After a nearly 10-hour hearing, California officials denied Erik Menendez parole on Thursday after he spent decades behind bars for killing his parents, Kitty and Jose Menendez, in 1989.The presiding parole panel said he must wait three years before his next hearing.

The Menendez brothers will make their cases for parole starting Thursday, marking the closest they’ve been to winning freedom from prison since their convictions almost 30 years ago for murdering their parents.

(Reuters) -Erik Menendez, who along with his brother Lyle has served 35 years of a life prison term for the 1989 shotgun murders of their parents in their Beverly Hills, California, home, was denied parole on Thursday, the California Board of Parole Hearings said.