Category Archives: Archived News

LOS ANGELES, May. 11 — Charles (Tex) Watson yesterday pleaded innocent and innocent by reason of insanity to charges of murder and conspiracy in the Tate-LaBianca slayings. Superior Court Judge Malcolm M. Lucas set July 19 for trial. The judge […]

LOS ANGELES, May. 5 — Two defense attorneys in the Hinman-Shea murder case yesterday accused the prosecution of “sensationalism” by not divulging the identity of a key witness. The charges were made to newsmen by Irving A. Kanarek, representing condemned […]

LOS ANGELES, May. 2 — A young woman who allegedly tried to smuggle LSD to condemned murdered Charles Manson has been sentenced to a 60-day jail term. Superior Court Judge George M. Dell sentenced 19-year-old Nancy Pitman, also known as […]

LOS ANGELES, Apr. 29 — Thousands of newspaper clippings were submitted to court yesterday in a defense change of venue motion for Charles Manson and three others accused in the Shea-Hinman murders. The clippings, from newspapers all over the state, […]

LOS ANGELES, Apr. 28 — Inmates at San Quentin’s Death Row know that condemned killer Charles Manson is moving in soon and, says one prisoner, they may give him a rough time. “Due to the publicity he has received, some […]

Patricia Krenwinkel, left, and Leslie Van Houten, convicted in the Tate murders, are taken from women’s jail in Los Angeles to Frontera prison. FRONTERA, Calif., Apr. 28 — Two of the three women convicted and sentenced to death with Charles […]

LOS ANGELES, Apr. 27 — Charles Manson and his three co-defendants in the Hinman-Shea murder case were models of decorum yesterday as defense attorneys argued for dismissal of charges. Neither Manson 36, Susan Atkins 22, Bruce Davis 27 or Steven […]

LOS ANGELES, Apr. 24 — The high cost of another trial will not deter his office from prosecuting condemned slayers Charles Manson and Susan Atkins for two more murders, Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Joseph P. Busch Jr. said yesterday. […]

SAN QUENTIN, Calif., Apr. 23 — Charles Manson, cult leader condemned to die for the murder of Sharon Tate and six others, was removed from his Death Row cell today and returned to Los Angeles to face trial on two […]

LOS ANGELES, Apr. 22 — Rebuffed in a request to represent himself, Charles Manson screamed for 5 or 10 seconds yesterday to show Superior Judge Raymond Choate he has a voice. Manson’s loud “Ahhhhhhhh” startled the courtroom like an unexpected […]

LOS ANGELES, Apr. 22 — A photograph showing the body of actress Sharon Tate is missing from the Superior Court files containing evidence in the Tate-LaBianca murder case, it had been disclosed today. Representatives of the district attorney’s office said […]

HEADS SHAVEN like their leader, Charles Manson, his three doomed woman followers march through a corridor outside the courtroom where they were sentenced to death. From left, Leslie Van Houten, Patricia Krenwinkel, Susan Atkins LOS ANGELES, Apr. 20 — A […]

LOS ANGELES, Apr. 16 — Four members of Charles Manson’s clan have been sentenced to 90 days in jail for trying to keep a witness from testifying in Sharon Tate murder trial by giving her a hamburger laced with LSD. […]

LOS ANGELES, Apr. 16 — Why did four fresh-faced young girls and a former high school football player from a small Texas town follow the bidding of a skinny, wizened-faced ex-convict to go out in the night and kill seven […]

LOS ANGELES, Apr. 15 — Jurors in the Sharon Tate murder trial have been subpoenaed by the defense to testify Monday about their deliberations that led to conviction and death verdicts for Charles Manson and three women followers. The seven […]

SACRAMENTO, Calif., Apr. 15 — California is building a “death row” for women to house the three young women under sentence of death for their part in the Tate-LaBianca slayings. An isolated, six-cell unit is being added to the one-story […]

LOS ANGELES, Apr. 13 — Entering of a plea for Charles “Tex” Watson in the Tate slayings was put off again today to allow for more psychiatric tests of the former high school football player. Watson’s attorney, Sam Bubrick, said […]

LOS ANGELES, Apr. 12 — The trial of Charles Manson lasted 288 days. A long time. It is roughly from the Fourth of July to Easter, with Thanksgiving, Christmas, the World Series, football, and a trip to the moon in […]

LOS ANGELES, Apr. 8 — A Superior Court judge today had denied defense motions to hold separate trials for Manson cult members accused in the Hinman-Shea murder cases. Judge Raymond Choate ruled that Charles Manson 36, Susan Atkins 22, Bruce […]

SAN FRANCISCO, Apr. 6 — As you drive toward San Rafael the turn-off to the right says San Quentin, and there is the great yellow stone prison shining in the brilliant California sun like a Crusaders’ castle on the distant […]