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Another Manson Indictment Asked

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 14 – While hippie leader Charles Manson awaits resumption of his trial on seven murders, the district attorney today asked the grand jury to indict the long-haired ex-convict of another count of killing. Manson and three others […]

3 of Susan Atkins’ Letters, Implicating Her In Killings, Read To Jury

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 29 – Three letters from defendant Susan Atkins deeply implicating her in the Sharon Tate murders were read to the jury yesterday while the young woman bent low over a scratch pad and etched out a picture. […]

Tate Death Gun Called ‘Favorite’ Manson Weapon

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 17 – The gun used to kill five persons at the home of actress Sharon Tate was described today as “the favorite gun” of hippie leader Charles Manson. Former Manson “family” member Danny DeCarlo, on the stand […]

Manson Displays Contempt as Murder Trial Begins

LOS ANGELES, Jul. 26 – Charles Manson used a razor blade and a pencil to demonstrate his absolute contempt for straight society as the prosecution opened its case in the Tate-LaBianca murder trial. The 35-year-old cult chieftain, wearing rumpled jail […]

Two Days of Terror Preceded Musician’s Murder, Jury Told

LOS ANGELES, Apr. 11 – Mary Brunner, testifying under “complete immunity” in the retrial of Robert K. Beausoleil, gave jurors Friday an eyewitness account of a weekend of terror which finally resulted in the death of musician Gary Hinman. Beausoleil, […]

Woman Describes ‘Family’ Slaying of Hinman

LOS ANGELES, Apr. 11 – The Manson Family fell apart Friday. In a surprise move which even caught prosecutors off guard, one of the participants in the murder of musician Gary Hinman took the stand in the trial of family […]

Manson Involved in Musician’s Death, Jury Told

LOS ANGELES, Apr. 4 – Hippie leader Charles M. Manson, alleged mastermind of the Tate-LaBianca slayings, ordered the death last July of Malibu musician Gary Hinman, the prosecution charged in the Hinman case Friday. In his opening statement at the […]

Witnesses To Refute Susan, Manson Claims

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 3 – Charles Manson, accused mastermind in the slayings of actress Sharon Tate and six others, said in an exclusive jailhouse interview Monday that none of his “family” members will back up the story told by informer […]

The ‘Manson Family’ Murders

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 11 – Last month when the grand jury here indicted a motley group of hippies — most of them girls — for the senseless slaughter of film actress Sharon Tate and six others, the public became progressively […]

Tate Suspect Will Be Given Sanity Test

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 7 – A court-appointed psychiatrist will examine the youngest defendant in the Sharon Tate-LaBianca slayings to determine if she was sane at the time of the crimes and sane now. The psychiatrist was appointed Tuesday by Superior […]

Hunt Fails for Cult ‘Victim’

CHATSWORTH, Jan. 7 – A three-day search for the remains of missing cowboy-stuntman Donald O’Shea at a movie ranch northwest of the San Fernando Valley ended fruitlessly Tuesday. O’Shea, feared slain at the hands of the Charles Manson hippie cult […]

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 — […]

Resume Hunt for Body at Spahn Ranch

CHATSWORTH, Dec. 12 – Detective Lt. Oliver Taylor of the Sheriff’s Homicide squad returned yesterday with 10 deputies to continue the search of the Chatsworth area ranch which once was the base for hippie cult leader Charles Manson’s hate-oriented band. […]

Hippie Cult’s Ranch Combed For Cowboy’s Body

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 11 – Twenty-five sheriff’s deputies today combed the former ranch home of a hippie cult implicated in the seven Tate-LaBianca slayings for the body of a cowboy who disappeared while the nomadic group lived there. White deputies […]

Search For Missing Stunt Man Pressed

Dec. 11 – Sheriff’s deputies searched a movie ranch near Chatsworth Wednesday for a missing stunt man authorities believe may be a victim of the band of hippies accused of the Tate and LaBianca murders. As three young women charged […]

Film Stunt Man Feared Beheaded by Cultists

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 11 – Detectives late Wednesday began a methodical search of the Spahn ranch near Chatsworth — home of the nomadic hippie cult accused in the massacre murders of seven persons — for the body of a ranch […]

Search for Ninth Possible Victim of Hippie Band

CHATSWORTH, Calif., Dec. 11 – Sheriffs deputies searched a movie ranch near here Wednesday for a missing stunt man authorities believe may be a victim of the band of hippies accused of the Tate and La Bianca murders. As three […]

Shock Deepens as Tate Killing Story Unfolds

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 7 – People die every day – in wars, on freeways, in the ocean…in the air. But at no time has the death of five people so shocked the world as in the case of the senseless […]

Wild Cult Blamed In Tate Slaying

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 2 – Police believe they have solved the Sharon Tate murder case and that an occult band of hippies, directed by a leader who calls himself “Jesus,” committed the five killings. Members of the band — a […]