Leif Taylor was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole not once, but twice, for killing a man while stealing a bicycle when he was 16. His first sentence was overturned when an appeals ...

After more than three decades behind bars for the 1989 murder of their parents, this week Erik and Lyle Menendez are finally standing before a California parole board in separate, virtual hearings ...

Erik Menendez was denied parole by the California Board of Parole Hearings on Thursday, 36 years and one day after he and his brother shot and killed their parents in the family's Beverly Hills ...

Erik Menendez should stay behind bars for now, a parole hearing panel decided 36 years after he and his brother Lyle Menendez killed their parents. Officials in California rejected Erik’s bid for ...

Chelsea Hylton is a web producer for CBS Los Angeles. An Inglewood native, Hylton has her master's degree from USC. She covers local breaking news across the Southern California region. Before joining ...

More than 35 years after murdering their parents in a volley of shotgun blasts, brothers Erik and Lyle Menendez are the closest to freedom since they were arrested and sentenced to life in prison. The ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Thousands of prisoners in California go before the Board of Parole Hearings each year in hopes of a chance at freedom.

One day after officials in California rejected Erik Menendez’s bid for parole, his older brother will appear before commissioners Friday and hope for a different outcome. Lyle Menendez’s hearing is ...

SAN DIEGO — Lyle Menendez, one of the two brothers convicted in the 1989 shotgun slayings of their parents in Beverly Hills, was denied parole by a California review board on Friday in his first ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Manson family member Patricia Krenwinkel — who broke into the home of a Los Angeles grocer, stabbed him and wrote ...

Thousands of prisoners in California go before the Board of Parole Hearings each year in hopes of a chance at freedom. It’s a daunting situation that deals in high stakes for all involved. Parole ...