{"id":72893,"date":"2023-07-08T13:29:55","date_gmt":"2023-07-08T17:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/leslie-van-houten-manson-family-killer-to-be-released-on-parole-after-newsom-drops-challenge-72893"},"modified":"2023-07-08T13:29:55","modified_gmt":"2023-07-08T17:29:55","slug":"leslie-van-houten-manson-family-killer-to-be-released-on-parole-after-newsom-drops-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/leslie-van-houten-manson-family-killer-to-be-released-on-parole-after-newsom-drops-challenge-72893","title":{"rendered":"Leslie Van Houten, Manson family killer, to be released on parole after Newsom drops challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A teenage Charles Manson follower, who was<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/true-crime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> convicted of killing<\/a> two people, will be a free woman at the age of 73 after five decades behind bars.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Leslie Van Houten, who was 19 when she joined the murderous cult and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/true-crime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">helped killed<\/a> Leno LaBianca and his wife Rosemary in 1969, will be paroled in the coming weeks, her lawyer Nancy Tetreault said on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/west\/california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Gov. Gavin Newsom<\/a>,\u00a0who stifled several previous efforts to free Houten, said, although he&#8217;s disappointed, he won&#8217;t ask the state Supreme Court to block parole this year.<\/p>\n<p>The governor\u2019s office said it was unlikely that the state\u2019s high court would consider an appeal of a lower court ruling that Van Houten should be released.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/charles-manson-follower-leslie-van-houten-recommended-early-release-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CHARLES MANSON FOLLOWER LESLIE VAN HOUTEN RECOMMENDED FOR EARLY RELEASE IN CALIFORNIA<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;More than 50 years after the Manson cult committed these <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/crime\/homicide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">brutal killings,<\/a> the victims\u2019 families still feel the impact,&#8221; Newsom said in the statement.<\/p>\n<p>Newsom and former Gov. Jerry Brown rejected five parole recommendations since 2016. The most recent was last February.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/danny-trejo-charles-manson-memoir\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>DANNY TREJO RECALLS MEETING CHARLES MANSON BEHIND BARS IN A NEW MEMOIR: HE WAS A \u2018SLICK LITTLE WIMP\u2019<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But Van Houten&#8217;s luck turned on May 31, when the state appeals court ruled 2-1 in favor of her parole.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The court&#8217;s decision noted her &#8220;extraordinary rehabilitative efforts, insight, remorse, realistic parole plans, support from family and friends&#8221; and favorable behavior reports while in prison in its decision.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She\u2019s thrilled, and she\u2019s overwhelmed,&#8221; Treteault said. &#8220;She\u2019s just grateful that people are recognizing that she\u2019s not the same person that she was when she committed the murders.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Van Houten could be freed in about two weeks, depending on how quickly the paperwork gets filed, and then she will go to a halfway house to learn basic life skills, such as using a cell phone, a computer, and ATM, among other new technology, according to her lawyer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, her upcoming release is re-traumatizing to the victims&#8217; families.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/lifestyle\/man-asks-wrong-objecting-wifes-chosen-baby-name-charles-manson-same-name-serial-killer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>MAN ASKS IF HE&#8217;S WRONG FOR OBJECTING TO WIFE&#8217;S CHOSEN BABY NAME CHARLES MANSON: \u2018SAME NAME AS A SERIAL KILLER\u2019<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My family and I are heartbroken because we\u2019re once again reminded of all the years that we have not had my father and my stepmother with us,&#8221; Cory LaBianca, Leno LaBianca\u2019s daughter, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My children and my grandchildren never got an opportunity to get to know either of them, which has been a huge void for my family,&#8221; said Cory La Bianca, who is 75.<\/p>\n<p>When Van Houten was 19, she and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/charles-manson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>other Manson followers<\/u><\/a> fatally stabbed the LaBiancas in their home and smeared their blood on the walls.<\/p>\n<p>She later described holding Rosemary LaBianca down with a pillowcase over her head as others stabbed her, before she grabbed a knife and cut her victim more than a dozen times.<\/p>\n<p>Van Houten was convicted in 1971 and again after a retrial in 1978. 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