Jeffrey’s mother ‘didn’t want anyone touching the baby, or breathing on it’
The Menendez brothers’ story isn’t the only Monsters series on Netflix: If you were invested in the brothers, you definitely remember watching Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story two years prior. The shows are very similar and both directed by Ryan Murphy, and many people have had their say about whether Lyle and Erik should be freed from prison. However, the reception is mixed, and Lyle even mentions in the show that people are comparing them to Dahmer, which opens up a whole new line of questions.
To compare Erik and Lyle Menendez to Jeffrey Dahmer on Monsters is a pretty insane stretch, and Lionel Dahmer, the father of Jeffrey, has expressed his own theory about why his grew up to commit heinous crimes. The theory basically nullifies any argument that Jeffrey and the brothers are similar in any way. But, what was Lionel’s theory, and does it actually make sense?
The real Lionel Dahmer had a…
