Good evening. I'm Laura Coates. It's almost been 35 years to the day. In fact, 36, that Eric and Lyle Menendez killed their parents and their Beverly Hills home.

It'd be seven years before they were convicted of those murders. Another 29 years before they would be before a parole board asking for their freedom.

And now, breaking tonight the answer.

While the Menendez, Bo is at least one of them tonight, is staying behind bars for now.

Eric Menendez was just denied parole by the California Parole Board.

This picture was from his hearing today,

which lasted over 10 hours.

And the parole commissioner says that he doesn't buy his explanation

for the killings, and that his behavior in jail,

since he's been locked up, kicks the can down the road.

The board says he can try again for parole in three years. Now Eric's brother, Lyle,

he'll go before the board tomorrow. It has certainly been a winding legal battle to even get to this point.

It was 1989 when the brothers opened fire inside their families, Beverly Hills Mansion, killing

their mother and their father.

They were convicted to life in prison without the possibility of parole in 1996.

But then there was a resentencing this year that gave them their first chance at the possibility

of parole and freedom.

And they say that they have killed and they did kill

their parents in self-defense. And new evidence in recent years has boosted their claim

that they were sexually abused by their father. And that really shifted how people viewed

their case and the public opinion about their release or potential release.

It also fueled a huge surge of attention all around them.

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