Leslie Van Houten, a Charles Manson follower convicted in a 1969 killing spree, was denied parole for the third time in three years Monday. The California parole board in January recommended parole ...

Patricia Krenwinkel, a Charles Manson follower convicted in the Manson family murder spree and the longest-serving female inmate in the California prison system, will be up for parole consideration on ...

I’m an expert in cults, and I believe Patricia Krenwinkel should be free. She is a survivor of Charles Manson’s violent cult, and her actions over half a century ago don’t reflect who she is today: an ...

Governor Jerry Brown on Friday denied parole for former Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten, who was convicted of the 1969 killings of grocers Leno and Rosemary La Bianca at their Los Feliz home ...

The country was shocked — and gripped — when members of a cult known as the Manson Family brutally murdered actress Sharon Tate, who was eight months pregnant, and eight others in the summer of 1969.

A California panel recommended parole Thursday for former Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten more than four decades after she went to prison for the notorious killings of a wealthy grocer and ...

Nothing symbolized the death of the peace-and-love era more than the Manson murders in Los Angeles. In August 1969, a message scrawled in blood - "Pig" - marked the scene where actress Sharon Tate, ...

For those too young to remember, or need a short refresher, Charles Manson was a career criminal and amateur musician and songwriter. He lived on the fringes of Los Angeles in the 1960s after spending ...