Category Archives: Archived News

LOS ANGELES, Jul. 23 – Charles Manson — is he the world’s hottest lover or the world’s coldest killer? Beginning Friday, the — and especially seven men and five women sitting in the jury box — will begin to find […]

LOS ANGELES, Jul. 23 – A Superior Court judge yesterday heard testimony on whether Mary Brunner, member of Charles Manson’s clan, was in fact granted immunity from prosecution for the murder of musician Gary Hinman. Judge Kathleen Parker recessed the […]

LOS ANGELES, Jul. 23 – Six alternate jurors have been sworn in for the Charles Manson murder trial and testimony is scheduled to get under way tomorrow. Trial Judge Charles H. Older granted the delay after the swearing-in on Tuesday […]

LOS ANGELES, Jul. 22 – The state says it knows why beautiful actress Sharon Tate and six others were slain last August, and “the motive is even more bizarre than the killings themselves.” That motive, Deputy Dist. Atty. Vincent Bugliosi […]

LOS ANGELES, Jul. 22 – The Prosecution opens its case against the “Manson Family” Friday with a parade of witnesses including one young woman member of the hippie cult said to have acted as a “lookout” during the Sharon Tate-LaBianca […]

LOS ANGELES, Jul. 21 – The Charles Manson trial took a new twist yesterday as the defense subpoenaed a newspaper reporter in an effort to find the source of one of her stories. The subpoena was served on Mrs. Mary […]

LOS ANGELES, Jul. 21 – Cult leader Charles Manson took a verbal skip at the establishment Monday in the Tate-Labianca murder trial as the prosecution exercised peremptory challenges delaying final jury selection. Manson, 35, accused mastermind of the seven slayings, […]

LOS ANGELES, Jul. 19 – Mary Brunner, 26, former University of Wisconsin librarian, will argue for her freedom from a murder charge in Superior Court Wednesday. Miss Brunner, a member of a clan of young persons led by Charles Manson, […]

LOS ANGELES, Jul. 19 – His long, brown hair hangs to his shoulders — snarled and unkempt, hiding his face. His beard, at times clean cropped but more often growing uninhibited by a razor, shields a youthful face. Spectators and […]

LOS ANGELES, Jul. 18 – The youngest of the three female defendants at the Tate murder trial fired her “square” lawyer yesterday and replaced him with an attorney who has just been admitted to the bar and has never handled […]

LOS ANGELES, Jul. 17 – The judge presiding over the Charles Manson murder trial made an unprecedented request of the news media yesterday to refrain from using an interview given earlier in the day by an attorney. “I’m pleading with […]

LOS ANGELES, Jul. 17 – Mary Brunner, one-time member of Charles Manson’s cult, was arraigned yesterday on a second County Grand jury indictment charging her with the 1969 murder of a musician in Topanga Canyon. Miss Brunner, a 26-year-old librarian […]

LOS ANGELES, Jul. 16 – A jury today had been selected and sworn in for the Charles Manson murder trial. It was told almost immediately that panel-members will be sequestered. The confinement of the jury, ordered by trial Judge Charles […]

LOS ANGELES, Jul. 15 – The slow process of selecting six alternate jurors began today in the Tate-LaBianca murder case following the formal swearing in of the 12-member jury panel Tuesday. The seven man, five woman jury will be sequestered […]

LOS ANGELES, Jul. 15 – A jury of seven men and five women was sworn in yesterday at the Sharon Tate murder trial after each of them promised individually to give the defendants, an “impartial and fair hearing.” Selection of […]

LOS ANGELES, Jul. 14 – A jury is expected to be sworn in here today to try cultist Charles Manson and three young women of his nomadic “family” on charges of murdering actress Sharon Tate and six others in two […]

LOS ANGELES, Jul. 13 – A jury to hear the Tate-LaBianca massacre murder case against cult leader Charles Manson and three of his girl followers will be sworn in Tuesday, it was learned today. The five-woman, seven-man panel selected in […]

LOS ANGELES, Jul. 13 – The selection of 12 permanent jurors was completed today at the trial of Charles Manson and three young women members of his “family” in the Tate-Labianca murder case. After a month of questioning almost 150 […]

LOS ANGELES, Jul. 12 – Approval of a jury for the Charles Manson murder-conspiracy case is closer today than it has been in the four weeks since the trial opened. Whether or not a panel of 12 will be selected […]

LOS ANGELES, Jul. 11 – A California official talked about bringing a $100,000 suit against Texas Friday, charging intentional delays in extraditing Charles Watson, 24, wanted in California for trial in the Sharon Tate murder case. In Austin, Atty. Gen. […]