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Ms. Van Houten was 19 when she and other members of the so-called Manson family broke into the home of a wealthy grocer, Leno LaBianca, and his wife, Rosemary, and stabbed them dozens of times on ...

Van Houten, now in her 70s, is serving a life sentence for helping Charles Manson and other followers in the 1969 killings of Leno LaBianca, a grocer in Los Angeles, and his wife, Rosemary.