Leslie Van Houten served more than 52 years for the Manson family’s LaBianca murders; she is now entirely free, discharged from parole in August 2025 ...Saudi Arabia

Leslie Van Houten, a former follower of cult leader Charles Manson, was released on parole in  July 2023 after spending more than 52 years in prison for her role in the 1969 LaBianca murders.

Two years later, the California native reached another major milestone after marking the end of her court-ordered supervision.

“Leslie is very pleased that her hard work in reforming herself in prison over the past five decades has been recognized by the parole board and appellate court,” Van Houten’s attorney, Nancy Tetreault, told NPR, adding that she would be transferred to a transitional living facility.

In August 2025, Van Houten reportedly ended her court-ordered supervision after completing the requirements for her parole discharge.

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Leslie Van Houten’s Involvement with the LaBianca Murders

Van Houten was 19 years old when she participated in the murders of supermarket executive Leno LaBianca and his wife, Rosemary, inside their Los Angeles home. She was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder and one count of conspiracy.

According to court documents cited by the outlet,, Manson promoted the idea of “an impending bloody, civilization-ending, worldwide race war between Blacks and Whites” and used this ideology to influence his followers and justify violence.

In August 1969, Manson and members of his group began carrying out a series of gruesome murders.

In testimony and interviews, Van Houten described how she was taken to the LaBiancas’ residence with fellow Manson Family members Patricia Krenwinkel and Charles “Tex” Watson.

She held Rosemary LaBianca down while the others stabbed her, then stabbed the victim more than a dozen times, according to NPR.

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“The next morning, Mrs. LaBianca’s teenaged son discovered Mr. LaBianca’s body with a knife stuck in his neck, a carving fork protruding from his stomach, and the word ‘war’ carved into his skin,” California Governor Gavin Newsom noted in his reversal.

Van Houten was arrested in November 1969. After her original conviction and death sentence were overturned and subsequent court proceedings followed, she was convicted again in 1978 and eventually sentenced to seven years to life in prison after years of court proceedings and reversals.

Now 77, Van Houten is free from parole supervision for the first time since her release from prison after more than five decades behind bars.

While Van Houten was the first woman from the Manson Family to be released on parole, Steven “Clem” Grogan, who participated in the 1969 murder of Donald “Shorty” Shea, was the first Manson Family member convicted of murder to be freed.

Related: Mark David Chapman has been denied parole 14 times since killing John Lennon in 1980; he is still at New York’s Green Haven prison and is eligible again in February 2027

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