Leslie Louise Van Houten is an American convicted murderer and former of the Manson Family. She is in prison with the criminal penalty of life imprisonment with the dictation of death because of her high-level criminal status of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca.
Leslie Van Houten was arrested charged in relation to the 1969 killings of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca. She convicted and sentenced to death. The California Supreme Court decision on People v. Anderson then ruled in 1972 that the death penalty was unconstitutional, resulting in her sentence being commuted to life in prison. Her second trial ended with a deadlocked jury and a mistrial. At the third trial in 1987, she was convicted of two counts of murder and one count of conspiracy and sentenced to seven years to life in prison. She was denied parole by panels of state commissioners 19 times before receiving recommendations for parole in 2016, 2017, and 2019. California governor Jerry Brown overruled the board recommendations and denied parole on the first two of those occasions and the third recommendation was overruled by California Gov. Gavin Newsom on June 3, 2019.
Leslie Van Houten was born on August 23, 1949, in Altadena, California. She holds American nationality. Her birth sign is Leo. She was born in a middle-class church-going family. At the age of 15, she started taking LSD, Benzedrine, and hashish and 17, she became unruly and pregnant. Her mother forced her to abort the child after which she developed high anger towards her mother. She attended Monrovia High School, where she was named as the Homecoming Princess and she also was a cheerleader.
Leslie Van Houten was born to a father named Paul Van Houten and a mother named Jane Houten. Her father was an automobile auctioneer and her mother was a teacher. At the age of 14, her parents divorced. She grew up along with an older brother and two adopted siblings, a brother and a sister.
Leslie Van Houten is 70 years old. She has an average body. Her height is 5 feet 4 inches.
Leslie Van Houten was a married woman. She married William Syvin on August 23, 1982. The couple got divorced within 2 months on October 26, 1982.
Leslie Van Houten estimated net worth of $10k USD which she earned by her illegal acts. She had no such money from her salary and she used to spent her amount in illegal acts.