Of course, the truth of the timing of all this is that it’s much more likely that Murphy (who recently asserted that his show was “the best thing that’s happened to the Menendez brothers in 30 years”) simply did the Ryan Murphy thing here and managed to glom on to a rising trend that was already picking up steam.

The 'Monsters' producer talks about the recent string of developments, including Kim Kardashian's call for their release: "Episode five is basically a multimillion-dollar infomercial for the case to be re-examined.

Ryan Murphy weighs in on the Los Angeles district attorney looking at new evidence that Lyle and Erik Menendez were molested by their father.