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Manson Lawyer Hints at Drug Trafficking
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 31 – Charles Manson’s lawyer, Mr. Irving Kanarek, attemping to lay the blame for the Sharon Tate murders on Charles “Tex” Watson, expects to complete his appeal to the jury for Manson’s acquittal today. Mr. Kanarek yesterday […]
Judge Rejects Printed Note’s Use as Evidence in Tate Trial
Rules Misspelled ‘Healter Skelter’ Inscription Found on Court Pad of Defendant and at Death Scene Lacks Value LOS ANGELES, Nov. 6 – The prosecution tried but failed Thursday to introduce evidence that Patricia Krenwinkel printed the inscription “Healter Skelter” as […]
Manson Visited Tate Residence, Witness Reveals
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 22 – Charles Manson visited Sharon Tate’s rented estate less than five months before she and four others were murdered there, the owner of the property testified Wednesday at the Tate-LaBianca trial. Rudy Altobelli, who then lived […]
Deserters Returned to L.B.; Face Murder Try Charges
LONG BEACH, Oct. 22 – Two Marine deserters, identified as “kissin’ kin” of the Manson “family,” will be arraigned in Long Beach Municipal Court today on seven felony counts each, including two of attempted murder. The pair brought back from […]
14 Major Fires Rage Out of Control
256 Homes Destroyed as Flames Burn 180,000 Acres LOS ANGELES, Sept. 27 – The worst series of brushfires in Southern California history — including four which joined in one blazing perimeter from Newhall to Malibu — burned out of control […]
‘A Lot of What Happened to Linda Is My Fault’
Aug. 23 – Everybody talks about the kids who run off to join the hippies, but nobody thinks much about the anguish of the parents they leave behind. Linda Kasabian is my daughter. She ran away from home five years […]
Claimant of Gun in Manson Case Dies
Aug. 7 – Death has eliminated a prospective prosecution witness in the Tate-LaBianca murder trial — a movie stunt man who claimed ownership of the gun thought to have been used in the first night’s slaughter. Goateed, one-armed Joseph Randall, […]
Linda Only ‘Lied a Little,’ Miamian Says
Miami, Aug. 7 – A Miami woman said today she had been “scared” into testifying for the defense in the Sharon Tate murder trial. And, she said, she was never given a chance on the stand to explain her testimony […]
Manson Killed; Beausoleil Says
LOS ANGELES, Apr. 14 – It was Charles Manson who stabbed a Topanga Canyon musician to death last summer, murder defendant Robert Kenneth Beausoleil claims. Beausoleil, 22, testifying in his own defense at his murder retrial, laid the entire blame […]
Hinman Trial Witness Found
LOS ANGELES, Apr. 10 – A member of Charles Manson’s family, figuring prominently in the Gary Hinman murder case, has been arrested on suspicion of violating her probation. Arrested at the Hall of Justice was Miss Mary Brunner, who came […]
Jury Fidgets At Replica Of Gary Hinman’s Body
LOS ANGELES, Apr. 8 – A plastic mannequin showing knife wounds in the upper naked torso of one of the alleged victims of the “Manson family” had the jury members fidgeting in their seats at the murder trial of Robert […]
Manson Due to Meet Susan Atkins Today
LOS ANGELES, Mar. 5 – Charles M. Manson, who allegedly gave the orders which led to the killing last August of actress Sharon Tate and six others, is scheduled to meet today with Susan Denise Atkins, the principal witness against […]
Manson Associate Arrested on Drug Charges, Freed
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 20 – An associate of Charles Manson was arrested in a courtroom on suspicion of being under the influence of drugs Thursday when he showed up in what prosecutors suspected was a narcotic-induced stupor. He was not […]
Women in Love: Susan Atkins
THE KILLING OF SHARON TATE by Lawrence Schiller (New American Library, 126 pp. $1). The eyes of a terribly frightened girl are on the cover; the title is printed in orange on black. In a slash of yellow across the […]
Tate Murder Informant’s Trial Put Off to at Least March 30
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 4 — Susan Denise Atkins, wearing a purple minidress with a “V” neckline that plunged to her waist, had her trial for the Tate-LaBianca murders put off yesterday until March 30 at the earliest. Miss Atkins, 21, […]
Manson Clan is Not Doing Well
CHATSWORTH, Jan. 31 – Things haven’t been going well for the “family” of Charles Manson since his arrest in the Sharon Tate and LaBianca cases. Take, for example, the plight of Manson clan member Bruce Davis when he agreed to […]
Murder of Gary Hinman Led to Tate Killing Suspects
FORT COLLINS, Co., Jan. 12 – The murder of a Fort Collins High School graduate in isolated Topanga Canyon, Calif., last July 25 or 26 led police to the Charles Manson “family”, the accused killers of actress Sharon Tate and […]
Police Find Gun Believed Used in Slaying of 3 Tate Victims
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 20 — Police have found the gun believed used in the slayings of three of the five victims in the Tate murder case, it was learned Friday. The long-barreled .22-caliber handgun reportedly was located earlier in the […]
Manson’s Crime Career Began In Indiana
NOBLESVILLE, IN., Dec. 15 – Charles Manson, 34, who is being questioned in the Sharon Tate murder began his crime career in Noblesville according to reports from the Noblesville Ledger. Manson was 15-years old when first arrested in Noblesville when […]
Manson Indicted With 5 Others in Tate Murders
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 9 – Charles Manson, 35, and five members of his hippie clan were indicted Monday for the August slaughter of actress Sharon Tate and six other persons. After two days of listening to evidence presented by Dep. […]
