Leslie van Houten, the youngest member of the Charles Manson cult, is being considered for parole again, fifty years after she was convicted of fatally stabbing two people at the age of 19. Ryan Brooks reports.
The youngest member of the infamous Charles Manson cult has been recommended for release by a California parole board.
Leslie Van Houten was convicted of fatally stabbing grocer Leno LaBianca and his wife Rosemary in 1969, when Van Houten was 19.
Those killings took place a day after she and other members of Manson's mostly female 'family' of followers stabbed and killed pregnant actress Sharon Tate and four other people.
Van Houten's spent four decades in prison serving a life sentence for the cult's killing spree.
Wednesday (January 30) marked the third time the panel has recommended Van Houten for parole, and the latest of 22 attempts to persuade that panel she be released early.
Her attorney is optimistic.
"The fact that they said that her parole suitability was overwhelming is gonna make it a lot easier to get past the governor."
Van Houten's release was blocked twice by former governor Jerry Brown.
However now after a review, the decision will fall to new governor Gavin Newsom.
He may also send the grant back for review or take no action, in which case it will move forward.
LaBianca's grandson spoke to local TV on Wednesday.
"So yesterday, I get off the phone at the parole hearing, and the first thing that I do is I lay down on my couch, start bawling."
Manson himself died in prison in 2017 at the age of 83.
Prosecutors in 1969 said the murders were part of a plan to incite a race war.
Though he's one of the 20th century's most notorious criminals, he did not personally kill any of cult's victims.
Instead, he was found guilty of ordering their murders.
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