That relative said it all. 53 years doesn't change the gravity of her crime.

I am disgusted by her release. She has steadfastly manipulated people to get out. She was initially given the death penalty. She admitted that she enjoyed stabbing poor Mrs. Labianca while Mrs. Labianca cried and called out for her husband who was already dead. Drugs are no excuse for her disgusting behavior. She does not deserve another chance. I am sickened by her release.

What a disgusting human being 🤮!…. How dare they let go free!., absolutely disgusting 🤮🤮… I can’t believe it!…

Deranged murderous filth. There is no justice for the poor victims. No one who does such a thing can be rehabilitated. She should hide in a hole somewhere in shame.

Horrific, just sad for the families who she killed.

I never thought I would see the day she got out except through death. This happened years before I was even thought of and I have read about the Manson Family for a long time and in my opinion, I don't think she should have been released. Yeah she's an old woman now, but she doesn't deserve to be free. Pure evil....then things they did.

If you think Leslie is so wonderful why don't you invite her to live with you.

Even if she's not a menace to society, she shouldn't be free, given what she did!

There should be no rehabilitation or freedom for anyone who commits premeditated murder of innocent people like the LoBiancas. Period

Her victims didn't get a 2nd chance, so unfair that horrible monster has been released 😤

As a society, we need to get past our fear of executing people whose crime warrants the death penalty. If we don't, there will come a time when we can't build prisons fast enough to house them. And why should we keep someone who murders for sport alive? Talk about wasting money! It makes no sense at all and just creates repeat offenders.

Who cares about her rehab, doesn't balance out the depraved murder

What an evil woman!! She should rot in jail 😡🤬

No Manson/Lo Bianca killers should have ever seen the light of day outside prison- they deserved the death penalty. The victims deserved justice.

The poor families 💔

That butcher is going to be nothing but trouble for the state of California. I mean, the property values anywhere in the vicinity will nosedive wherever the Manson fanatic settles down, and the 911 operators will be forever besieged with nothing but panic calls. For example, can you just imagine: "I can't even take my children out to play with that woman around!" or "I can't sleep nights with that killer loose in the neighborhood!" Well, California can have that one as Michigan doesn't want her.

So she got a masters degree of education free?! WTH???? There's something very wrong with this picture. The citizens should not have to pay for things like this. Wrong on every damn level! 😡

My heart goes out to all the family's! She should stay in prison until she dies

So she goes from getting the death penalty which is then becomes life in prison to getting released- only in California

I remember the Manson murders like it was yesterday. Terrible times.

True horrific crimes two of them with made with the Manson family. They did it with joy laughter and they did it because they could. They killed not one night but two innocent families and friends. They got caught and innocent unborn child was killed so easily with a knife from a woman who didn't care. They got sent to prison for life. One recently got paroled and I think they should stay in prison for the rest of their lives because of the opportunity for the ones they murdered wasn't given to them. Now just one got out the rest of them will be expecting the same thing 😡😡😡😡😡😡

Anyone who takes another life is a murderer in my opinion 😮

I bet that woman who advocated for her wouldn’t do that if she murdered her family members!! Wtf is wrong with people? That pos should rot in prison!!

An advocate for LVH ?! Who will advocate for those who lost their lives because of LVH?! Ok, she is an older being, what difference does that make? She's been educated at my and your cost and as a retired instructor I find that her degrees will mean zero to society at large. I am appalled at her release.

She should have remained behind bars for the rest of her life. What she did was far too heinous to ever see freedom.

This only gives hope to other convicted killers ie Chris Watts etc She was sentenced to life in prison not until she was rehabilitated. Ridiculous and disgraceful

How the F#@K do you get a Masters Degree in prison while the rest of us have to pay for it? This isn't right. Never mind the fact that she did what she did. WTF?

Whatever. Over half a century in prison. She’ll be dead in a few years anyway. Now how about releasing all the small time drug offenders. There’s still people serving decades in prison for marijuana “crimes”.

How nice she got an education in prison. and attended self help groups . I consider that a reward for a murderer, not rehabilitation. I can't imagine how she can be a benefit to society . She originally got the death penalty which is what she deserved. at what point does a brainwashed killer's brain change enough to be safe in society.? Has she expressed remorse? Forgiveness for this woman is up to God. I can't understand why she thinks she deserves freedom.

