Former Manson family member Leslie Van
Houten released from California prison,
official says
CNN,
by
Cheri Mossburg
&
Emma Tucker
Original Article
Posted By: Hazymac,
7/12/2023 9:20:36 AM
Leslie Van Houten, a former Charles Manson follower and convicted murderer, was released from a California prison on Tuesday, a prison spokesperson told CNN.
Van Houten was released to parole supervision, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokesperson Mary Xjimenez said. Van Houten will have a three-year maximum parole term with a parole discharge review occurring after one year, Xjimenez said. Van Houten, now in her 70s, was 19 when she met Manson and joined the murderous cult that came to be called the “Manson family.”
Prior to her release on Tuesday, she was serving concurrent sentences of seven years to life after she was convicted in 1971 for her role
Reply 1 - Posted by:
udanja99 7/12/2023 9:27:16 AM (No. 1511023)
Disgusting.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
NYBruin 7/12/2023 9:30:14 AM (No. 1511026)
But Sirhan Sirhan will never get out.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Skinnydip 7/12/2023 9:32:09 AM (No. 1511027)
Actually, I’m surprised she was released sooner. It’s the hyper-woke California prison system
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Hazymac 7/12/2023 9:42:45 AM (No. 1511033)
Charles Manson actually participated in the second night's murders. He went inside the LaBianca's house, tied them up, assured them that everything would be okay--it was just a robbery--left with Linda Kasabian, and sent the killers in to do their evil. Van Houten, who had not participated in the earlier five murders, was the new figure in the mix, and Manson wanted to make sure that all who went inside got their hands dirty. Van Houten stabbed Rosemary LaBianca sixteen times in the lower back--she was stabbed 41 times in all--perhaps after she had already died. The defendants, all sentenced to death, had their sentences reduced to life when the death penalty was temporarily declared to be applied unevenly, thus unconstitutional. Van Houten, Manson, and the rest should have seen the inside of the green room (gas chamber) at San Quentin. The Tate-LaBianca murders' monstrous evil represents the worst of humanity.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
5 handicap 7/12/2023 9:45:34 AM (No. 1511035)
Life mean LIFE...What the Hell is wrong with the Asshats who populate parole boards?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Hazymac 7/12/2023 9:52:14 AM (No. 1511039)
One other fact: As Manson prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi reminded us, Manson and the rest of the defendants have been eligible for parole since 1978! To keep them in prison, the victims' families have to attend all the parole hearings and give the reasons, for the thousandth time, why the killers should not be released. If enough survivors die, these killers are liable to get out.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Kate318 7/12/2023 9:53:21 AM (No. 1511040)
I watched a documentary about Manson’s followers, not too long ago. I a little remorse, but not as much as I would’ve expected. Their thoughts were more about what a crazy time it was and wasn’t it crazy that they did (or knew) about all those weird things? It was disturbing.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Old Army Vet 7/12/2023 9:57:43 AM (No. 1511046)
And Newsom wants the American public to elect him as President. I don't think so pal. Newsom wants to do to America what he has done to Kalifornia. Hopefully the public will get wise to him.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 7/12/2023 10:01:04 AM (No. 1511050)
I read “Helter Skelter” back in the 1970’s when it was first published. I was working as a police officer then. I was convinced, after reading the book, that all of the participants in those murders should have been executed at the same time, then cremated together; afterward, their ashes should have been placed in a lead box and dumped in the deepest part of the Pacific Ocean.
When you sentence someone to life in prison, there’s always the risk that some bleeding heart, 40 or 50 years later, will let them out. They always sing the same song - “he’s not the same person anymore” - “he’s older, and he’s changed”- but it’s bogus. That kind of evil has to be ended by death.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
chagrined 7/12/2023 10:01:48 AM (No. 1511052)
Is she eligible for office? I'd imagine she could be the head of the demonrat party within a year or so.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
padiva 7/12/2023 10:18:15 AM (No. 1511061)
Has she set up a gift registry so people can buy her stuff to set up housekeeping? /s
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
mifla 7/12/2023 10:33:50 AM (No. 1511068)
She is in her 70s with no means of support in an expensive state that is going bankrupt.
