First Homicide Report – 07/31/69
Residence Photographed – 08/04/69
Classification Change – 08/06/69
Bobby Beausoleil Arrest Report – 08/06/69
One Arrest Made – 08/07/69
Complaint Issued – 08/07/69
Palm Print Lifted – 08/08/69
Preliminary Hearing Set – 08/09/69
Additional Suspect Arrested – 10/13/69
Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme Arrested – 10/17/69
Arraignment Date Set
Danny DeCarlo Statement – 11/19/69
Progress Report – 12/4/69
Stephanie Schram Statement – 12/4/69
Mary Brunner Interviewed
Mary Brunner Statement – 12/4/69
Investigation Made – 12/08/69
Louis Puttek Interview – 01/20/70
Firearms Identification – 01/27/70
One Arrest – 01/29/70
Vehicle Impounded – 02/20/70
Sword Examination – 03/09/70
Gun Recovered – 03/17/70
Alan Springer Interviewed – 03/20/70
Brunner Warrant Issued – 04/06/70
Mary Brunner Statement – 04/06/70
Rosanne Walker Interviewed – 04/10/70
Grand Jury Indictments – 04/19/70
Defendant Sentenced – 04/21/70
Defts. #2 and #3 Appear for Trial Setting – 04/22/70
Defendants Arraigned – 04/29/70
Evidence Held – 05/06/70
New Sentencing Date Set – 05/12/70
Ella Jo Bailey Interviewed – 05/18/70
Mary Brunner Affidavit – 05/21/70
Defendant #1 Formally Sentenced – 06/15/70
Beausoleil Formally Sentenced – 06/15/70
Grand Jury Hearing Held – 06/17/70
Ronnie Howard Interviewed – 10/19/70
Bruce Davis Arrested – 12/19/70
Manson Family Activities – 9/16/71
Residence Photographed – 08/04/69
Classification Change – 08/06/69
Bobby Beausoleil Arrest Report – 08/06/69
One Arrest Made – 08/07/69
Complaint Issued – 08/07/69
Palm Print Lifted – 08/08/69
Preliminary Hearing Set – 08/09/69
Additional Suspect Arrested – 10/13/69
Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme Arrested – 10/17/69
Arraignment Date Set
Danny DeCarlo Statement – 11/19/69
Progress Report – 12/4/69
Stephanie Schram Statement – 12/4/69
Mary Brunner Interviewed
Mary Brunner Statement – 12/4/69
Investigation Made – 12/08/69
Louis Puttek Interview – 01/20/70
Firearms Identification – 01/27/70
One Arrest – 01/29/70
Vehicle Impounded – 02/20/70
Sword Examination – 03/09/70
Gun Recovered – 03/17/70
Alan Springer Interviewed – 03/20/70
Brunner Warrant Issued – 04/06/70
Mary Brunner Statement – 04/06/70
Rosanne Walker Interviewed – 04/10/70
Grand Jury Indictments – 04/19/70
Defendant Sentenced – 04/21/70
Defts. #2 and #3 Appear for Trial Setting – 04/22/70
Defendants Arraigned – 04/29/70
Evidence Held – 05/06/70
New Sentencing Date Set – 05/12/70
Ella Jo Bailey Interviewed – 05/18/70
Mary Brunner Affidavit – 05/21/70
Defendant #1 Formally Sentenced – 06/15/70
Beausoleil Formally Sentenced – 06/15/70
Grand Jury Hearing Held – 06/17/70
Ronnie Howard Interviewed – 10/19/70
Bruce Davis Arrested – 12/19/70
Manson Family Activities – 9/16/71
Oct. 7 – The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, Homicide Bureau, Gary Hinman investigatory files. A retrospective of Hinman investigation as seen through never before released homicide, arrest, laboratory, investigation and progress reports, witness interview transcripts, and interoffice correspondences.
Should be interesting. Thanks in advance.
Been waiting years to see this, thanks!
will 33O1 be included?
No, the 3301 stuff is postponed. A lot of work left on that and I don’t really have the time at the moment.
i totally understand. keep up the good work
A little more info After so many years
Can’t wait to see the Hinman files!!! Just one more day! 🙂
Awesome job!! Thank you very much for all your work!
