Posted on 04/14/2016 5:09:28 PM PDT by CorporateStepsister
CHINO, Calif. -- A California panel recommended parole Thursday for former Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten more than four decades after she went to prison for the notorious killings of a wealthy grocer and his wife.
The decision will now undergo administrative review by the Board of Parole Hearings. If upheld it goes to Gov. Jerry Brown, who has the final word on whether the now-66-year-old Van Houten is released from the California Institution for Women in Chino.
Brown previously blocked the parole of former Manson follower Bruce Davis, citing the gravity of his offenses and his refusal to fully accept responsibility for his role in the murders of a stunt man and a musician.
Van Houten was "numb" after the parole board decision was made at the California Institution for Women, said her attorney Rich Pfeiffer.
Van Houten, a one-time homecoming princess, participated in the killings of Leno La Bianca and his wife Rosemary a day after other so-called "Manson family" members murdered pregnant actress Sharon Tate and four others in 1969.
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Maybe she’ll move to the east coast..
I remember his blank stare, it was scary and there’s little doubt he was a psychopath and I’m sure still is.
Back then there were a lot of young people that were looking for something other than the normal, Charlie offered that and sadly these people followed.
One point in VanHouten’s favor is that she stabbed the Labiancas after they were already dead. Apparently there is some evidence of this.
One point in VanHouten’s favor is that she stabbed the Labiancas after they were already dead. Apparently there is some evidence of this.
And she only stabbed Rosemary after Krenwinkle had killed her.
I hate the fact that some people are more valued then others ion our court system. I have a brother who committed murder he deserves the needle instead because the person was a homeless mentally ill woman not valued by society he got a 10 year and life on probation. its been 0ver 10 years since he killed the girl and the only reason he is still in jail is that he is stupid and commits more crime from jail.
every life is valuable and the way you show it is by giving the ultimate punishment when someone proves they don’t value life and they kill some one whether it be anger or money.
That’s an amazing story. Why did you kick her out? What was she doing?
Demonstrating once again, it’s ok to murder so long as you don’t murder an important Democrat. Kill a Republican or injure a Republican President - would weekends at home be ok?
Now she’s out...they can get a clear shot at her.
We reserved the right to refuse service to anyone. She was not welcome in the store. We catered to police and other gun users. Not crazies.
She was also kooky as all get out. She wore priest like robes with a hood, had that swastika scar on her forehead and had crazy empty eyes. . . I just did not want anyone associated with Manson in the store. We did not need her making scenes.
She'd come in and want to buy a gun and I'd tell her I was not going to sell her one. I'd tell her to get out and not come back, but every week, sometimes twice a week, she'd be back. She lived about a block away from our 22nd and J Street location. . . didn't drive, and often walked around. Sometimes she walked around carrying a sign saying "Free Charley!" or "Helter Skelter!" Sometimes she had a pile of hand outs saying the same thing, with details about how wonderful Charles Manson was, the nearest thing to Jesus Christ, etc., . . I wish I had kept some she nailed up on the trees and telephone pole in front of the store which I'd take down and toss. They'd probably be worth money on eBay these days!
Funny thing, we seemed to be a magnet for these "in the 1970s in the news" things. We were also visited and cased by the SLA, the Synbionese Liberation Army, the day before they robbed the Crocker Bank in Carmichael˘—a suburb of Sacramento—and killed Mrs. Myrna Opsahl during the robbery.
We did not even know they had been in the store until after they'd been killed and/or captured and the story was told, although I remember a bunch come in, including a couple that I recall wearing army fatigue like outfits which were probably Bill and Emily Harris, and an asian woman (Wendy Yoshimura) with a white gal (likely Patty Hearst). It turned out they were holed up about two blocks from our store and had thought to hit us to steal guns but decided we were too hard to hit because both of my clerks and I were armed, and there were cops in the store, plus access was limited through only one door. . . so they left.
Looking back, when we were interviewed by the FBI, they determined that I was showing a fully automatic AR-15 to two sheriff's deputies at the time—we had a class C, Federal Firearms license as a police supply which allowed us to have machine guns for police sales—and that might have been what changed their minds. When the story came out, they didn't say why they decided not to hit us, but I am thankful I was completely ignorant of their visit at the time. They never approached me, or either of my clerks. They merely looked at some of the used rifles and shotguns, looked at the handguns in the show cases and left.
You tell em old man, I swear what the hell is going on in our nation, I bet she is getting off easy cause she is a woman, just like Jodi Arias not getting the death penalty.
its maddening.
I knew two people who were part of the Manson Family. Went to high school with one, worked at a restaurant with another a few years later. They both came from very unhappy homes and I guess the Manson “family” gave them something to belong to. Neither were involved in the crimes, they were just part of the larger group.
The kid from high school wanted some of us to go up to Hollywood with him to meet his new friends, the “family”. We got the idea that is was a rock band of some sort, but he insisted it was just something called “the family”. Anyway he ran away from home to go live there. I think he’s mentioned once in Helter-Skelter as one of the younger teens living with the group.
Oh, well, that’s a relief.
Every one of them got slap on the wrist level guilty Plea bargains, if I recall correctly. . . 2nd degree murder being to worst, with a 15 year max, out in under seven? Something like that. Liberal judge and prosecutors who were sympathetic to their overall goals, I think. Even the one who held the shotgun who killed Mrs. Opsahl. . . Should have been felony 1st degree murder at the least.
She will join the BLM and other Soros funded movements. Prog Media will welcome her as the new darling for the left. She will be transformed into a heroine fighting for the oppressed and Gov Moonbeam will give her a chair at one of California esteemed Universities. From that apex she will vindicate her murderous behavior and thus become a saint in the progressive, move forward movement. I view it as a bowel movement... It stinks.
Now that’s a story. Wow.
One time in high school I was with my girlfriends on the way back from the beach, in topanga canyon looking at things in a hippie style shop. I had already read Bugliosi’s book a couple years earlier. I needed to use the restroom, and they pointed me to a little wooden hut across the alley from the old shop. I went in there, shut the door, and got a fright: on the back of the wooden door was painted in old, peeling, brownish red paint “Helter Skelter,” with some of the letters leaving drip marks beneath them. Knowing the Manson family spent a lot of time in Topanga Canyon, and seeing how old and peeling the paint was, it could have been one of them who painted it.
Weird, Pelham! See my previous post for my much much looser connection.
The Manson crimes might have been my first true crime story I followed, but much later. When it happened I was far too young and didn’t know. But in high school I read the Bugliosi book and it completely freaked me out, how local everything was. And when I went to Hollywood with my friends, we used to come back through Benedict Canyon and drive up to Cielo Drive and look in. At that time it looked the same as it did during the murders, and had the same address. Not long after, they bulldozed it and changed the address and full appearance of everything up there, even the road changed.
I knew a female artist that illustrated posters for trancendental meditation Guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. She was a gentle loving person and was dismayed by the killings from Manson and followers. She said she and many leading stars, bands partied with these people, she illustrated album covers for many of the bands in LA.
I toured the prison in Moundsville WV
and they showed a letter written by
Charles Manson to the warden asking
if he could be sent there because
he at least would be nearer to some
relatives. The warden’s reply was
four words long.
“When hell freezes over.”
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