She is likely toxic to any remaining family or friends and on her own.
She will have difficulty finding employment and housing based upon her past actions.
She will be counting the days until her death when she dies, likely alone and on the street. Or by her own hand.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
MissNan 7/12/2023 10:34:55 AM (No. 1511071)
I was 16 when the Tate-LaBianca murders happened, not many miles
from my home in California. I remember watching those young women
on television, smiling, giggling as they appeared in court looking proud
at what they had done. I don’t care how many classes Van Houten has
taken or that she takes responsibility for what she did. A bad seed doesn’t
change, ever. She should never have been let out.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
bad-hair 7/12/2023 10:55:44 AM (No. 1511093)
Be looking for reparations soon.
Chucked your butt in prison ? How dare they !!!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
kiwinews 7/12/2023 11:04:56 AM (No. 1511100)
Are her victims still dead?
Well then, why is she out?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Birddog 7/12/2023 11:30:41 AM (No. 1511117)
What is she going to live on? She is over 70yo, no work history, never paid a dime into SS/Medicare(you must have 44 work units to receive benefits)
Did her parents leave her money?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
rosefenn 7/12/2023 11:51:58 AM (No. 1511126)
"Life without parole"
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 7/12/2023 12:47:22 PM (No. 1511161)
The Mansons - - a close-knit family - - sharing common values - - and totally supportive of each other.
If only Norman Rockwell could have painted them.
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I don't recall if it was her or Linda who stated decades ago that it didn't matter if she was physically in prison or not, that simply living with what she did was her own eternal prison.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Hazymac 7/12/2023 1:12:12 PM (No. 1511191)
Manson died in 2019, Susan "Sadie Mae Glutz" Atkins died of brain cancer, aged 61, in prison over a decade ago. Patricia "Katie" Krenwinkel, Abigail Folger's murderer, won't get out. Sharon Tate's friend Abigail, stabbed 28 times by Krenwinkel in the yard outside the house at 10050 Cielo Drive, said to her, "Please stop stabbing me. I'm already dead." Charles "Tex" Watson, the killer of most of the rest of the murdered, won't get out. As I said earlier, they all could have been paroled in 1978, and should have been executed in 1971, summarily upon conviction. They should have been taken outside, tied to a tree, and shot.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
udanja99 7/12/2023 1:30:30 PM (No. 1511212)
When my husband told me this news yesterday, my first response was to ask if she found Jesus while in prison. That’s usually the excuse used to try to get out.
I read Helter Skelter in 1974 while living alone in a ground floor apartment in Center City Philadelphia. It was so terrifying that I kept getting up to make sure that the windows and doors were still locked. Writers like Stephen King have written nothing scarier than that book.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 7/12/2023 2:37:16 PM (No. 1511260)
Poster #9 is absolutely right about 'bleeding heart' liberals. When the china flu was starting, activists in Washington state went before our State Supreme Court demanding the release of all prisoners over the age of 55. By a vote of 5 to 4 that demand was denied. By ONE vote the Green River Killer is still in prison. A man convicted of murdering 50 women and is thought to have killed close to 100, their bodies just haven't been found yet.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
DVC 7/12/2023 4:36:56 PM (No. 1511368)
She should have been executed along with all the rest of them.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
PostAway 7/12/2023 4:40:26 PM (No. 1511371)
I always thought Manson himself should have been paroled and that the exact place, date and time of his release should have been published beforehand for all to see, especially the victim’s families. It didn’t happen. Now most of the victim’s loved ones are probably gone, too. Van Houten’s parole is a travesty but life on the outside will be worse for an institutionalized 70+ year-old like her. Gavin Newsom did this and if Trump runs Newsom will surely carry the corpses of Manson’s victims like albatrosses around his neck.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
DiegoDude 7/12/2023 9:32:58 PM (No. 1511522)
Too bad. She should've gotten the gas chamber.
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