Manson Family member faces parole hearing Heinous crimes: Charles Manson followers, from left: Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten, shown walking to court in 1970. She was the youngest Charles Manson follower convicted in the infamous Tate-LaBianca murders - a girl of 19 who seemed the one most likely to win parole one day. But 44 years after she went to prison, Leslie Van Houten has grey hair and wrinkles and is facing her 20th parole hearing on Wednesday with multiple forces arrayed against her bid for a chance at freedom. A prosecutor plans to oppose her release as he has before, citing the heinous nature of the murders that shocked the world in 1969 and continue to occupy a unique place in the annals of American crime. Leslie Van Houten at a parole hearing in 2002. Survivors of victims plan to travel to the California Institution for Women where van Houten and other Manson women have been locked up, to speak out against letting her go free. Unlike a previous hearing where Van Houten said little, lawyer Michael Satris says this time she plans to explain to the parole board that she is a different person, dedicated to doing good works. "She is living a life of amends for her crime on a daily basis," Satris said. Everything she does now is to be of service and benefit to the world. He says Van Houten's value system is the complete opposite of 1969 when "she was following the teachings of a false prophet." Other members of Manson's murderous "family" have lost bids for parole. One former Manson follower, Bruce Davis, was approved for parole last year only to have Governor Jerry Brown veto the plan in March, saying he wanted the 70-year-old to reveal more details about the killings of a stunt man and a musician. Davis was not involved in the slayings of actress Sharon Tate and six others. Van Houten was convicted of murder and conspiracy for her role in the slayings of wealthy grocers Leno and Rosemary La Bianca. They were stabbed to death in August 1969, one night after Manson's followers killed actress Sharon Tate and four others - celebrity hairdresser Jay Sebring, coffee heiress Abigail Folger, filmmaker Voityck Frykowksi and Steven Parent, a friend of the Tate estate's caretaker. Van Houten did not participate in the Tate killings but went along the next night when the La Biancas were slain in their home. During the penalty phase of her trial she confessed to joining in stabbing Mrs La Bianca after she was dead. She was convicted along with Manson, Susan Atkins and Patricia Krenwinkle. Van Houten was sentenced to death along with them but their sentences were reduced to life in prison with the possibility of parole when the death penalty was briefly outlawed in the 1970s. Atkins died of cancer in prison. Krenwinkle has been denied parole repeatedly and Manson, now 78, has stopped coming to parole hearings, sending word that prison is his home and he wants to stay there. Manson's onetime lieutenant, Charles "Tex" Watson, was convicted separately and has been denied parole many times.