For almost five decades, Leslie Louise Van Houten (prisoner W-I3378 at the California Institution for Women in Chino) has appeared, with relentless regularity, before the California parole board in ...

As Lyle and Erik Menendez await their parole hearing set for August after serving more than three decades for the shotgun murders of their parents in Beverly Hills, the attorney for another convicted ...

Van Houten and other Manson followers killed the LaBiancas in their home in August 1969, smearing their blood on the walls after. Van Houten later described holding Rosemary LaBianca down with a ...

Dr. Cory Franklin has expertise in intensive care but not the legal or criminal fields. His opinion in his recent op-ed has a glaring omission (“Should former Manson family member Leslie Van Houten be ...

Those who want to see the abolishment of capital punishment, and more liberal parole guidelines, claim such a change would create a more civilized society. Perhaps, but a more civilized society ...

Board recommends parole for Leslie Van Houten, 19 at the time of the murders. — -- Former Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten, now 66, was "numb" when she learned a panel recommended her ...