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Trial Of Tate Killers Opens In Sixty Days
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 13 – Dist. Atty. Evelle J. Younger says he has decided against challenging a court restriction on pretrial statements in the Tate-LaBianca slayings, even though he believes it may permit unfounded rumors to go unanswered. Younger’s decision […]
Texas Judge Uses Legal Whip On Manson Cultist’s Lawyers
McKINNEY, Tex., Dec. 13 – District Judge David Brown Friday sentenced two Los Angeles lawyers to 72 hours in jail and fined them $100 each for trying to make a “press spectacular” out of the case of Charles D. Watson, […]
San Jose Girl Tells Of Bloody Murders In Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 13 – On the evening of Aug. 8 of this year there were two parties underway 20 miles apart in the mountains northwest of Los Angeles. One was made up of at society calls “swingers” and the […]
Scientologists Deny Murder Link
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 13 – The Church of Scientology said Friday a “vicious and well organized rumor campaign” has sought to link it with the Sharon Tate murders. It offered a $30,000 reward for information bringing conviction of those responsible […]
‘Sadie and Mary’ Hunt Unlocked Tate Case
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 13 – A retrial date has been set for Feb.16 for a handsome young transient accused of a murder which has been linked to the Tate-LaBianca killings. Robert E. Beausoleil, 21, is one of two persons charged […]
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 — […]
Manson Delays Plea For Murder Charges
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 12 – A tiny bearded man with shoulder length hair, clad in filthy fringed buckskin outfit and moccasins was formally charged Thursday with the murder of actress Sharon Tate and six other persons. Charles M. Manson, 35, […]
Speedy Trial Sought in Tate Murder
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 12 – The shaggy, leather-clad chieftain of a band of young cultists who, with five followers, is charged with murder-conspiracy in the killings of actress Sharon Tate and six others, stood slouched with arms crossed Thursday at […]
The Demon In Death Valley
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 12 – That man has wronged me. Society has wronged me. We’ll kill whatever pigs are in that house. Go in there and get them.” With those raging orders from their Rasputin-like leader, a band of hippies, […]
Manson Once Was Student In Kanawha
CHARLESTON, W.V., Dec. 12 – Charles Manson. the bearded leader of the Hippie group involved in the murder of Sharon Tate, was once a student in Kanawha County schools. Records of Manson’s being in Charleston go back to World War […]
‘Susan Was a Good Kid’; Then Came Sadie Glutz
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 12 – She called herself Sadie Glutz. It was a name Charles Manson gave her, an outsider’s little joke on the establishment world. “Tell them your name is Sadie Glutz,” he told her. And she did. But […]
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. […]
Bored Cult Leader Charles Manson Arraigned in LA Murder Orgy
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 12 – Charles Milles Manson, 35-year-old leader of a hate-oriented cult of wanderers, was arraigned yesterday for the murders of actress Sharon Tate and six others. The formal charges were read to the long – haired, bearded […]
Same Tate Murder Knives Believed Used in Girl Case
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 12 – The teen-age daughter of screenwriter Hans Habe may have been slashed to death by the same knives that killed actress Sharon Tate and six others, it had been learned today. The stabbing death of 17-year-old […]
Fountain Cultists Fear Manson Group
CHATSWORTH, Dec. 11 – The bizarre Tate-LaBianca-Hinman murder cases took another macabre twist when it was revealed today that members of the accused “Manson Family” frequented and sometimes took refuge in a religious cult retreat with a violence scarred past. […]
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 […]
Single Trial Planned In Tate Murder Case
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 11 – Prosecutors say they will seek a single trial for the bearded leader and five members of a nomadic clan charged with murder and conspiracy in the killings of actress Sharon Tate and six others. They […]
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 […]
Woman Linked To 2 Slayings Is Not Iowan
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 11 – Los Angeles authorities say a woman indicted in two murders along with five persons charged in the Sharon Tate slayings apparently lied when she identified herself is being from Iowa. Police said a Woman they […]
