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Former Menéndez Documentarian Nancy Saslow On Latest Obsession Into The Murders: “I Don’t Think Any Of It Is New” But “None Of It Is Bad”

Seven years before Netflix got into the Erik and Lyle Menéndez business with Monsters and now its new docuseries that dropped Oct. 7, Hollywood was practically obsessed with the 1989 murders of Jose and Kitty Menéndez. First there was the ABC documentary Truth and Lies: The Menéndez Brothers – American Sons, American Murderers, followed by […]

And then, there was A&E’s The Menéndez Murders: Erik Tells All, a 2017 five-parter in which documentarian/EP Nancy Saslow interviewed the younger brother via telephone from the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego. Within months of A&E’s airing of Erik Tells All, Lyle Menéndez was moved from his Northern California prison so he could be incarcerated with his brother in San Diego. Even after a flurry of specials and docs that aired from 2021-23, it wasn’t until Ryan Murphy ‘s Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menéndez Story did George Gascón make a big to-do about dusting off the old case.

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