CHINO, Calif. — The aging inmate, her face wrinkled with time and her gray hair drawn in a bun, listened as her lawyer argued that the Leslie Va...
AP | LINDA DEUTSCH | Posted 05.25.2011
LOS ANGELES — Leslie Van Houten, the one-time Charles Manson follower long seen as the most likely of his ex-acolytes to win freedom someday, wa...
Huffington Post | Billy Silverman | Posted 05.25.2011
A weekly round-up of LA's big losers. To see the winners click here. Lonnie Franklin Jr.: After eluding police for 25 years, the alleged "Grim ...
Geri Spieler | Posted 11.17.2011
It seems it is the season for paroling women who attempt to assassinate our presidents and those who commit heinous crimes.
John Waters | Posted 05.25.2011
"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."
John Waters | Posted 05.25.2011
"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 05.25.2011
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 05.25.2011
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 Waters | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
AP | LINDA DEUTSCH | Posted 05.25.2011