Evil cult leader and killer Charles Manson gives his followers coded messages in chilling footage unearthed as Manson Family member Leslie Van Houten is freed after more than 50 years.
The footage, shown for the first time in 2018, shows the notorious killer speaking from jail and appearing to sneakily direct his cult followers to break him out.
Today, one of the female members of the Manson Family cult, Leslie Van Houten, was released from prison after serving more than 50 years of a life sentence for her participation in two of the nine infamous murders the 'family' committed.
Van Houten, now in her 70s, received a life sentence for helping Manson's followers carry out the August 1969 killings of Leno LaBianca, a grocer in Los Angeles, and his wife, Rosemary LaBianca.
In the footage, Manson, who led the cult in a California commune in the 1960s, says: "We are sneaking in the county jail looking under the door to see if the man is there."
He adds: "Sneakin' like little children out of town, sneakin' all round the courthouse...sneakin' everywhere.
"Everything is sneaky up in Sneakyville. You gotta sneak to get to the truth, the truth is condemned, the truth is in the gas chambers."
Former cult member Catherine 'Gypsy' Share, who served five years in jail for her involvement in the cult, said at the time that Manson was trying to send the cult secret coded messages in his speech.
She said: "He's programming us, telling us what to do. He's telling us to break him out of jail, to learn where the vents are, how to get in and out of the building and how to set him free."
The LaBiancas were killed in their home, and their blood was smeared on the walls afterward. Van Houten later described holding Rosemary LaBianca down with a pillowcase over her head as others stabbed her, before she also stabbed the woman more than a dozen times.
Manson's besotted followers would go on to carry out nine murders at locations in July and August 1969 and the LaBianca slayings happened the day after Manson followers killed actress Sharon Tate and four others.
The group gained infamy after they killed 26-year-old actress and wife of director Roman Polanski, Sharon Tate, who was eight-and-a-half-months pregnant, and four guests at their home.
Van Houten, who was 19 at the time, did not participate in the Tate killings.
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said that Van Houten was today "released to parole supervision".
Her lawyer, Nancy Tetreault, said that she left the California Institution for Women in Corona, east of Los Angeles, in the early morning hours and was driven to transitional housing.
Ms Tetreault said: "She is still trying to get used to the idea that this is real."
Days earlier, Governor of California Gavin Newsom announced that he would not fight a state appeals court ruling that Van Houten should be granted parole.
He said that it was unlikely the state Supreme Court would consider an appeal.
She is expected to spend about a year in transitional housing, learning basic skills such as how to go to the grocery store and get a debit card.
Ms Tetreault said: "She has to learn to use the internet. She has to learn to buy things without cash. It's a very different world than when she went in."
Her lawyer says that Van Houten, who will likely be on parole for about three years, hopes to get a job as soon as possible.
Whilst in prison, she earned a bachelors and a masters degree and worked as a tutor.
Her lawyer said she was "grateful" people recognised that she is not the same person anymore.
She said: "She’s just grateful that people are recognising that she’s not the same person that she was when she committed the murders."
Cory LaBianca, Leno LaBianca’s daughter, has admitted her family are "heartbroken" over the murderer's release.
She said: "My family and I are heartbroken because we’re once again reminded of all the years that we have not had my father and my stepmother with us.
“My children and my grandchildren never got an opportunity to get to know either of them, which has been a huge void for my family."
Mr Newsom's office said the governor was disappointed by the decision.
In a statement issued on July 7, the governor's office said: "More than 50 years after the Manson cult committed these brutal killings, the victims' families still feel the impact."
Manson was convicted over the deaths of seven people and sentenced to life imprisonment.
He died in prison in 2017 aged 83.
