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Leslie Van Houten is now 58 years old. He was denied parole again like the other eighteen times he has come before the board. His next chance will be in 2009.
Van Houten was not involved in the Tate murder spree but he was behind the death of the elderly La Biancas couple. Leo and Rosemary La Biancas died the night after a pregnant Sharon Tate and friends were murdered. The others that were with Tate were celebrity hairdresser Jay Sebring, coffee heiress Abigail Folger, filmmaker Voityck Frykowski and Steven Parent.
Prosecutors have said Van Houten felt left out of the first night's carnage.
"We still feel she's a considerable risk to society," said Patrick Sequeira, a deputy district attorney in Los Angeles County, who attended the hearing.
"She hasn't been willing to admit the extent of her participation in the crime."
In previous hearings Van Houten has apologized to the family members of her victims.
It hasn't helped get her out of prison.
Originally she along with Charles Manson and two of the members that followed him were sentenced to death. During the brief period of time that California banned capital punishment their sentences were reduced to life in prison.
