After 53 Years in Prison, Leslie Van Houten – Ex-Manson Cult Follower – is Freed
After serving over fifty years of a life sentence for two brutal murders, Leslie Van Houten, a former follower of infamous cult leader Charles Manson, has been released on parole. At the age of 73, Van Houten was just 19 when she participated in the shocking murder of a Los Angeles grocer and his wife in 1969 as a member of the notorious “Manson family.”
California’s governors had previously blocked Van Houten’s parole on five occasions, but a recent decision by a state appeals court reversed their rulings, leading to her release. Van Houten, once a homecoming queen, holds the ...