BELLAIRE — The man convicted of the brutal murder of his parents as a 17-year-old Bellaire High School student has his first parole hearing in three decades scheduled for this month.

Nathan Brooks, now 47, is serving life in prison at the London Correctional Institute in London, Ohio, convicted on two counts of aggravated murder and one count of using a firearm while committing the murders.

Belmont County Prosecutor Kevin Flanagan said he has not yet been told a specific date for Brooks’ parole hearing.

Brooks shocked the Ohio Valley community on Sept. 30, 1995, when he killed his father Terry and mother Marilyn in their home.

At the time, Brooks professed to worship Satan.

Brooks shot his father then decapitated him with a hacksaw and placed his head in a punch bowl. He stabbed his m

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