{"id":11291,"date":"2017-09-07T14:28:33","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T21:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/?p=11291"},"modified":"2018-03-13T21:04:27","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T04:04:27","slug":"former-manson-follower-and-convicted-murderer-leslie-van-houten-approved-for-parole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/?p=11291","title":{"rendered":"Former Manson Follower and Convicted Murderer Leslie Van Houten Approved for Parole"},"content":{"rendered":"<a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-32 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-facebook nolightbox\" data-provider=\"facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Flasvegasbuffetclub.com%2Fblog%2Findex.php%3Frest_route%3D%252Fwp%252Fv2%252Fposts%252F11291&#038;t=Former%20Manson%20Follower%20and%20Convicted%20Murderer%20Leslie%20Van%20Houten%20Approved%20for%20Parole&#038;s=100&#038;p&#091;url&#093;=https%3A%2F%2Flasvegasbuffetclub.com%2Fblog%2Findex.php%3Frest_route%3D%252Fwp%252Fv2%252Fposts%252F11291&#038;p&#091;images&#093;&#091;0&#093;=https%3A%2F%2Fs.yimg.com%2Fny%2Fapi%2Fres%2F1.2%2FQZfBkM.bxsYM32X8pY5EfQ--%2FYXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjtzbT0xO3c9MzQwO2g9NDUw%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen_us%2FNews%2FReuters%2F2017-09-07T023605Z_2_LYNXNPED852CL_RTROPTP_2_CALIFORNIA-MANSON.JPG&#038;p&#091;title&#093;=Former%20Manson%20Follower%20and%20Convicted%20Murderer%20Leslie%20Van%20Houten%20Approved%20for%20Parole\" style=\"font-size: 0px; 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REUTERS\/DamianDovarganes\/Pool\/File Photo\" class \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE PHOTO &#8211; Leslie Van Houten listens during her parole hearing in Corona, California, U.S. on June 28, 2002. REUTERS\/DamianDovarganes\/Pool\/File Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sep 7th, 2017<br \/>\nBy Associated Press<br \/>\n*<br \/>\n <script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- LVBC BLOG RESPONSIVE -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3305383693358973\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8378569513\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Leslie Van Houten, the youngest of Charles Manson\u2019s murderous followers, was recommended for parole Wednesday by a state panel that concluded she has radically changed her life during the more than 40 years she has been in prison for two brutal murders she helped commit 48 years ago and is no longer a threat to society.<\/p>\n<p>The two-member panel\u2019s ruling must still be approved by the state Parole Board and Gov, Jerry Brown, who reversed another panel\u2019s ruling last year.<\/p>\n<p>In blocking her release then, Brown said Van Houten had failed to adequately explain to the panel how a model teenager from a privileged Southern California family who had once been a homecoming princess could have turned into a ruthless killer by age 19.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the panel grilled her for two hours on how she could address those concerns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve had a lot of therapy trying to answer that question myself,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo tell you the truth, the older I get the harder it is to deal with all of this, to know what I did, how it happened,\u201d added Van Houten, now a frail-looking 68-year-old who appeared before the panel on crutches, her gray hair pulled back in a bun.<\/p>\n<p>She went on to say that she was devastated when her parents divorced when she was 14. Soon after, she said, she began hanging out with her school\u2019s outcast crowd in the Los Angeles suburb of Monrovia. She started smoking marijuana and graduated to LSD at 15. When she was 17, she and her boyfriend ran away to San Francisco\u2019s Haight-Ashbury District during San Francisco\u2019s summer of love.<\/p>\n<p>When they returned, she said, she discovered she was pregnant. When her mother found out, she ordered her to have an abortion and bury her fetus in their backyard.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after, she was traveling up and down the California coast, trying to find peace within herself when acquaintances led her to Manson, who was holed up at an old abandoned movie ranch on the outskirts of Los Angeles where he had recruited what he called a \u201cfamily\u201d to survive what he insisted would be a race war he would launch by committing a series of random, horrifying murders. His disaffected youthful followers became convinced that the small-time criminal and con man was actually a Christ-like figure and believed him.<\/p>\n<p>As she did at her parole hearing last year, the soft-spoken Van Houten went on to candidly describe how she joined several other members of the \u201cManson Family\u201d in killing Los Angeles grocer Leno La Bianca and his wife, Rosemary, in their home on Aug. 9, 1969, carving up La Bianca\u2019s body and smearing the couple\u2019s blood on the walls.<br \/>\n*<br \/>\n <script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- LVBC BLOG RESPONSIVE -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3305383693358973\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8378569513\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>She was not with Manson followers the night before when they killed pregnant actress Sharon Tate and four others during a similar bloody rampage.