Erik Menendez denied parole, decades after killing parents

Menendez, on with his member Lyle, has served 35 years of a beingness situation word for fatally shooting their parents.

Erik Menendez has been denied parole, much than 30 years aft helium and his member Lyle killed their parents successful the family’s luxury Beverly Hills home.

A California sheet ordered the 54-year-old to enactment successful situation connected Thursday, defying a lengthy run waged by family, friends and celebrities similar Kim Kardashian.

“Erik Menendez was denied parole for 3 years astatine his archetypal suitability proceeding today,” said a little connection from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR).

The effect volition beryllium a immense stroke to a question that has swelled successful caller years, nourished by documentaries and TV dramas, including the smash Netflix deed Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.

Thursday’s proceeding came 36 years and a time aft his household learned of his parents’ deaths, Erik Menendez told the parole board.

“My begetter was the astir terrifying quality being I’d ever met,” Menendez said during the 10-hour proceeding erstwhile asked wherefore helium did not permission the location alternatively than perpetrate murder.

“When I look backmost astatine the idiosyncratic I was past and what I believed astir the satellite and my parents, moving distant was inconceivable,” helium said.

The parole denial comes the time earlier Lyle Menendez, 57, volition look earlier a sheet to inquire them to merchandise him from prison.

“This is simply a tragic case,” parole commissioner Robert Barton said aft the determination was issued. “I hold that not lone two, but 4 people, were mislaid successful this family.”

More than a twelve relatives testified to accidental they’ve forgiven the Menendez brothers, arsenic they came to beryllium known, and to telephone for their release.

Criminals turned celebrities

The men are among the United States’s astir celebrated prisoners, and the stars of 1 of the first-ever televised execution trials.

Jurors successful the 1990s were told however the men killed Jose and Kitty Menendez successful what prosecutors said was a cynical effort to get their hands connected a ample household fortune.

After mounting up alibis and trying to screen their tracks, Erik and Lyle changeable Jose Menendez 5 times with shotguns, including successful the kneecaps.

Kitty Menendez died from a shotgun blast arsenic she tried desperately to crawl distant from her killers.

The brothers initially blamed the deaths connected a mafia hit, but changed their communicative respective times successful the ensuing months.

Erik, past 18, confessed to the murders successful a league with his therapist.

The brace yet claimed they had acted successful self-defence aft years of affectional and intersexual maltreatment astatine the hands of a tyrannical father.