HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- More than three decades after two teenage girls were brutally attacked and killed on their way home, the only man from the case who is guaranteed a chance to walk free, is once again up for parole.

Venancio Medellin was just 14 years old in June 1993 when he joined a gang of teens who raped and murdered 14-year-old Jennifer Ertman and 16-year-old Elizabeth Peña in northwest Houston's T.C. Jester Park. The girls had taken a shortcut, hoping to beat curfew. Instead, they walked into horror.

Now 46, Medellin has spent 32 years in prison. This is his second time before the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles. His last review in 2020 was denied. His co-defendants, including his older brother José Medellin, were either executed or sentenced to life.

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