<\/p>\n<p>On the night of the second attack she said she held Rosemary La Bianca down with a pillowcase over her head as others stabbed her dozens of times. Then, ordered by Manson disciple Tex Watson to \u201cdo something,\u201d she picked up a butcher knife and stabbed the woman more than a dozen times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel absolutely horrible about it, and I have spent most of my life trying to find ways to live with it,\u201d she added quietly.<\/p>\n<p>Relatives of the La Biancas didn\u2019t believe her. They spoke emotionally as they pleaded with the commission to reject her parole bid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo member of the Manson family deserves parole, ever,\u201d nephew Louis Smaldino said. \u201cShe is a total narcissist and only thinks of herself and not the damage she has done.\u201d<br \/>\n*<br \/>\n <script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- LVBC BLOG RESPONSIVE -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3305383693358973\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8378569513\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>The voice of the La Biancas\u2019 oldest grandson, Tony LaMontagne, broke as he noted he\u2019s about to turn 44, the same age his grandfather was when he was killed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease see to it that this fight doesn\u2019t have to happen every year for the rest of our lives,\u201d he said of Van Houten\u2019s nearly two dozen parole hearings.<\/p>\n<p>Family members left before the panel announced its decision.<\/p>\n<p>In reaching it, Parole Commissioner Brian Roberts and Deputy Commissioner Dale Pomantz said they took into account Van Houten\u2019s entire time of incarceration. During those years she has earned bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degrees in counseling, been certified as a counselor and headed numerous programs to help inmates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ve been a facilitator, you\u2019ve been a tutor and you\u2019ve been giving back for quite a number of years,\u201d Roberts said.<\/p>\n<p>Still, he warned her that if she is released that living in society again will not be easy. He noted parole officials have heard from \u201ctens of thousands\u201d of people who don\u2019t want her released. But others, he added, including many who have known her since childhood, spoke up for her, saying they\u2019ve seen her mature in prison and become a different person.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo with that we\u2019d like to wish you good luck,\u201d he said.<br \/>\n*<br \/>\n <script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- LVBC BLOG RESPONSIVE -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3305383693358973\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8378569513\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you very much, I really appreciate it,\u201d replied Van Houten, who attended on crutches because of a knee injury suffered in a recent fall. She said her health is otherwise fine.<\/p>\n<p>Afterward, her attorney, Rich Pfeiffer, said he believes Van Houten addressed the concerns the governor had when he denied her parole last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy hope is he\u2019s going to follow the law and let his commissioners do their job,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He added his client was relieved by Wednesday\u2019s ruling, adding he believes she will be released eventually.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m getting her out of here. That\u2019s not an issue. The question is when,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>No one who took part in the Tate-La Bianca murders has been released from prison so far.<\/p>\n<p>Van Houten has been in prison for more than 40 years for her role in two brutal murders committed by disciples of Charles Manson.<br \/>\nBy Associated Press<br \/>\n*<br \/>\n <script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- LVBC BLOG RESPONSIVE -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3305383693358973\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8378569513\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more about The Manson Family here<\/strong>:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/?p=1009\">http:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/?p=1009<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/LasVegasBuffetClub.com\" target=\"_blank\">LasVegasBuffetClub.Com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leslie Van Houten, the youngest of Charles Manson\u2019s murderous followers, was recommended for parole Wednesday by a state panel that concluded she has radically changed her life during the more than 40 years she has been in prison for two brutal murders she helped commit 48 years ago and is no longer a threat to society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[1741,1739,1737,1742,1738,1740],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11291"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11412,"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11291\/revisions\/11412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}