Category Archives: Archived News

Linda Kasabian On Stand For Third Day Of Cross-Examination in Manson Murder Trial

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 4 – Linda Kasabian, the prosecution’s key witness in the Charles Manson trial, withstood her third day of intense cross-examination yesterday without changing her story of the Tate-LaBianca murders. Earlier, a Miami woman testified Mrs. Kasabian, 21, […]

Manson, ‘Family’ Not Moved by Testimony

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 3 – The three long-haired girls in jail uniforms giggle and whisper at times while Charles M. Manson strokes his beard and makes funny faces at an artist drawing his picture. At moments, the defendants in the […]

Companion Calls Linda a Liar

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 3 – A woman with whom Linda Kasabian, chief prosecution witness in the Tate-LaBianca murder trial, lived after the killings testified today that Mrs. Kasabian was a “liar” and a constant user of narcotics. Mrs. June Emmer […]

Manson Family Still Makes Garbage Run

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 2 – The remnants of the Charles Manson family continue to live amid the bouldered slopes and sylvan caves and waterfalls of the Spahn movie ranch, about 30 miles from downtown Los Angeles. “We’re still singing, we […]

She Loved ‘Messiah’ Manson, Linda Says

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 1 – The star prosecution witness in the Tate-La Bianca murder case, whose testimony could send Charles Manson to the gas chamber, Friday testified she loved him and considered him “the Messiah, come again.” Twenty-one year old […]

Thought Manson Was ‘Love, Truth’ But Grew To Fear Him, Linda Says

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 1 – Linda Kasabian, whose testimony could send Charles Manson to the gas chamber, said yesterday she had “loved Charlie” when she first came to his “family” and thought he was what she always had been looking […]

Circuit Court Delays Extradition Of Watson

NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 1 – The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals Friday threw another two week delay into California’s attempts to extradite Charles Watson from Texas. Watson, charged in California’s Tate – LaBianca murders, began his ninth month in […]

Foiled 8th Murder Ordered by Manson, Mrs. Kasabian Says

LOS ANGELES, Jul. 31 – Charles Manson told her to kill a man in Venice, gave her a pocket-knife and demonstrated how to do it, the state’s key witness testified Thursday in the Tate-LaBianca murder trial. Linda Kasabian, 21, placed […]

Manson ‘a Second Christ’ to Linda, She Tells Jury

LOS ANGELES, Jul. 31 – The chief prosecution witness in the Tate-LaBianca murder case testified today that she felt cult leader Charles Manson was “the Messiah…the second coming of Christ.” The dramatic testimony came under grueling cross-examination of Linda Kasabian, […]

Manson Pal Watson Wins More Time

NEW ORLEANS, Jul. 31 – The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has at least temporarily blocked the extradition of a defendant in the Sharon Tate murder case, now being fried in California. The appellate court today agreed to hear […]

Linda Kasabian Testifies Manson Ordered Her to Kill Actor

LOS ANGELES, Jul. 31 – Cross examination of star prosecution witness Linda Kasabian got under way yesterday after the young woman testified Charles Manson gave her direct orders to kill an actor who lived in Venice. It was the first […]

Manson Case Attorneys Freed After Night in Jail

LOS ANGELES, Jul. 31 – Defense attorneys Irving Kanarek and Ronald Hughes, who represent principals in the Tate-LaBianca murder trial, were released yesterday from Central Jail where they spent the night for contempt. The two attorneys were cited for contempt […]

Linda Says Manson Sent Her To Murder A Friend

LOS ANGELES, Jul. 30 – Hippie leader Charles Manson instructed Linda Kasabian, chief prosecution witness against him, on how to murder a casual friend, she testified today as the hippie leader sat staring at her in Los Angeles Superior Court. […]

Linda Kasabian, Former Manson Follower, Testifies LaBiancas Given Assurance They Wouldn’t Be Harmed

LOS ANGELES, Jul. 30 – Accused murder mastermind Charles Manson told the slayers of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, “don’t let them know that you’re going to kill them,” chief prosecution witness Linda Kasabian said yesterday. Mrs. Kasabian, one-time member of […]

Suit Filed in Frykowsky Son’s Behalf

LOS ANGELES, Jul. 30 – Another multi-million dollar wrongful death suit was filed yesterday against Charles Manson and four of his followers over the mass murders at the home of actress Sharon Tate nearly a year ago. The latest suit […]

Two Attorneys in Manson Trial Hauled Off to Jail

LOS ANGELES, Jul. 30 – Two defense attorneys in the Charles Manson murder trial were cited for contempt of court yesterday and hauled off to jail, where they were to spend the night. The lawyers are Irving A. Kanarek 51, […]

Horror Piles On Horror As Linda Goes On

LOS ANGELES, Jul. 29 – The dark, blood-stained clothing used in the murders of Actress Sharon Tate and four others in her Benedict Canyon home was introduced today as the grim story of the massacre murders continued to unfold in […]

Linda Tells Of Screams In Darkness As Death Struck Tate Mansion

LOS ANGELES, Jul. 29 – Screams pierced the darkness, Linda Kasabian said, as a man, blood streaming from his wounds, stumbled from actress Sharon Tate’s hilltop mansion across the lawn. “We looked into each other’s eyes for a moment, and […]

Key Witness Recounts Night Of Tate Murders

LOS ANGELES, Jul. 29 – “I ran toward the house. There was a man who entered out of the door. He had blood all over his face. We looked into each other’s eyes for a minute and I said ‘Oh […]

Mrs. Kasabian’s Testimony Met by 50 Defense Objections

LOS ANGELES, Jul. 28 – Linda Kasabian’s account of life with cultist Charles Manson and his “family” met a veritable barrage of more than 50 defense objections and an unsuccessful mistrial motion Monday in the Tate-LaBianca trial. The state’s key […]