Menendez brothers feel 'hope' for parole after decades in jail

The pair tell TMZ they are optimistic about their latest appeals over their parents' killing in 1996.

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"My brother and I are cautiously hopeful," Lyle Menendez, 57, said in a recent jailhouse interview with TMZ, which was aired on Fox.

"Hope for the future is really kind of a new thing for us. I think Erik would probably agree with that. It's not something we've spent a lot of time on," he added.

The Menendez brothers were convicted of first-degree murder in 1996 and sentenced to life without parole for the 1989 shotgun killings of their parents, Kitty and Jose Menendez.

The case shocked the nation - not only for the brutal nature of the crime, but also for the courtroom drama that followed.

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