| Charles Manson | | | | | Born | November 12, 1934 (1934-11-12) (age 73)
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States | | Conviction(s) | Murder and conspiracy | | Penalty | Death, reduced by abolition of death penalty to life in prison | | Status | Ineligible for parole until 2012 | | Spouse | Rosalie Jean Willis; Leona (last name unknown) aka Candy Stevens | | Parents | Kathleen Maddox, Colonel Scott (father), William Manson (stepfather) | | Children | Charles Milles Manson, Jr. (mother Rosalie Jean Willis), Charles Luther Manson (mother Leona), Valentine Michael "Pooh Bear" Manson (mother Mary Brunner) | Charles Milles Manson (b. November 12, 1934) is a convict who led the "Manson Family," a quasi-commune that began in the U.S. city of San Francisco and soon relocated to Los Angeles.[1][2][3] He was found guilty of conspiracy to commit the Tate-LaBianca murders, which members of the group carried out at his instruction. Through the joint-responsibility rule of conspiracy,[4] he was convicted of the murders themselves. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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Manson is forever associated with "Helter Skelter," an imagined racial cataclysm that he convinced his followers was impending and that the crimes were intended to precipitate. This conception's connection with rock music linked him, from the beginning of his notoriety, with pop culture, in which he has become a symbol of transgression, rebelliousness, evilness, ghoulishness, bloody violence, homicidal psychosis, and the macabre. // The murders perpetrated by Charles Manson and members of his Family were inspired in part by Mansons prediction of Helter Skelter, an apocalyptic war he believed would arise from tension over racial relations between blacks and whites. ...
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At the time the Family began to form, Manson was an unemployed ex-convict, who had spent half his life in correctional institutions for a variety of offenses. In the subsequent period before the murders, he situated himself on the periphery of the Los Angeles music industry, chiefly through a chance association with Beach Boy Dennis Wilson. After Manson was charged with the crimes, recordings of songs written and performed by him were released commercially; a number of artists have covered his songs in the decades since. Los Angeles and L.A. redirect here. ...
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Manson's death sentence was automatically reduced to life imprisonment when a decision by the Supreme Court of California temporarily eliminated the death penalty in that state.[5] California's eventual reestablishment of capital punishment did not affect Manson, who is an inmate at Corcoran State Prison. Capital punishment, or the death penalty, is the execution of a convicted criminal by the state as punishment for crimes known as capital crimes or capital offences. ...
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Early life
Childhood First known as "no name Maddox,"[6][7][8] Manson was born to the unmarried Kathleen Maddox in Cincinnati General Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio; no more than three weeks after his birth, he was Charles Milles Maddox.[6][9][10] For a period, after her son's birth, Kathleen Maddox was married to a laborer named William Manson,[10] whose last name the boy was given. Charles Manson's biological father appears to have been a "Colonel Scott," against whom Maddox filed a bastardy suit that resulted in an agreed judgment in 1937.[6] Possibly, Charles never really knew him.[6][8] Cincinnati redirects here. ...
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Young Manson's mother, allegedly a drinker,[6] once sold him for a pitcher of beer to a childless waitress, from whom his uncle retrieved him some days later.[7] When his mother and her brother were sentenced to five years imprisonment for robbing a service station in 1939, Manson was placed in the West Virginia home of an aunt and uncle who were very religious. Upon his mother's 1942 parole, Manson was returned to his mother and lived with her in run-down hotel rooms.[6]
In 1947, Kathleen Maddox tried to have her son placed in a foster home but failed because no such home was available.[6] The court placed Manson in Gibault School for Boys, Terre Haute, Indiana. After ten months, he fled from there to his mother, who rejected him.[6] Foster care is a system by which a certified, stand-in parent(s) cares for minor children or young people who have been removed from their biological parents or other custodial adults by state authority. ...
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First offenses By burglarizing a grocery store, Manson obtained cash that enabled him to rent a room.[6] A string of burglaries of other stores, from one of which he stole a bicycle, ended when he was caught in the act and sent to an Indianapolis juvenile center. His escape after one day led to his recapture and his placement in Boys Town, from which he escaped with another boy four days after his arrival. The pair committed two armed robberies on their way to the home of the other boy's uncle.[11] A view of Girls and Boys Town Girls and Boys Town (formerly Boys Town) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the care of at-risk children. ...
