Savage mass murderer Leslie Van Houten, of the Manson “family,” was released today from prison; she’d been sentenced to justice, but politicians subverted justice

[“Manson Girl Leslie Van Houten was Recommended for Parole Again Today.”]

By David in TN
tuesday, july 11, 2023 at 4:50:00 p.m. edt

Leslie Van Houten was officially released today from the california state prison system. The late Vincent Bugliosi, who prosecuted the Manson gang, put out a new edition of Helter Skelter in 1994. Bugliosi predicted Van Houten’s likely eventual parole. She had participated in “only” one of the murder scenes.

This may be used as an excuse to let many more murderers be paroled from their “Life” sentences. Or rather, Life Until Parole.

Incidentally, Larry Green, the last surviving noi/Zebra killer still in prison, comes up for parole again in 2024. Van Houten’s release may be used to justify turning a Zebra killer loose.

[N.S.: Pax Romana wrote the following essay on the Manson murders in 2021.]

By Pax Romana
wednesday, november 10, 2021 at 11:58:00 p.m. edt

I remember it, like it was yesterday. It was a hot, humid August Saturday morning in Detroit in ‘69. I turned on our Zenith Television set to discover that something important had happened while we were sleeping.

All the national networks (we only had 3 back then) ABC, NBC, and CBS, had pre-empted regular broadcasting with concerned and exasperated reporting about what was being described like some nightmare about a murder house of horrors. News cameras were showing the front of the house. A slaughterhouse with spurious reports about people hanging from the ceiling, a pregnant woman whose stomach was slit open, and dead bodies everywhere. Something written on the door that reporters said looked like blood. And the name of an actress I never of before, but would later find out I had seen a year or two before in a movie called The Fearless Vampire Killers.

Early reports are often wrong and misleading, as most of these were, but as the truth eventually came into focus, just as nightmarish and horrific. Only to be repeated to an unfortunate couple a few days later.

The nation was captivated by the news, the horrific details, and subsequent trial. We all had pictured in our minds the terrible last moments and death struggles of each of the victims. We came to know them as if they were almost distant relatives. But finely it came to the proper conclusion, as the perpetrators were found guilty and sentenced to death. A proper ending and justice for the poor victims. It was over, and the nation had closure.

Then bleeding hearts in California had the death sentences commuted to life in prison. Then more trials, with the possibility of parole. And the national wound was opened again, and carried to some degree by many of us who remember.

Leslie Van Houten should have been executed a long time ago, and yet she goes on living, like most of the others, with the possibility to be free again. A temporary punishment, for crimes that sentenced their victims to painful deaths that were permanent and irrevocable.

Leslie van Houten at 73, and at about 20