Mary Brunner got a sweetheart deal aright…..her statement is chillingly matter of fact…..and she certainly was a most and willing partner in poor Gary’s MURDER and TORTURE….she ….imho…should be banged up with the REST of the Maniacs and the Key thrown away.
Not sure if she should be locked up with the key thrown away, but she did seem to get off scot-free while having a good deal of complicity in the crime, only for it to be determined that her testimony was not essential anyway. Holding a pillow over the guy’s head, rifling his pockets, cleaning up evidence–what did Atkins do that she didn’t do? Or for that matter Bruce Davis, who is still serving time for this murder (remind me what he did again?) Criminal justice works in strange ways.
Thanks for posting this Cielo!! I read thru everyone of the reports and learned quite a few things, Thank you Thank you.
Where is Hinman’s autopsy report?
http://truthontatelabianca.com/threads/autopsy-of-gary-hinman.2326/
Where are the 48 pictures taken of Hinman’s home? Thanks for the great info.
We have them, just haven’t posted them online
I’ve been reading and listening to a lot of the records you’ve posted. It’s truly a fascinating case – the family, the murders, the investigation, the trial and the post trial developments. I can’t even imagine what the police must have thought when Brooks Poston walked into the Inyo County police station on October 3, 1969 and they tape started recording.
But after reading and listing to all these materials I have three questions I just can’t figure out.
1. Who wrotein blood on Gary Hinman’s wall? Some say Bobby and either Susan or Mary did and then Charlie and another girl returned a week later to try and clean it off. But in Bobby’s most recent parole hearing, it sounds like it wasn’t done when Bobby was there, but at a later date. Isn’t it possible that it was added after Bobby was arrested as part of plan to get him out of jail by committing copycate murders?
2. Why isn’t Beausoleil granted parole. He had no criminal record, was 22, participated in one crime – that appears to be a garden variety argument over drugs that spun out of his control when Charlie came in and pushed everything past the point of return by cutting people up with his sword. Beausoleil has skills and a family on the outside and has been a model prisoner. And was in jail before the real wanton killing started. But they give Van Houten parole? What’s up with that?
3. Did Charlie really believe in Healter Skelter? Manson appears to be a manipulator, but he doesn’t seem crazy and you would really have to be crazy to sincerely believe all that center of the earth, fifty years of hiding, “shit’s coming down fast,” bullshit. But it seems from the various testimony that this is all that was talked about throughout 1969, so if it’s a con it’s a pretty elaborate one. I believe that some of the family members believed it, but I just have a hard time accepting that Charlie really believed it. It seems like a useful tool for keeping family members isolated and in a constant state of fear so that they wouldn’t leave.
What is the name of the canyon and/or location of the Tate La Bianca Murders in 8/69?
Peter, did you not read the files on the Gary Hinman murder? A garden variety argument over drugs lead to the murder? Where, exactly was that in the files? The ridiculous drug angle was one of many lies out of Bobby Beausoleil’s mouth. There is not one shred of evidence that points in that direction. I find it quite disturbing that people could be so callous as to dismiss Gary Hinman’s murder as something that he somehow deserved because his murderer claims he was a drug dealer. I hope BB never is freed! He not only tortured & murdered Gary, but then continues to smear his memory by labeling him a drug dealer. Shame on you!
I swear I’ve recently seen an old report somewhere about the Owner’s Certificates of Gary’s Fiat and VW actually having been “signed” with a rubber stamp–the one Gary apparently used to deposit checks from his students. (I used to work in a bank, and lots of account holders used them, partly because of the convenience, and partly because the bank was more likely to recognized a forger, because they wouldn’t have access to the stamp.) The report mentioned that the stamp was usually kept at the bank (again, this was common at the bank where I worked,) and no one seems to have known how the “killers” got hold of it. In other words, Gary must have stamped the certificates a the bank himself. Or, was that report about some other stolen cars confiscated from the Family? Thanks!
