LOS ANGELES, April 7 — Following the overwhelming success of true crime series like The People v OJ Simpson and Making a Murderer, it’s perhaps no surprise that another notorious case is being revisited.
Variety reported yesterday that Erik and Lyle Menendez will be the subject of the first season of a forthcoming NBC series called Law & Order: True Crime.
The scripted anthology series, which will be similar to American Crime Story, will be produced by Dick Wolf, who has previously helmed such popular franchises as Chicago and Law & Order.
The Menendez brothers became the symbols of everything that was wrong about 80s excess and privilege after brutally slaying their parents in 1989.
They were 18 and 21 at the time of the crime that saw them charged with the shotgun murders of their parents — entertainment executive Jose Menendez and his wife Kitty Menendez — in their Beverly Hills home in August 1989.
Their defence attorney, Leslie Abramson, memorably spun a narrative in which the brothers were acting in self-defence against two allegedly abusive parental figures.
They were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in 1996.
No premiere date has been announced at time of writing.
