The Menendez Brothers are now getting a documentary on Netflix. The news comes as their story is currently streaming in scripted form on the streaming service.

On Monday, Netflix announced a new documentary titled The Menendez Brothers will hit the streamer on October 7. The project, directed by Argentinian director Alejandro Hartmann (Carmel: Who Killed Maria Marta?, The Photographer: Murder in Pinamar) will “provide new insights and a fresh perspective on a case people only think they know,” Netflix said.

Here’s the description: “In 1996, Lyle and Erik Menendez were convicted of murdering their parents in what became one of the most famous criminal trials of the late 20th century. For the first time in 30 years, and in their own words, the brothers look back on the trial that shocked the nation. Through extensive audio interviews with Lyle and Erik, attorneys who attended the trial, journalists who covered it, jurors, family and other informed observers, acclaimed Argentine director Alejandro Hartmann offers new insight and a fresh perspective on a case people only think they know.”

The news comes as Ryan Murphy’s true-crime drama series about the brothers, Monsters: The Story of Lyle and Erik Menendezis currently the #1 series on Netflix in the US. The series tells the story of the real-life brothers who were convicted in 1996 of murdering their parents, José and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menendez.

After Monsters Erik Menendez, who was released last Thursday, criticized both Monsters and Netflix over the scripted series, which was criticized by viewers for the way some scenes depicted an incestuous relationship between the adult brothers (some of the sexualized interactions include the brothers kissing on the lips; in one scene, their mother, played by Chloë Sevigny, catches them kissing in the shower). During his 1995 retrial, Lyle testified that he had molested Erik when they were children. In the series, the brothers discuss this as adults with their attorney, Leslie Abramson, played by Ari Graynor, while recounting the abuse they suffered at the hands of their father, José.

Erik had said in his statement, posted on social media by his wife Tammi Menendez: “I believed we had moved past the lies and the ruinous character portrayals of Lyle, and had created a caricature of Lyle that was rooted in the horrible and egregious likes that were rampant on the show. I can only believe they did this on purpose. It is with a heavy heart that I say I believe Ryan Murphy could not be so naive and inaccurate about the facts of our lives to do this without malicious intent.”

He continued: “It saddens me to know that Netflix’s dishonest portrayal of the tragedies surrounding our crimes has taken the painful truths several steps back — back in time to an era when the prosecution built a narrative on a belief system that men were not sexually abused and that men experienced rape trauma differently than women. Those terrible lies have been disrupted and exposed over the past two decades by countless brave victims who have broken through their personal shame and bravely spoken out. So now Murphy is shaping his terrible story through disgusting and appalling character portrayals of Lyle and myself and disheartening smears.”

The Netflix projects are the latest to bring the Menendez Brothers story to the screen. Fox and CBS aired TV movies about the murders in 1994, Lifetime Menendez: Blood Brothers in 2017 and Law and Order: True Crime on NBC also took on the case, starring Edie Falco as Abramson. Peacock’s 2023 doc Menendez + Menudo: Boys Betrayed Roy Rosselló, a former member of the boy band Menudo, alleged that José Menendez sexually abused him when he was a teenager.

The Menendez Brothers is produced by Ross M. Dinerstein & Rebecca Evans. Ross Girard and Mark McCune serve as executive producers; with Dani Sloane, Gina Scarlata, Cecilia Salguero, Will Mavronicolas and JP Quicquaro serving as co-executive producers.