Van Houten has said she was traveling the California coast when she linked up with Manson's crowd and ended up squatting at an abandoned movie ranch on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Manson, who died in while serving a life sentence, organized a "family" of followers to survive a race war he believed would come. Part of his response to the impending, imaginary war was to embark on a series of random murders in the Los Angeles area. Van Houten's attorney, Rich Pfeiffer, didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
He told Associated Press that concerns raised by previous rejections of the board's recommendations have been suitably addressed. Still, he said, he believes political expedience will mean this bid for freedom will also be reversed.
It will then be sent to the office of the governor, who will have 30 days to make a decision. The four previous recommendations for release were rejected by the state's governors -- twice by former Gov. Jerry Brown, who cited the horrific nature of the murders and Van Houten's eager participation, and twice by Gov. His motion argued that her age put her at high risk of contracting COVID and noted that another prisoner in her housing unit had been infected.
At her parole hearing, Van Houten described a troubled childhood. She said she was devastated when her parents divorced when she was She was traveling up and down the California coast when acquaintances led her to Manson.
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