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Cooper Koch, who plays Erik Menendez in 'Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story,' is sharing his reaction to the new Netflix documentary about the Menendez Brothers. The doc simply titled The Menendez Brothers was released after the scripted series. While appearing on Watch What Happens Live, host Andy Cohen asked the actor about his thoughts on the doc.

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00:00Cooper Koch, who plays Eric Menendez in Monsters, The Lyle and Eric Menendez Story,

00:05is sharing his reaction to the new Netflix documentary about the Menendez Brothers.

00:09The doc, simply titled The Menendez Brothers, was released after the scripted series.

00:13While appearing on Watch What Happens Live, host Andy Cohen asked the actor about his thoughts on the doc.

00:19I thought it was great. I thought they did a great job.

00:21I thought they left out a couple pieces of information that would have been great to have in there,

00:24which is the two pieces of new evidence that have come out,

00:27which is the letter that Eric wrote to his cousin Andy.

00:31Koch went on to talk about the letter, which wasn't discovered until 2018,

00:35decades after the brothers' 1996 conviction in their second trial.

00:39He wrote a letter to his cousin Andy, like six to eight months before the murders,

00:44that he was telling him about the abuse was still happening.

00:48The other piece of evidence referenced by Koch involves a new witness.

00:52And then also a member of Menudo, Roy Rosello,

00:56came out about also having been sexually molested by Jose Menendez.

01:02Jose was a top executive at RCA Records,

01:04the label where boy band Menudo was signed in the 1980s.

01:07The producers of the documentary told The Hollywood Reporter

01:10that they didn't include the new evidence in their feature

01:12because they were leaving that up to the attorneys

01:14currently fighting with the habeas petition.

01:16Producer Rebecca Evans said,

01:18When we were making the documentary,

01:20we felt like we're not here to litigate a case.

01:22We're not here to present evidence or new evidence in that way alongside the attorneys.

01:27Evans also said they left out the Menudo members' allegation

01:30because they, quote, really wanted to focus on the brothers.

01:33For more on this story and all the latest news,

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01:36This is The Hollywood Reporter News.

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