I don't care how old she is now and how she isn't a threat to society Sharon Tate never got the chance to grow old!!°

It's quite simple. Did the poor tortured victims get a second chance? It warms my heart that this savage got these degrees for free while so many out there cannot afford that luxury. They're going to set her up teaching her how to use a cell phone. atm, etc. Perhaps take a homeless person off the street who didn't savagely murder a woman claiming it felt like an orgasm and help them out. Impress me by giving Leno and Rosemary's life back as well but they can't do that. Pull the pain from their children/family had to live with imagining how much their parents suffered that night at the hands of these savages. It amazes me how many privilege's these monsters got in prison and how messed up the corrupted justice system is.

When do her victims get parole?

what a sick joke California has become

I wonder what it's going feel like holding a knife for the first time in 50 years. Huh Leslie ? If that's still your name! She was more helpful as a teacher in her endeavors to help the prisoners. I never thought her sentence should have been commuted from the electric chair to life with the possibility of parole! They skipped life without the possibility of parole . The more appropriate sentence!

This is terrible that she was granted parole, for all the victims and their families, absolutely b.s

Only in liberal California

She's only 73. She could possibly live FREE for another FORTY YEARS! The government will be taking care of her (that means all of us who killed nobody ) So she will have a nice relaxing retirement without having to work. Let that sink in.

That butcher is going to be a walking Black Plague wherever she goes.

Our justice system failed us.

She won't last long on the outside.

Unfair. The crime she committed was so hideous. She apparently held down the wife of the grocer they also killed while another stabbed her. What have those people done her? She should rot in jail.

These tragic families are trying to rebuilt their trust and letting go of their fears and pain over decades....and now THIS happens 😢

Shes out, but is she really free??

even though shes old and model prisoner,she shouldnt get another chance her victomes didnt and she did get a chance when she avoided the death penaltys,this was a horable murder spree

How is she going to make a positive contribution to society at her age as stated by her attorney? I don't think she will. At 73 you don't start anything. Only if she was completing some contribution started earlier in life.

She still should still be in prison

I was 18 and lived in Los Angeles when the Manson Murders happened. Since they were originally sentenced to death, life in prison without parole would have been the completely appropriate. I have been haunted by The Manson Family ever since. Now she'll have to see what God has to say about her evil actions.

She still does not deserve to get releeased. She murdered inocent people.

Van Houten , get her another 🎉 53 years 😑

LSD+bad people, many good people did horrible things under the influence of LSD and horrible influences.

So its her stellar prison record that impressed the parole board? She had to do right in prison because she was locked up, she couldn't go on a murderous rampage while in prison. She has already proven what she is capable of while free. Rosemary, you were a beautiful woman.

Wrong on so many levels.

She is institutionalize.. She is just going to go sit in a small room somewhere on the outside for the rest of her life... All the ppl and traffic out there today will flip her out.

A model prisoner is one who accepts their punishment. For example David Berkowitz AKA son of sam doesn't attend parole meetings "He doesn't think it's fair to families " I don't know he's tuned to Christ but I can only see his actions.

You murder someone and get released just doesn't make any sense

I am very pleased this woman has been given her freedom. She paid her dues. If you research her involvement, you might agree. I've been obsessed with this "story" since I was a kid. Sadie deserved to die in prison, Leslie does not. There are people these days who do much worse things and don't suffer nearly the same consequences. She was 19.... she is now 73.... I wish her the very best of luck in a world that is so outside the realm of her comprehension.... we all suffer in different ways.

Van Houten showed in 1969 what she's made of. No college degree or rehab program is going to change what she's made of. Her release back into society is utterly foolish.

She still served more time than what people currently guilty of murder. Not saying it's right but most don't get more than 20 years anymore

A killer lose in USA. Some News!😂

I cant believe this!!! She is not worthy; it is a lie She aint better.. Justice has not been served!!!. Put her back in prison!!!!!!

Who paid for her Bachelors and Masters degrees? I'm not impressed that she got degrees. What else did she have to do in prison? I know people working full time jobs trying to pay for college in order to get a degree, so they're studying and working. And the same people knowing that a Masters degree is financially out of reach. I know people who owe $100K in student loan debt they'll be paying off the rest of their lives. No biggie that this woman managed to get 2 degrees in her 53 years in prison that were paid for by the taxpayers. I am against the death penalty, but not life in prison. For what she did she should have remained in prison. She was able to do constructive things there and to even rehabilitate, but that doesn't mean she should have been allowed to leave.

She should never feel freedom she lost that with the murders she participated in that hasn’t gone away why does her crime go away… lol rehabilitated or not she committed the crime

U N B E L I E V A B L E !!!!!

She hasn’t aged well, for someone who is just sat in prison. Should have left her there.

