Manson ostensibly ran his Family based on hippie-style principles of acceptance and free love. įrom August 1968, Manson and his followers were based at the Spahn Ranch. According to Van Houten, she became "saturated in acid" and could not grasp the existence of those living a non-psychedelic reality. According to Manson, "When you take LSD enough times, you reach a state of nothing, of no thought". He also controlled the taking of LSD, giving followers larger doses than he himself took. Manson decided when they would eat, sleep, and have sex, and with whom they would have sex. At this time, she phoned her mother to say she was dropping out and would not be making contact again. Van Houten, then aged 19, followed Share. The four broke up after jealous arguments, and Share left to join Charles Manson's commune. Manson Family Īfter a few months in a commune in Northern California, Van Houten met Catherine Share and Bobby Beausoleil and moved in with them and another woman during the summer of 1968. She had a period of interest in yoga and took a year-long secretarial course, but became a hippie, living at a commune. Van Houten stated that after this event, she felt very removed from her mother and harbored intense anger toward her. She said that later at age 17, she became pregnant and was ordered by her mother to undergo an abortion and to bury the aborted fetus in their backyard. She began taking LSD, Benzedrine and smoking hashish around age 15, running away for a time, but returning to complete high school. Her mother and father divorced when she was 14. She grew up in a middle-class churchgoing family along with an older brother and two adopted siblings, a brother and a sister, who were Korean. She is of Irish, English, Scottish, Dutch, and German descent. Van Houten was born on Augin the Los Angeles suburb of Altadena to Paul Van Houten and Jane (née Edwards).
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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. Her second trial ended with a deadlocked jury and a mistrial. Her conviction was then overturned in a 1976 appellate court decision which granted her a retrial. Anderson then ruled in 1972 that the death penalty was unconstitutional, resulting in her sentence being commuted to life in prison.
However, the California Supreme Court decision on People v. She was convicted and sentenced to death.
Van Houten 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. Leslie Louise Van Houten (born August 23, 1949) is an American convicted murderer and former member of the Manson Family.
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Louella Alexandria, Leslie Marie Sankston, Linda Sue Owens and LuluĬalifornia Penal Code Section 187, murder in the first degreeĬalifornia Penal Code Section 182–187, conspiracy to commit first degree murder ĭeath, commuted to life imprisonment with parole
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