Leslie Van Houten, follower of Charles Manson, leaves prison after 53 years. Understand the case!

Leslie Van Houten, 73, was released from a California prison on Tuesday, July 11, after serving 53 years in prison for his role in two murders. According to her lawyer Nancy Tetreault, Leslie was taken into temporary housing.

In 1969, Leslie stabbed a woman multiple times in the stomach and “has been released for probation supervision,” the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said in a statement.

Days earlier, the governor Gavin Newsom announced that it would not appeal a court decision that determined that Van Houten could go on to serve his sentence on parole.

She is expected to spend a year in a halfway house, learning basic skills such as driving a car, going to the grocery store and getting a debit card, according to her lawyer.

WHAT LESLIE VAN HOUTEN DID

For participating in the murders of Leno LaBianca, a Los Angeles merchant, and his wife, Rosemary, in August 1969, Leslie was sentenced to life in prison.

The couple was killed in their home, and their blood was smeared across the walls. In court, Leslie described that, initially, she held Rosemary LaBianca with a pillowcase over her head while others stabbed her, and then she stabbed the woman herself about 15 times.

The day before, followers of manson they had killed the actress Sharon Tatewho was eight months pregnant, and four of her guests. Leslie did not participate in this crime.

Charles Manson died in prison in 2017, aged 83, of natural causes, after spending nearly half a century behind bars.

WHAT WAS THE CHARLES MANSON SECT LIKE

“Manson Family” was the term used to refer, in the 1960s, to the sect led by Charles Manson. He exerted great influence on his followers, manipulating them, and getting them involved in a series of crimes, such as murder.

The sect settled in Los Angeles, a former movie set, the Rancho Spahn. manson he intended to pursue a career as a musician, having learned to play the guitar while in prison (and he was certain that his moment of fame would come).

He became friends with Dennis Wilsonby the band Beach Boys, who ended up recording one of the ex-president’s compositions, Cease to Exist, with the title “Never Learn Not To Love”.

The Manson Family became a landmark of criminology and, for some experts, shows the ambiguity experienced during the late 1960s by hippies. The facts became a myth in the popular imagination and gave rise to several songs, series and films, such as the feature film Quentin Tarantino“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”.