I'll bet when she sees what the world has become after 50 years , she just wants to go back in prison.

There should be no excuse that she is a "changed woman." She should have to serve out her sentence no matter what but sadly these ppl escaped the death penalty. Our justice system failed the victims

cage the beast.

Let her get a taste of the real world. After all that time in prison it will kill her

Ironic and infuriating....I heard she took college courses while in prison? On the government's dime? I can't help but think back on the fourteen years it took ME to pay back my student loans. (Gosh, maybe I shoulda held up a bank) My hunch is that given the real world she will be coming back into.....and the adjustments she's going to have to make at her age? Finally...the huge steamer trunk of her own horrific history? She won't last too long on the outside...

Everyone has a choice to do the right thing.. To live well and look out for others. So, to go out and commit these despicable murders, with or without being under the influence of drink/drugs, they knew what they were doing. Age is irrelevant.. Still old enough to know it was wrong. Poor victims who never got to see the light of day again.. Our planet is riddled with dishonest and brutal people, living among us. Sad state of affairs.

The big question that should have come from the review board is; If someone came into your compound to stab one of your members to death, would you let them go free? 'Well...Charlie thinks that they're reablitated and wants to let them go'. I think that he would have mangled them to bits. I think that the victims family wants to do the same to her.

The sane woman has to pay for what the crazy woman did. Life without. Case closed.

Just like Patricia Hearst. She'll live rest of her life behind her rich family home.

Leslie🙏🙏🙏

Sound about right. - Jack the Ripper.

That savage should never have been rewarded with release!

She earned a murder degree also. Do the victims get paroled?

If shes. Released they beed to get her out of California to another state shes dangerious

I'm kinda conflicted about this. When she did her horrible crime she was a 19 year old kid now she's a 73 year old woman! I'm 67 and a totally different person in every way than I was when I was 19 ! I can tell you from my experience that people can and do Change. The person they just released is not the person they locked up 50 plus years ago I don't know about punishment, judgement, or justice! I'm not wise enough or arrogant enough to think I know the truth about such things. When we listen to our better Angels we realize that Mercy is always critically important! I don't know if it's right or wrong to let her go? I'll leave that to a higher power! But I don't have a problem with this I wish her well

Let her live with one of her supporters , so when she kills again , they knew it was coming ,,

She should've never been released out of prison in the first place !

I've personally known a woman like that one before, and I'm still baffled as to how she ever beat the murder rap. Anyways, luckily for the community , they had her committed to an asylum. Believe me, these types of people are as unstable and unpredictable as hell, and should never be exposed to the public. All I can tell you is that the last thing you would want to do is to turn your back on those people.

A life sentence is just that. She needed to stay behind bars for life!

She pulled 53 years, that is life. She is old and may not make it in the outside world. If she's not a threat to society, then what difference does it make? She pulled her time. She is basically let out to die.

Sooo many comments! This things are deeply analyzed by experts who have the authority to decide. Not by KZfaq users who think they have the answer to everything.

She should have to rot in prison

Good Luck to you Leslie!!! ❤✌🏻

Any money Leslie makes should go to the victims families.

Can we talk about the music in the beginning though? 😂😭😭 what in the hip hop remix is that intro? Loved it tbh 😫 made me laugh. Seriously though, I’m mad they released her.

Nobody wants her to make a positive contribution to this society. A lot of sad people out there tonite

Well she went from murder to 50 years in prison she can not be all there.

WHY? She’s a murderer there are young kids to this day that 3:55 get sentenced to life and they’re not going to be released. Why should she? Is it because of nostalgia let’s get real people she’s a murderer she did horrific things to the person

It seems that most people, at least the ones who comment on social media sites like this, want her blood. No mercy. Turn the other cheek or an eye for eye? Who is right?

Teaching? Yeah, let's let her around kids.

She should not have been let free......

SHE GETS OUT OF PRISION DO THE LABIANCAS GET OUT OFN THEIR GRAVES

She shouldn’t be free!

Its Disgusting that they let her out. 😠👎💩😒👎😳

She spent over 50 years in prison. She earned a bachelor and a master degree. The correctional facility should be about rehablitation instead of vengeance.

This crime spanned decades and touched people who weren't even alive when it happened. I knew who Charles Manson and the rest of them were before I knew anything about Sharon Tate, or any of the other victims. How sad is that?? I'm 45 and had no choice but to know the term "Tate-Labianca" before knowing about the victims at all, and who they really were. Just straight disrespect to decent humanity to let this person go free.