1 / 2

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Lyle Menendez appears before the parole board via teleconference on Friday, Aug 22, 2025, at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego. (California Department of Corrections via AP)

LOS ANGELES – Erik and Lyle Menendez were denied parole by a California board this week after decades in prison for killing their parents in 1989 at their Beverly Hills mansion.

During two days of hearings, the brothers were each questioned by panels of two commissioners and asked to speak with complete candor on the abuse they suffered in childhood, their mindsets leading up to and after the murders and various prison transgressions.

The brothers were sentenced to life in prison in 1996 for fatally shooting Jose and Kit

See Full Page