36 years after murder, Erik Menendez denied parole

California’s conditional liberation card denied Conditional release for Erik Menendez, rejecting his first liberation offer almost 36 years after he and his brother Lyle fell their parents in their house in Beverly Hills.

After an audience of almost 10 am Thursday, the commissioners concluded that despite the support of the family and the defenders, Erik remains unsuitable for the liberation. He will not be eligible to try again for three years, although he can petition for a previous hearing, according to a report Los Angeles Times.

“This is a tragic case,” said the commissioner of conditional liberation, Robert Barton. “I agree that not only two but four people were lost in this family.”

The case drew national attention into the 1990. At the trial, the prosecutors said that the brothers had executed their parents to inherit the fortune of the family and the sumptuous lifestyles of the family. The Menendez brothers passed extravagantly in time between the death of their parents and their arrest. Defense replied that the brothers had suffered years of their father’s emotional and sexual violence and feared for their future security, according to the Times report.

“Step by step, my mother had shown that she was united with my father,” said Erik this week at the hearing. “That evening, I saw them as one person. If she had not been in the room, it might have been different. ”

The brothers were initially sentenced to perpetuity without parole.

Menendez’s younger brother, now 54, told the board of directors that he had made deep remorse and explained violations of past rules, including drug use and helping a gang in prison, like the actions of someone who lived in fear and with the belief that freedom was impossible. “Connection with the outside world was much greater than the consequences that I make myself taken with the phone,” he said, referring to another offense mentioned by the Conditional Liberations Commission.

Family members testified on his behalf. Relatives then published a declaration being disappointed, but still the “unshakeable” belief in Erik and saying that they would continue to bear it.

The Menendez case has found public attention through documentaries and recent dramatizations, including Netflix series “Monsters: the story of Lyle and Erik Menendez.”

Lyle Menendez, 57, faces her own parole audience on Friday.