Van Houten, 73, is serving a life sentence for helping Manson and members of the cult leader's “family” kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca in August 1969.
A California appeals court reversed Gov. Gavin Newsom’s decision to deny parole for Leslie Van Houten, a follower of cult leader Charles Manson.that she could be released from the California Institution for Women within a couple weeks, pending parole board reviews and paperwork. Van Houten will then spend about a year living in a halfway house as she learns skills necessary for modern daily life, such as using a smartphone and getting a debit card, Tetreault said.
Beginning in 1968, she started living lived on Spahn Ranch in Chatsworth, a headquarters for Manson and his followers. Though Van Houten was involved in the LaBianca murders, she was not in attendance the previous night, when Manson’s followers killed five people at the Benedict Canyon home of film director Roman Polanski, including his pregnant wife, actress Sharon Tate; and her friends Jay Sebring; coffee heiress Abigail Folger; Folger’s boyfriend, Voytek Frykowski; and Steven Parent.
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