Manson follower denied parole

[Scurrilous]

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"A parole board has denied freedom for Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten for the 19th time.

Van Houten was convicted of murder and conspiracy in the August 1969 slayings of wealthy grocers Leno and Rosemary La Bianca.

That was one night after actress Sharon Tate and four others were killed. Van Houten did not participate in the Tate slayings."

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/07/06/1718281/manson-follower-denied-parole.html?mitest=B_case#ixzz0sx3iW68O




Charles Manson follower seeks freedom, more than 40 years after LaBianca murders

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"Leslie Van Houten will ask before a parole board on Tuesday to be released from prison -- four decades after being convicted in the Manson murders.

Van Houten, 60, was convicted in the 1969 killings of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca in their home in Los Feliz. She has sought parole more than a dozen times -- and has always been rejected.

Leslie Van Houten, a former homecoming princess from Monrovia, became alienated from her family as a teenager and said she was introduced to Manson by a boyfriend. She said she came to view Manson as Jesus Christ and believed in his bizarre plan to commit murders and blame African Americans in hopes of sparking a race war.

"I'm deeply ashamed of it," she told a parole board in 2002. "I take very seriously not just the murders but what made me make myself available to someone like Manson."

Van Houten has been characterized by supporters as the least culpable member of the so-called Manson family. She did not take part in the Aug. 9, 1969, killings of pregnant actress Sharon Tate and four others at Tate's rented Benedict Canyon home.

She did, however, willingly join Manson and others the following night when they invaded the LaBianca home, chosen at random. She held down Rosemary LaBianca while she was stabbed by an accomplice and, when told to "do something" by cohort Charles "Tex" Watson, she stabbed the woman about two dozen times in the back."

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/07/charles-manson-follower-seeks-freedom-nearly-40-years-after-la-bianca-murders.html

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

1. Well, sometimes the system DOES work.

Hotel California, baby. :thumbsup:

[calico1]

2. Truly a waste.

She came from a middle class family and a nice neighborhood. I am sure she wonders what could have been.

But she did what she did.

If her original sentence had been carried out she would probably be long dead. The fact that she gets to live her life
should make her grateful enough.

[applegrove]

3. Good.