PS Lee’s right. Police not only found no “drug lab” but the one pile of white powder they found on top of the kitchen scale was flour–NO “narcotics” present. And NO ONE else ever said he was involved in drugs. Just Oui “magazine” who bought the story from Bobby B.
Sorry, I was unable to edit my previous comment. I found the reference to a rubber stamp I referred to before!
From the John Puhek (he bought the VW bus from Mark Aaronson, an associate of Charlie) portion of the transcript of the first Beausoleil trial here on Cielodrive.com:
Q:Was this signature on the rear of the pink slip at the time that you saw it signed with that name, Gary Hinman, on the right there?
A:Right.
Q:It was stamped on there, stamped on by apparently the Bay Area Finance Company?
A:Right.
I make a big deal out of this, because the “signature” of Gary Hinman on the pink slip for the Fiat was supposed to “prove” that Bobby B had direct personal contact with Gary right before he died. But there are two problems: 1. Maybe Gary had signed over the Fiat, but continued to “borrow” it, or more likely, 2. Someone found the rubber stamp, originally purchased from the Bay Area Finance Company, in Gary’s house and simply used it to “sign” the 2 pink slips AFTER Gary was already dead. In other words, MAYBE, someone else killed Gary, and Bobby B and Atkins and Brunner were “tasked” to go to Gary’s house, plant the “POLITIC/ALLY/PIGGY” and pawprint graffiti (by mixing water with the almost dried puddle of blood) and while there, helped themselves to the pink slips. Bobby B would have known Gary had that rubber stamp for endorsing checks from his students and their parents.
I’m not trying to claim Bobby B is some kind of “innocent” angel. But as an experienced private and insurance investigator, I can’t help noticing that there is ZERO actual evidence that Bobby B (or the girls, for that matter) were directly involved in his murder. Danny DeCarlo’s “statements” are so full of holes…but he did claim that Bobby B and the girls supposedly “went back” to Gary’s house to “clean off” the graffiti. That’s NOT what it looks like in the crime scene photos. It looks like someone WROTE that graffiti (maybe not the pawprint) in blood that was watered-down–AFTER Gary was long dead. There are lots of other holes in the prosecution’s “case” against Bobby B. No wonder the jury was hung. For example, just because Atkins answered the phone and the door a couple of times does NOT “prove” that Gary was still alive at the time. Police and ME reports mention that “black putrefaction” had begun, indicating that Gary had to have been dead AT LEAST a week. His friends had not heard from him since July 24. Glenn Krell (boy, are there some interesting details in THAT guy’s life story) claims he saw Gary on July 25, and that Gary was on his way to one of his very, very regular meetings that his friends swear he didn’t show up for. The “case” against Bobby B then requires that Gary drove aaaallllll the way from West LA (east of Santa Monica) after dropping off Krell back to his house “before” the meeting, and just as horrible luck would have it, in walks Bobby and the girls in those few minutes before he did ______ and drove aaaalllll the way back into town. An official version of the story supported by NOTHING but the shaky and contradictory “testimonies” of DeCarlo, Atkins (The Most Unreliable Witness of All Time) and Brunner–three jailbird whores who sold their testimony in exchange for MASSIVE concessions from authorities.
Funny. You know? Not, funny like the Italian Army. Funny, like, there is also ZERO “evidence” that any members of Manson’s Family actually murdered anyone in the Tate/LaBianca cases, either. Or Shorty Shea. Or ANYBODY. I’m not saying they’re “innocent.” What I’m saying is, it’s funny…You know?
Unfortunately everything you’ve said counts for nothing because………all the killers have admitted their guilt !
Bobby, like most of the Manson killers, was his own worst enemy.
Peter asks if Manson believed his own theories. My guess is he may not have in the beginning but ended up believing his own hype. He seemed to have blithered bits and pieces of it from prison for a number of years refining it.
People like him can convince themselves. And when they do that they have a better chance of convincing others. It’s like Jim Jones. He started out pretty benign as a preacher who tried to help the poor. Or the guy who thought the Hale Bop comet was going to take him and his followers to paradise if they committed suicide at the comet’s closest passing to Earth.