Leslie Van Houten: A Friendship, Part 5 of 5
"I ask that I be shown the mercy I didn't give... and that is not easy in this parole board room but I am going to ask for it. I am who I say I am."
"I ask that I be shown the mercy I didn't give... and that is not easy in this parole board room but I am going to ask for it. I am who I say I am."
Huffington Post via LIFE.com | Posted 09.06.2009 | Home
Following the news that Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a follower of Charles Manson follower who tried to assassinate President Ford in 1975, will be relea...
John Waters | Posted 09.06.2009 | Entertainment
"Each act we did in that house, I take responsibility for," she testified in 2004, adding "I can't... place the blame on someone else. It was me."
John Waters | Posted 09.05.2009 | Entertainment
I've always secretly wondered if Leslie ever felt "cool" when she was with the Manson gang and I finally got up the nerve to ask. "Cool? We had no concept by then of any such possible word!"
John Waters | Posted 09.03.2009 | Entertainment
By now I certainly knew that what Leslie had done was anything but "art." Her participation in the La Bianca murders was a very real atrocity.
John W. Whitehead | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics
Charles Manson, the psychopathic killer responsible for the seven murders at this Hollywood Hills home, blamed the Beatles' White Album for the series of killings his "Family" committed.
John Waters | Posted 09.03.2009 | Home
I have a really good friend who was convicted of killing two innocent people when she was nineteen years old on a horrible night of 1969 cult madness.
Huffington Post | Posted 04.19.2009 | Media
California corrections officials have released a new photo showing a 74-year old Charles Manson. The infamous murderer's photo was taken for routine ...
John Waters | Posted 09.07.2009 | Entertainment