released a new documentary about the Menendez Brothers. Here are 7 more TV shows and documentaries about the famous '90s murder trial.

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Erik Menendez, in a blue sweater, is sitting next to Lyle Menendez, in a pink sweater, who is sitting next to their attorney, Leslie Abramson, in a white dress, in court in 1991.
Erik and Lyle Menendez and their attorney Leslie Abramson in 1991.

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Ryan Murphy says 'Monsters: The Erik and Lyle Menendez story' is the best thing to happen to the brothers in decades. There is one way the show could help their case.

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Lyle and Erik Menendez in 1989, the year they murdered their parents.

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A timeline of the controversy surrounding 'Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story,' Ryan Murphy's latest Netflix true crime drama

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Erik Menendez in court and Ryan Murphy at the 2023 Vanity Fair Oscars party.

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Lyle Menendez has gotten married twice while in prison. Here's what to know about his wife and ex-wife.

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The real Lyle Menendez and Nicholas Chavez as Lyle Menendez on "Monsters."

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The Menendez family has slammed Ryan Murphy's Netflix true-crime drama 'Monsters': 'Gross, anachronistic, serial episodic nightmare'

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Two men in a large room holding black shotguns. The man on the left is wearing a short-sleeved pink polo shirt, and the man on the right is wearing a a green and white striped shirt.
Nicholas Alexander Chavez and Cooper Koch as the brothers in "Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story."

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'Monsters' co-creator Ryan Murphy calls backlash from the Menendezes 'predictable at best.' It's not the first time he's upset families at the center of his true crime shows.

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In "Monsters: The Lyle And Erik Menendez Story," Nicholas Chavez plays Lyle Menendez, Chloë Sevigny plays Kitty Menendez, Javier Bardem plays Jose Menendez, and Cooper Koch plays Erik Menendez.

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'Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story' is about two brothers who murdered their parents. Here's what the Netflix show gets wrong.

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A man with dark hair wearing a white sports jacket and a white t-shirt on the left, and a man with dark hair in a black t-shirt on the right.
Cooper Koch as Erik Menendez and Nicholas Chavez as Lyle Menendez in "Monsters."

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