Leslie Van Houten, a Charles Manson follower, hopes for parole in 19th try at age 60

AP ^ | 7/5/10 | Staff

[MissTed]

At this point, I'd say it's up to the family of the La Bianca's.

[Doogle]

rot

[stinkerpot65]

Sad. All these girls came from broken homes. Doesn’t excuse what they did, but it is still sad.

[Artemis Webb]

Ms Van Houten may now be a decent person and would likely be a nonviolent citizen. However since the La Bianca’s are still dead she can rot behind bars for all I care.

[Artemis Webb]

agreed

[pnh102]

Why does parole even exist for violent criminals?

[outpostinmass2]

How about the innocent people she is going to be living next to once she gets out? Do they get a say? The crimes she committed are unforgiveable and she was given the death penalty. In fact this is the exact reason why we have the death penalty because eventually these monsters can be let out of prison.

[I cannot think of a name]

The only reason she’s still breathing air is because of an activist Supreme Court. If there were actual justice in this country should would have been worm food nearly 40 years ago.

[whitedog57]

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/manson/houten1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/manson/mansondefendants.html&h=219&w=200&sz=34&tbnid=7z-rudyzoI05uM:&tbnh=107&tbnw=98&prev=/images%3Fq%3DLeslie%2BVan%2BHouten&usg=__u1FVsnxQgGWQRdBKN1k9vbo-SVk=&sa=X&ei=rT0zTJiyN4WdlgfL5IG-Cw&ved=0CDoQ9QEwBg

She is the only one of the bunch that was “easy of the eyes.”

But a total psycho.

[wideawake]

I've said it before and I'll say it again: someone who was truly repentant and remorseful over the random thrill killing of several of their fellow human beings would never seek parole.

She would acknowledge a life sentence as a just and deserved punishment for her crimes and she would be resolved to pay the full penalty.

The fact that she thinks she deserves parole tells us something.

The fact that she fought for a new trial just six years after her original sentencing tells us something.

The fact that she was caught in an escape plot in 1981 also tells us something.

She really doesn't think she belongs in prison.

[I cannot think of a name]

This also total BS!!!!

“Charles “Tex” Watson (Tried Separately)

In August 1969, Watson became the principal killer in the Tate-LaBianca murders. Announcing his arrival at the Tate residence, Watson said, “I am the Devil and I’m here to do the Devil’s business............”

...He married a Norwegian wife and has three children.”

Boy, really a rough life for this guy at the taxpayer’s expense!

[cherry]

impulsiveness of youth....and for that....a whole life wasted...no marriage, no children, no career, no volunteering for the Red Cross, no grandchildren, no helping their elderly parents.

hate me, but its time to let these women go home to be senior citizens......they were drug crazed cult followers....

[ErnBatavia]

This morning, one of our local Palm Springs area TV stations did a phone interview with one of her jurors, who now lives in the Coachella Valley......he thinks she should be paroled, because she didn't really murder Mrs. LaBianca; she only stabbed her multiple times after she was dead.

Sheesh....

[Cheetahcat]

Why were all these people not in the Gas Chamber long ago??

[ken5050]

One would normally assume that a sentence of “life without parole” would be a viable choice. It’s usually offered to a perp for confessing, sometimes revealing details of where the body is, etc, and also spares the sate the huge expense of a capital trial. Everyone who advocates it forgets that in oder for it to be a viable alternative that a defendant will jump at, there has to be an active death penalty statute, with a reasonable time frame for judgement. In Florida, it works well...and we are also executing the worst..

[Riodacat]

its time to let these women go home to be senior citizens......they were drug crazed cult followers....

Sorry, but she's a murderer (or murderess). She and the others should have received the death penalty and saved the taxpayers some money.

[Frantzie]

Did Watson get parole?

[Russ]

They have to parole her. Obama will need all the votes he can get in 2012.

[I cannot think of a name]

It doesn't say he did, but don't California prisons have some kind of “vist” rule?

What's next, time off to appear on Dancing with the Stars?

[Riodacat]

On the night of August 10, 1969, Manson drove Van Houten, Tex Watson, Patricia Krenwinkel, Susan Atkins, Steve Grogan, and Linda Kasabian to an address in Los Feliz, the home of Rosemary and Leno LaBianca. Manson entered the house with Watson and handed him the ropes around his neck; he then left the house, instructing Krenwinkel and Van Houten to go inside and join Watson. The house had previously been cased in a process they called "creepy-crawling."
Krenwinkel and Van Houten found Rosemary LaBianca in a bedroom, to which she had retired while her husband had fallen asleep while reading in the living room. Van Houten put a pillowcase over Rosemary LaBianca's head, and the two women tied the electrical cord from a lamp around her neck. LaBianca started struggling; meanwhile, her husband, who had been tied up in the living room, started screaming as Watson began stabbing him. Rosemary grabbed the lamp and swung it at Van Houten, who fought with her and knocked the lamp away. Van Houten then held LaBianca down while Krenwinkel tried to stab her in the chest, but the blade bent on LaBianca's clavicle. Van Houten called for assistance from Watson, who entered the bedroom and took charge. Van Houten exited the room and stood in the hallway, staring into an adjacent empty room.
Watson then stabbed Rosemary LaBianca several times, found Van Houten, handed her the knife, and told her to "do something." Van Houten proceeded to stab Rosemary 16 times in the lower torso. The autopsy showed that several of the wounds had been inflicted post-mortem. Van Houten then wiped the premises down for fingerprints, changed into LaBianca's clothes, and took food from the refrigerator before leaving the house.

This bitch (Van Houten) was an active participant in this massacre and there's nothing to suggest she should be shown any compassion or consideration.