Category Archives: Archived News
Three Charged in Robbery
PORTLAND, OR, Jul. 9 – Three suspects in a Saturday morning grocery store robbery were arrested within 10 minutes of the crime after the store manager followed them and gave police a description. Charged with first degree robbery and held […]
No Review of Death Penalty
WASHINGTON, D.C., May 30 – The. U.S. Supreme Court today rejected an appeal by California to review a state Supreme Court decision outlawing the death penalty. The high court currently is considering whether to abolish capital punishment across the land, […]
Member of Manson Cult Convicted
LOS ANGELES, May 25 – Manson follower Charles A. Lovitt was convicted yesterday of armed robbery stemming from an aborted gun raid in Hawthorne last summer. A Superior Court jury of nine women and three men deliberated less than two […]
Political Influence Aid to Car Man — Bugliosi
LOS ANGELES, May 9 – Dep. Dist. Atty. Vincent T. Bugliosi charged Monday that auto dealer Ralph Williams’ attorney used political influence with the district attorney’s office to win delays in prosecuting criminal false advertising charges against Williams. Bugliosi told […]
Girl Unable to Locate Body
LOS ANGELES, Apr. 23 – A former member of Charle Manson’s “family” who said she saw Donald (Shorty) Shea’s decapitated body buried at the Spahn movie ranch in Chatsworth in 1969 was flown here from Pittsburgh, Pa. But the girl, […]
Shadyside Girl Aids Manson Camp Hunt
PITTSBURGH, Apr. 20 – A 19-year-old Shadyside girl who told the Public Defender’s Office here she was formerly a member of the Charles Manson “family” has been returned to Los Angeles to help authorities locate the body of a possible […]
Last of Manson ‘Family’ Given Life in Prison
LOS ANGELES, Apr. 18 — Bruce McGregor Davis, 28-year-old member of the Charles Manson “family,” Monday was sentenced to life in prison for the murders of Malibu musician Gary Hinman and Chatsworth ranch hand Donald (Shorty) Shea. The formal sentencing […]
Church Wins Editing Demands on Manson Book
CHICAGO, Apr. 4 – The Process Church of the Final Judgment has agreed to drop its second suit against those involved in the publication of a book on convicted murderer Charles Manson. A $1.25 million libel suit against the publishers […]
Commune Falls Fallow
McFALL, MO., Mar. 16 – Well, Molly and Ned, you see, had been hitch-hiking all over the country last summer, you know? Florida, New York, the Dakotas, all over, and they hit Kansas City and run into this friend they’d […]
Follower of Manson Guilty of Murders
LOS ANGELES, Mar. 15 — Bruce McGregor Davis, 28-year-old follower of hippie cult leader Charles Manson, was found guilty Tuesday of murdering Malibu musician Gary Hinman and ranch hand Donald (Shorty) Shea. The guilty verdicts on the two homicide counts […]
Manson ‘Kin’ Flee Missouri
McFALL, MO., Mar. 12 — Life is quieter here now, less interesting. The hippies have fled from McFall. In their wake they left this little northwest Missouri town with the shudders. Not because of anything they did here the last […]
Manson ‘Family’ Members Leave County
FAMILY MEMBERS – Linda Baldwin, 21; the Rev. William R. Cole, 37; and Patricia Baldwin, 25 McFALL, MO, Mar. 9 – The three persons shown above were instrumental in connecting Gentry county and the McFall community with one of the […]
Death Charge Dropped for Manson Girl
LOS ANGELES, Mar. 4 — A murder charge against Charles Manson family member Mary Brunner in connection with the death of Malibu musician, Gary Hinman was dismissed Friday by Superior Judge George M. Dell. In announcing his decision to drop […]
Murder Case In California Reaches County
McFALL, MO, Mar. 2 – Investigation in the Sharon Tate murder case, in which five or six persons were murdered in the Los Angeles, Calif., area back in late 1969, reached Gentry county and the McFall area during the past […]
Manson Cult Girl Gets Added Term for Aiding Escapee
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 25 — Sandra Good, 27-year-old follower of hippie cult leader Charles Manson, was sentenced to spend two more months in jail today for her part in helping Kenneth Como flee after his Oct. 20 escape from County […]
Death Penalty Ban Assailed by Reagan; State to Appeal
Feb. 19 — The state Supreme Court’s ruling against the death penalty Friday relit all the old arguments and drew hard statements pro and con from California lawmen, lawyers and elected officials. “I’m deeply disappointed and somewhat shocked by the […]
Manson Girl Convicted of Aiding Escape
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 5 — Sandra Good, a strawberry blonde follower of Charles Manson, was found guilty Friday of aiding and abetting the escape of Kenneth Como in his daring predawn flight from the Hall of Justice. The jury, which […]
Jail Escapee Found Guilty
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 4 – Kenneth Como was found guilty of felony escape charges Thursday for his daring disappearance from a 13th floor cell at the Hall of Justice last Oct. 20. The nine-woman, three-man jury indicated, however, that it […]
Bugliosi Announces Candidacy for DA; Hits Busch’s Record
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 11 – Dep. Dist. Atty. Vincent T. Bugliosi announced his candidacy for Los Angeles district attorney today, declaring incumbent Joseph P. Busch “is not able to run an effective department.” The 37-year-old Bugliosi, chief prosecutor at the […]
Susan Atkins Sues Her Lawyers, DA
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 11 — Convicted killer Susan Atkins, 22, filed a $2 million damage suit today against her two former defense attorneys and Dep. Dist. Atty. Vincent Bugliosi, who successfully prosecuted her and other Manson family members for the […]
