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Tate Jury Never Sees Key Figure
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 31 – The name and image of Charles “Tex” Watson looms large at the Tate murder trial but the jury never gets a look at him in the flesh. The 24-year-old Watson sits in Collins County Jail […]
Susan Atkins Ailing; May Delay Trial
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 29 – Following an hour of lurid testimony regarding the death of Rosemary LaBianca, the massacre murder trial against Charles Manson and three of his girl “followers” was recessed Friday because of the illness of one of […]
Court Told of LaBiancas’ Interest in Tate Case News
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 28 – Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, as thousands of other persons, were curious about the murders of actress Sharon Tate and four others, and discussed the slayings with a news vendor in the early morning hours of […]
Weird Torture Slaying of LaBianca Described
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 28 – Market owner Leno LaBianca had the word “WAR” cut into his stomach with a carving fork as he lay dying of 26 stab wounds, a Los Angeles Superior Court jury was told Thursday. LaBianca, one […]
LaBianca Talked of Tate Case Before His Slaying, Trial Told
Frank Struthers, Jr., 16, and his father, Frank Struthers, leaving the Tate murder trial following Frank Jr.’s testimony that he found the body of his stepfather, Leno LaBianca LOS ANGELES, Aug. 27 – Market owner Leno LaBianca, one of the […]
LaBianca Stepson Tells of Discovering Murder Victim
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 27 – The 16-year-old son of one of the Tate-LaBianca murder victims yesterday dispassionately described how he found the body of his stepfather. The youth also disclosed that two dogs — a Labrador retriever and a miniature […]
Sharon’s Blood Used to Scrawl ‘Pig’ on the Door
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 26 – The blood of pregnant actress Sharon Tate was used to write the word “pig” on the door of her Benedict Canyon home the night she and four others were murdered, a police department blood expert […]
Coroner Says Drugs Found in Bodies of Tate Victims
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 25 – The two victims who struggled the most fiercely with their killers a year ago at the home of actress Sharon Tate had a quantity of a drug known as “super speed” in their systems, the […]
Manson Trial Compared to ‘West Coast Woodstock’
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 25 – Attending the murder trial of Charles Manson and three female followers is akin to visiting a West Coast version of Woodstock ‘70. The 35-year-old bearded cult chief, who sometimes appears barefooted for court, has managed […]
Manson’s Plea Denied by Judge
Newsmen inspect wire screen Manson complained about. LOS ANGELES, Aug. 24 – The judge in the Sharon Tate murder trial ruled Monday that Charles M. Manson is not being harassed in county jail and denied his motion for a “cease […]
Mother Accepts Blame Over Linda
MILFORD, N.H., Aug. 24 – Linda Kasabian’s mother accepts a large share of the blame for her daughter’s involvement in the Tate-LaBianca murders, according to a copyrighted story Sunday in the Boston Globe. Mrs. Joyce Byrd, in an interview with […]
Gory Overkill at Tate Home Told by Coroner
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 24 – Coffee heiress Abigail Folger was stabbed 28 times and Hollywood hairstylist Jay Sebring died of 7 stab wounds and a gunshot as they both attempted to fend off blows from their killers, a Los Angeles […]
Linda Plans Book About Cult Life
MILFORD, N.H., Aug. 23 – Linda Kasabian, the star prosecution witness in the Tate-LaBianca murder trial in Los Angeles, plans to write a book about her experiences with the Manson family, the Boston Globe said Saturday in a copyrighted story. […]
‘Sharon Was Hanged as She Died’
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 22 – Pregnant actress Sharon Tate was not only stabbed 16 times, but was hanged by the neck from a ceiling beam by the murderers who invaded her Benedict Canyon home last August. Los Angeles County Coroner […]
Tate’s Hanging Told In Court First Time
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 22 – The county coroner said Friday in Los Angeles that although actress Sharon Tate was stabbed to death a year ago, indications were that she also had been hanged. Dr. Thomas T. Noguchi, who performed the […]
Manson Visited Sharon at Her Mansion, 2 Say
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 21 – Accused murder mastermind Charles Manson, who has violently denied ever being at the home of slain actress Sharon Tate, was seen at the estate by at least two prosecution witnesses, it was learned Thursday. The […]
Policeman Tells Tate Home Drugs
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 21 – Marijuana was found in Sharon Tate’s bedroom and living room and cocaine was found in the car of her former boyfriend after the actress and four others were slain at her mansion, a policeman said […]
Manson Complains He’s Being Mistreated in Jail
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 20 – Charles Manson, accused of masterminding the brutal Tate-LaBianca murders, today complained he was being mistreated in county jail. At a hearing preceding his trial on seven counts of murder and one of conspiracy, the self-styled […]
Star Witness Says Manson ‘Should Beg Forgiveness’
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 20 – Linda Kasabian, the prosecution’s star witness in the Charles Manson murder trial, said yesterday she would like to see the hippie chief and his three codefendants “just fall down on their knees and beg forgiveness.” […]
Linda Kasabian Completes 18-Day Stint on Stand; Testimony Unshaken
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 20 – Tate-LaBianca murder eyewitness Linda Kasabian was excused yesterday after spending 18 days on the stand at the trial of Charles Manson and three female followers. Superior Court Judge Charles H. Older excused Mrs. Kasabian at […]
