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Manson Admits Visiting Tate Home ‘5 or 6 Times’
UNBEARDED MANSON: Charles Manson appears in court minus his beard. It was the second time since his arrest that he has shaved off his beard. LOS ANGELES, Oct. 24 – A prosecution witness Friday “bordered on” giving hippie cultist Charles […]
Melcher: Manson’s No Singer
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 23 – Terry Melcher, movie producer son of actress Doris Day, testified in the Tate-LaBianca murder trial today that he wasn’t impressed with the musical talent of hippie leader Charles Manson but was “very impressed with his […]
Manson Visited Tate Residence, Witness Reveals
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 22 – Charles Manson visited Sharon Tate’s rented estate less than five months before she and four others were murdered there, the owner of the property testified Wednesday at the Tate-LaBianca trial. Rudy Altobelli, who then lived […]
Another Ex-Cellmate Says Susan Confessed to Killings
Roseanne Walker, a former cellmate of Susan Atkins said she became friendly with Miss Atkins and at one point heard the girl confess to the Tate LaBianca murders. LOS ANGELES, Oct. 22 – Hippie cultist Charles Manson appeared in court […]
Manson at Tate Home in March ’69, Trial Told
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 21 – Hippie leader Charles Manson was at the Tate murder house five months before the tragedy, a witness said in Los Angeles today. Rudolph Altobelli, owner of the Benedict Canyon home and who lived in a […]
Manson Scouted Home of ‘Beachboy’ Witness Says
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 20 – Hippie cult chieftain Charles Manson scouted the home of “Beachboy” entertainer Dennis Wilson the night he was “looking for” a murder victim, and ended up at the home of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, a witness […]
Record, Film Producer Takes Stand at Manson Murder Trial
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 18 – The man who may have unwittingly set off a chain of events which led to the murders of actress Sharon Tate and six others testified today at the trial of Charles Manson and three female […]
Witness Describes ‘Change’ in Manson
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 17 – Charles Manson was “like an animal in a cage…wild” only two weeks after the Tate-LaBianca murders, a witness testified Friday. Record and movie producer Gregg Jakobson, the 64th prosecution witness in the cultist’s Los Angeles […]
Pal Says Manson Didn’t Believe in Right or Wrong
Prosecution witness Gregg Jakobson was a talent scout who first met Charles Manson about May 1968, at the Sunset Boulevard home of Dennis Wilson, one of the Beach Boys rock group. Jakobson testified that in a period of about a […]
Witness Relates Atkins’ Threat
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 15 – A woman who reported to police Susan Atkins had told her she had killed Sharon said Wednesday that Miss Atkins “told me when she first heard I was an informer that she wanted to slit […]
Cellmate of Susan Doubted ‘Kill Story’
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 14 – One of the women to whom Tate-LaBianca murder defendant Susan Atkins confessed testified today that she did not believe the story and felt the girl was making up the details. Miss Ronnie Howard, 31, in […]
Trial Delayed as Manson Appears in Another Court
Charles Manson glances at Susan Atkins, a member of his hippie-style “family,” as the pair arrived in court at Santa Monica, Calif., Tuesday to plead on charges of murdering a Malibu musician, Gary Hinman. When his name was called, Manson […]
Civil Death Suit Hearing For Manson ‘Family’ Set
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 10 – A federal judge today had set Nov. 16 for another hearing in a $2,000,000 dollar wrongful death suit against Charles Manson and four of his followers. The suit is over the death of Polish playboy […]
Sharon Tate’s Pleas for Mercy Told to Manson Trial Jurors
SAYS MISS ATKINS TOLD HER OF KILLING SHARON TATE: Mrs. Virginia Castro, 37, talks to photographers as she waits to testify in the Tate-LaBianca murder trial in Los Angeles Friday. Mrs. Castro, who says she has used several other names […]
Liz, Sinatra on Slay List – Tate Witness. Ghastly Tortures Planned For Stars
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 9 – Susan Atkins talked to cellmate Virgina Graham about killing Liz Taylor, Richard Burton, Frank Sinatra, Tom Jones and Steve McQueen as part of a murder master plan for Charles Manson’s hippie “family.” This was learned […]
Motion for Mistrial Denied on ‘Confession’ in Tate Case
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 9 – A motion for a mistrial in the Tate-LaBianca murder trial, based on publication of a “confession” of one of the defendants, was denied today in a 2 ½ hour in-chambers secret session. A motion for […]
Manson Cult Plan to Kill Liz, Burton and Sinatra Told
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 9 – Plans by the Manson “family” to kill several prominent people — including Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and Frank Sinatra — were told today by a former cellmate of Susan Atkins who revealed a “confession” made […]
Tate Trial Halts As Judge, Attorneys Study Censoring
Witness Ronnie Howard waiting to testify October 8, 1970 that Susan Atkins confessed the Tate murder to her in jail. LOS ANGELES, Oct. 8 – Confessions last November by Susan Atkins, one of four defendants in the Tate-LaBianca murder case, […]
Three Psychiatrists Appointed to Examine ‘Tex’ Watson
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 8 – Three psychiatrists were appointed yesterday to determine if Charles “Tex” Watson is mentally able to cooperate in his defense against conspiracy murder charges in connection with the Tate-LaBianca murders. Superior Judge George M. Dell continued […]
Manson, Girls Sass The Judge; Ejected Again From Courtroom
Leslie Van Houten, Susan Atkins, and Patricia Krenwinkel (Left to Right) walk to holding cells Tuesday, where they listened to the trial via a loudspeaker. Judge Charles Older refused to allow them and Charles Manson to reenter the courtroom because […]
