Leslie Van Houten, a member of the family of the notorious Manson, goes before the California parole board on Tuesday the 19th time since she began serving a life sentence for murder, her lawyer told Media. Van Houten was imprisoned in the California Institution for Women for more than three decades after its final verdict on first degree murder charges in 1978, carried a life sentence.
According to prosecutors, Van Houten - who went to the "Lulu" as one of the followers of Charles Manson - have helped to keep Rosemary LaBianca while other family members Manson LaBianca with a knife and her husband, Leno LaBianca to death in 1969.
Van Houten told Media in a "Larry King Live" in 2002, that she herself Rosemary LaBianca with a knife 16 times. Van Houten was 19 at that time.
"The Protocols of the autopsy showed that Tex (Charles" Tex "Watson), who had a fatal wound, but I have made, and I tried to hold her down for Pat Krenwinkel," Van Houten said the king. "I called Tex, because we could not kill her. You know it - morally, I think I did."
Van Houten, along with Manson, Krenwinkel and Susan Atkins, were convicted of murder and conspiracy to commit murder and sentenced to death in 1971.
But the original conviction of Van Houten was abolished in 1976, on the grounds that the judge erred in not granting mistrial after her attorney Ronald Hughes, disappeared and was later found dead.
In the first case reviewed by Van Houten, the jury could not reach a verdict and she was released on bail within a few months. But in her third trial in 1978 was convicted of first degree murder.
During his appearance in 1994 Media, Van Houten said the King family life Manson attracted her.
"I met these people. They said that they came from a commune in Los Angeles, where they lived during the day and at the moment, and it was a lot of Tim Leary kind of philosophy of 'Be Here Now".
She called Manson "opportunist brutal, the worst kind", but it quickly to stress that it takes the blame for its role in the crimes.
The representative of the prison, Lieutenant Robert Patterson told Media in 2009 that Van Houten is a model inmate in prison involved in the programs and mentor to other prisoners at the college, programs of medical institutions.
