2023-07-11 20:15:00
Charles Manson fan Leslie Van Houten was released from a California prison on Tuesday after serving 53 years for her role in two infamous murders.
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said Van Houten “was placed on supervised probation.”
Leslie Van Houten, and una imagen de 2017.
Credit: Stan Lim/AP
Why was Leslie Van Houten released?
His release comes days after Gov. Gavin Newsom announced he would not challenge a state appeals court ruling that Van Houten should be granted parole.
Van Houten, now 70, received a life sentence for helping Manson supporters carry out the 1969 murders of Leno LaBianca, a grocer in Los Angeles, and his wife, Rosemary.
She was released from prison in the early hours of the morning and taken to transitional housing, her attorney Nancy Tetreault said.
Van Houten was deemed eligible for parole after a July 2020 hearing, but Newsom then blocked her release, saying she was still a threat to society. In May, an appeals court reversed Newsom’s decision.
What did Leslie Van Houten do?
Van Houten was convicted of assisting in the murders of Leno La Bianca and his wife, Rosemary, in 1969.
The LaBiancas were murdered in their home with extreme violence: their attackers smeared the walls of the residence with their blood.
Van Houten later described holding Rosemary LaBianca with a pillowcase over her head while others stabbed her, before she, too, stabbed the woman at least 10 times.
The killings occurred the day after Manson supporters killed actress Sharon Tate, then the wife of filmmaker Roman Polanski and who was eight months pregnant, and four other people.
Van Houten, who was 19 years old at the time, was not involved in the Tate murders.
Manson died in prison in 2017 of natural causes at age 83 after nearly half a century behind bars.
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