A Notorious Past: Leslie Van Houten was a member of the Manson Family, a cult led by Charles Manson that committed a series of gruesome murders in the late 1960s.
Van Houten's involvement in the brutal slayings shocked the nation and became a symbol of the dark side of counterculture movements of that era.
Decades of Incarceration: Van Houten had been serving a life sentence for her role in the Manson Family murders.
Her crimes and subsequent imprisonment garnered significant media attention and made her one of the most well-known figures associated with the Manson Family.