Caught during the second of two subsequent break-ins of grocery stores, Manson was sent to the Indiana School for Boys at age thirteen. After many failed attempts, he escaped with two other boys in 1951. In Utah, having burglarized gas stations all along the way, the three were caught driving to California in cars they had stolen. For the federal crime of taking a stolen car across a state line, Manson was sent to the Washington, D.C., National Training School for Boys. Despite four years of schooling and an average IQ of 109 (later tested at 121),[11] he was illiterate. A caseworker concluded he was aggressively antisocial.[11] This article is about the U.S. state. ...
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First imprisonment Less than a month before a scheduled February 1952 parole hearing at Natural Bridge Honor Camp, a minimum security institution to which he had been transferred the previous October on a psychiatrist's recommendation, Manson "took a razor blade and held it against another boy's throat while he sodomized him."[11][7] He was transferred to the Federal Reformatory, Petersburg, Virginia, where he was considered "dangerous."[11] In September 1952, a number of other serious disciplinary offenses resulted in Manson's transfer to the Federal Reformatory at Chillicothe, Ohio, a more secure institution.[11] Nickname: Location in the state of Ohio Coordinates: , Country United States State Ohio Counties Ross Government - Mayor Joseph P. Sulzer (D) Area - City 9. ...
About a month after the transfer, Manson became almost a model resident. Good work habits and a rise in his educational level from the lower fourth to the upper seventh grade won him a May 1954 parole.[11] It has been suggested that Medical parole be merged into this article or section. ...
After temporarily honoring a parole condition that he live with his aunt and uncle in West Virginia, Manson moved in with his mother in that same state. In January 1955, he married Rosalie Jean Willis, a hospital waitress, whom he supported via smalltime jobs and stealing cars. Around October, about three months after he and his pregnant wife arrived in Los Angeles in a car he had stolen in Ohio, he was again charged with a federal crime; after a psychiatric evaluation, he was given five years' probation. His subsequent failure to appear at a Los Angeles hearing on an identical charge filed in Florida resulted in his March 1956 arrest in Indianapolis. His probation was revoked; he was sentenced to three years' imprisonment at Terminal Island, San Pedro, California.[11] Motor vehicle theft is a crime of theft. ...
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Charles Manson Jr., Manson's son by Rosalie, was born while Manson was in prison. During his first year at Terminal Island, Manson received visits from his wife and mother, who were now living together in Los Angeles; but in March 1957, when the visits from his wife ceased, his mother informed him Rosalie was living with another man. Caught trying to escape by stealing a car less than two weeks before a scheduled parole hearing, Manson was given five years' probation; his parole was denied.[11]
Second imprisonment Manson received five years parole in September 1958, the same year in which Rosalie received a decree of divorce. By November, he was pimping a sixteen-year-old girl and was receiving additional support from a girl with wealthy parents. Pleading guilty in September 1959 to a charge of attempting to cash a forged U.S. Treasury check, he received a ten-year suspended sentence and probation after a young woman with an arrest record for prostitution tearfully told the court she and Manson were in love and would marry if Manson were freed.[11] This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
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After Manson took that same woman and another girl from California to New Mexico for purposes of prostitution before the year's end, he was held and questioned for violation of the Mann Act. Though he was released, he evidently suspected, rightly, that the investigation had not ended. When he disappeared, in violation of his probation, a bench warrant was issued; an April 1960 indictment for violation of the Mann Act followed.[11] Arrested in Laredo, Texas, in June, when one of his girls was arrested for prostitution, Manson was returned to Los Angeles. For violation of his probation on the check-cashing charge, he was ordered to serve his ten-year sentence.[11] The United States White-Slave Traffic Act of 1910 prohibited so-called white slavery. ...
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In July 1961, after a year spent unsuccessfully appealing the revocation of his probation, Manson was transferred from the Los Angeles County Jail to the United States Penitentiary at McNeil Island, Washington. Although the Mann Act charge had been dropped, the attempt to cash the Treasury check was still a federal offense. His September 1961 annual review noted he had a "tremendous drive to call attention to himself," an observation echoed in September 1964.[11] McNeil Island is an island in Puget Sound, located just west of Steilacoom, Washington at 47°1242 North, 122°4114 West3. ...
