Of all the notorious celebrity deaths, suicides, and murders that have occurred throughout the annals of Hollywood history, none was as bizarre and gruesome as the murders that occurred on a warm night during the summer of 1969 in Benedict Canyon, a hilly suburb of L.A. They added: "Although the Governor states Van Houten's historical factors 'remain salient,' he identifies nothing in the record indicating Van Houten has not successfully addressed those factors through many years of therapy, substance abuse programming, and other efforts."Ī legal battle is expected to follow, and if the court's decision is upheld, the case will be assessed by the Board of Parole Hearings to consider any recent developments to consider and finalize the grant of parole.Helter Skelter! The Bible, The Beatles, The Pigs and a Girl Named Sharon "Van Houten has shown extraordinary rehabilitative efforts, insight, remorse, realistic parole plans, support from family and friends, favorable institutional reports, and, at the time of the Governor's decision, had received four successive grants of parole," the judges wrote. "Given the extreme nature of the crime in which she was involved, I do not believe she has sufficiently demonstrated that she has come to terms with the totality of the factors that led her to participate in the vicious Manson Family killings," Newsom said in 2020 when denying Van Houten's parole.Ī Tuesday opinion from the Los Angeles appeals court said there is "no evidence to support the Governor's conclusions." Gavin Newsom, who rejected Van Houten's release in 2020.
More than 50 years later, a California appeals court reversed an earlier decision by state Gov. She was initially sentenced to death, but her sentence was later commuted to life in prison. Van Houten, now in her 70s, is serving concurrent sentences of seven years to life following her conviction in 1971. She was 19 when she participated in the killings of grocery store owner Leno LaBianca and his wife, Rosemary. Leslie Van Houten, a Manson family member, was convicted for her participation in two murders in 1969.
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