Manson Family killer Leslie Van Houten’s victim’s daughter blasts parole decision

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Debra Tate speaks about her sister, actress Sharon Tate who was killed by the Manson family, during the parole hearing for Van Houten.
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In the early morning of Aug. 9, 1969, blossoming actress Sharon Tate was brutally murdered, along with four others, in a horrific crime orchestrated by Charles Manson and executed by his followers. The 26-year-old actress was pregnant at the time of her murder and only two weeks away from giving birth.
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Infamous convicted serial killer Charles Manson ironically never killed anyone himself. The icon of evil was a leader of a cult group called the "Manson Family," who he manipulated into carrying out horrific crimes. In this photo, he is being escorted to his arraignment on conspiracy-murder charges in connection with the Sharon Tate murder case.
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Bloodstains were left behind on the flagstone porch at the front door of the home of actress Sharon Tate in Los Angeles.
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80-year-old serial killer Charles Manson.
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This photo shows the living room where Sharon Tate was murdered on Aug. 9, 1969.
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Charles Manson followers (L-R) Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten walk to court to appear for their roles in the cult killings of seven people, including Sharon Tate's, in Los Angeles, California on Aug. 20, 1970. Atkins and Krenwinkel were present during Tate's horrific murder.
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Charles 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.
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Former 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.
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Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski's home, the Benedict Canyon estate, was tucked away in the canyons of Beverly Hills in a very quiet and secluded area, making it the perfect target for the Manson Family's brutal murder plot.
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Spahn Ranch was the primary residence of the "Manson Family" from 1968-1969. Charles Manson and his followers lived there rent-free in exchange for labor. While living at the ranch, Manson heard the Beatles' White Album for the first time and believed that the song Helter Skelter was about an impending race war.
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Charles Manson was sentenced to death for his long list of horrific crimes, yet due to a Supreme Court ruling against capital punishment, his sentence was commuted to life in prison.
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Linda Kasabian speaks at a press conference she held at the end of her 18 days on stand as a prosecution witness in the Sharon Tate murder trial on Aug. 19, 1970 in Los Angeles, California. Kasabian was present for the murder of Sharon Tate, but remained in the car during the whole murder, testifying in court that she never wanted to go, but feared Manson. Kasabian was given immunity for her testimony in court, which was the biggest key in finding Manson and his followers guilty.
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Followers of Charles Manson sit on the ground and speak with reporters outside of the courtroom where the Sharon Tate murder trial was being held in Los Angeles, California in 1971. During the trial, Manson, Patricia Krenwinkel, Susan Atkins and Leslie Van Houten all shaved their heads, which sparked followers to do the same.
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Two members of the Charles Manson "Family," Kitty Lutesinger (L) and Kathy Gillies (R), kneel on the sidewalk outside the Los Angeles Hall of Justice on Dec. 30, 1970, during the Sharon Tate murder trial. Members of the Manson cult maintained almost a continuous vigil for weeks, saying they'll wait "until Charlie is freed."
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In this handout photo from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Charles Manson, 74, poses for a photo on March 18, 2009 at Corcoran State Prison, California. Manson at the time was serving a life sentence for conspiring to murder seven people during the "Manson family" killings in 1969.
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The horrific crime scene was discovered the morning after the murder by Tate's housekeeper, Winifred Chapman. In this photo, the body of Sharon Tate is removed by detectives from her home on Cielo Drive in Beverly Hills, California on Aug. 9, 1969.
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Sharon Tate married film director Roman Polanski in 1968. At the time of her murder, Polanski was away in London. During the afternoon before her death, Tate had two friends over for lunch and confided in them how she was disappointed in her husband's delayed return since she was so close to giving birth.
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Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten is led to the courtroom in Los Angeles in which the jury found her guilty again of first degree murder and conspiracy in the 1969 Tate killings on July 6, 1978. It was the third time Van Houten had been tried for the murders. Van Houten was sentenced to death, but was commuted to life in prison.
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Charles Manson was known to manipulate vulnerable young adults to join his "family." Many of his followers were runaways with troubled backgrounds who were looking for a place to find a sense of belonging. In this photo, Manson is escorted by public defender Fred Schaefer as they attend preliminary hearings in the trial for the murder of Sharon Tate and others in Independence, California in December 1969.
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The Dec. 3, 1969, cover of the Daily News covered the story of Charles Manson being pinned to the Sharon Tate murders. Originally described as a "leader of a weird cult," Manson was taken into custody and linked to 11 murders in California, including Tate. Susan Atkins is alleged to have been in the Tate house during the killings while under a "hypnotic spell" cast by Manson. She pled not guilty to one of the 11 murders in Santa Monica Supreme Court and was not charged in the Tate killing.
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On Jan. 26, 1971, Charles Manson appeared on the cover of the New York Daily News after him and his followers were found guilty and faced death or life sentences.
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Charles "Tex" Watson (C) was a 24-year-old member of the Manson Family who played an instrumental role in the Tate murder. Watson cut the telephone lines to Tate's home and committed the first murder of the night, 18-year-old Steven Parent, who had no connection to Tate and was unfortunately in the wrong place at the wrong time. In this photo, Watson is shown in a courtroom at an extradition hearing on Feb. 16, 1970, McKinney, Texas.

PUBLISHED: April 15, 2016 at 2:08 p.m. | UPDATED: April 9, 2018 at 12:55 a.m.

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.

Former 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.

“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.

“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.

80-year-old serial killer Charles Manson.

Van Houten held Rosemary down while Patricia Krenwinkel and Tex Watson stabbed Leno.

MANSON FOLLOWER VAN HOUTEN GRANTED PAROLE

Then Van Houten took the knife and continued stabbing more than a dozen times.

Debra Tate speaks about her sister, actress Sharon Tate who was killed by the Manson family, during the parole hearing for Van Houten.

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.

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.'”

Charles 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.

The parole board cited Van Houten’s behavior behind bars as the reason for its decision Thursday.

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.

Ndillon@nydailynews.com