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Patricia Krenwinkel, convicted with Leslie Van Houten in the Tate-LaBianca slayings, is denied parole at a 2011 hearing. For more than 50 years, relatives of Sharon Tate and Leno and Rosemary LaBianca vehemently pleaded with California governors and the state’s parole board: Never free any member of Charles Manson’s so-called family. “I’ve worked with Republican governors and Democrat governors, and …

In response to the news that former Charles Manson follower, Leslie Van Houten, was released on Tuesday after being confined to a California prison for her involvement in the 1969 murders of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, Debra Tate — the sister of Manson cult victim Sharon Tate — says it's "likely" that she'll kill again. In an interview with TMZ, …

Stabbed Labianca

Van Houten, 73, was serving a life sentence for her role in the 1969 murders of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca in Los Angeles. Newsom was “disappointed by the Court of Appeal’s decision to release Ms. Van Houten,” Erin Mellon, communications director for the governor’s office, said Tuesday in a statement. Rich Pfeiffer, another of Van Houten’s attorneys who has been …

SACRAMENTO, Calif — A California parole panel on Tuesday recommended for the fifth time that Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten be freed from prison, decisions previously rejected by two governors. Van Houten, 72, is serving a life sentence for helping Manson and other cult members kill Los Angeles grocer Leno LaBianca and his wife, Rosemary, in August 1969. Van …

LaBianca home sells for $1.875 million in Los Feliz

Call it a hot real estate market. Whatever it is, the house where Charles Manson’s followers killed Leno and Rosemary LaBianca in 1969 just sold for $1.875 million. On Aug. 10, 1969, a day after murdering actress Sharon Tate and four others in Benedict Canyon, Manson’s followers snuck into the home of supermarket executive Leno LaBianca and his wife, Rosemary, …

Market Leno Labianca

Irving Kanarek, the hard-charging and bombastic criminal defense attorney who represented Charles Manson and argued through the decades that his notorious client had nothing to do with the gruesome Tate-LaBianca murders, has died at age 100. When the state’s star witness, Linda Kasabian, was called to the stand, Kanarek snapped: “I object, your honor, on grounds this witness is not …

The name of Travel Channel show host Zak Bagans has emerged from the murky depths of the public records. Although news leaked out this summer that the “Ghost Adventures” star had bought the house where Manson family members murdered Leno and Rosemary LaBianca some 50 years ago, the sale wasn’t finalized until September. Numerologists may feel free to weigh in …

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A California appeals court on Friday denied the latest parole bid by Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten. Van Houten was 19 when she and other cult members fatally stabbed the LaBiancas, carved up Leno LaBianca’s body and smeared the couple’s blood on the walls. The slayings came the day after other Manson followers, not including Van …