Leslie Van Houten reacts after hearing she is eligible for parole during a hearing in 2017. Six years later, she was released from prison. (Stan Lim / Associated Press) To the editor: Where is the ...

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. Van Houten “was ...

Leslie Van Houten, a former Charles Manson follower and convicted murderer, was released from a California prison on Tuesday, a prison spokesperson told CNN. Van Houten was released to parole ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten, a former homecoming princess who at 19 helped carry out the shocking killings of a wealthy Los Angeles couple at the direction of the ...

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 ...

Leslie Van Houten, whose devotion to Charles Manson resulted in her participating in the brutal murders of a married couple inside their Los Angeles home in 1969, is free after spending 53 years in ...