Nick Ut/APFormer Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten confers with her attorney Rich Pfeiffer, not shown, during a break from her hearing before the California Board of Parole Hearings at the California Institution for Women in Chino, Calif.
The Manson Family cult murdered her father and stepmother in 1969, and now Cory LaBianca wants confessed killer Leslie Van Houten to remain locked up.
In a rare telephone interview with the Los Angeles Times, the grieving daughter said she “very much disagrees” with the parole board’s decision Thursday to recommend Van Houten’s release after 19 prior denials.
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LaBianca said she plans to ask California Gov. Jerry Brown to block the move.
“We all need to be held responsible for our behavior,” she told The Times. “The least we can do, for someone who commits a crime against another human being, is to keep them in jail.”
“Maybe Leslie Van Houten has been a model prisoner,” she added. “But you know what, we still suffer our loss.”
She said it was only recently that her 6-year-old grandson asked how her father died, and the horror of the murder spree came flooding back.
AP80-year-old serial killer Charles Manson.
“It doesn’t end. This doesn’t end,” she said.
Van Houten, 66, was 19 when she joined Manson and other members of his twisted gang on a trip to commit random murder as a means to start an apocalyptic race war.
She helped storm the LaBianca’s house in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles and found Rosemary LBianca in a bedroom separate from where her husband Leno LaBianca was found.
Van Houten held Rosemary down while Patricia Krenwinkel and Tex Watson stabbed Leno.
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Then Van Houten took the knife and continued stabbing more than a dozen times.
The victims’ blood was used to scrawl slogans on the walls. The Manson followers did the same thing the previous night when they killed actress Sharon Tate and four others in a Benedict Canyon home and painted messages on the walls in blood.
Nick Ut/APDebra Tate speaks about her sister, actress Sharon Tate who was killed by the Manson family, during the parole hearing for Van Houten.
Cory LaBianca did not attend Van Houten’s parole hearing at the California Institution for Women in Chino on Thursday, but her cousin appeared in person and her son listened by phone, she said.
“He started crying. My son is 41 years old,” LaBianca said. “He stood, crying, and told the [PAROLE]commissioner, ‘I can’t listen to this.'”
The parole board cited Van Houten’s behavior behind bars as the reason for its decision Thursday.
George Brich/APCharles Manson followers, from left: Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten, shown walking to court to appear for their roles in the 1969 cult killings of seven people.
She has sewn quilts for the homeless, run self-help groups for fellow prisoners, earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees and facilitated victim-offender reconciliation sessions.
Her lawyer Rich Pfeiffer said she the release was long overdue.
