Leslie Van Houten was just 19 years old when she was to kill Leno LaBianca and his wife Rosemary at their home in Los Angeles in 1969.
the Murder was a part of the seven murders Charles Mansons infamous sect had carried out in his “rasekrig” in the course of a few augustnetter in 1969.
Bestial murder
the Killing of La Bianca family were very bestial. During his statement in the courtroom explained to Van Houten that she held Rosemary down while sektmedlemmet Charles “Tex” Watson knivstakk man. After that he had also stabbed Rosemary he gave the knife to Van Houten, who during testimony she said knivstakk the woman at least 14 times.
“I took up one of the knives, and Patricia had a knife. We began to stab and cut up chick”, explained Van Houten.
After the couple was killed was the word “WAR” carved into the stomach of Leno LaBianca.
Van Houten was the youngest member of Mansons murderous sect, which was often referred to as a family.
In the years that have passed have Van Houten applied for parole 21 times, and been rejected all the times. But she does not give up, and searched recently again.
Knivstakk victim 14 times on the mission “the face”. Now she can be prøveløslatt Recommend parole
And now recommend a løslatelseskomité in California that she will be granted parole, writes Reuters. The setting should now be reviewed at a higher administrative level, and if it goes through there, arrive on the governor’s table.
This is the third time løslatelseskomiteen have recommended that Van Houten granted parole. At the first two opportunities have governor Jerry Brown refused to release her, and thus she sits still in prison.
Since the last time she got the application rejected has Jerry Brown been superseded as governor of Gavin Newsom, who will likely get the Van Houtens fate in their hands.
the Van Houtens defender, Rich Pfeiffer, believe it will be more difficult for Newsom to block a parole than it was for Brown.
Pfeiffer was satisfied with that løslatelseskomiteen let the weight of that Van Houten took “full responsibility” for his role in the killing.
– She chose to follow Manson. She chose to listen to him. And she acknowledges it, ” says Pfeiffer, according to news agency AP.
When Brown last blocked the Van Houtens parole recognized him, that she had been very young when she committed the murders, that she is described as a mønsterfange and that she had been abused by Manson.
Still, thought Brown that she gave Manson too much of the blame for the killings. In 2016 he referred also to a release of Van Houten as an “unacceptable risk to the community”, according to Rolling Stone.
Van Houten was originally sentenced to death for the killings, but in a third rettsrunde she received a sentence of life imprisonment.
Would start rasekrig
the Killings, Van Houten is convicted of was committed a few days after “The Manson Familiy”, as Mansons cult was referred to, carried out another brutal drapsraid.
8. august 1969 ba, Manson’s most loyal followers, to go to the house to director Roman Polanski and his pregnant wife Sharon Tate. Members were asked to kill everyone in the house.
the 26-year-old Tate and four of her friends were killed.
Manson was convinced that a violent rasekrig, where the blacks would rebel against the hvites supremacy, was in the making. The war came to end with the white race’s extinction. This belief was also the reason why Manson got his followers to kill. His goal was to start a rasekrig he called “Helter Skelter”, a term he took from the Beatles song of the same name.
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the Cult he led held on a farm outside Los Angeles, where they lived in a community, used drugs and participated in orgies.
No one knows certainly how many drapsofre Manson and his close aides have on the conscience, but the police and the prosecution think that there may be as many as 45.
It has been proven that the Manson family committed the seven murders in the Los Angeles area. Manson committed none of the murders himself, but instructed the “family”members to take lives.
After the killings, leaving the cryptic messages, written in blood.
No one released so far
So far, none of the persons who were convicted for having been involved in the Tate murders or the La Bianca-the killings have been released from prison.
Sharon Tate’s sister says that she doesn’t agree løslatelseskomiteens decision that Van Houten should prøveløslates.
– I just have to hope and pray that the governor will take the right decision, ” says Debra Tate.
Charles Manson himself died in november 2017, 83 years old.
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