Menendez, alongside together with his brother Lyle, has served 35 years of a life jail time period for fatally capturing their dad and mom.
Erik Menendez has been denied parole, greater than 30 years after he and his brother Lyle killed their dad and mom within the household’s luxurious Beverly Hills residence.
A California panel ordered the 54-year-old to remain in jail on Thursday, defying a prolonged marketing campaign waged by household, buddies and celebrities like Kim Kardashian.
“Erik Menendez was denied parole for 3 years at his preliminary suitability listening to in the present day,” mentioned a short assertion from the California Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR).
The outcome can be an enormous blow to a motion that has swelled in recent times, nourished by documentaries and TV dramas, together with the smash Netflix hit Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.
Thursday’s listening to got here 36 years and a day after his household realized of his dad and mom’ deaths, Erik Menendez instructed the parole board.
“My father was probably the most terrifying human being I’d ever met,” Menendez mentioned in the course of the 10-hour listening to when requested why he didn’t go away the house relatively than commit homicide.
“Once I look again on the particular person I used to be then and what I believed concerning the world and my dad and mom, working away was inconceivable,” he mentioned.
The parole denial comes the day earlier than Lyle Menendez, 57, will seem earlier than a panel to ask them to launch him from jail.
“This can be a tragic case,” parole commissioner Robert Barton mentioned after the choice was issued. “I agree that not solely two, however 4 individuals, had been misplaced on this household.”
Greater than a dozen kin testified to say they’ve forgiven the Menendez brothers, as they got here to be identified, and to name for his or her launch.
Criminals turned celebrities
The boys are among the many United States’s most celebrated prisoners, and the celebrities of one of many first-ever televised homicide trials.
Jurors within the Nineteen Nineties had been instructed how the boys killed Jose and Kitty Menendez in what prosecutors mentioned was a cynical try and get their fingers on a big household fortune.
After establishing alibis and making an attempt to cowl their tracks, Erik and Lyle shot Jose Menendez 5 instances with shotguns, together with within the kneecaps.
Kitty Menendez died from a shotgun blast as she tried desperately to crawl away from her killers.
The brothers initially blamed the deaths on a mafia hit, however modified their story a number of instances within the ensuing months.
Erik, then 18, confessed to the murders in a session together with his therapist.
The pair in the end claimed they’d acted in self-defence after years of emotional and sexual abuse by the hands of a tyrannical father.
