What to know about Menendez brothers’ case and when could they be released

In 1989, Lyle and Erik Menendez brothers killed their parents in their mansions in Beverly Hills and killed their parents.

In 1996, they were found guilty for the first -degree murder and murder and sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of conditional release.

A new Netflix Drama Monsters: The Lyle and the Erik Menendez story have been released in 2024 since the publication has increased. Stories continue to divide views.

At a resistance hearing in May 2025, a judge made them suitable for conditional evacuation. However, in August, both brothers were rejected.

Now 54 -year -old Erik appeared on August 21 before a panel at the California Correction and Rehabilitation Department. He was told that he was still a risk for public security and was not a model prisoner.

One day later, Lyle, 57 -year -old Lyle, was considered as a dominant brother, was rejected by a different board of directors.

He referred to the brutal nature of the murders and Lyle’s lack of self -control.

“We see that your regret is real.” He said. “But despite all these external positives, we see it … You are still struggling with anti-social personality traits such as deception, minimization and rules breaking under that positive surface.”

They can try conditional evacuation in three years – these good behaviors can be reduced to 18 months.

Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, is probably forgiven to the brothers – probably examining a separate demand to present it in an amnesty.

Newsom, which is in the midst of a political transformation and can place her eyes in a White House run, has the power to accept or reject any conditional evacuation board.

In 2024, Los Angeles’s previous regional lawyer George Gascón asked the brothers’ life sentence to 50 years without the possibility of conditional release.

During a hearing at the Los Angeles County Supreme Court, the brothers apologized for their actions. Re -revitalization offers were supported by family members and a former prisoner.

Prosecutors said that they continued to “excuse” for their brothers’ behavior instead of taking full responsibility and that they were not rehabilitated.

However, the judge agreed to be anger to the brothers and said, “In the last 35 years, they have done enough things as they need to have this chance.”

The decision has made it suitable for conditional evacuation within the scope of California’s Young Criminal Law, allowing a reduced penalty to those who commit crimes before the age of 26.

The brothers were 18 and 21 at the time.

Lyle and Erik Menendez killed their parents Jose and Kitty Menendez in their homes at Beverly Hills on August 20, 1989.

His father, a 45 -year -old Hollywood manager, was shot six times with a hunting rifle that the brothers bought days before the attack.

His mother died after 10 hunting rifles explosion in several parts of his body.

The brothers initially told the police that they found their parents dead when they came home.

Erik was arrested after a psychologist who treated me that he went to the police to say that Menendez was physically threatening a doctor.

Although the brothers, although no harassment has been proved in court, they claimed that they committed the murders of defense on the allegations of physical, emotional and sexual abuse for years.

They said they were afraid that their father would kill them after threatening him to reveal him.

However, prosecutors argued that young men killed their successful parents to inherit their millions of dollars.

The brothers were detained in 1990, and in 1993, they were tried individually for murders, with a jury for each brother.

However, both jurys were locked in 1994, which resulted in a feeding, and the couple was later tried again in 1995.

During the joint hearing, the judge explicitly excluded the evidence of abuse of defense cases. Sessions banded with a doctor with the murders are discussed by the judge in court.

A jury found them guilty, and in 1996, he was convicted of conspiring for the first -degree murder and murder.

After a detective investigating the massacres, the brothers who left during their detention, said they could conspiracy to escape when they came together in 2018 when they came together in prison.

Netflix after publishing a drama series about the brothers in September 2024, the case returned to the spotlight.

Monsters: Lyle and Erik Menendez Story were drawn to the top of the platform’s flow chart, and only after being released, it was reported that more than 12 million imaging at the first weekend.

The program explores that the brothers can kill their parents and presents the murders from different perspectives.

Creators, the series is based on comprehensive research, he said.

It also includes the abuse claims of the brothers and showing something from the perspective of parents.

The demonstration introduced the case to a new generation and attracted attention from celebrities, including Kim Kardashian and Rosie O’donnell, who wanted the brothers to be released.

The series was a follow -up of the controversial First Monsters series about the US serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer.

Following his release, Erik Menendez shared a statement published by his wife on X.

He believed that the show was “courageous slander” and “went beyond Lyle’s lies and destructive character depictions”.

“It is sad for me to know that Netflix’s tragedies surrounding our crime took a few steps of the painful facts of honestly, the prosecution said that men created a narrative on a belief system that men were not sexually abused and that men lived in a different way from women.”

The members of the family also spoke and said that the brothers were “victims of this Grotesque Shockadrama” and the show was “full of Mistruths”.

Ryan Murphy, who created the show, Described the diversity The comments are “at best predictable”.

The family’s reaction is “interesting, because I want details about what they think is not shocking or shocking. We create any of these things. It has been presented before”.