Category Archives: Archived News

SACRAMENTO, Nov. 16 — James T. Craig, who was convicted of a 1972 Charles Manson family murder, was discovered today shot and stuffed into the trunk of a burning car with a corpse. Fire fighters put out the blaze and […]

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 12 – Convicted slayer Leslie Van Houten was denied probation and sentenced to life in prison Friday after an emotional hearing before Superior Court Judge Gordon Ringer. A Superior Court jury had found Miss Van Houten, a […]

VACAVILLE, Aug. 1 — A prison guard has accused convicted mass killer Charles Manson of punching him in the face during a routine inspection of cells at the California Medical Facility here, it was disclosed today. Prison information officer Bill […]

VACAVILLE, Jul. 10 — In a rare prison interview, convicted mass murderer Charles Manson admits he got in trouble “for cutting people, for shooting people,” but he claims he didn’t want to kill. “Not because I wanted to, but because […]

LOS ANGELES, Jul. 5 – Former Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten was convicted of first-degree murder today in her third trial for the Aug. 10, 1969, slayings of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca. She also was found guilty of conspiracy […]

LOS ANGELES, May 31 — Leslie Van Houten said at her third murder trial she was so heavily drugged on LSD that she was incapable of functioning on her own and mindlessly carried out Charles Manson’s orders to kill. Miss […]

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Apr. 30 — Charles “Tex” Watson says he spent the first 23 years of his life chasing the all-American dream and the next five chasing after the devil. Now Watson — the former Texas farm boy and […]

WASHINGTON, Apr. 3 — Charles Manson’s bid to have his conviction and life sentence overturned in the 1969 murders of two California men was turned down by the Supreme Court today. The justices left intact Manson’s 1970 conviction for the […]

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Jan. 16 — “We love this special person from the bottom of our hearts,” said Golden Bristol of the man who murdered her daughter. The tiny housewife from Dearborn, Mich., confessed to a little nervousness as she […]

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 22 – Slayer Charles Manson’s effort to get two of his murder convictions overturned was rejected by the California Supreme Court yesterday. It denied without comment his request to review a state Court of Appeal decision upholding […]

FULLERTON, Sept. 17 — Russell Harmon searched for 20 years for his younger adopted sister, Rosemary, who dropped out of sight during the 1950s. Not until two years ago did Harmon discover that his missing sister was Rosemary LaBianca, one […]

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 16 – Vincent Bugliosi, who prosecuted Charles Manson and his family said this week he is “terribly disturbed” over reports that an Indiana mass murder may have been inspired by a movie based on a book Bugliosi […]

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 1 – Former Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten will be tried for the third time for the Aug. 10, 1969, slaying of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, Dist. Atty. John Van de Kamp said today. Van de […]

Billy Dunn and his brother, Danny, of Jeffersonville, Ind., inspect Charles Manson’s bus at the Kentucky State Fair LOUISVILLE, Ky., Aug. 24 – Down the Kentucky State Fair midway, past the torture exhibition, the scandal sheet newspaper headlines announcing “Woman […]

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 17 — Authorities have rejected a news photographer’s complaint contending that movie director Roman Polanski assaulted him and stole his film after he snapped a picture of Po-anski kneeling at the grave of his dead wife, actress […]

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 7 – A mistrial was declared Saturday in the retrial of Leslie Van Houten after the jury reported on the 25th day of deliberations that it was “hopelessly” deadlocked at seven votes for first-degree murder and five […]

PLAINFIELD, NJ, Aug. 5 – The biography of former Charles Manson follower Susan Atkins will soon be released by Logos International, the multi-million dollar religious publishing firm located here. Publication of the 290-page, $7.95 hardback book, entitled “Susan Atkins: Child […]

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 5 – Jurors in the retrial of former Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten were ordered Thursday to try again to reach verdicts after reporting they were deadlocked in a three-way split. Thursday was the 23rd day […]

LOS ANGELES, Jul. 23 – Grim-faced jurors in the retrial of Leslie Van Houten filed back into court Friday in the midst of their 12th day of deliberations to ask questions about the concept of diminished mental capacity. “I can’t […]

The jury still is out in the retrial of former Manson family member Leslie Van Houten, charged with two counts of first-degree murder and one count of conspiracy to commit murder in the slayings of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca on […]