In June 1966, Manson was sent, for the second time in his life, to Terminal Island, in preparation for early release. On March 21, 1967, his release day, he had spent less than half of his thirty-two years outside of institutions.[11] Telling the authorities that prison had become his home, he requested, unsuccessfully, that he be permitted to stay,[11] a fact touched on in a 1981 television interview: Federal Correctional Institution, Terminal Island (FCI Terminal Island) is a medium-security prison for both men and women (separate facilities) located on Reservation Point on Terminal Island in Los Angeles. ...
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- Tom Snyder: Let's go back to 1967, the time you were winding up serving a term of a number of years, ten years, and written accounts indicate that you told the authorities, "Don't let me out, I can't cope with the outside world". Do you have a recollection of that? And do you --
- Manson: You're making a desperate plea out of something, man. There's no desperate plea out of it. I said I can't handle the maniacs outside, let me back in.
- Snyder: I didn't use the word desperate; that's your word, Charles.
- Manson: Yeah, well, your inflection and your voice tones were, uh, implications there.[12]
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Rise of the Family On his release day, Manson requested and was granted permission to move to San Francisco, where, with the help of a prison acquaintance, he obtained an apartment in Berkeley. In prison, he had been taught to play steel guitar by 1930s bank robber Alvin Karpis;[11][13][7] now, living mostly by panhandling, he soon got to know Mary Brunner, a twenty-three-year-old University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate working as an assistant librarian at UC Berkeley. After moving in with her, he overcame her resistance to his bringing other women in to live with them. Before long, they were sharing Brunner's residence with eighteen other women.[14] This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
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Manson also established himself as a guru in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, which, during 1967's Summer of Love, was emerging as the signature hippie locale. He soon had his first group of young followers, most of them female.[11] For other uses, see Guru (disambiguation). ...
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Before the summer was out, Manson and eight or nine of his enthusiasts piled into an old school bus they had re-wrought in hippie style, with colored rugs and pillows in place of the many seats they had removed. Hitting the road, they roamed as far north as Washington State, then southward through Los Angeles, Mexico, and the southwest. Returning to the Los Angeles area, they lived in Topanga Canyon, Malibu, and Venice — western parts of the city and county.[14] Singer of a modern Hippie movement in Russia The hippie subculture was a youth movement that began in the United States during the mid-1960s and spread around the world. ...
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In an alternate account, which included no mention of the eighteen girls at Brunner’s place, Manson, apparently accompanied by Brunner, acquired Family members during some months of travels that were undertaken, in part, in a Volkswagen van; it was November when the school bus set out from San Francisco with the enlarged group.[15]
Involvement with Wilson, Melcher, et al. The events that would culminate in the murders were set in motion in late spring 1968, when, by some accounts, Dennis Wilson, of The Beach Boys, picked up two hitchhiking Manson girls and brought them to his Pacific Palisades house for a few hours. Returning home in the early hours of the following morning from a night recording session, Wilson was greeted in the driveway of his own residence by Manson, who emerged from the house. Uncomfortable, Wilson asked the stranger whether he intended to hurt him. Assuring him he had no such intent, Manson began kissing Wilson's feet.[16][17] (According to the quasi-autobiographical Manson in His Own Words, Manson first met Wilson at a friend's San Francisco house where he, Manson, had gone to obtain marijuana. The Beach Boy supposedly gave Manson his Sunset Boulevard address and invited him to stop by when he would be in Los Angeles.)[7] This article does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...
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Inside the house, Wilson discovered twelve strangers, mostly girls.[16][17] Over the next few months, as their number doubled, the Family members who had made themselves part of Wilson's Sunset Boulevard household cost him approximately $100,000. This included a large medical bill for treatment of their gonorrhea and $21,000 for the accidental destruction of an uninsured car of his they borrowed.[18] Wilson would sing and talk with Manson, whose girls were servants to them both.[16] The clap redirects here. ...
