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Leslie Van Houten

July 7, 2010 by · Comments Off on Leslie Van Houten 

Leslie Van HoutenLeslie Van Houten:“Manson Girl” Leslie Van Houten, who became famous as a member of the Family murders Manson, was denied parole
after a three-hour hearing on July 6, 2010 at the California Institute for Women in Chino. For most of the last 40 years, Van Houten has been incarcerated at the institution along with fellow Manson girls Susan Atkins and Patricia Krenwinkel, all of whom were part of a group of misfits who congregated around convicted mass murder mastermind Charles Manson.

Manson Girls criminal achieved infamy for his involvement in the Tate-LaBianca murders sensational 9 to 10 August 1969, a wave of mass killings that shook Los Angeles and the world because of its brutality.

Atkins died at the institution in September 2009, after being denied a compassionate release on despite suffering a fatal disease. In his 40 years in prison, Atkins was denied parole 17 times and sometimes compassionate release twice. Patricia Krenwinkle has been denied parole 11 times.

The heinous nature of the Tate-LaBianca murders and celebrity of his former cult guru permanent seems to have convicted Charles Manson Manson girls to a life behind bars. They originally were sentenced to death, but the California Supreme Court overturned the death penalty with the result that all death sentences were vacated in 1972.

The 60-year-old Leslie Van Houten was convicted of murdering his grocery Leno LaBianca and his wife Rosemary in the morning of August 10, 1969, the day after other members of the Manson family brutally murdered star Sharon Tate film, three of his friends and the caretaker of the property rented Benedict Canyon Tate 10050 Cielo Drive.

The wife of filmmaker Roman Polanski, Tate was eight and a half months pregnant at the time she was killed, and Susan Atkins stabbed to death after she had pleaded for the life of her unborn baby. By law, Tate and her unborn child Polanski, Paul Richard Polanski, is not among the victims.

The crime scene and the coroner’s report revealed that an unspeakable orgy of violence had occurred.

Source: Associatedcontent

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