LOS ANGELES (AP) — Erik Menendez was denied parole Thursday after serving decades in prison for killing his parents. Lyle Menendez, his brother, will be next to get a chance to plead his case in front of a panel of California state parole board commissioners.

The brothers were sentenced in 1996 to life in prison for fatally shooting Jose and Kitty Menendez in their Beverly Hills mansion in August 1989 . They were 18 and 21 at the time.

For years they filed petitions for appeals that were denied. But they became eligible for parole after a Los Angeles judge reduced their sentences from life without the possibility of parole to 50 years to life in May, marking the closest they have come to freedom since their convictions.

Here’s a look at their case over the last three decades:

1990s

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