4:31 p.m. July 14, 2023: A previous version of this article referred to victim Steven Parent as a friend of Sharon Tate. He was a visitor to the property. Tate’s friend Voytek Frykowski was also ...

Leslie Van Houten, whose devotion to Charles Manson resulted in her participating in the brutal murders of a married couple inside their Los Angeles home in 1969, is free after spending 53 years in ...

LOS ANGELES — A California appeals court said Tuesday that Leslie Van Houten, who participated in two killings at the direction of cult leader Charles Manson in 1969, should be let out of prison on ...

As a scholar on cults, I have studied countless individuals and groups that have made headlines worldwide. The complex, highly controversial case of Leslie Van Houten, a former follower of Charles ...

Capping a decades-long quest for freedom, former Manson family member Leslie Van Houten was released from prison Tuesday after more than five decades behind bars for horrific murders that stunned the ...