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Leslie Van Houten, a former Charles Manson follower who played a role in the gruesome double murder of a Los Angeles couple in the summer of 1969, was released on parole after serving more than half a century in prison, according to her lawyer.Jul 17, 2023.

On Tuesday, after 53 years in prison, Van Houten, 73, was released on parole. She was 19 at the time of her sentencing. This came after a California Second District Court of Appeals judge reversed Gov. Gavin Newsom's decision to block her parole.

#leslie van houten #parole granted

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Rennie Pratt, 29, had been charged with murder in the 2009 slaying of 36-year-old Michael Porcella. An Alameda County jury convicted her Thursday of voluntary manslaughter and an enhancement for using a gun.

"He was outside on the porch when he was shot," said prosecutor Jill Nerone. "I hoped the jury would view the evidence as a premeditated murder while lying in wait."

The jury, however, acquitted Pratt of murder. She testified that she had accidentally shot her boyfriend as she was trying to unload the weapon.

The killing was the culmination of a number of domestic disputes involving the couple, authorities said. Police were previously called to the home, but no arrests were ever made.

The jury ruled out the accidental-discharge theory but could not dismiss the possibility of "imperfect self-defense," in which someone overreacts and attacks a perceived aggressor when in fact the target intends no harm, the prosecutor said.

She was sentenced to 21 years in prison on June 24, 2011

#real life crime #found guilty #rennie pratt

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In 2004. Regina R. Williams, 37, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and assault in the death of 32-year-old Maurice S. Landis, also of Kansas City. Williams faces up to 17½ years in prison. Prosecutors agreed to drop an armed criminal action charge that carried a possible sentence of life in prison.

Williams testified she was drinking alcohol at a party Oct. 30, 2004, when she and Landis began fighting. The two continued to fight outside, and Williams got into her GMC Jimmy and began chasing Landis. She drove onto a grassy area and struck Landis. He ended up in the street in the 5200 block of Blue Ridge Cutoff, where another car hit and dragged him.

#guilty #regina williams

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The father of Newtown, Conn. school shooter Adam Lanza told a writer for The New Yorker that he and his ex-wife, Nancy, never suspected their son was dangerous.  

"Nancy Lanza had grown up a ‘live free or die’ New Hampshire gal, and she had a sense that guns were part of everyday life,'' author and journalist Andrew Solomon told Savannah Guthrie on TODAY Monday. Nancy, a gun enthusiast who was shot and killed by her son, kept several firearms in the house.

The Bushmaster semi-automatic rifle that Adam used belonged to her. "I don’t think guns should be a part of everyday life, but I think they had no sense that Adam was dangerous. They thought he was peculiar, but they never thought he would hurt anyone. Peter, who taught him to drive, said he was the 'safest, most cautious, most rule-following person I ever met.'''

#child killer #adam lanza #sandy hook shooter

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Dutch national Joran van der Sloot (35), who is serving a 28 year sentence for the murder of Stephany Flores (left avobe) in a Peruvian jail has been sentenced to another 18 years for drug smuggling (The Telegraaf reports.Jan 10, 2023)

His extradition won't happen until 2045. Van der Sloot, the main suspect in Natalee Holloway's disappearance in Aruba in 2005, will first have to complete his 28 + 18 year prison sentence in Peru for killing a 21-year-old Stephany Flores in 2010, The Associated Press reports.

#found guilty #joran van der sloot

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In a proceeding that lasted less than a minute Thursday, Shauna Mahoney, the 20-year-old Niagara Falls mom who pled guilty to smothering her 17-month-old son was sentenced to 10 years in prison and five years of probation. Shackled, and standing before Niagara County Court Judge Sara Sheldon Sperrazza in a khaki jail jumpsuit, Mahoney, in a voice so soft it could hardly be heard, simply shook her head and said, “No.” when asked if she had anything to say before being sentenced. Prosecutor Timothy Lundquist also said nothing before the sentencing and Mahoney’s defense attorney, Michael McNelis, asked only that the judge “follow the agreed upon sentence.” In February, Mahoney pled guilty to a single count of first-degree manslaughter in the Sept. 5 slaying of her son, Trevor Schneider. She had faced a single count of second-degree murder. Had Mahoney been convicted of second-degree murder she would have faced 25 years to life behind bars.

#shauna mahoney #child killer

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Ashley Anderson, a high school teacher in Iowa, was sentenced to up to five years in prison for inappropriate sexual relationships with four male students in 2011.

The teacher, then 24, sent students nude photographs of herself and had sex with one student at his home, according to a complaint.

#child abuse #teacher and student

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In 2012, Cincinnati Bengals cheerleader-turned-teacher Sarah Jones pleaded guilty to having a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old student. Jones taught at Dixie Heights High School in northern Kentucky.

She avoided jail time as part of a plea agreement with prosecutors.

#child abuse #teacher and student

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Susan Atkins (above and below) and Patricia Krenwinkel in plaid dress.

Both were part of the Charles Manson cult and participated on the murder of several people during a crime spree in 1969. Victims included actress Sharon Tate and coffee heiress Abigail Maxwell.

In 1971 they were both sentence to life in prison, they were never granted parole. Susan and Patricia, both died in prison.

#patricia krenwinkel #susan atkins #life in prison #charles manson

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Erik and Lyle Menendez.

#erik and lyle menendez #life in prison

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Serial Killers.

#Serial Killers

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Charles Manson.

#charles manson #art

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Tyonne Palmer was a hard-working nursing assistant who cared for her three kids and took care of a chronically ill friend, jurors heard during two weeks of trial.

They also found out the 32-year-old was dating a married pastor and helped his son kill the woman standing between her and her chance to marry the pastor.

After convicting her of murder for her part in the May 2010 shooting of Pauletta Burleson, they seemed to take both versions of Palmer into account, deciding she should spend only seven years behind bars.

#tyonne palmer #real life crime

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Sarah Jo Pender and some of her inmates, she was convicted along with her former boyfriend, Richard Edward Hull, for the murder of their roommates, Andrew Cataldi and Tricia Nordman, on October 24, 2000, in Indiana.

She has claimed ever since that she is victim of a wrongful conviction. However the prosecutors have label her as a female ‘Charles Manson’. Sarah was sentenced to 110 years in prison.

#sarah jo pender #found guilty

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-Nicole Brown Simpson And Ron Goldman’s Crime Scene-

#nicole brown simpson #crime scene #no justice

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December 25th, 1996: JonBenet posed with her new bicycle, a gift from Santa Claus. It was the top item on her Christmas list that year. 

#JonBenét Ramsey #mystery

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The Creepy Tale of the Slender Man Would-Be Killers

The Creepy Tale of the Slender Man Would-Be Killers

Remember the Slender Man case? When Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier, both just 12, left classmate Payton Leutner for dead in a Wisconsin park? In a clear-cut case of premeditated murder. Morgan and Anissa invited Peyton to a sleepover, having planned to lure her to the local park the following morning, Saturday, 31 May 2014. The original plan was to kill Payton in the park restroom. But someone…

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#slender man #anissa weier