Wilson paid for studio time to record songs written and performed by Manson and introduced Manson to acquaintances of his with roles in the entertainment business. These included Gregg Jakobson, Terry Melcher, and Rudi Altobelli.[16] Jakobson, who was impressed by "the whole Charlie Manson package" of artist/lifestylist/philosopher, also paid to record Manson material.[19][20][21][22] Gregg Jakobson was a good friend of Dennis Wilson of The Beach Boys. ...
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Spahn Ranch By August 1968, when Wilson had his manager clear the Family members from his house, Manson had established a base for the group at Spahn's Movie Ranch, not far from Topanga Canyon.[23][24] The evictees joined the rest of the Family there.[16] The Spahn Ranch is a a 500 acre ranch at 1200 Santa Susana Pass Road in the Santa Susana Mountains. ...
Located in (or near) Chatsworth, the ranch had once been a location for the shooting of Western films; then, with its old movie sets run down, it was primarily doing business in horseback rides. While Family members did helpful work around the place, Manson kept the nearly-blind, octogenarian owner, George Spahn, on his side by having Lynette Fromme act as Spahn's eyes and, along with other girls, attend to Spahn sexually.[25][26] For a tiny squeal she would emit when Spahn would pinch her thigh, Fromme, one of the early Family members who had boarded the school bus,[14] won from Spahn the nickname "Squeaky."[18] Chatsworth is a district in the San Fernando Valley region of the City of Los Angeles, California. ...
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The Family was soon joined at Spahn Ranch by Charles Watson, who had met Manson at Dennis Wilson's house. A small-town Texan who had quit college and moved to California,[27] Watson had given a lift to Wilson, who had been hitchhiking because his cars had been wrecked.[23] Watson's drawl earned him, too, a George Spahn nickname, "Tex."[24] Tex Watson during the Tate-La Bianca trial. ...
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In the first days of November 1968, Manson established the Family at alternate headquarters in Death Valley's environs, where they occupied two unused (or little-used) ranches, Myers and Barker.[22][28] The former, to which the group had initially headed, was owned by the grandmother of a new girl in the Family. The latter was owned by an elderly, local woman to whom Manson presented himself and a male Family member as musicians in need of a place congenial to their work. When the woman agreed to let them stay there if they'd fix up things, Manson honored her with one of the Beach Boys' gold records,[28] several of which he'd been given by Dennis Wilson.[29] // The murders perpetrated by Charles Manson and members of his Family were inspired in part by Mansons prediction of Helter Skelter, an apocalyptic war he believed would arise from tension over racial relations between blacks and whites. ...
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While back at Spahn Ranch, no later than December, Manson and Tex Watson visited a Topanga Canyon acquaintance who played them the Beatles' White Album, then recently released.[22][30][31] Despite having been twenty-nine years old and imprisoned when The Beatles first came to America, in 1964, Manson had been all but obsessed with the group. At McNeil, he had told fellow inmates, including Alvin Karpis, that he could surpass the group in fame;[11][32] to the Family, he spoke of the group as "the soul" and "part of 'the hole in the infinite.'"[31] Tex Watson during the Tate-La Bianca trial. ...
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For some time, too, Manson had been saying that racial tension between blacks and whites was growing and that blacks would soon rise up in rebellion in America's cities.[33][34] He had emphasized Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination, which had taken place on 4 April 1968.[28] On a bitter cold New Year's Eve at Myers Ranch, the Family members, gathered outside around a large fire, listened as Manson explained that the social turmoil he had been predicting had also been predicted by The Beatles.[31] The White Album songs, he declared, told it all, although in code. In fact, he maintained, the album was directed at the Family itself, an elect group that was being instructed to preserve the worthy from the impending disaster.[33][34] Martin Luther King redirects here. ...
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In early January 1969, the Family escaped the desert's cold by establishing yet another base, at a canary-yellow home in Canoga Park, not far from the Spahn Ranch. Because this locale would allow the Family to remain "submerged beneath the awareness of the outside world,"[35][36] Manson called it the Yellow Submarine, another Beatles reference. There, the group prepared for the impending apocalypse, which, around the campfire, Manson had termed "Helter Skelter," after the White Album song of that name. Canoga Park, California is a district of the city of Los Angeles, located within the San Fernando Valley. ...
