Category Archives: Archived News
Active Week at Prison: Suicide, Escape and Attempt
FOLSOM, Jan. 30 – Folsom Prison had its share of incidents this past week — a suicide, an escape, and an escape attempt. Friday night, guards in the security housing unit discovered the body of an inmate sitting on the […]
Press Hit, ‘Gag Rule’ Imposed in the Willett Murder Trial
SANTA ROSA, Jan. 20 – A defense demand for change of venue on grounds of recent prejudicial publicity prompted Superior Court Judge Kenneth Eymann to impose a strict gag rule in the James Willett murder trial Friday. Public Defender Marteen […]
Murder Suspects Plan to Wed …in Jail
SANTA ROSA, Jan. 17 – Nancy Pittman exchanged loving glances yesterday with her fiance, Michael Lee Monfort. The two will be married soon, a friend said, in an unusual double wedding ceremony. In the Sonoma County Jail. Miss Pittman, 25, […]
Kanarek Pay Rejected
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 — The Supreme Court today rejected the claim of an attorney who represented Charles Manson at his Los Angeles murder trial for compensation out of public funds. Manson chose Irving H. Kanarek as his lawyer after turning […]
Kanarek Says Bugliosi Leaked News
REDONDO BEACH, Oct. 17 – Defense attorney Irving Kanarek Thursday named Vincent Bugliosi as one of the men responsible for news leaks during the Charles Manson trial. Speaking to members of the SouthWest Press Association in Redondo Beach, Kanarek called […]
‘Manson’ Falls Short As Film Documentary
Sept. 6 – “Manson” is a sort-of documentary by American International on the murdering Charles Manson Family of California. It’s at the Kensington and Towne, rated “R” and twin-billed with the rerun “Wild in the Streets.” “Manson” uses television film […]
Murder Conviction Appealed
SAN FRANCISCO, Jul. 27 — Charles Manson “family” member Robert Beausoleil has filed a petition with the California Supreme Co. asking for a reversal of his conviction on a first-degree murder charge. Beausoleil filed a request for a hearing Thursday, […]
Notorious Ranch to Get New Life
LOS ANGELES, Jul. 15 – Just four years ago, Charles Manson and members of his “family” were sitting at the Spahn Movie Ranch, planning the Tate-LaBianca murders. For decades before August, 1969 the ranch existed in peaceful anonymity. In the […]
Sells Salon of Hair Stylist Slain By Manson Gang
LOS ANGELES, Jun. 3 – The late Jay Sebring’s hair-styling salon, once a hub of the Los Angeles jet-set, has been sold and will be converted to sales offices. The salon, at 723-729 N. Fairfax Blvd., was sold Friday for […]
Suit Filed by Manson Girl Against Lawyer Dismissed
May 3 – A $2,000,000 malpractice and fraud suit brought by convicted murderess Susan Atkins against two attorneys who once represented her and against former Dep. Dist. Atty Vincent T. Bugliosi has been dismissed. Superior Court Judge Rodney Potter granted […]
Six Hurt in Brawl At San Quentin
SAN QUENTIN, Apr. 25 – A free-swinging brawl involving six convicts with two prison-made knives and two baseball bats broke out shortly after lunch yesterday in San Quentin’s lower yard but was broken up after a guard fired a warning […]
Judge Balks at Role of Cupid After Trial Ends
STOCKTON, Apr. 4 — Two men and two women, implicated in the murder by shooting and basement burial of a young mother here last November, pleaded guilty to lesser charges in superior court Monday; then heard the judge refuse to […]
Manson-Linked Quartet Pleads Guilty in Killing
STOCKTON, Apr. 3 – Michael Lee Monfort, 24, pleaded guilty yesterday to second-degree murder in the Nov. 10 death of Lauren Willet, 19, and three co-defendants pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of being accessories after the fact of murder. […]
Manson ‘Girl’ Sentenced for 2 Robberies
LOS ANGELES, Mar. 21 – Mary Brunner, a Charles Manson follower convicted of committing two armed robberies as part of a plan to free the murder cult leader, was sentenced Tuesday to two consecutive 10-year-to-life prison terms. And in another […]
Manson Life-Style Changes After Move From Death Row
FOLSOM, Mar. 5 — The lifestyle of convicted killer Charles Manson has been sharply altered since he was moved off San Quentin’s Death Row and out of the shadow of the state’s gas chamber. For one thing, he has dropped […]
Manson Follower Recalls His Life of Crime at Sanity Hearing
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 28 – Kenneth Como, one of four Charles Manson followers convicted of committing two robberies as part of a plan to free the cult leader from prison, told jurors Tuesday that “all I wanted to do was […]
Manson Says Family ‘People Having Fun’
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 28 – The Manson family was just “a lot of people having fun,” said Charles Manson, returning to the courthouse where he was convicted of nine murders as the guru-svengali of the hippie tribe. He had no […]
‘You Better Pray I Never Get Out,’ Manson Friend Tells Sanity Trial
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 24 – “You had better pray I never get out,” convicted murderer Bobby (Cupid) Beausoleil told a jammed courtroom Friday at a sanity hearing for four other members of the Charles Manson “family.” The 25-year-old Beausoleil was […]
4 Manson Followers Convicted in Hawthorne Robbery-Shootout
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 22 – Four followers of hippie cult leader Charles Manson were found guilty Wednesday of committing a Hawthorne surplus store robbery which led to a shootout with police. The seven-women, five-man jury deliberated four days before returning […]
Manson, 10 Followers Won’t Testify at Trial
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 17 – Charles Manson and 10 other convicted murderers will not testify in the robbery trial of four of his followers as had been expected. The defense rested Friday without the appearance of Manson and the others […]
