<p class="ingestion featured-caption">Nicholas Alexander Chavez and Cooper Koch in "Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story."Netflix</p><ul class="summary-list"><li>"Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story" is based on true story.</li><li>The show explores the lives of the Menéndez brothers, who murdered their parents.</li></ul><p>"<a target="_blank" class href="https://www.businessinsider.com/monsters-where-are-lyle-and-erik-menendez-brothers-now-2024-9">Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story</a>" is the latest dramatization of a notorious, headline-grabbing crime by producer Ryan Murphy.</p><p>The limited series is a follow-up to 2023's "<a target="_blank" class href="https://www.businessinsider.com/dahmer-ryan-murphy-victims-families-didnt-respond-2022-10">Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story</a>," which starred Evan Peters.</p><p>The show, which landed on Netflix on Thursday, tells the story of Lyle (Nicholas Alexander Chavez) and Erik Menéndez (Cooper Koch), who murdered their parents, José Menéndez (Javier Bardem) and Mary Louise "Kitty" Menéndez, in 1989.</p><p>The brothers were accused of killing their parents to get their inheritance, but they argued it was in response to being sexually abused by their father.</p><p>Here's how the cast of "Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story" compares to the real-life people they play.</p>