Erik Menendez was denied parole during his first-ever parole hearing on Thursday, 36 years and one day after he and his brother killed their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez.
Erik Menendez, 54, attended the nearly 10-hour hearing via video from the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego. The board said he can next be eligible for parole in three years.
The board based its decision on multiple factors, including: his behavior in prison; burglaries he participated in before the murders; and the killing of his mother
A part of the reason was, because despite what people have said, the judge stated that Menendez was not the model prisoner. And the murder of his mother showed an extra amount of time, lack of compassion and empathy..
.Facebook support groups are helping Menendez brothers fans other through this dark time… <insert sarcastic voice>
“I learned my lesson the hardest way possible,” he said. “I was a good father throughout. The one thing I can say that people do say about me was that I was a good father. But I would be a better father—a lot better father.”
“We have a tablet, we get movies, normally six months later,” Weinstein explained. “And my son said to me, ‘Hey dad, I don’t believe that Captain America [Brave New World] is gonna be a good movie.’ And I say, ‘No. no, it looks good, I’ve heard it’s good go see it.’”
“He went and saw it and he said, ‘Dad, it was terrible,’” Weinstein recalled. “And then I finally saw and I had to call him on the phone and said, ‘You know what, you’re right, it was terrible.’”
“You don’t get your shirts, you don’t get your socks, you don’t get your underwear. The food is rancid. I mean it is really awful.”
The shadowy object moves up the stairs to Epstein’s cell block at the Metropolitan Correctional Center around 10:40 p.m. the night before the 66-year-old convicted sex trafficker was found hanged.
Federal investigators previously said the pixelated blob was a corrections officer “carrying linen or inmate clothing,” but forensic experts who spoke to the network as part of an investigation into the jail video now suspect it may have actually been a jumpsuit clad inmate.
“To say that there’s no way that someone could get to that, the stairs up to his room, without being seen is false,” video forensic expert Jim Safford told CBS, with his view shared by four other leading experts.
The footage also doesn’t appear to be raw, with the outlet reporting it’s likely a screen recording — evidenced by a cursor and menu visible on the screen. The video feed also skipped ahead a full minute just before midnight, and its aspect ratio abruptly shifted.
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CBS also reports,
The Justice Department said the FBI seized the prison’s digital video recorder system, or DVR, containing the raw footage five days after Epstein’s death. When federal officials released the jail video, they attested that it was “raw footage,” but the presence of a cursor and onscreen menu raise questions about that. Experts told CBS News those images indicate the video was likely a screen recording rather than an export directly from a DVR system.
A tragic scene unfolded Monday in midtown Manhattan, where a shooting at an office building left at least five people dead — among them, an off-duty NYPD officer, according to sources who spoke with the Associated Press and other news organizations.
The suspect has been identified as Shane Tamura of Nevada. Authorities say he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
News outlets tonight are digging too deep into Tamura’s background.. early reports suggest he may have once aspired to play in the NFL and didn’t make it. Could that have been a breaking point?
To those who lost their lives today: may you rest in peace. What an awful, senseless story.
Bryan Kohberger has just been sentenced to four life sentences for the horrific 2022 murders of four college students in Idaho.
In court today, families and friends of the victims emotionally confronted the man responsible for so much grief. One moment in particular stood out: Alivea Goncalves, sister of victim Kaylee Goncalves, delivered a statement that was nothing short of extraordinary.
Her words were direct. Unapologetically raw. Unforgettable.
From the very start—when she told Kohberger to “sit up and listen”—to the moment she declared that her sister Kaylee could have “kicked your f—ing ass,” the courtroom was shaken. Her message cut through the silence and struck with force. It was grief and love transformed into power.
If you hadn’t attacked them in the middle of the night while they were asleep, like a PEDOPHILE, Kaylee would have kicked your fucking ass.”
All of the families brought strength and dignity to the courtroom, but Alivea’s voice captured something primal—something real. It was a sister standing tall in the shadow of tragedy and speaking truth to evil.
May God rest the souls of the victims. They were taken far too soon, but their stories—and the love that surrounds them—will never be forgotten.
Meanwhile, something else, people have noticed involves a piece of paper that was sitting next to the now, convicted murderer.
Bryan Kohberger had a black heart drawing next to him during his sentencing hearing.
The eerie symbol was spotted on a piece of paper just in front of Kohberger as he stoically listened to the families of his four victims deliver emotional victim impact statements.
