Category Archives: Archived News
Link Sought In Bay, Tate Murders
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 16 – Investigators from four Northern California police jurisdictions were in Los Angeles today seeking possible links between the Sharon Tate murders and unsolved killings in their areas. Two detectives from San Jose questioned several members of […]
Innocent Plea Is Entered
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 16 – A young woman from a nomadic hippie-style clan pleaded innocent today to charges she killed actress Sharon Tate and six others last August. “Not guilty,” said Susan Denise Atkins, 21, a slender brunette, when asked […]
Authorities Study Pile of Tate Case Clothing
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 16 – Authorities conduct tests today on seven articles of clothing believed stained with blood that were discovered near the Benedict Canyon estate where actress Sharon Tate and four other persons were slain. Three black t-shirts, one […]
Susan Atkins Taken From Jail Believed Aiding Evidence Hunt
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 15 – Susan Denise Atkins, the informer in the Tate killings, was taken from her jail cell Sunday, presumably to guide police and 80 Explorer Scouts as they searched ravines in the Hollywood Hills. Although authorities maintained […]
Hills Combed for Tate Evidence; Girl Is Along
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 15 – A police helicopter hovered over the Hollywood Hills while ground crews worked below Sunday in a six-hour search presumably to find the bloody clothes worn by the killers of actress Sharon Tate and four other […]
Los Angeles Police Search For Killers’ Bloody Clothing
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 15 – Two dozen policemen accompanied by Susan Atkins, a suspect-turned-informer in the seven Sharon Tate – LaBianca slayings, scoured the Hollywood hills Sunday. They reportedly searched for the bloody clothing discarded by the killers involved in […]
Cult’s Leader Held Under Maximum Security
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 14 – Charles Manson, leader of the hippie cult charged with the murder of actress Sharon Tate and six other persons, is being held under maximum security precautions in an isolated cell pending trial, it was disclosed […]
Susan Atkins’ Story of 2 Nights of Murder
One day a little man came in with a guitar and started singing for a group of us in that place where we were living, in Haight-Asbury in San Francisco. Even before I saw him, while I was still in […]
Judge Rebukes 2 Attorneys Over Claims in Tate Case
McKINNEY, Tex., Dec. 13 – Two Los Angeles attorneys were ordered to jail for 72 hours and fined $100 each by a Texas judge Friday for “making a circus” out of the case of Charles D. Watson, charged in the […]
Trial Of Tate Killers Opens In Sixty Days
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 13 – Dist. Atty. Evelle J. Younger says he has decided against challenging a court restriction on pretrial statements in the Tate-LaBianca slayings, even though he believes it may permit unfounded rumors to go unanswered. Younger’s decision […]
Texas Judge Uses Legal Whip On Manson Cultist’s Lawyers
McKINNEY, Tex., Dec. 13 – District Judge David Brown Friday sentenced two Los Angeles lawyers to 72 hours in jail and fined them $100 each for trying to make a “press spectacular” out of the case of Charles D. Watson, […]
San Jose Girl Tells Of Bloody Murders In Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 13 – On the evening of Aug. 8 of this year there were two parties underway 20 miles apart in the mountains northwest of Los Angeles. One was made up of at society calls “swingers” and the […]
Scientologists Deny Murder Link
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 13 – The Church of Scientology said Friday a “vicious and well organized rumor campaign” has sought to link it with the Sharon Tate murders. It offered a $30,000 reward for information bringing conviction of those responsible […]
‘Sadie and Mary’ Hunt Unlocked Tate Case
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 13 – A retrial date has been set for Feb.16 for a handsome young transient accused of a murder which has been linked to the Tate-LaBianca killings. Robert E. Beausoleil, 21, is one of two persons charged […]
Talkative Manson Arraigned in Tate, LaBianca Slayings
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 12 – A chatty Charles Manson was arraigned Thursday in the Tate and LaBianca murders. Despite his previous courtroom experience — he has spent about half his 35 years behind bars on a variety of offenses — […]
Manson Delays Plea For Murder Charges
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 12 – A tiny bearded man with shoulder length hair, clad in filthy fringed buckskin outfit and moccasins was formally charged Thursday with the murder of actress Sharon Tate and six other persons. Charles M. Manson, 35, […]
Speedy Trial Sought in Tate Murder
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 12 – The shaggy, leather-clad chieftain of a band of young cultists who, with five followers, is charged with murder-conspiracy in the killings of actress Sharon Tate and six others, stood slouched with arms crossed Thursday at […]
The Demon In Death Valley
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 12 – That man has wronged me. Society has wronged me. We’ll kill whatever pigs are in that house. Go in there and get them.” With those raging orders from their Rasputin-like leader, a band of hippies, […]
Manson Once Was Student In Kanawha
CHARLESTON, W.V., Dec. 12 – Charles Manson. the bearded leader of the Hippie group involved in the murder of Sharon Tate, was once a student in Kanawha County schools. Records of Manson’s being in Charleston go back to World War […]
‘Susan Was a Good Kid’; Then Came Sadie Glutz
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 12 – She called herself Sadie Glutz. It was a name Charles Manson gave her, an outsider’s little joke on the establishment world. “Tell them your name is Sadie Glutz,” he told her. And she did. But […]
