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Lyle and Erik Menendez fatally shot their parents, José and Kitty Menendez, in August 1989. They were caught about six months later after police were alerted to taped confessions from their therapy sessions.

Prosecutors argued greed over their inheritance fueled the Menendez brothers’ crimes, but Lyle and Erik have maintained they killed their parents because their father was emotionally and sexually abusive and their mother didn’t protect them.

This May, the convicted murderers were resentenced and are now eligible for release. Erik Menendez was denied parole Thursday, and Lyle has his own parole board hearing Friday.

On August 20, 1989, José and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menendez were shot to death in their Beverly Hills home. Nearly seven years, three trials,

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