Erik Menendez Will Keep in Jail After Being Denied Parole

Erik Menendez’s dream of strolling free after spending many years behind bars for the shotgun murders of his mother and father simply went up in smoke … he is been denied parole!

The California parole board’s resolution was handed down Thursday evening after a marathon listening to by which Erik informed what occurred that fateful evening and gave a window into his life behind bars. Eighteen members of Erik’s household additionally gave statements on his behalf, however none of it may persuade the board to launch him.

Board of Parole Commissioner Robert Barton mentioned he believes Erik nonetheless poses an unreasonable danger to public security. Barton cited Erik’s prison habits on the time of the 1989 murders and his previous burglaries, in addition to his cowl up of the slayings together with his brother, Lyle, who was additionally convicted of killing their mother and father.

As well as, Barton mentioned the homicide of Kitty was “devoid of human compassion” and, regardless of Jose being an alleged abuser, Erik was not in imminent worry for his life. Barton additionally talked about Erik’s critical jail violations, which he had amassed for the reason that starting of his lengthy incarceration.

As you realize, Erik and Lyle had been resentenced by a decide earlier this yr, making them eligible for parole after serving greater than 3 many years in jail for fatally taking pictures their mother and father, Kitty and Jose Menendez, of their Beverly Hills house.

The brothers and their household have labored onerous for his or her launch, pushing the narrative that their mother and father sexually and emotionally abused them for years earlier than they determined to kill them in self-defense.

Nevertheless, throughout Thursday’s parole listening to … Erik mentioned he didn’t kill his mother and father in self-defense — whereas additionally claiming he feared for his life in a seemingly contradictory assertion.

He detailed the evening of his mother and father’ homicide saying he was sure his dad was on the brink of rape him … and was frightened he would find yourself useless.

As for why he killed his mother, Erik mentioned his life modified ceaselessly when she admitted to realizing his father abused him and his brother, calling it “essentially the most devastating second.”

He went on to say his mother was additionally a sufferer of José, however he noticed no level in making an attempt to avoid wasting her from her husband — who she beforehand vowed she’d by no means depart.

The parole board additionally lined a wide range of different subjects with Erik, together with his laundry listing of jail violations over his 35 years that contain “violence, manipulation, misuse of issues” and different “prison acts.”

Maybe essentially the most alarming incident occurred in 2013, when he ran a tax fraud rip-off with a gang from contained in the jail. Erik mentioned he “jumped on the alternative” to assist the gang as a way of survival in an “extraordinarily violent” jail.

Erik additionally had many minor infractions, courting again to his first violation in 1997 … he was written up for mendacity to and manipulating CDCR employees, and going to the jail chapel and having “extreme bodily contact with the customer.”

Ten years later, almost the identical factor occurred when his spouse Tammi paid him a go to … however this time he denied having intercourse along with her in entrance of her 9-year-old daughter. He claimed they had been snuggling and Tammi rubbed his interior thigh, calling the incident “a lapse in judgment.”

In 1999, Erik was positioned on a short lived non-contact standing together with his spouse for “aggressive habits.”

What’s extra, Erik was accused of duping a number of inmates into shopping for him medication — with out paying them — and he allegedly left them together with his debt when he was transferred to a brand new jail. There’s extra, however you get the image.