Category Archives: Archived News

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 7 – In the grim atmosphere of the Sharon Tate murder trial, arriving visitors are startled by laughter echoing down a corridor from the courtroom. The trial is not funny but the antics of those involved often […]

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 6 – A time bomb exploded in a sixth-floor washroom at the Hall of Justice in downtown Los Angeles Saturday, blowing a 9×11 foot hole in a wall and rupturing a six inch water main. No one […]

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 5 – The Los Angeles County Hall of Justice, site of the Sharon Tate murder trial, was rocked by a bomb explosion on its sixth floor today shortly after midnight. The blast blew out a wall and […]

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 5 – The chief prosecutor in the Tate-LaBianca murder case was removed from the 12-week-old trial Friday apparently because of an off-the-cuff remark to newsmen that violated his boss’ “don’t talk to the press” order. Dist. Atty. […]

Steven Weiss, age 11, said he found the revolver on a hill behind his home in Sherman Oaks on September 1, 1969 LOS ANGELES, Sept. 4 – A 11-year-old boy found the gun allegedly used in the mass killings in […]

McKINNEY, Tex., Sept. 3 – District Judge David I. Brown refused Wednesday to grant a motion to hand Charlie “Tex” Watson over to two waiting Los Angeles detectives for trial in California for the Sharon Tate murders. Brown refused to […]

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 3 – Susan Atkins, crying out loud and holding her stomach in apparent severe pain, held up the start of the Tate murder trial for an hour Wednesday but finally took her seat in the courtroom. The […]

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 3 – Fingerprints found at the home of slain actress Sharon Tate today brought the trial of hippie cult leader Charles Manson and three of his girls to an abrupt halt in Los Angeles Superior Court. Los […]

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 2 – Sobbing and shaking visibly, Susan Atkins was escorted into Los Angeles Superior Court today to continue her trial — and that of three other Manson “family” members — for the Tate-LaBianca murders. The ailment of […]

NEW ORLEANS, LA, Sept. 1 – A three-member panel of the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has refused to block the extradition of Charles “Tex” Watson to California to stand trial in the Sharon Tate murders. The appellate court’s […]

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 1 – The trial of cult leader Charles Manson and three of his girl followers was delayed again today to allow doctors at USC County Medical Center to complete their examination of one of the defendants. Susan […]

Charlie Manson’s faithful – some oldtimers, some newcomers – cluster under a boulder to pose for this portrait. From left are: Danny Beausoleil, Catherine Share, Mary Brunner, Chuck Lovett, Ginny Gentry, Cathy Gillis, Lynn Fromme, Sandra Good Pugh, and Ruth […]

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 31 – The name and image of Charles “Tex” Watson looms large at the Tate murder trial but the jury never gets a look at him in the flesh. The 24-year-old Watson sits in Collins County Jail […]

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 29 – Following an hour of lurid testimony regarding the death of Rosemary LaBianca, the massacre murder trial against Charles Manson and three of his girl “followers” was recessed Friday because of the illness of one of […]

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 28 – Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, as thousands of other persons, were curious about the murders of actress Sharon Tate and four others, and discussed the slayings with a news vendor in the early morning hours of […]

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 28 – Market owner Leno LaBianca had the word “WAR” cut into his stomach with a carving fork as he lay dying of 26 stab wounds, a Los Angeles Superior Court jury was told Thursday. LaBianca, one […]

Frank Struthers, Jr., 16, and his father, Frank Struthers, leaving the Tate murder trial following Frank Jr.’s testimony that he found the body of his stepfather, Leno LaBianca LOS ANGELES, Aug. 27 – Market owner Leno LaBianca, one of the […]

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 27 – The 16-year-old son of one of the Tate-LaBianca murder victims yesterday dispassionately described how he found the body of his stepfather. The youth also disclosed that two dogs — a Labrador retriever and a miniature […]

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 26 – The blood of pregnant actress Sharon Tate was used to write the word “pig” on the door of her Benedict Canyon home the night she and four others were murdered, a police department blood expert […]

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 25 – The two victims who struggled the most fiercely with their killers a year ago at the home of actress Sharon Tate had a quantity of a drug known as “super speed” in their systems, the […]