The family of Lyle Menendez appears to have hit out at the latest Netflix series centered around him and his brother.
The Menendez brothers, Erik and Lyle, became household names in the early 1990s after being convicted of murdering their parents.
Watch the trailer for Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story below:The brothers shot their father, José Menendez, five times, including a fatal point-blank shot to the back of the head in 1989.
As their mother, Kitty, tried to flee, they turned the gun on her, shooting her nine times, according to Daily Mail.
After the killings, the siblings discarded the weapons and their blood-soaked clothes, and then purchased tickets to see Batman at a local cinema.
They later returned home and called 911, hysterically claiming they had found their parents' bodies.
It wasn't until six months after the murders that the brothers were arrested in March 1990.
The case quickly became a media sensation, sparking a multi-year legal battle that would see two juries, two trials, and one mistrial.
Following the success, albeit controversial, of Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, Netflix opted to focus on Erik and Lyle for their second season.
While the series revisits the brothers’ trials and the media frenzy surrounding them, some supporters of Lyle and Erik have raised concerns about how the show portrays the case, particularly regarding the abuse the brothers testified to during their trials.
With the case gaining widespread interest due to the new series, it appears that the family of Lyle Menendez has spoken out.
Lyle's family posted their response to the series on his official Facebook profile, which, according to multiple pinned posts, is managed by his relatives.
Lyle himself does not write these posts, but his family aims to share his perspective through the platform.
A statement shared on the page explained: “The purpose is to provide a safe place for people to talk about their similar experiences and find comfort in others who have suffered in silence in the same way.”
The Netflix series, which premiered on September 19, has been met with criticism from Lyle’s family.
After watching the first episode, they shared their thoughts in a blunt Facebook post: "Ep. 1: no resemblance to reality whatsoever."
Their reaction to the second episode was equally critical. "Ep. 2: other than the utter incompetence of the police, very little was accurate," they wrote.
The posts kept coming, with a post reading: "Episode 7 is vile beyond all words. Actually, I have the words. But I will wait a bit before saying them."
While a review of episode eight simply read: "The lies just never end."
The person behind the Facebook page consistently shares their view that the Menendez brothers were sexually assaulted by their father, and were in fact, victims.
A post about episode three read: "Gratuitous nudity and sick disgusting implications being made about a sexual assault survivor, which have been denied that only play into the completely disproven theory of the state."
The family member behind the account also hit out at those who defended the show.
"That trash does NOT show all points of view. It shows nothing but blatant provable lies," they wrote.
The post continued: "Obviously, the hope was that the parents would be portrayed as the monsters since that is the truth. Instead, Murphy [the director] revictimized two sexual assault survivors.
"You do not get to say that that is not true. I am telling you that that is how they both feel. So that is the end of the story."
