A California appeals court on Friday backed former Gov Jerry Brown’s decision to block parole for Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten, according to an AP report in the Sacramento Bee. Van Houten, 70, is serving a life sentence for her role in the stabbing deaths of Los Angeles grocer Leno LaBianca and his wife, …
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Killer Bruce Davis, a former member of the sadistic “Manson family,” led by the late Charles Manson, was granted parole on Friday after serving 47 years of a life sentence. However, he’s not in the clear yet. New York Post reports that the final decision as to whether Davis actually walks out of the California …
Actors Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio have come under fire for signing onto a Quentin Tarantino film about the 1969 murder of Sharon Tate. The late actress’ sister, Debra Tate, told TMZ that Pitt, 54, and DiCaprio, 43, are “throwing their responsibilities to the wind” by starring in “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.” The …
By ANDREW DALTON, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The governor of California once again denied parole Friday for Leslie Van Houten, the youngest follower of murderous cult leader Charles Manson who blamed herself at her parole hearing for letting him control her life. Gov. Jerry Brown said in his decision that Van Houten still lays …
Nearly two months after his death, Charles Manson’s body reportedly remains in limbo as the legal battle over his estate continues. Probate Judge David J. Cowan announced Monday that divvying up Manson’s estate and releasing his remains are two separate issues, meaning that the convicted killer’s longtime pen pal and Manson’s grandson will have to wait …
Two days after Tyler Tessier tearfully pleaded for his missing girlfriend’s return, he was charged with killing the pregnant Maryland high school teacher. Laura Wallen, 31, was found dead in a shallow grave that police say Tessier dug to hide her body. Nancy Grace assembled a team of experts in this Crime Stories episode to …
By JOHN ROGERS, Associated Press CHINO, Calif. (AP) — Leslie Van Houten, the youngest of Charles Manson’s murderous followers, was granted parole by a California board Wednesday. Van Houten, who was 19 when she killed for Manson during a series of murders that terrorized Los Angeles over the summer of 1969, appeared before a parole panel …
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Killer dad Chris Watts is getting a lot of female attention even though he is in prison. Women are writing and asking to be able to visit with him. Writing to those incarcerated is not new. It’s a condition called hybristophilia, a sexual attraction to individuals who have committed outrageous and gruesome crimes. Other notorious …
Crime has shaped American history just as music, food, modern medicine, inventions, politics. America gave the world Elvis, anesthesia, corn dogs, the lightbulb, and John F. Kennedy. We also gave the world Bonnie & Clyde, Ted Bundy, Meyer Lansky, and Charles Manson. Who are the people devoted to keeping this history preserved and accessible to …
People find love in strange places, but falling for a convicted killer serving a life prison sentence is perhaps the strangest. Nancy Grace looks at Jodi Arias’s prison romances and the marriages of Charles Manson, the Menendez brothers and other killers. She is joined by forensics expert Karen Smith, New York psychologist Caryn Stark and …
