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Novelist Says Curse Marks Mass Murderers

MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 30 – It really annoyed him, Vincent Bugliosi said, to watch Tom Snyder’s June interview with Charles Manson, knowing all the while that the mass murderer might be cashing in on his coast-to-coast appearance on NBC. The network […]

Man Found Guilty of Mail Threats

Sept. 23 – A California man received a three-month prison sentence as punishment yesterday after pleading no contest to a charge of mailing threatening letters to a federal prosecutor. But because the defendant, Herbert Darrell Hay, has been in federal […]

Susan Atkins Denied Parole

FRONTERA, Calif., Sept. 18 — Former Charles Manson disciple Susan Atkins Laisure, who this month married a self-professed Texas millionaire, has been denied parole for a fourth time. After a hearing Wednesday, the three-member California Board of Prison Terms denied […]

Ex-Manson Follower Susan Atkins Weds

FRONTERA, Calif., Sept. 3 — Mass murderess Susan Atkins, once a member of Charles Manson’s “family” of drug-driven killers, married a self-described Texas millionaire Wednesday in a private prison ceremony described as highly religious. Miss Atkins, 33, once sentenced to […]

Susan Atkins Delays Prison Wedding Plans

FRONTERA, Calif., Aug. 29 — Susan Atkins, the Manson family member serving a life term in prison for the Tate-LaBianca slayings, has postponed plans to marry a flamboyant Texas millionaire who vowed to gain her freedom. Sylvia Johnson, superintendent at […]

Bride No. 36 Steals His Love

GREENVILLE, Texas, Jun. 30 — Donald Lee Laisure is a marrying man. By his own count he has repeated the vows 35 times and profited from the experience. “I got (wealthy) by using my head. I looked for them (rich […]

$20 Million Libel Suit Dismissed

LOS ANGELES, Jun. 26 – A $20 million libel suit filed by Irving Kanarek, attorney for convicted mass murderer Charles Manson, against Manson’s prosecutor, Vincent T. Bugliosi and others, over statements in Bugliosi’s best selling book, “Helter Skelter,” was dismissed. […]

Manson Lashes Out in Interview

NEW YORK, Jun. 12 — Charles Manson, the convicted mass murderer, strikes out at the media and claims he is “nobody’s leader and I’m nobody’s follower” in an interview with Tom Snyder tonight on NBC’s “Tomorrow Coast to Coast” (12:30 […]

Manson Man: Inmate Accused of Threatening Berg to Undergo Tests

Jan. 16 – A 26-year-old man linked by California law officials to mass murderer Charles Manson’s notorious Family was ordered to undergo a psychiatric examination in federal court here yesterday. Moments earlier, he was granted permission to act as his […]

Leslie Van Houten: ‘In Touch’ With the Guilt She’ll Always Feel

Dec. 14 – Leslie Van Houten, 31, and looking like a schoolgirl in jeans, plaid shirt, red V-necked sweater, short brown curls and bangs, reached for her pack of cigarettes, lit up and grinned: “I keep telling myself, ‘When this […]

FBI Seeking for Motives in Psychology of Killers

QUANTICO, Va., Nov. 9 — The FBI has entered the world of psycholinguistics and interviews with notorious killers to help solve seemingly senseless crimes. The purpose of the studies by the Behavior Science Unit, which is housed in the basement […]

Charles Manson Assigned to Prison Job

VACAVILLE, Aug. 6 — Former cult leader Charles Manson has emerged from a decade of solitary confinement to work as a gardener and maintenance man at the Protestant chapel in Vacaville State Prison. “It’s taken 10 years to get a […]

A Baltimore Psychiatrist Examines Manson’s Women

The Manson Women … By Clara Livsey, M.D. 244 pages. Richard Marek. $10.95. In August of 1969, a group of groupies, primarily female, who had formed an unrelated “family” around a semi-literate petty criminal named Charles Manson, stabbed, slashed and […]

Vincent Bugliosi – Manson Case Prosecutor Turns Defense Lawyer

CHICAGO, Jun. 4 — Vincent T. Bugliosi, the former deputy Los Angeles County district attorney who prosecuted the Charles Manson family, is now on the other side of the courtroom. “I’d like to try to establish myself as the leading […]

Manson Link ‘Exaggerated’

EUREKA, Oct. 20 — Reports of ties between a southern Humboldt County commune farm and both the Manson family and Symbionese liberation Army were exaggerated, but a gang of criminals with links to several radical movements in California has used […]

Jail Escapee Nabbed as Poacher

SEATTLE, Oct. 18 — Loaded with camping gear and an Army manual on how to escape capture, David Warriner, the last of seven men who escaped from King County Jail, was captured as a poacher Tuesday night. Washington Fish and […]

SLA, Manson Linked to Escape

SEATTLE, Oct. 18 — Law enforcement officials insist that radicals connected to the Symbionese Liberation Army, the Charles Manson family and other California militant groups were behind a bloody, ill-fated mass escape from the King County Jail. One of the […]

The Manson Family at it Again?

LONG BEACH, Calif., Oct. 15 — Scattered remnants of Charlie Manson’s family are on a crime spree aimed at freeing the hippie leader and other members of his violence-prone cult from prison, local and federal law enforcement agents have told […]

One-time Cultist Sought for Fraud in Roseville Office

ROSEVILLE, Calif., Oct. 11 – A former member of the Charles Manson family has been charged with operating a fraudulent business scheme at a rented office in Roseville’s Old Town. Catherine Louise “Gypsy” Como, a one-time follower of cult leader […]

FBI Claims No Knowledge of Plot to Free Manson

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 8 — The FBI says it “has no knowledge” to back up a newspaper report that two terrorist cults have joined forces in a mission to free Charles Manson and jailed members of his “family” and the […]