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BERKELEY, Dec. 4 — Jess Bravin and Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme never met, never talked and view each other across a cultural chasm once called “the generation gap.” Yet each is intrigued with a question about the same strange moment in […]

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 22 — Convicted murderer Charles “Tex” Watson will receive parole review every three years, rather than annually, as the former Charles Manson follower had asked, a federal court ruled. “A reprieve from the gallows with the chance […]

ALDERSON, W.Va., Dec. 3 – Charles Manson follower Sandra Good was released Monday from prison after serving nearly 10 years for conspiring to send death threats to corporate officials. Good, 41, left the Federal Correctional Center For Women here at […]

VACAVILLE, Sept. 25 — Mass killer Charles Manson was drenched with paint thinner and set afire today by a fellow inmate who told guards Manson had threatened him because of his religious beliefs, authorities said. Manson, serving a life sentence […]

NASHUA, NH, Sept. 14 – Linda Christian, also known as Linda Kasabian, 33, of 93 Chandler St. pleaded no contest to disorderly conduct and resisting arrest and was fined a total of $83.

HUDSON, NH, Aug. 23 – Linda Christian, also known as Linda Kasabian, 33, of 93 Chandler St. pleaded no contest to driving after suspension of her license and was sentenced to 30 days in the House of Correction, suspended. She […]

NASHUA, NH Jul. 8 – Nashua District Court Judge Nicholas Panteias today ordered a warrant for the arrest of former Charles Manson follower Linda Kasabian, now known as Linda Christian, after she failed to appear for arraignment on three motor […]

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Oct. 23 — Charles “Tex” Watson failed for a fourth time to convince parole officials he was no longer the dangerous man who led Manson cultists in the slayings of seven people in 1969. The 35-year-old prisoner […]

LA PUENTE, Oct. 16 — Former Charles Manson follower Kenneth Como, 41, was ambushed and shot in the arm, just two days after he was released from prison, authorities said. Como, who served 10 years at Folsom Prison upon his […]

FOLSOM, Oct. 14 – Kenneth Como, a onetime disciple of mass-murderer Charles Manson, Tuesday was paroled from Folsom state prison where he had been serving a term for armed robbery and escape. Como, 41, left the prison with $200 in […]

MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 30 – It really annoyed him, Vincent Bugliosi said, to watch Tom Snyder’s June interview with Charles Manson, knowing all the while that the mass murderer might be cashing in on his coast-to-coast appearance on NBC. The network […]

FRONTERA, Calif., Sept. 18 — Former Charles Manson disciple Susan Atkins Laisure, who this month married a self-professed Texas millionaire, has been denied parole for a fourth time. After a hearing Wednesday, the three-member California Board of Prison Terms denied […]

FRONTERA, Calif., Aug. 29 — Susan Atkins, the Manson family member serving a life term in prison for the Tate-LaBianca slayings, has postponed plans to marry a flamboyant Texas millionaire who vowed to gain her freedom. Sylvia Johnson, superintendent at […]

Jan. 16 – A 26-year-old man linked by California law officials to mass murderer Charles Manson’s notorious Family was ordered to undergo a psychiatric examination in federal court here yesterday. Moments earlier, he was granted permission to act as his […]

Click here to read Charles Manson’s November 4, 1980 Parole Hearing Transcript VACAVILLE, Nov. 10 — Eleven years after the shocking Tate-LaBianca killings, an aging but spirited Charles Manson — imprisoned for masterminding the mass murders — dreams of climbing […]

The Manson Women … By Clara Livsey, M.D. 244 pages. Richard Marek. $10.95. In August of 1969, a group of groupies, primarily female, who had formed an unrelated “family” around a semi-literate petty criminal named Charles Manson, stabbed, slashed and […]

VACAVILLE, Calif, Nov. 28 — Mass murderer Charles Manson, now in the tenth year of eight concurrent life sentences in the Sharon Tate killings, refused to appear before a parole board, insisting he “was treated as a fool” after his […]

EUREKA, Oct. 20 — Reports of ties between a southern Humboldt County commune farm and both the Manson family and Symbionese liberation Army were exaggerated, but a gang of criminals with links to several radical movements in California has used […]

SEATTLE, Oct. 18 — Loaded with camping gear and an Army manual on how to escape capture, David Warriner, the last of seven men who escaped from King County Jail, was captured as a poacher Tuesday night. Washington Fish and […]

ROSEVILLE, Calif., Oct. 11 – A former member of the Charles Manson family has been charged with operating a fraudulent business scheme at a rented office in Roseville’s Old Town. Catherine Louise “Gypsy” Como, a one-time follower of cult leader […]