What ‘Monster’s’ Cooper Koch Has To Say About The New Evidence Brought Up in the Menéndez Brothers Documentary

This is a tale that never gets old, but perhaps this time it may have a happier conclusion for the Menéndez brothers as they seek to appeal their life sentence in the light of new evidence. In a new interview, Cooper Koch, who played Erik Menéndez in the ‘Monsters’ series, touched on the new evidence that wasn’t in Ryan Murphy’s interpretation of the brothers’ stories.

Cooper Koch Says “New Pieces Of Evidence” Should Have Been Included In Ryan Murphy’s Netflix Series

Despite Ryan Murphy’s ‘Monsters’ bringing their story to a global audience once more, the brothers were less than flattered by their representation in it.

Erik Menéndez was the most outspoken about it, accusing Murphy of making the show with “bad intent” and creating “horrible lies” about Lyle to portray him as a heartless monster.

On Murphy’s part, he has defended himself by saying that he didn’t take on their story because he cared about them as people, but because he wanted to explore the sexual abuse angle of their story.

Whichever side of the fence you’re on, you can’t fail to admit that Koch’s views are right and that the new evidence should have been factored into the show.

“I thought they did a great job, I thought they left out a couple of pieces of information that would have been great to have in there, which is the two pieces of new evidence that have come out, which is the letter that Erik wrote to his cousin Andy,” Koch said during a Tuesday chat with Andy Cohen on Watch What Happens Live. “And then also, a member of Menudo [Roy Rosselló] came out about also having been sexually molested by José Menendez.”

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All We Know About The New Evidence That Could Influence the Brothers’ Appeal Positively

When Lyle and Erik Menéndez were sentenced for the murder of their parents, the police conviction at the time was that they’d done it to gain access to their father’s vast wealth and property.

However, the brothers pleaded that the murders were motivated by a lifetime of abuse at the hands of their father. They also claimed their mother was an enabler.

During the first Menéndez trial in 1993, the brothers’ cousin Andres “Andy Cano” testified that he’d been informed by Erik about their father molesting him.

At the time, Cano hadn’t provided the letter. It would be discovered decades later in 2018, when, following his death, trial journalist Robert Rand came upon it whilst sifting through Cano’s belongings by his family.

“And within 15 minutes, I found this letter, and I looked at it and I said, ‘Oh, my God, this could be really important to the case,’” Rand told The Hollywood Reporter at the time of the evidence, which undoubtedly supports the brothers’ case.

The letter was written by Erik when he was 17 years old in December 1988, eight months before they killed their parents. It was never provided during the mid-1990’s trials.

“Two kids don’t commit this crime for money,” Erik Menéndez claims on the Netflix documentary – out Oct. 7.

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