‘Monsters’ co-creator Ryan Murphy calls backlash from the Menendezes ‘predictable at best.’ It’s not the first time he’s upset families at the center of his true crime shows.

• Lyle Menendez and Erik Menendez killed their parents in 1989, but they have the support of family members.
• “Monsters” co-creator Ryan Murphy has defended his show about the brothers, amid backlash from the Menendezes.
• The first season of “Monster” was about Jeffrey Dahmer, and angered his victims’ families.

Once again, Netflix’s “Monsters” has angered the families at the center of the true crime show, but co-creator , Murphy claimed in October 2022 that the team contacted 20 family members and friends of the victims during their fact-checking process, but no one replied.

Tatiana Banks, Lindsey’s daughter, told BI in October 2022 that the series opened old wounds.

“Honestly ever since that show’s been on I haven’t been able to sleep. I see Jeffrey Dahmer in my sleep,” she said.

Thomas M. Jacobson, who represented 11 of the victims’ families, told The Wrap in October 2022 that Murphy and Netflix should pay the families, claiming they exploited their trauma.

“Netflix receives the gain, the Dahmer-victim families the pain. This is not just, this is not fair, this is not right,” Jacobson said.