Key takeaways from the parole hearings of Erik and Lyle Menendez

California brothers convicted of their parents’ murders in 1989 were both denied parole this week – here’s what we know

This week’s parole hearings were the latest twist in the saga of Lyle and Erik Menendez, who have been behind bars since their arrest in 1990 for killing their parents with shotguns.

At their televised trial, which was a 1990s media sensation, the brothers said the killings were an act of self-defense after years of sexual abuse by their father.