CNN —Leslie Van Houten, a former Charles Manson follower and convicted murderer, was released from a California prison on Tuesday, a prison spokesperson told CNN.
Van Houten was released to parole supervision, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokesperson Mary Xjimenez said.
Van Houten will have a three-year maximum parole term with a parole discharge review occurring after one year, Xjimenez said.
In 1994, Van Houten described her part in the killings in a prison interview with CNN’s Larry King.
“I went in and Mrs. LaBianca was laying on the floor and I stabbed her,” said Van Houten, who was 19 at the time of the murders.
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