Category Archives: Archived News

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 23 – Hippie cult leader Charles Milles Manson’s request to act as his own attorney at his trial on seven counts of murder was denied for a second time yesterday as a lawyer was named to discuss

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 23 – Charles Manson, leader of a hippie cult, sparred verbally with a judge yesterday and insisted he be allowed to defend himself against seven counts of murder. The bearded, long-haired Manson finally agreed to discuss with

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 22 – Charles Manson, accused leader of a hippie murder cult, will come face to face with two of his young female followers today for the first time since they were rounded up in Death Valley. The

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 22 – There may have been some other victims, that night when Sharon Tate and her friends were butchered. Reputations. In the first, frantic, frightened days after the crime was discovered, it became fashionable to slander the

LAWRENCE, Mass., Dec. 22 – The husband of a suspect in the Sharon Tate murder case in Los Angeles, is missing and feared dead, his mother says. Robert Kasabian, 21, a musician, was reported missing last May by his mother,

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 21 – A Superior Court judge today had appointed a veteran criminal trial attorney to represent Leslie Van Houten, charged in the murders last Aug. 10 of wealthy market executive Leno LaBianca and his wife Rosemary. Judge

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 21 – Police officials yesterday refused to confirm or deny a report indicating the gun believed used in the slayings of three of the five victims in the Tate murder case had been found. A Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 20 – A former deputy district attorney was appointed Friday to defend Leslie Louise Van Houten of Monrovia, charged with conspiracy in the Sharon Tate murders and murder in the deaths of a wealthy market owner and

MOBILE, Ala., Dec. 20 – Attorneys for a young woman charged in the Sharon Tate mass killing case Friday were given until Dec. 29 to say whether she will fight extradition to Los Angeles. Circuit Judge Joseph M. Hocklander Jr.,

Leslie Van Houten, 19, a member of Charles Manson’s “family” who is charged with the murders of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, is escorted by two deputy sheriffs as she leaves a courtroom in Los Angeles Friday after a brief hearing

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 19 – Long-haired, bearded little Charlie Manson so disturbed the American millions last week – when he was charged with sending four docile girls and a hairy male acolyte off to slaughter strangers in two Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 18 – A roving cult of hippies, whose members have been charged in the Sharon Tate murders, may have been involved in two other slayings in Northern California, a detective said yesterday. Chief of Detectives Barton L.

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 18 – Charles Manson, accused mastermind of the Sharon Tate murders, smirked and wisecracked Wednesday during an unexpected court appearance in which he unsuccessfully argued he should be permitted to act as his own attorney. Superior Court

CHATSWORTH, Dec. 18 – Sheriff’s deputies today had stated the early morning fire at the Spahn movie ranch on Tuesday was caused by faulty electrical wiring. A 30-foot aluminum trailer at the ranch, made famous by a cult linked with

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 18 – Charles Manson, bearded leader of a hippie-style clan, told a Los Angeles judge Wednesday he wants to act as his own attorney when he comes to trial on charges of murdering actress Sharon Tate and

SAN JOSE, Dec. 17 – “Substantial leads” which may link the Tate murders in Los Angeles with the knife slayings of two teenaged girls here last summer are being followed up by local police. Chief of Detectives Barton Collins said

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 17 – Fire destroyed a trailer Tuesday at the Spahn Ranch, where Charles Manson and other defendants in the Sharon Tate murder case once lived. Authorities said arson was suspected. A sheriff’s spokesman said a young woman

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 16 – A television news crew yesterday found what may be clothing worn by the killer of actress Sharon Tate and four others. The discovery was made at an undisclosed location near the actress’ rented estate in

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 16 – Investigators from four Northern California police jurisdictions were in Los Angeles today seeking possible links between the Sharon Tate murders and unsolved killings in their areas. Two detectives from San Jose questioned several members of

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 16 – A young woman from a nomadic hippie-style clan pleaded innocent today to charges she killed actress Sharon Tate and six others last August. “Not guilty,” said Susan Denise Atkins, 21, a slender brunette, when asked