Leslie Van Houten
Leslie Louise Van Houten is an American convicted murderer and former member of the Manson Family. She was arrested and charged in relation to the 1969 killings of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca. During her time with Manson’s group, she was known by various aliases such as Louella Alexandria, Leslie Marie Sankston, Linda Sue Owens and Lulu. At her third trial in 1978 she was convicted of two counts of murder and one count of conspiracy and sentenced to seven years to life in prison.
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Leslie Louise Van Houten is an American convicted murderer and former member of the Manson Family. She was arrested and charged in relation to the 1969 killings of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca. During her time with Manson’s group, she was known by various aliases such as Louella Alexandria, Leslie Marie Sankston, Linda Sue Owens and Lulu. She began taking LSD, Benzedrine and smoking hashish around age 15, running away for a time, but returning to complete high school. At 17, she became pregnant and was forced by her mother to undergo an abortion. Her mother informed her sometime later that the procedure could not be referred to as an abortion as the fetus was too mature. She instructed the girl to bury the late term aborted baby in their backyard. At her third trial in 1978 she was convicted of two counts of murder and one count of conspiracy and sentenced to seven years to life in prison. In relation to her case, high courts, parole boards and the state governor have said that an inexplicable or racial motive for murder could merit exemplary punishment and outweigh any evidence of subsequent reform. In 2013, she said that that she thought that Manson’s attitude was that she looked to 14-year-old Dianne Lake as the epitome of what women were supposed to be in the system of values of the system. She also said that she felt very removed from her mother and harbored intense anger toward her. She had a period of interest in yoga and took a year-long secretarial course, but became a hippie, living at a commune.
Charles Manson had been a delinquent from an early age. In his late teens, Manson was released from an institution to live with relatives in a West Virginia town. He was generally regarded as a criminal braggart, though some found him very charming and likable. In 1967, Manson completed the sentence and, protesting to prison staff that prison was his home, was released at age 32. He aspired to success as a singer-songwriter. He had a brief marriage to \”a cute popular girl\” before a stint as a pimp ended with a ten-year sentence. His IQ was slightly above average. At every lecture, Manson’s opinion was that every woman was repetitively lecturely opinioned to Bobby Beausoleil and other followers. At the Spahn Ranch, Manson ostensibly ran his Family based on hippie-style principles of acceptance and free love, where they were isolated from any other influences. In June 1967, he had a number of recording sessions but was not promising enough for a recording contract for a record deal. From June to August 1968, he was preoccupied with becoming a pop star. He also controlled the taking of LSD, giving followers larger doses than he himself took. According to Manson, he said: ‘When you take LSD enough times, you reach a state of nothing, of no thought\”. According to Van H outen, she could not grasp the existence of those living a non-psychedelic reality. At this time, she phoned her mom to say she was dropping out and would not be making contact again.
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