Will the killer be released? Charles Manson's Youngest Accomplice may be Released

She got behind bars as a blooming 19-year-old girl, and may be released as an emaciated 69-year-old woman. After almost half a century of imprisonment, the youngest of Charles Manson's "Family" sect was recommended for parole.

Why the authorities made such a decision about a convict in one of the most high—profile criminal cases of the twentieth century, and where she will spend the rest of her life - find out the details from our material.Leslie Van Houten is serving a life sentence for her involvement in a high-profile serial murder case in August 1969, when she was just 19 years old.Leslie during her parole hearing in 1989

The California Board of Parole has once again recommended that Leslie be released from prison. But the final decision on the pardon should be made by the Governor of California Gavin Newsom (Gavin Newsom). The review process can take up to five months.Van Houten has tried several times to convince the prison administration to release her. She was among the clan of the "Manson Family", whose members killed at least 9 people, including the wife of the famous film director Roman Polanski. They also stabbed a rich grocer Leno la Bianca and his wife Rosemary.Leslie van Houten leaves her parole hearing in 1978

At the trial, the girl confirmed that she inflicted 14 stab wounds to Rosemary in the back and buttocks. After the murder, she wrote messages on the walls with the victim's blood.Wedding photo of Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate

A day after that, a double murder occurred: the pregnant wife of director Roman Polanski, Sharon Tate, and four other people were stabbed to death at an estate in Los Angeles.

The sect of Charles Manson is one of the most terrifying cults. Manson began the creation of his clan in 1967, and young hippie followers, mostly girls, began to join him.

Most of them were from dysfunctional families or had some kind of tragedy or psychological trauma behind them. For example, Leslie van Houten, who grew up in a middle-class California family, became pregnant at the age of 17, her strict mother forced her daughter to have an abortion at a late date, after which she became depressed and addicted to drugs.

In the summer of 1969, Manson ordered his fans to kill, which was part of a plan to start a racist war. In 2019, the premiere of Quentin Tarantino's film about this deadly sect and its charismatic leader is planned.

Manson sent four of his followers—Susan Atkins, Linda Kasabian, Patricia Krenwinkel, and Charles "Tex" Watson to Beverly Hills, giving the address of movie actress Sharon Tate and ordering them to kill everyone who would be at home.