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By February, Manson's vision was complete. The Family would create an album whose songs, as subtle as those of The Beatles, would trigger the predicted chaos. Ghastly murders of whites by blacks would be met with retaliation, and a split between racist and non-racist whites would yield whites' self-annihilation by. Blacks' triumph, as it were, would merely precede their being ruled by the Family, which would ride out the conflict in "the bottomless pit" — a secret city beneath Death Valley.[37] At the Canoga Park house, while Family members worked on vehicles and pored over maps to prepare for their desert escape, they also worked on songs for their world-changing album. When they were told Terry Melcher was to come to the house to hear the material, the girls prepared a meal and cleaned the place; but Melcher never arrived. The White Album, see The Beatles (album). ...
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Encounter with Tate On March 23, 1969,[38] Manson called, uninvited, on 10050 Cielo Drive, which he had known as the residence of Terry Melcher.[19] By that time Melcher was no longer residing there. Since that February,[39] the tenants had been actress Sharon Tate and her husband, director Roman Polanski. is the 82nd day of the year (83rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Manson was met by Shahrokh Hatami, a photographer and Tate friend, who was there to photograph Tate in advance of her departure for Rome the next day. Having seen Manson through a window as Manson approached the main house, Hatami had gone onto the front porch to ask him what he wanted.[38]
When Manson told Hatami he was looking for someone whose name Hatami did not recognize, Hatami informed him the place was the Polanski residence. Hatami advised him to try "the back alley," by which he meant the path to the guest house, beyond the main house.[38]
Concerned over the stranger on the property, Hatami was now down on the front walk, to confront Manson. When Tate appeared behind Hatami, in the house's front door, and asked who was calling, Hatami said a man was looking for someone. Hatami and Tate maintained their positions while Manson, without a word, went back to the guest house, returned a minute or two later, and left.[38]
That evening, Manson returned to the property and again went back to the guest house, where, presuming to enter the enclosed porch, he spoke with Rudi Altobelli, who was just coming out of the shower. Although Manson asked for Melcher, Altobelli, who owned the property and had leased it to Melcher and then the Polanskis, felt Manson had come looking for him.[40] (Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Vincent Bugliosi, who would eventually prosecute Manson, obtained information that suggested Manson had been to the place on earlier occasions since Melcher's departure from it.)[38][41] Vincent Bugliosi (born August 18, 1934 in Hibbing, Minnesota) is an American attorney and author, best known for prosecuting Charles Manson and other defendants accused of the Tate-LaBianca murders. ...
Speaking through the inner screen door, Altobelli told Manson that Melcher had moved to Malibu; he lied that he did not know Melcher's new address. In response to a question from Manson, Altobelli said he himself was in the entertainment business, although, having met Manson the previous year, at Dennis Wilson's home, he was sure Manson already knew that. At Wilson's, Altobelli had complimented Manson lukewarmly on some of his musical recordings that Wilson had been playing.[38] Location of Malibu in Los Angeles County, California Coordinates: , Country State County Los Angeles Incorporated (city) 1991-03-28 [2] Government - Mayor Jeff Jennings [1] Area - Total 100. ...
When Altobelli informed Manson he was going out of the country the next day, Manson said he'd like to speak with him upon his return; Altobelli lied that he would be gone for more than a year. In response to a direct question from Altobelli, Manson explained that he had been directed to the guest house by the persons in the main house; Altobelli expressed the wish that Manson not disturb his tenants.[38]
Manson left. As Altobelli flew with Tate to Rome the next day, Tate asked him whether "that creepy-looking guy" had gone back to the guest house the day before.[38]
Family crimes
Crowe shooting; Hinman murder By June, Manson was telling the Family they might have to show blacks how to start Helter Skelter.[35][42][43] When Manson tasked Tex Watson to obtain money supposedly intended to help the Family prepare for the conflict, Watson defrauded a black drug dealer named Bernard "Lotsapoppa" Crowe; Crowe responded with a threat to wipe out everyone at Spahn Ranch. Manson countered on July 1, 1969, by shooting Crowe at his Hollywood apartment.[44][45][25][46] is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Manson's belief that he had killed Crowe was seemingly confirmed by a news report of the discovery of the dumped body of a Black Panther in Los Angeles. Although Crowe was not a member of the Black Panthers, Manson, concluding he had been, expected retaliation from the group. He turned Spahn Ranch into a defensive camp, with night patrols of armed guards.[44][47] The Black Panther Party (originally called the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was an African American organization founded to promote civil rights and self-defense. ...
