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Lyle Menendez joins brother in being denied parole in parents' murder | BBC News

2025-08-23 News & Politics
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Menendez Brothers Denied Parole After Serving 35 Years

Discover why Lyle and Erik Menendez were again denied parole after serving 35 years, and the specific factors the board weighed despite their stated remorse.

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  • Both Lyle and Erik Menendez were denied parole after lengthy hearings, requiring them to wait another three years before reapplying.
  • The board acknowledged expressions of remorse but cited ongoing public risk, prior burglaries, and recent institutional violations.
  • Expert analysis highlights that initial parole success rates for lifers in California are statistically very low, around 6%. This summary details the outcome of the federal parole hearings for the Menendez brothers, focusing on the board's rationale and the low statistical probability of early release for lifers in California.

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Lyle Menendez has been denied parole one day after his brother Erik was similarly blocked from being freed from prison after more than three decades. The Menendez brothers, who were convicted in the 1989 killings of their parents in their Beverly Hills mansion, were both rejected for release after separate, lengthy hearings before California's parole board. It marks a major setback for the pair who had seen recent court wins that brought them closer than ever to freedom. Subscribe here: http://bit.ly/1rbfUog For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com/news #MenendezBrothers #LyleMenendez #ErikMenendez #BBCNews

Top Comments (10)

@sandrasweeney798 2025-08-24

I guess I'm the outsider here. I would have granted them parole. They were horrifically abused, repeatedly sodomized by their father, neglected by their mother who accepted her husband's brutal physical assaults on her son's. Doubtless, she was innured to the suffering through her own long-term physical and psychological damage. It doesn't surprise me at all that they finally literally lost what might be considered their moral compass and could no longer honour either their mother or their father. The fact they went crazy and started spending money doesn't mean they killed their parents for it. Poor kids.

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@sroxa 2025-08-28

They release pedophiles but wouldn't release these two who was severely abused on a daily basis. Absolutely disgusting

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@showtime4956 2025-08-23

Emotional and allegedly sexual abused for years does impact one’s mental state on many levels…

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@y2ksurvivor 2025-08-23

good, glad the Parole board didn't fall for the PR movement about these two.

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@dante-dmc-i7y 2025-10-16

That series should have been named "Monsters: The Jose and Kitty Menedez story"

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@junetaylor8396 2025-08-23

Getting written out of a will is not grounds for slaughter. These 2 have played their hand and lost once again

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@jennahd5320 2025-08-23

why do they get so much air time. there are many other pressing news in the world, like cost of living! fix that

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@hanschristianbrando5588 2025-08-23

There was no way Lyle was going to be paroled if Erik was not.

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@LernerMara 2025-08-26

They shouldn’t have killed their parents but when you watch the Netflix documentary, their parents were absolutely disgusting despicable perverted people. And the mother was just as bad as a father. She never once stepped in to protect her sons from the husband being a sick a perv.

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@zohraimam 2025-11-10

Poor Menendez Family 😢

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