Category Archives: Archived News

The Manson Story: Love and Murder

FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: Patricia Krenwinkel, Susan Atkins, and Leslie Van Houten walking to court yesterday, where a Los Angeles jury found them, along with Charles Manson, guilty of first-degree murder and conspiracy for the Tate-LaBianca killings LOS ANGELES, Jan. […]

Manson, 3 Girls Found Guilty

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 25 – Charles Manson and three young women he lured into his wild nomadic cult were convicted of first degree murder today in the savage and senseless slaughter of actress Sharon Tate and six other helpless victims. […]

Manson and Three Girls Guilty

Sheriff’s deputies escort Charles Manson to court today, where he along with Susan Atkins, Leslie Van Houten and Patricia Krenwinkel were found guilty of first-degree murder and conspiracy in the Tate-LaBianca killings LOS ANGELES, Jan. 25 – Hippie cultist Charles […]

Manson Jury Recesses in ‘Circus Mood’

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 24 – Obviously in a “circus” mood, jurors deliberating the fate of Charles Manson and three of his girlfriends quit their job early Saturday so they could return to their hotel to rest. The five-woman, seven-man panel, […]

Musician Is Tate Penalty Witness

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 22 – A Negro trumpeter still carrying a bullet in his back allegedly put there by hippie cultist Charles Manson, appeared in Los Angeles Superior Court briefly today as the prosecution in the Tate-LaBianca murder trial began […]

Manson Waits Fate, in Blast at Lawyers

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 21 – As the jury in the Tate-LaBianca murders trial began its sixth day of deliberating the fate of Charles Manson and his three girl followers, the cult leader today issued a press release from his jail […]

Tension Mounts as Tate Jurors Ponder Verdict

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 20 – Tension mounted in the Los Angeles Hall of Justice today as the Tate-LaBianca jury began its fifth day of deliberations. Newsmen from throughout the world crowded around the eighth floor courtroom where the marathon trial […]

Request by Manson Jurors to Visit Murder Scenes Denied

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 19 – Jurors in the Tate-LaBianca murder trial sought permission Monday to visit, after dark, the scenes of the seven murders but the request was denied. Superior Judge Charles H. Older rejected a defense motion to reopen […]

Manson, Girl in Court on 2 Other Murders

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 19 – As the jury began its fourth day of deliberating the fate of Charles Manson and three of his girl followers for the Tate-LaBianca massacre murders, the hippie leader and one of the girls appeared in […]

Tate Jury in Deliberation Sifts Mass of Evidence

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 18 – The Tate-LaBianca jury, in its second full day of deliberations, today asked for a record player to hear the Beatles album on which the prosecution claims the Manson “family” based its “helter-skelter” motive for murder. […]

Manson Friends Fail to Show for Loitering Trial

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 17 – A Municipal Court judge today had issued warrants for the arrest of eight members of Charles Manson’s ‘family’ after they failed to appear for trial setting on loitering charges. Two of the group Lynette Fromme […]

Manson Jurors Finish Day of Deliberation

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 17 – The Tate-LaBianca murder trial jury deliberated for its first full day yesterday without reaching a decision on the fate of Charles Manson and three female followers. The seven man, five woman jury ended its consideration […]

Manson Fate In Hands Of Jury

Accused killer Charles Manson walks silently to the courtroom in Los Angeles yesterday. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 16 – After seven months of trial, a seven-man five woman jury Friday began deliberating the fate of hippie leader Charles Manson and his […]

Prosecutor Final Summation Calls Manson a ‘Warped Megalomaniac’

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 15 – Labeling hippie leader Charles Manson a “megalomaniac…with a warped and frenzied mind,” the prosecutor in the Tate-LaBianca murder trial ended his final summation today. The Los Angeles Superior Court jury was expected to begin deliberations […]

Manson Prosecutor Asserts Defendants Are ‘Guilty as Sin’ 

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 14 – Prosecutor Vincent T. Bugliosi charged Wednesday that the defense in the Tate-LaBianca murder trial tried to conceal the guilt of Charles Manson and three women defendants behind a smokescreen. He told the jurors at the […]

Closing Arguments at Tate Murder Trial Interrupted by Charles Manson’s Growls

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 14 – Charles Manson voiced his own form of protest yesterday when he heard the prosecutor at the Tate-LaBianca murder trial describe him as a “vicious, diabolical murderer who gave the order that caused seven human beings […]

Keith Pleads For Innocence Of Manson’s Three Girls

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 12 – Defense attorney Maxwell Keith told the jury today at the Tate murder trial that if they believed the theory that the killers were simply robots and zombies directed by Charles Manson they must find all […]

Tate Murder Trial Goes To Jury Next Week

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 9 – Charles Manson’s attorney has finally finished his final arguments in the Tate-LaBianca murder case and the seven-month-old trial may reach the jury by the middle of next week. Irving Kanarek concluded his summation Friday with […]

Manson Trial Drones Toward Last Stage Before Verdict

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 6 – Five air conditioners set high in the windows of the white-walled courtroom work ceaselessly, humming a background to the words of Charles Manson’s attorney. Irving A. Kanarek stands behind a lectern, placed between the court […]

Manson Clan Member Gives Birth To Boy

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 6 – One of the young woman members of Charles Manson’s so-called “family” gave premature birth to a 4-pound baby boy Tuesday night in the jail ward of Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, authorities said. The unnamed […]