BELLAIRE — The man convicted of the brutal murder of his parents as a 17-year-old Bellaire High School student has his first parole hearing in three decades scheduled for this month.

Nathan Brooks, now 47, is serving life in prison at the London Correctional Institute in London, Ohio, convicted on two counts of aggravated murder and one count of using a firearm while committing the murders.

Belmont County Prosecutor Kevin Flanagan said he has not yet been told a specific date for Brooks’ parole hearing.

Brooks shocked the Ohio Valley community on Sept. 30, 1995, when he killed his father Terry and mother Marilyn in their home. At the time, Brooks professed to worship Satan.

Brooks shot his father then decapitated him with ​a hacksaw and placed his head in a punch bowl. He stabbed his mother to death. He was arrested later along Riggs Road after his brother Ryan contacted police after discovering his parents’ bodies early the next morning.

Following Brooks’ arrest, police discovered in his room a list of names of various members of the community that he planned on killing. Once that was discovered, Bellaire officials canceled trick or treat out of concern for village residents.

Belmont County Sheriff James Zusack recalls the chaos the hit list caused, especially during a time when information didn’t have as many pathways to travel.

“This was before cellphones and social media and all that good stuff, but it was still a really big thing,” he said.

Zusack was only four years into his career as a deputy at the time of the murders. He was tasked with shadowing Brooks as he was being transported to court appearances, doctor appointments and other events.

“I spent a lot of time with him in the back seat. They put me in the back seat unarmed with him basically wherever he went,” Zusack said. “He looked like a normal kid, but I could just tell that certain things he did indicated that he worshiped Satan and was into that stuff.”

Zusack remembers Brooks talking to him in both English and Latin. Brooks knew Latin pretty well, which Zusack always thought was strange.

Zusack said he’s doubtful Brooks will be paroled, considering the nature of his crimes.

“I spent a lot of time with him. What he did was horrible, and I don’t think he’s going to get out,” Zusack said. “It was a brutal crime against his own parents, plus all of the chaos it caused in Belmont County. I honestly don’t think he’ll get out.”

Flanagan had only started working for the Belmont County Prosecutor’s Office a week or two before Brooks’ trial. He served various roles keeping the office operational while then-Prosecutor Frank Pierce and his chief assistant Bob Quirk tried the case. Flanagan recalled the prosecutor’s office requesting that the case be transferred from Belmont County Juvenile Court to the adult division due to Brooks still being a minor at the time.

Flanagan shares Zusack’s doubts that Brooks would be paroled.

“I cannot indicate what decision the parole board would make,” he said. “However, I feel that it is highly unlikely that parole would be granted at this juncture, if ever, just given the nature and severity of the offenses.”

Brooks will first go before a division of the parole board, Flanagan said. If that division recommends his parole, Brooks will then go before the full board.

“While we are invited to attend, we are not permitted to participate, except that we are able to send any correspondence to them regarding our feelings as to whether parole should or should not be granted,” he said. “And under this situation, we did, in fact, submit a letter to the parole board, respectfully asking them not to consider parole.”