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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 Loses Her Appeal
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 16 — Convicted murderer Leslie Van Houten, due for a second parole hearing next month, lost another round in her attempt to get out of jail when a California appeals court refused to overturn her conviction in […]
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 […]
Manson Says He’ll Be in Jail Forever
Click here to read Charles Manson’s November 4, 1980 Parole Hearing Transcript VACAVILLE, Nov. 10 — Eleven years after the shocking Tate-LaBianca killings, an aging but spirited Charles Manson — imprisoned for masterminding the mass murders — dreams of climbing […]
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 […]
Informant To Tie Defendant To Bank Holdups
SACRAMENTO, Jan. 17 – A former County Jail inmate is scheduled to testify today that a parolee with ties to suspected associates of the Symbionese Liberation Army confided his involvement in at least four large bank robberies. A burglary charge […]
Man, Woman Get Prison Terms After Series Of Area Robberies
SACRAMENTO, Jan. 16 – Superior Court Judge William H. Lally sentenced Priscilla Cooper, 28, and Joseph Garcia, 54, to terms in state prison Tuesday for a series of Sacramento area robberies committed during two weeks in August. Cooper received seven […]
Heroin in the Family Drove Actress From Film Career
Dec. 23 – Veteran character actress, Angela Lansbury, has revealed why she quit Hollywood for most of the last decade — her two children had become addicted to heroin and one was in danger of joining the Charles Manson cult […]
Manson Skips Parole Hearing
VACAVILLE, Calif, Nov. 28 — Mass murderer Charles Manson, now in the tenth year of eight concurrent life sentences in the Sharon Tate killings, refused to appear before a parole board, insisting he “was treated as a fool” after his […]
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 […]