On July 25, 1969, Manson sent sometime Family member Bobby Beausoleil along with Mary Brunner and Family member Susan Atkins to the house of acquaintance Gary Hinman, to persuade him to turn over money Manson thought Hinman had inherited.[48][44][49] (In a 1981 Oui magazine interview[50] and 1998-99 Seconds magazine interviews,[51] Beausoleil said he went to Hinman’s house to recover money paid to Hinman for drugs that had turned out to be bad. He said Brunner and Atkins, unaware of his purpose, went with him idly, to visit Hinman.) is the 206th day of the year (207th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Robert Kenneth Bobby Beausoleil (born 6 November 1947, in Santa Barbara, California), was an associate of the Charles Manson Family, and was convicted of killing music teacher/drug dealer Gary Hinman on July 27, 1969. ...
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The three held the uncooperative Hinman hostage for two days, during which Manson showed up with a sword to slash his ear. After that, Beausoleil stabbed him to death, ostensibly on Manson’s instruction. Before leaving the Topanga Canyon residence, Beausoleil, or one of the girls, used Hinman’s blood to write "Political piggy" on the wall and to draw a panther paw, a Black Panther symbol.[45][25][52]
On August 6, Beausoleil was arrested after he was caught driving Hinman's car, whose tire well held the murder weapon.[39] On August 8, 1969, Manson told Family members at Spahn Ranch, "Now is the time for Helter Skelter."[53][54][44] is the 218th day of the year (219th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Tate murders On the night of August 8, 1969, Manson directed Tex Watson to take Family members Atkins, Linda Kasabian, and Patricia Krenwinkel — one of the hitchhikers allegedly picked up by Dennis Wilson[16] — to "that house where Melcher used to live" and "totally destroy everyone in [it], as gruesome as you can."[55][56] He told the girls to do as Tex would instruct them.[53][57] is the 220th day of the year (221st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Tex Watson during the Tate-La Bianca trial. ...
Susan Atkins during the trial. ...
Linda Louise Kasabian (born Linda Drouin, 1949) was the star witness in the Tate-LaBianca murders, for which Charles Manson and members of his family were convicted. ...
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When the four arrived at the entrance to the Cielo Drive property, Watson, who'd been to the house, on Family business,[22] climbed a telephone pole near the gate and cut the phone line. It was now around midnight and into August 9, 1969. Built in 1944 by French actress Michele Morgan, 10050 Cielo Drive was sited on 3 acres (12,000 m²) of land, high above Los Angeles with views of Sunset Boulevard and the Ocean. ...
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Backing their car down to the bottom of the hill that led up to the place, they parked it there and walked back up. Thinking the gate might be electrified or rigged with an alarm,[57] they climbed a brushy embankment at its right and dropped onto the grounds. Just then, headlights came their way from farther within the angled property. Telling the girls to lie in the bushes, Watson stepped out with a command to halt and shot to death Steven Parent, eighteen-year-old driver of the approaching car.[55][58] After Watson had prepared their entry to the main house by cutting the screen of an open window, he told Kasabian to keep watch down by the gate.[55][57][53] Entering the house through the slit screen, Watson let Atkins and Krenwinkel in through the front door.[57] Steven Earl Parent (February 12, 1951 - August 9, 1969) was a victim of the Charles Manson murders. ...
As Watson whispered to Atkins, Roman Polanski's friend Wojciech Frykowski awoke on the living-room couch; Watson kicked him in the head.[55] When Frykowski asked him who he was and what he was doing there, Watson replied, "I’m the devil, and I’m here to do the devil’s business."[57][55] This article or section cites very few or no references or sources. ...
On Watson’s direction, Atkins found the house's three other occupants and, with Krenwinkel's help,[57][59] brought them to the living room. The three were Sharon Tate, eight and a half months pregnant; her friend and former lover Jay Sebring, a noted hairstylist; and Frykowski’s lover Abigail Folger, heiress to the Folger coffee fortune.[39] Polanski, Tate's husband, was in London, England, at work on a film project.[60] Sharon Marie Tate (January 24, 1943 – August 9, 1969) was a Golden Globe-nominated American actress. ...
