How the cast of Netflix’s ‘Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story’ compare to the real-life people they play

• “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” is based on true story.
• The show explores the lives of the Menéndez brothers, who murdered their parents.
• Here’s how the cast of the Netflix series compares to the real people they play.

“Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” is the latest dramatization of a notorious, headline-grabbing crime by producer Ryan Murphy.

The limited series is a follow-up to 2023’s “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story,” which starred Evan Peters.

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.