A Former Charles Manson Follower Was Just Recommended for Parole

Set her free!

Set Big Patty free!!!!

She wasn't just a witness. She actually stabbed her victims, then dismissed her own motivations.

Man has she gone dykey looking or what?

She looks like my Uncle Tommy.

I doubt she’ll leave prison in any manner other than as corpse in a body bag. As it should be.

R4, she was no feminine beauty to start with.

She looks mean and shifty in that photo.

I was all for the release of Lesley Van Houten.

I'm for the release of the formerly hot as fuck Bobby Beausoleil.

I'm completely against the release of Tex Watson.

For Patrica I don't really have a strong opinion one way or the other. I hate the idea that the governor will ignore the parole board for political reasons, though.

I never understood John Waters’ creepy fixation with these characters. It always looked so calculated and performative. “Look at me! I’m shocking everyone”.

She looks like Kurt Russell and Billie Jean King had a baby.

She’d be a free woman had it not been a high profile case.

She absolutely does not deserve it. May she rot. She is absolute evil.

I think her risk of thrashing someone with a cane is actually quite high.

[quote]Man has she gone dykey looking or what?[quote]

Like they say when going to prison: Straight at the gate, gay for the stay.

What pisses me off is they still won't let Betty Broderick out. She was a socialite, ffs!

I had a friend who was murdered in 2016, shot to death trying to break up a fight between his friend and a drug dealer. The killer will be released in 2033 and he’ll be 38 years old.

All I’ll say is you really have to have a first hand experience of the American justice system to see why a bunch of teenage drugged out hippies in the 60s are not actual threats to society today.

You’re walking the streets with killers, you just don’t know it.

Risk of reoffending is only one aspect.

Ultimately, it's not just rehabilitation/recidivism or even deterrence for others, but a criminal should be punished for their crimes.

She was originally sentenced to death, but it was commuted. Now, she's getting out on parole - um, no. Life in prison should be her entire life in prison, no parole.

The Manson Family's crimes were designed to terrorize people and start a race war. Intent should be considered with the sentencing.

For me it’s about punishment not whether they’ll commit another crime.

Leslie Van Houten was freed at age 73 in July 2023 after spending 53 years in prison.

It's time to free Patricia Krenwinkel, now 77.

I ran into 'ol Leslie at a Whole Foods the other month. She's a delight! She gave me her recipe for rosemary chicken.

<- Was she buying this?

[quote] For me it’s about punishment not whether they’ll commit another crime.

I wonder what church you go to.

For a second, I thought it was Don Imus

She looks like an elderly Adam Scott

Leslie aged much better than Patricia. Perhaps she had access to moisturizer during the past few decades and Pats didn't.

Can someone give me a count? How many Manson family members are now walking the streets and how many are alive in prison?

[quote]November 1970) was an American attorney who represented Leslie Van Houten, a member of the Manson Family. Hughes disappeared while on a camping trip during a ten-day recess from the Tate-LaBianca murder trial in November 1970. His body was found in March 1971, but his cause of death could not be determined.

Someone connected was obviously responsible.

Van Houten seems to be the only prominent one paroled. Susan Atkins died in prison in 2009.

The only reason any of these people are still alive is that California ended the death penalty in the 70s. The fact that any of them are eligible for parole, let alone actually released, is appalling.

Bobby Beausoleil, Pat Krenwinkel, Tex Watson and Bruce Davis are still in jail. The rest are out.

That photo reoffends me!

The first part of waking up is Folgers in your cup.

I hope she gets out, & is promptly stabbed to death.

I’m only familiar with the general outlines of the case. For those of you who support parole for Leslie Van Houten, what makes her deserving of parole?

She looka like a man.

R24, we have seen you in thousands of years and I have no confidence that things will all be sorted out at any Final Judgment. Justice in real time.

^haven't seen

Time to let her out. It costs a fortune to keep someone in prison for a year. She will disappear quietly and cause no further harm

R19 than so should the fact that they were 18 and under the influence of a charismatic madman who used mind control techniques and drugs to get them to do his bidding.

As I said above, Tex Watson was irredeemablly evil and should never get out. The girls I have more sympathy for.

R34 she was 18 at the time of the crime and under the influence of a charismatic madman who plied her with mind control techniques and drugs to get her to do this bidding.

She was not at the Tate house. Manson made her go along to the LaBianca house, and instructed Tex Watson to make sure she was involved. Word is, she may have only infected post mortem wounds into Leno LaBianca.

50 years for a single mad act at age 18 is enough. Time to show some mercy. YES more mercy than she showed her victims because if the state isn't better and more compassionate than the mad act of an 18 year old than I'm sorry I've lived so long.

[quote] The Manson Family's crimes were designed to terrorize people and start a race war.

That’s complete bullshit dreamt up by that pathological liar and wife beater, Vincent Bugliosi. No one who is an expert on the crime buys that. Even the reporters who were in court rolled their eyes. It most likely had to do with a Manson follower in jail and a bad drug deal.

Patricia Krenwinkel is a butcher.

[quote] For me it’s about punishment not whether they’ll commit another crime.

They broke the social contract. The people they slaughtered don’t get a second chance at life. The least these people can do is spend theirs behind bars.

R40 inflicted*

Yeah dump will let her out just to piss off the Libs.

There should never be parole for those monsters. They should have been executed as the fair and just punishment.

No no no. Serial killers should not get paroled. No.

Patty Hearst received a commutation and a pardon. She was an accessory to a murder and was roughly the same age as Krenwinkle. That seems like the high bar for "justice" and shows what having a fortune and a media company owner behind you can do. Krenwinkle is a nobody and its unlikely anyone has sympathy for the Mansons---what a difference a few circumstances make with respect to where people are now.

All she has to do is start praising dear leader endlessly and she can skip this whole parole recommendation thing

Few have payed the price for being in a cult as the Manson Girls. Does she really want to join another?

She's always looked like a man.