Jay Sebring (October 10, 1933 – August 9, 1969) was a successful international American hair stylist to American celebrities. ...
Abigail Anne Folger (August 11, 1943 – August 9, 1969) was an American coffee heiress, debutante, socialite, volunteer social worker, civil rights devotee and member of the prominent United States Folger family. ...
Folgers Coffee is a major brand of coffee in the US, part of the food and beverage division of Procter & Gamble. ...
As Watson began to tie Tate and Sebring together, by their necks, with rope he'd brought and slung up over a beam, Sebring's protest — his second — of rough treatment of Tate prompted Watson to shoot him. After Folger was taken momentarily back to her bedroom for her purse, which proved to hold about seventy dollars, Watson stabbed the groaning Sebring seven times.[39][55]
Frykowski, whose hands had been bound with a towel, freed himself and began struggling with Atkins, who had been guarding him. As he fought his way toward and out the front door, onto the porch, Watson, who joined in against him, struck him over the head with the gun multiple times, stabbed him repeatedly, and shot him twice.[55] Around this time, Kasabian, drawn up from the driveway by "horrifying sounds," arrived outside the door and, in a vain effort to halt the massacre, told Atkins falsely that someone was coming.[53][55]
Inside the house, Folger had escaped from Krenwinkel and fled out a bedroom door to the pool area.[61][62] Pursued to the front lawn by Krenwinkel, who stabbed and, finally, tackled her, she was dispatched by Watson; her two assailants stabbed her a total of twenty-eight times.[55][39] As Frykowski struggled across the lawn, Watson finished him as well, with furious stabbing that brought his total stab wounds to fifty-one.[55][53][39]
Back in the house, Atkins, Watson, or both killed Tate, who was stabbed a total of sixteen times.[39] Tate pleaded to be allowed to live long enough to have her baby; she cried, "Mother... mother..." — until she was dead.[55] (In initial confessions, to cellmates of hers at Sybil Brand Institute, Atkins would say she killed Tate.[63] In later statements — to her attorney, to Vincent Bugliosi, and before a grand jury — she would indicate Tate had been stabbed by Tex Watson.[14][57] In his 1978 autobiography, Watson himself said that he stabbed Tate and that Atkins did not.[55] Aware prosecutor Bugliosi and the jury that had tried the other Tate-LaBianca defendants were convinced Atkins had stabbed Tate, he falsely testified he did not stab her.[64]) The Sybil Brand Institute (in full, the Sybil Brand Institute For Women) was a famous county jail in Los Angeles County, California. ...
Vincent Bugliosi (born August 18, 1934 in Hibbing, Minnesota) is an American attorney and author, best known for prosecuting Charles Manson and other defendants accused of the Tate-LaBianca murders. ...
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Earlier, as the four Family members had headed out from Spahn Ranch, Manson had told the girls to "leave a sign… something witchy."[55] Now, using the towel that had bound Frykowski’s hands, Atkins wrote "pig" on the house’s front door, in Tate's blood.
En route home, the killers changed out of bloody clothes, which, along with their weapons, they ditched in the hills.[55][63][57]
LaBianca murders The next night, six Family members, including the four from night one, rode out at Manson’s instruction. Displeased by the panic of the victims at Cielo Drive, Manson accompanied the six, "to show [them] how to do it."[57][53][65] After a few hours’ ride, in which he considered a number of murders and even attempted one of them,[53][65] Manson gave Kasabian directions that brought the group to 3301 Waverly Drive, home of supermarket executive Leno LaBianca and his wife, Rosemary, a dress shop co-owner.[58][66] Located in the Los Feliz section of Los Angeles, the LaBianca home was next door to a house at which Manson and Family members had attended a party the previous year.[57][67] Leno LaBianca and his wife Rosemary LaBianca were victims of the Charles Manson murders. ...
Los Feliz (usually pronounced Loss Feeliss by most non-Spanish-speaking locals) is a neighborhood in the north-central region of the city of Los Angeles, California. ...
