Netflix’s hit TV show “Monsters: the Erik and Lyle Menendez Story” debuted on Sept. 19. This show was based on a true story, where Erik and Lyle Menendez fatally shot and killed their parents with shotguns in their Beverly Hills mansion in 1989. 

Lyle was 21 and Erik was 18 at the time of the murders. During the trial in 1994,  the brothers’  defense attorneys tried to argue the point of the boys facing sexual abuse at the hands of their parents, but the prosecutors said they lied to create an alibi. 

The biographical show, created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, covers the murders of Jose and Kitty Menendez and the story that lead up to the killings. 

The show starts at the trial, then flashes back to the night of the murders. The story encapsulates how everything that happened could possibly lead the brothers to murder their parents. 

The series takes viewers through the confessions, the trial and various other aspects to the story. The show gives explicit details on the trauma the brothers allegedly endured at the hands of their father. 

The plot then takes a turn at the end of the last episode when a certain scene references the parents’ perspective of a scene that was shown earlier in the series and kind of left the viewers on a bit of a cliffhanger. 

However the Menendez brothers were recently granted a retrial claiming there is new evidence that proves they killed their parents out of self defense. A letter was recovered from Erik to another family member supposedly telling them the alleged sexual abuse he faced from his father. 

According to CNN, The new hearing could be held within the next 30-45 days.