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Her victims are still dead Leslie Van Houten reacts after hearing she is eligible for parole during a hearing in 2017. Six years later, she was released from prison.
Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten has again been denied parole and two journalists who covered the murder trial 50 years ago are offering their views on her case.
Hours after former Charles Manson family member Leslie Van Houten was released from prison on Tuesday, the nephew of one of the Manson family’s victims spoke out against her release.
In 1971, Leslie Van Houten was convicted, along with other members of the Manson “family,” of the brutal 1969 killings of Los Angeles grocer Leno LaBianca and his wife Rosemary.
Leslie Van Houten reacts after hearing she is eligible for parole during a 2017 hearing at the California Institution for Women in Chino. (Stan Lim / Associated Press) Leslie Van Houten was ...
Leslie Van Houten, a onetime follower of Charles Manson who participated in the 1969 murders of husband and wife Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, was released from a California prison on Tuesday after ...
Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten, a former homecoming princess who at 19 helped carry out the shocking killings of a wealthy Los Angeles couple at the direction of the violent and ...
Leslie Van Houten was 19 years old when she met Charles Manson and joined the murderous cult that came to be called the "Manson family." She is now 72.
Leslie Van Houten was released from prison last week, something I never believed would happen. Not because it shouldn't, but because it has always seemed to be political suicide to allow it.
Leslie Van Houten, right, speaks as Sheron Lawin, left, a member of the Board of Prison Terms commissioners, listens after Van Houten’s parole was denied on June 28, 2002, at the California ...
No incarcerated person has drawn such intense interest from our letter writers in recent years as Manson 'family' member Leslie Van Houten, who was just released from prison.
Following Tuesday's prison release of Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten on parole, the nephew of one of the Manson Family cult's murder victims has spoken out, saying her release "profoundly ...