Her release had been expected after California Governor Gavin Newsom on Friday announced he would give up trying to deny Van Houten parole
Leslie Van Houten, once part of the “Manson family” that carried out Charles Manson’s orders in a killing spree that terrorized Los Angeles in 1969, was released from prison on parole on Tuesday after 53 years, her lawyer said.
In May a California appeals court overruled Newsom and found Van Houten was entitled to parole. The governor could have petitioned the California Supreme Court to review the case but opted against that because “efforts to further appeal are unlikely to succeed,” a spokesperson said. “She was a model prisoner from the day she entered prison,” Tetreault said. “She’s been involved in therapy for 40 years. She just she’s really a different person.”The parole board recommended Van Houten for early release five times since 2016, but she was denied three times by Newsom and twice by his predecessor, fellow Democrat Jerry Brown.
Van Houten was convicted of fatally stabbing grocery owner Leno LaBianca and his wife, Rosemary, in their Los Angeles home on Aug. 10, 1969. The words “Death to Pigs” and “Healter Skelter” - a misspelled reference to a Beatles song - were found scrawled in the victims’ blood on the walls and refrigerator.
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