LOS ANGELES (AP) — Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten walked out of a California prison Tuesday after serving more than 50 years of a life sentence for her participation in two infamous murders ...

The youngest Charles Manson family member is a free woman. Leslie Van Houten has been "released to parole supervision,” the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said in a statement ...

Leslie Van Houten reacts after hearing she is eligible for parole during a 2017 hearing at the California Institution for Women in Chino. (Stan Lim / Associated Press) Leslie Van Houten was released ...

Fury is growing over the decision to release one of the women who participated in the infamous Manson murders. Leslie Van Houten was "released to parole supervision,” the California Department of ...

Leslie Van Houten spent 53 years in prison for the murders of Los Feliz grocer Leno LaBianca and his wife, Rosemary, at their home in 1969 Leslie Van Houten, the youngest of Charles Manson's former ...

As a scholar on cults, I have studied countless individuals and groups that have made headlines worldwide. The complex, highly controversial case of Leslie Van Houten, a former follower of Charles ...

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 ...

Leslie Van Houten, who served more than 50 years in prison on murder and conspiracy convictions in the Charles Manson “family” 1969 killings of Rosemary and Leno LaBianca that shocked Hollywood and ...

To the editor: Where is the justice for Rosemary and Leno LaBianca, their family and our society in Leslie Van Houten’s parole? Anti-death-penalty advocates constantly assure us that life in prison is ...

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 ...

Leslie Van Houten was released from prison Tuesday, something I never believed would happen. Not because it shouldn’t, but because it has always seemed to be political suicide to allow it. Part of the ...