He stared straight ahead, not glancing down at the heart as parents, siblings, grandparents and friends of the slain college students eviscerated him, one after another, in court.
When you hear your Microsoft team song sound this morning as your phone rings on a busy Monday, think about where your data is going.
A major hack has occurred… a vulnerability in Microsoft’s SharePoint server software was exploited by hackers to carry out “active attacks” globally on various entities, including businesses and U.S. federal agencies and state governments, prompting the software giant to issue an emergency patch.
In a statement on X, Microsoft said it has released a security update for SharePoint Subscription Edition and SharePoint 2019 users to “mitigate active attacks” targeting servers running the software.
The company noted that the vulnerability only impacts companies using Microsoft’s software to host their own servers, and customers relying on Microsoft’s 365 cloud services have not been affected.
Citing government officials and security researchers, the Washington Post reported that the vulnerability affected U.S. federal and state agencies, universities and various businesses.
In a statement on Sunday night, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said it was “aware of active exploitation of a new…vulnerability enabling unauthorized access to on-premise SharePoint servers.”
No, we’re not talking about the hair club for men. The Epstein Saga: Missing Minutes, Rising Fury, and Supreme Court Appeals
The sordid tale of Jeffrey Epstein continues to unravel, refusing to fade into the shadows of history. With each passing week, new threads emerge, twisting deeper into conspiracy, politics, and the disturbing unanswered questions surrounding the case.
As this bombshell makes its rounds in the conspiracy circles, another courtroom drama is unfolding: Ghislaine Maxwell’s legal team has filed an appeal to the Supreme Court, seeking a review of her conviction.
So far, she remains the only person imprisoned for any of Epstein’s crimes.
Her family now maintain ‘our sister Ghislaine did not receive a fair trial’, claiming prosecutors stopped at nothing to convict her due to the public’s appetite for her to face justice on Epstein’s behalf after his death.
According to the family’s statement, Maxwell is prepared to ‘file a writ of habeas corpus’ which would ‘allow her to challenge her imprisonment’…
Attorney General Pam Bondi has urged the court to deny the appeal, but as always with the legal system, this will likely drag out in slow-motion fashion.
Meanwhile, a growing number of MAGA supporters, long vocal in demanding the release of Epstein’s “client list,” are now turning their anger toward the Trump administration. The once-loyal base appears increasingly frustrated that their calls for transparency have been met with silence or deflection. Donald Trump, now facing backlash from his own supporters, seems to be in full damage control mode..
Then there’s Alan Dershowitz, Epstein’s longtime legal defender, who continues to assert that “there is no client list.” His repeated statements have done little to quell public suspicion.
Rumors of leaked client lists on the dark web continue to circulate, but to date, the only substantiated names remain those found on flight logs, or at least documents that have been floating around the internet for years, largely unaddressed by authorities.
This story is still very much alive.
Stay tuned… because villains may perish, but the truth never dies.. it just hides in the shadows for a bit.
In a statement on Facebook after news broke of the deal, “The Goncalves Family Page” wrote:
“It’s true! We are beyond furious at the State of Idaho. They have failed us. Please give us some time. This was very unexpected. We appreciate all your love and support. #heartbroken#kayleejade4ever.”
A family member of one victim told NewsNation that upon hearing of the plea deal, she felt like “all the power had been given back to Kohberger.”
This is a developing story.. there are media reports that a plea deal has been offered to Bryan Kohberger.. he was charged with killing four University of Idaho students in November 2022, and he has accepted.
Sources confirm to Newsnation among others that the prosecution has proposed dropping the death penalty in exchange for Kohberger pleading guilty to committing the murders and pleading guilty to the burglary charge.
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Kohberger must also agree to spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole and must waive his right to appeal.
An autopsy was performed on Monday in Allentown, but forensic pathologist Dr. Christopher Sullivan noted there was no evidence of gunshot wounds, penetrating trauma, such as stab wounds, or fractures to any of the extremity bones.
The body was in an “advanced state of decomposition” when it was found on the embankment on Harp Lane Sunday afternoon, said Columbia County Coroner Jeremy Reese. Katlyn Harp had been missing since June 19 and was last known to be at her home on Fairview Drive in Bloomsburg where she lived with her husband.
Given the condition of the body, additional testing, including toxicology tests, will be performed in an effort to determine the cause of death, Reese said. However, because the manner in which Harp’s body was found and discarded in the woods, the manner of death has already been determined to be homicide, according to Reese.
