Her younger sister, Debra, also dedicated her life to victims’ rights and testified at countless parole hearings for the killers, demanding they never be released. In the decades since, some of Manson’s followers have died while others remain behind bars. Manson and his followers also killed two others - musician Gary Hinman and Hollywood stuntman Donald “Shorty” Shea - in separate, unrelated attacks Manson tied up the couple and left the others to kill them. The next night, Manson led a handful of followers, including Van Houten, to the home of wealthy grocer Leno LaBianca and his wife, Rosemary. As they made their way to the house, they encountered a teenager, Steven Parent, who had been visiting an acquaintance at the estate’s guesthouse, and shot him to death. 8, 1969, where they stabbed, beat and shot to death the young actress and her friends - celebrity hairstylist Jay Sebring, coffee heiress Abigail Folger and aspiring screenwriter Wojciech Frykowski. Members of the Manson “family” arrived at the Hollywood Hills home of Sharon Tate on Aug. She’s the only one of Manson’s followers who participated in the infamous Tate-LaBianca murders to go free.
On Tuesday, Leslie Van Houten was released after spending more than 50 years in prison for two of those murders. The killings remain etched in the American consciousness. LOS ANGELES (AP) - In 1969, Charles Manson dispatched a group of disaffected young followers on a two-night killing rampage that terrorized Los Angeles.
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