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Cooper Koch Wrote a Letter to Erik Menendez 7 Years Before Playing Him

Cooper Koch revealed he reached out to Erik Menendez in prison years before playing him in Ryan Murphy's 'Monsters'

Season 2 of the hit Netflix series debuted earlier this month and chronicled Lyle ( Nicholas Alexander Chavez) and Erik’s (Koch) 1990 arrest for the murder of their parents, José ( Javier Bardem) and Kitty ( Chloë Sevigny). Taking inspiration from footage of the trial and subsequent interviews, Monsters mirrored key moments from Lyle and Erik’s lives before and after they were sentenced to life without parole for shooting their mother and father. The backlash against Ryan Murphy‘s Monsters just keeps coming — and now the cast has spoken out in defense of their scripted show about Lyle and Erik Menéndez‘s infamous murder case.

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