Category Archives: Archived News

LOS ANGELES, May 19 – Leslie Van Houten’s mother fought back tears in Los Angeles Wednesday as she told a jury of her daughter’s journey back from Charles Manson’s cult of death. Jane Van Houten, of Monrovia, recalling her personal […]

LOS ANGELES, May 17 – Prosecutor Stephen Kay plans to wind up his case against Leslie Van Houten today in the retrial of the former Charles Manson follower for the murders of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca. On Monday, Kay completed […]

LOS ANGELES, May 13 – Former Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten testified Thursday that she stabbed Rosemary LaBianca only after Mrs. LaBianca apparently was dead. Miss Van Houten said that after both Mrs. LaBianca and her husband, Leno, were […]

LOS ANGELES, May 6 – Former Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten testified Thursday she took LSD during the Tate-LaBianca murder trial and said she gave false testimony in that trial on Manson’s orders. Taking the stand for the first […]

LOS ANGELES, Apr. 26 – Linda Kasabian completed her courtroom account Monday about a night in 1969 when she said Charles Manson and a carload of his followers roamed from the mountains to the sea searching for someone to kill. […]

LOS ANGELES, Apr. 20 – The daughter of Rosemary LaBianca was unable to hold back her tears Tuesday as she identified photos of her mother and stepfather and then recounted the horror of the August night in 1969 when they […]

COLUMBIA, Mo., Apr. 8 – Vincent Bugliosi, prosecutor in the Charles Manson murder trial, smiled out at the large crowd assembled in the University’s Jesse Auditorium. “This is really a good crowd,” he said. “I think some of you thought […]

LOS ANGELES, Mar. 27 – The Charles Manson follower who six years ago calmly described to a startled jury in her murder trial how she “just started stabbing and cutting the lady up,” Monday will face a new jury in […]

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 17 – Former Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten says she still has nightmares about the gruesome murders of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, for which she was once condemned to death and for which she will be […]

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 30 — Susan Murphy, a Charles Manson cultist, and her escape companion, Diane Ellis, have been sentenced to 10 extra years in prison for beating a guard unconscious while escaping in August from Terminal Island Federal Prison. […]

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 29 – Susan Murphy and Diane Ellis, who brutally beat a female guard during an escape from the Federal Correctional Institution at Terminal Island last August, were each sentenced in Los Angeles federal court Friday to 10 […]

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 28 — Police doubt that the slaying of producer Laurence Merrick, who made a documentary about Charles Manson’s followers, was the work of the murderous “family.” “The feeling is they had nothing to do with it,” Hollywood […]

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 27 – Producer-director Laurence Merrick, maker of the film “Manson,” was shot to death Wednesday at his Hollywood film school, police said. His unidentified slayer, described as a young man in his 20s, escaped after the noontime […]

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 27 — Producer-director Laurence Merrick, creator of a documentary film on the Charles Manson family, has been shot to death outside his film studio. Police said they had no indication that the shooting yesterday was connected with […]

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 20 – The retrial of former Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten will stay in Los Angeles, a judge here ruled today after both defense and prosecution attorneys agreed that the entire state was “saturated” with publicity […]

VACAVILLE, Jan. 19 – A Petaluma woman — arrested by the FBI Monday on suspicion of sending death threats through the mail — carried on what Vacaville prison officials considered a harmless six-month correspondence with Charles Manson at the same […]

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 18 — A member of the Charles Manson family was arrested Monday at her home in Petaluma on a charge of sending two threatening letters through the mail. Patricia Maureen Gillum, also known as Misty Hay, was […]

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 6 – Linda Kasabian was taken into a Los Angeles courtroom under heavy guard Wednesday where she signed a written promise to testify at the retrial of former Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten on murder charges. […]

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 4 – Linda Kasabian, arrested in Miami as a material witness for the upcoming trial of Leslie Van Houten, the former Charles Manson follower, is scheduled to make a court appearance Wednesday in Los Angeles. Dep. Dist. […]

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 2 – Leslie Van Houten, facing retrial for two of the notorious Manson murders, stood quietly in Los Angeles Monday while her attorney told a judge she is “thoroughly rehabilitated” and “no danger to society.” But attorney […]