Category Archives: Archived News
Photographer’s Claim Against Polanski Loses
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 […]
Mistrial Called in Van Houten Murder Case
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 […]
Manson Follower Tells of Conversion
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 […]
Van Houten Jurors Deadlocked 3 Ways
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 […]
Van Houten Jurors Ask Clarification of Law
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 […]
Van Houten Trial: A Double Burden
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 […]
Jurors Deliberate Verdict in Manson Follower’s Trial
LOS ANGELES, Jul. 18 — Jurors in the murder retrial of former Charles Manson family member Leslie Van Houten have gone into a second week of deliberations after failing to reach a verdict over the weekend. Miss Van Houten is […]
Fromme, Moore Transferred to West Virginia
LOS ANGELES, Jul. 14 — Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme and Sara Jane Moore — both serving life sentences for trying to kill former President Gerald Ford — were moved from California prisons this week to a West Virginia federal institution. The […]
Fromme to Alderson
ALDERSON, WV, Jul. 3 – Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, the Manson cultist accused of trying to gun down former President Gerald Ford, is among a contingent of new inmates being shipped to the Federal Reformatory for Women. Warden Carson Markley says […]
The Manson Mystique, Whatever It Is, Lives On
When Leslie Van Houten began taking the witness stand in Los Angeles a few weeks ago to give her version of the 1969 LaBianca slayings, I realized how baffled I still was by the senseless “Helter Skelter” killings. Even her […]
Van Houten Jury Hears Manson Tape
LOS ANGELES, Jun. 28 – After more than two months of testimony that has almost always focused on Charles Manson, the jury in the retrial of Leslie Van Houten heard the voice of Manson himself Monday. What the jurors heard […]
California Court of Appeal Upholds Manson’s Convictions in 2 Killings
LOS ANGELES, Jun. 24 – Ruling it found no evidence of “prejudicial error,” the State Court of Appeal yesterday upheld Charles Manson’s 1971 convictions for the murders of Gary Hinman and Donald (Shorty) Shea. The three-judge panel, in an unanimous […]
Doctor Disputes Van Houten Domination
LOS ANGELES, Jun. 22 – A psychiatrist called by the prosecution testified Tuesday that Leslie Van Houten was not a “robot” under the domination of Charles Manson the night she took part in the murders of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca. […]
Manson Follower Knifed: Shots Halt DVI Racial Fight
TRACY, Jun. 8 — Security remained tight and tension high at nearby Deuel Vocational Institution last night in the aftermath of a racial battle which required warning shots to stop. Eleven prisoners were injured, one seriously. The seriously injured inmate […]
Files On Manson Are Shut To Lawyer For Van Houten
LOS ANGELES, Jun. 7 – Leslie Van Houten’s lawyer lost a fight Monday for access to the medical and psychiatric records of mass murderer Charles Manson. Attorney Maxwell Keith, defending Miss Van Houten in her Los Angeles retrial for murder […]
LSD Influence on Miss Van Houten Told
LOS ANGELES, May 20 – A psychiatrist who specializes in “medicines of the mind” testified Thursday that Leslie Van Houten’s use of LSD so changed her values that she ended up “not caring for life, even her own.” That is […]
Mrs. Van Houten testifies Leslie ‘Free of Manson’
LOS ANGELES, May 19 – Leslie Van Houten’s mother fought back tears in Los Angeles Wednesday as she told a jury of her daughter’s journey back from Charles Manson’s cult of death. Jane Van Houten, of Monrovia, recalling her personal […]
Prosecutor to End Van Houten Case
LOS ANGELES, May 17 – Prosecutor Stephen Kay plans to wind up his case against Leslie Van Houten today in the retrial of the former Charles Manson follower for the murders of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca. On Monday, Kay completed […]
Miss Van Houten Tells Role in Slaying
LOS ANGELES, May 13 – Former Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten testified Thursday that she stabbed Rosemary LaBianca only after Mrs. LaBianca apparently was dead. Miss Van Houten said that after both Mrs. LaBianca and her husband, Leno, were […]
Miss Van Houten Tells of Perjury
LOS ANGELES, May 6 – Former Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten testified Thursday she took LSD during the Tate-LaBianca murder trial and said she gave false testimony in that trial on Manson’s orders. Taking the stand for the first […]
