Patricia Krenwinkel, a Charles Manson follower convicted in the Manson family murder spree and the longest-serving female inmate in the California prison system, will be up for parole consideration on ...

I’m an expert in cults, and I believe Patricia Krenwinkel should be free. She is a survivor of Charles Manson’s violent cult, and her actions over half a century ago don’t reflect who she is today: an ...

Death is meant to be the period. This became a legal comma in the case of Charles Manson: the body remained refrigerated as strangers, family members and heirs of their own right fought over what ...

A California panel recommended parole Thursday for former Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten more than four decades after she went to prison for the notorious killings of a wealthy grocer and ...

Manson family member Patricia Krenwinkel — who broke into the home of a Los Angeles grocer, stabbed him and wrote "Helter Skelter," "Rise" and "Death to Pigs" on the walls with his blood — has been ...

The country was shocked — and gripped — when members of a cult known as the Manson Family brutally murdered actress Sharon Tate, who was eight months pregnant, and eight others in the summer of 1969.

Gov. Jerry Brown reversed a parole board and denied on Friday the release of a former Charles Manson follower who served more than 43 years in prison. It was the third time a California governor ...

Nothing symbolized the death of the peace-and-love era more than the Manson murders in Los Angeles. In August 1969, a message scrawled in blood - "Pig" - marked the scene where actress Sharon Tate, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Patricia Krenwinkel is shown at a 2011 parole hearing, at left, and being led into court on Feb. 24, 1970. (Associated Press) ...