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At age 21, Leslie vehicle Houten was sentenced to death, along with Charles Manson and his other disciples, for the infamous murder rampage spanning two evenings in August 1969. Leslie, who had been present at the Rosemary and Leno LaBianca stabbings, serenely accepted her phrase, wishing only that she possessed better served Manson in undertaking his apocalyptic perspective of "Helter Skelter". When the United States temporarily suspended its death penalty, her phrase for murder conspiracy was changed into life in jail. Today, at age 51, after three tests and without parole around the corner, Leslie has become a impressive survivor of a full time income nightmare. This work presents the first in-depth check out how this "girl nearby" became one of Manson's "girls". It also explains to about Karlene Faith's 30-calendar year camaraderie with Leslie, whom she found while instructing in jail. To everyone who experienced Leslie - including jail staff and tv set journalists - she had not been the demon typically portrayed by the multimedia but instead a gentle, ample nature who mourned her subjects. But why didn't this brilliant young woman start to see the bad in the "messiah" who possessed sexually exploited her, preached a racist ideology, and purchased her to murder? Faith pieces along the puzzle, you start with Leslie's spiritual search within the '60s counterculture and her immediate appeal to Manson during a chance reaching. We learn of Manson's ability to look into her head and commiserate with her turmoil. We also see his own need to control women and how his brainwashing techniques enabled his fans to embrace him as God, providing them with little choice but to follow. Leslie's quest out of Manson's grasp is a riveting feminist and spiritual history of recovering one's self. Why this rehabilitated female, long punished for one man's madness, has not been in a position to leave jail is another history Faith brings to light. Filled up with accounts of politics injustices, this powerful publication steps the listener to rethink the meanings and restrictions of guilt and punishment.
