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Cult Leader, Friends Lose Court Claim
LOS ANGELES, Apr. 4 — A Superior Court judge today had refused to halt the prosecution of condemned killer Charles Manson and three others in connection with the Shea-Hinman murders. Judge Raymond Choate ruled against a defense claim that the […]
New Trial Of Manson Will Drag
LOS ANGELES, Apr. 3 — Charles Manson and Susan Atkins, condemned to death last Monday, came smiling to court Friday on additional murder charges and heard that their new trial in Los Angeles may last longer than the marathon Sharon […]
Manson, Atkins Face Trial In Two Other Murder Cases
LOS ANGELES, Apr. 1 — “It’s over.” A weary newsman scrawled that phrase on the blackboard in the pressroom of the Hall of Justice. It referred to the end of the marathon Tate-LaBianca murder trial. But it is not the […]
Manson, Three Girls Receive Death Penalty
LOS ANGELES, Mar. 30 – Grim-faced jurors Monday returned 27 verdicts of death against the Tate-LaBianca killers: Charles Manson, 36, Patricia Krenwinkel, 23, Susan Atkins, 22, and Leslie Van Houten, 21. But, the four were not present to hear themselves […]
Expected Death Penalty for Manson, Girls, Officer Says
LAPD EXPECTED DEATH PENALTY – Lt. Robert Helder, who headed the investigation of the Tate murders, today said he fully expected death sentences for Charles Manson and the girls. Pictured here at an October 23, 1969 press conference, Helder holds […]
Bugliosi Says Final Decision to Kill Was Up to 3 Girls, Watson
LOS ANGELES, Mar. 25 – Prosecutor Vincent T. Bugliosi Wednesday described Charles Manson as an evil, satanic killer who sent out his followers to murder the seven Tate-LaBianca victims. But, he declared in a powerful argument in the penalty phase […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Linda Kasabian Back on Stand, Sticks to Her Manson Story
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 25 – Linda Kasabian returned as a witness in the Tate-LaBianca murder trial Wednesday and testified as steadfastly as she did six months ago when she spent 18 days on the witness stand as the state’s key […]
Susan’s Attorneys Called to Testify on DA’s Promise
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 25 – Legal jousting in the chambers of Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Charles Older today delayed the start of the Tate-LaBianca murder trial as defense attorneys prepared to call eight more witnesses in an attempt to […]
3 Manson Girls Contradicted by Linda Kasabian
Star Prosecution witness Linda Kasabian returned to Hall of Justice today to contradict the testimony of Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten. LOS ANGELES, Feb. 24 – The girl whose testimony led to the conviction of cult chieftain […]
Leslie Van Houten Describes Role in Murder of LaBiancas
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 23 – “And I took one of the knives and Patricia had a knife, and we started stabbing and cutting up the lady.” The lady was Rosemary LaBianca, 38, and the convicted-murderess confessing from the witness stand […]
Cult Girl Unworried About Death Penalty
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 23 – The one-time high school beauty queen who admitted killing at least one of the Tate-LaBianca murder victims admitted today that she thought about the death penalty but decided to ignore it if it should be […]
Miss Krenwinkel Testifies That She Killed Two
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 19 – Calmly and without remorse, Patricia (Katie) Krenwinkel confessed on the witness stand Thursday that she killed two of the seven Tate-LaBianca murder victims. Her demeanor was warm and friendly at first as she talked about […]
Role in 8 Slayings ‘Was No Big Thing’, Susan Atkins Says
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 12 – Susan Atkins declared Thursday that she told outsiders about her part in eight murders, but not Charles Manson, because “it was no big thing.” “Killing eight people is just business as usual, right Sadie” prosecutor […]
‘Killings Ain’t No Big Thing,’ Susan Testifies
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 12 – The killing of pregnant actress Sharon Tate and six others in two nights of wanton slaughter “ain’t no big thing,” confessed murderess Susan Atkins told a startled courtroom Thursday. “I didn’t relate to Sharon Tate […]
