Leslie Van Houten, 72, who stabbed Rosemary LaBianca 16 times in 1969 on Manson Family orders, has applied for parole 21 times since 1982. It's the fifth time a governor of California has overruled a recommendation for her parole.
Leslie Van Houten was among a group of Charles Manson's followers who broke into the home of Rosemary and Leno LaBianca on Aug. 10, 1969 and viciously slaughtered the couple.
"These hearings are very hard on her," Leslie Van Houten’s appeals lawyer, Rich Pfeiffer stated. It was the fifth time since 2016 that the 72-year-old former Manson Family follower has been recommended for parole.
Items coined as "murderabilia" range from artwork to fingernail clippings of serial murderers. Victim advocate Andy Kahan wants to stop criminals from profiting off their crimes.
Patrick Boos claims he had the notorious cult leader's ashes inserted into two tattoos on his head: An "X," which mimics the "X" that the cult leader carved into his own head, and the phrase "Helter Skelter."
Ariana Wolk, the granddaughter of Rosemary LaBianca, was found dead in her Colorado apartment with defensive stab wounds to her arms and hands and “sharp force injuries to her neck," authorities said.
The Manson Family's slaying of pregnant actress Sharon Tate and her friends in August 1969 shocked the nation, but just six months later there was another family murder with eerie similarities.
In the aftermath of the brutal slaughter of his pregnant wife, Sharon Tate, Roman Polanski was convinced the killer was someone he knew and began to suspect his celebrity friends of the heinous slayings.
