Lyle Menendez was denied parole Friday, following the 1989 murder 0f his parents in their Beverly Hills home. The decision comes after a California parole board’s decision to deny his brother, Erik, his bid for freedom on Thursday. FOX News Digital reported on Friday that Lyle Menendez, 57, faced a panel of parole hearing officers …
UPDATE Erik Menendez, one of the two California brothers convicted of murder, has been denied parole. According to FOX News Digital, Menendez, 54, spent nearly 10 hours with California governor-appointed parole commissioners Thursday, who discussed numerous factors, including his behavior after the 1989 murders of his parents, José and Kitty Menendez. “The killing of your …
One of Elizabeth Smart’s abductors has been arrested for violating the conditions of her release by visiting multiple parks in Utah. On Thursday, Wanda Barzee, 79, was arrested by the Salt Lake City Police. The police told PEOPLE that Barzee was being charged with “one count of violating Utah’s law restricting registered sex offenders from …
Susan Smith, the South Carolina mother imprisoned for drowning her two young sons, was denied parole after appearing before the board via Zoom on Wednesday. Smith, now 53, can request a parole hearing every two years beginning after serving 30 years of her sentence. The board pointed out that her case drained resources from law …
A California man who brutally beat his girlfriend’s young son to death has been granted parole, sparking outrage from public safety advocates, KRON-TV reports. Now, prosecutors say they will urge Gov. Gavin Newsom to overturn the decision to keep 49-year-old Patrick Goodman in state custody. “We are talking about the murder of an innocent and …
An Austrian man who kept his daughter captive for years and had seven children with her could be released from prison soon. According to Metro, Josef Fritzl was convicted in 2009 on charges of enslavement, rape, incest, murder, and false imprisonment. Prosecutors said he kept his daughter, Elisabeth, locked in the cellar of the family …
The family of a man beaten to death in 1979 is fighting the release of his killer under California’s Elderly Parole Law. Walter Joseph Lewis, now 76, was convicted of two murders after stabbing a man to death in 1965, when he was 18, and then beating Robert Chartier to death with a hammer in …
South African Paralympian Oscar Pistorius has been granted parole more than a decade after he gunned down his girlfriend through a locked bathroom door. Pistorius, 37, was denied bond in March by a judge who said he had not served the minimum sentence, as CrimeOnline reported. In 2014, Pistorius was convicted of culpable homicide and …
Arkansas police are looking for a convicted child sex offender they say took off his electronic monitoring device. Cameron Santana, 36, was convicted in 2009 for sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl. He was out of jail on probation when he took off the monitor, KHBS reported. Sebastian County Sheriff’s Capt. Philip Pevehouse said that probation …
Judith Ann Neelley, one of Alabama’s most infamous female murderers, is scheduled for a parole hearing next month. According to documents obtained from the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles, Neelley’s hearing is set for May 25. She is currently serving time in prison for the killing of Lisa Ann Millican, 13. As CrimeOnline previously …
A rapist convicted on 86 counts in 2003 was denied parole this week, but while prosecutors say he remains a dangerous predator who “continues to deny responsibility for his crimes,” Andrew Luster still be out of prison within the next four years. Luster, the 59-year-old great-grandson of makeup company founder Max Factor Sr., was initially …
A Tennessee woman convicted of killing her ex-husband, one-time NBA star Lorenzen Wright, has been denied parole. Last week, a Tennessee parole board denied Sherra Wright’s bid to leave prison, who’s currently serving time for helping plot the murder of her slain husband, Lorenzen Wright. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Sherra Wright was arrested in 2017 …
