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Tip Launches Search For Body of Missing Manson Trial Lawyer

LOS ANGELES, Mar. 21 — Sheriff’s deputies from three counties will start digging Monday on the Barker Ranch in Death Valley for the body of missing attorney Ronald Hughes. The ranch was the last home of Charles Manson’s “hippie” family […]

Manson’s Attorney Makes Final Plea to Save His Life

LOS ANGELES, Mar. 20 – Charles Manson’s attorney said Friday that there is no reason to believe the 36-year-old defendant is more than a guy who weighs 140 pounds and likes girls. Irving A. Kanarek argued in the penalty phase […]

Manson Just Liked Girls, Jurors Told

LOS ANGELES, Mar. 20 — “Mr. Manson is not a Svengali,” his attorney said Friday. “He may be an unusual type of person… But there is no reason in the world not to believe that Mr. Manson is just a […]

Jury Asked To Consider Manson’s Innocence

LOS ANGELES, Mar. 19 — Claiming that hippie leader Charles Manson is a “focal point for somebody’s vendetta,” the cult chieftain’s attorney today urged the jury to consider the “possible innocence” of his client though they already have found him […]

Hangout of Manson Clan ‘Ruined by Publicity’

CHATSWORTH, Calif., Mar. 19 — The horses stir aimlessly in the corral and the wind whips unmercifully down the canyons on the old movie ranch made famous in its graying years by onetime guest Charles Manson. The ranch faced hard […]

Prosecutor Plans to Ask Tate Jury To Condemn Manson to Gas Chamber

LOS ANGELES, Mar. 18 — The prosecutor in the Sharon Tate murder trial said he would ask jurors in final arguments today to condemn Charles Manson and three women codefendants to the gas chamber. Opening of summations might be delayed […]

Manson Trial Ends After 9-Month Run

LOS ANGELES, Mar. 17 — Exactly nine months to the day after it began, the Tate-LaBianca murder trial ended Tuesday as both the defense and prosecution rested in the penalty phase, bringing to a close what has become the state’s […]

Manson Girl, Left at Ranch, Says She Was Willing to Kill

LOS ANGELES, Mar. 16 – Blonde, 21-year-old Catherine Gillies, one of “Charlie’s girls,” testified Monday that she would have been willing to participate in the Tate-LaBianca murders. The young woman, called by the defense in the penalty phase of the […]

Manson Cult Girl Reverses Grand Jury Testimony

LOS ANGELES, Mar. 16 — The girl whose testimony before the grand jury indicted hippie leader Charles Manson for an eighth murder took the witness stand in the Tate-LaBianca murder trial today and refused to even mention his name in […]

Cult Girl Testifies She Was ‘Willing To Kill For Love’

Cathy Gillies still a loyal member of the Charles Manson “family,” chats with other family members outside court today after testifying she would have helped in the Sharon Tate murders if asked. She was a witness in the penalty phase […]

Judge Ousts Manson After Latest Argument in Court

LOS ANGELES, Mar. 14 — Convicted murderer Charles Manson was removed from the courtroom on Friday after he questioned the capability of his own attorney and argued with the judge presiding over his trial. Manson’s outburst came several hours after […]

Angered Manson Girls Ousted Again

LOS ANGELES, Mar. 13 — Charles Manson lost his temper again Friday at the Sharon Tate murder trial and was removed from the courtroom to an adjacent holding cell. Manson’s outburst during the afternoon session came several hours after he […]

Manson Interrupts Confession Testimony

THE FACES OF MANSON -The many faces of Charles Manson, defendant in the Sharon Tate murder trial, are pictured since his arrest in 1969. He first shaved the beard, then cut his hair, grew the beard again and finally yesterday […]

Manson Tells Why He Has A Swastika

MANSON CHANGES APPEARANCE AGAIN — Charles Manson heads for court in Los Angeles yesterday with his appearance changed again. Last week he showed up with his long hair closely trimmed. Today the beard was gone, but on his forehead he’d […]

Younger Called To Stand in Manson Trial, Tells Of Deal For Susan Atkins Confession

LOS ANGELES, Mar. 11 — The state’s attorney general and former district attorney for the County of Los Angeles today took the witness stand in the Tate-LaBianca murder trial and admitted to, among other things, a “hazy” memory. Evelle J. […]

Expert Changes Mind On Manson Role

LOS ANGELES, Mar. 10 — A psychiatrist testifying in the penalty phase of the Tate-LaBianca murder trial today reversed himself, claiming hippie leader Charles Manson had a “very important influence” on the three girls convicted with him of murder. Meanwhile, […]

Manson Plotted Routes Of Murder, Lawyer Says

LOS ANGELES, Mar. 10 — Charles Manson not only sent killers to the Sharon Tate home but also told them to go next door and kill the people there, a lawyer testified yesterday at the Tate-LaBianca murder trial. Richard Caballero, […]

DA Knew of Atkins’ Confession to Paper

LOS ANGELES, Mar. 9 — The Los Angeles district attorney’s office knew of the impending publication of a “confession” to the Tate-LaBianca murders before the story appeared in-print, a witness testified today. Atty. Richard Caballero, on the stand for the […]

Lawyer: Susan ‘Liked’ Execution

LOS ANGELES, Mar. 8 — Susan Atkins, one of the four Manson “family” members convicted of the Tate-LaBianca murders and now fighting for their lives, admitted a year ago that she was not afraid of the gas chamber and “in […]

Defense Lawyers Say Tate-LaBianca Case Cost Them Money, Standing

LOS ANGELES, Mar. 7 — None of the defense attorneys who have represented Charles Manson and his women followers throughout the marathon Tate-LaBianca murder trial claims to have gained fame or fortune; some of them, in fact, say they are […]