Nathan Brooks and the Night Bellaire Lost Halloween

Nathan Brooks reportedly tells classmates he will be famous by Saturday and becomes interested in satanic rituals

Marilyn Brooks returns from a trip to Florida and spends the evening at the family home

Sixteen‑year‑old Ryan Brooks attends a football game and then goes to a friend’s house for the night

Nathan Brooks shoots his father Terry with a hunting rifle, decapitates him with a hacksaw and places the head in a punch bowl, then stabs and mutilates his mother Marilyn with an axe and a knife

Ryan Brooks telephones home around 1:30 a.m. and Nathan attempts to lure him back, then leaves a note at the friend’s house admitting to two murders

Ryan Brooks returns home in the early morning hours and discovers his parents’ bodies, then runs to a neighbor’s house and calls police

Deputies respond to the scene, find a kill list and satanic imagery, and arrest Nathan Brooks along Riggs Road without incident

Bellaire officials cancel Halloween trick‑or‑treat out of fear for children’s safety and arrange supervised events

A jury convicts Nathan Brooks of two counts of aggravated murder and a firearm specification after a brief deliberation, and Judge Charles Knapp sentences him to life in prison

Nathan Brooks enters the Ohio prison system and is later transferred to the London Correctional Institution

Nathan Brooks becomes eligible for his first parole hearing after nearly thirty years and a hearing is scheduled

The parole hearing is delayed to November; law enforcement and prosecutors argue against release, and the parole board denies parole

Officials confirm that Nathan Brooks’s parole request was denied and that he will be eligible again in June 2035