After walking up the driveway and looking in a window, Manson took Watson with him through the unlocked back door.[65] (Atkins and Kasabian would tell prosecutors Manson went up to the house alone, returned with a report that he had tied up the house's occupants, and sent Watson up with Krenwinkel and Van Houten.[57][53] In his autobiography, Watson indicated that, after first going up alone, Manson brought him into the house. He added that, at trial, he "went along with" the others' account, which he figured made him "look that much less responsible.")[64]
Rousing the sleeping Leno LaBianca from the couch at gunpoint, Manson had Watson bind his hands with a leather thong. After Rosemary LaBianca was brought briefly into the living room from the bedroom, Watson followed Manson’s instructions to cover the couple’s heads with pillowcases, which he bound in place with lamp cord. Manson left, sending Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten into the house with instruction that the couple be killed.[65][57][53] Leslie Van Houten during the Tate/LaBianca trial. ...
Before leaving Spahn Ranch, Watson had complained to Manson of the inadequacy of the previous night's weapons.[53] Now, sending the girls from the kitchen to the bedroom, to which Rosemary LaBianca had been returned, he went to the living room and began stabbing Leno LaBianca with a chrome-plated bayonet, the first thrust going into the man's throat.
Sounds of a scuffle in the bedroom drew Watson there to discover Mrs. LaBianca keeping the girls at bay by swinging the lamp tied to her neck. Striking her down with several stabs of the bayonet, Watson returned to the living room and resumed attacking Leno, whom he stabbed a total of twelve times. After Watson was done, he carved “WAR” on the man’s exposed stomach. (Atkins, who did not enter the LaBianca house, told prosecutors that Krenwinkel, "I believe," had carved "War" on Leno LaBianca; Watson's autobiography makes clear he carved it.)[57][65]
Returning to the bedroom, where Krenwinkel was stabbing Rosemary LaBianca with a knife from the LaBianca kitchen, Watson — heeding Manson’s instruction to make sure each of the girls played a part — told Van Houten to stab her too.[65] She did, on the exposed buttocks and elsewhere.[67][59][61] (Many of Rosemary LaBianca’s forty-one total stab wounds would prove to have been inflicted post-mortem, a fact that would lend support to Leslie van Houten’s equivocal contention that Rosemary LaBianca was dead by the time she stabbed her.)[68]
While Watson cleaned off the bayonet and showered, Krenwinkel wrote "Rise" and "Death to pigs" on the walls and "Healter [sic] Skelter" on the refrigerator door, all in blood. She gave Leno LaBianca fourteen puncture wounds with an ivory-handled, two-tined carving fork, which she left jutting out of his stomach; she also planted a steak knife in his throat.[65][57][53]
Hoping for a double crime, Manson had gone on to direct Kasabian to drive to the Venice home of an actor acquaintance of hers, another "piggy." Depositing the second trio of Family members at the man's apartment building, he drove back to Spahn Ranch, leaving them and the LaBianca killers to hitchhike home.[57][53] Kasabian thwarted this murder by deliberately knocking on the wrong apartment door and waking a stranger. Before the group left, in abandonment of the murder plan, Susan Atkins defecated in the stairwell.[69] Susan Atkins during the trial. ...
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Investigation and arrest On August 10, 1969 — while the Tate autopsies were under way and the LaBianca bodies were yet to be discovered — detectives of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, which had jurisdiction in the Hinman case, informed LAPD detectives assigned to the Tate case of the bloody writing at the Hinman house. They even mentioned that the Hinman suspect, Beausoleil, was associated with a group of hippies led by "a guy named Charlie." The Tate team, thinking the Tate murders a consequence of a drug transaction, ignored the information.[39] is the 222nd day of the year (223rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Parent, the shooting victim in the Tate driveway, was determined to have been an acquaintance of William Garretson, a young man hired by Rudi Altobelli to take care of the property while Altobelli himself was away.[39] As the killers arrived, Parent had been leaving Cielo Drive, after a visit to Garretson.[39] Held briefly as a Tate suspect, Garretson, who lived in the guest house and told police he had neither seen nor heard anything on the murder night, was released on August 11, 1969.[39][66] Steven Earl Parent (February 12, 1951 - August 9, 1969) was a victim of the Charles Manson murders. ...
William Garretson was the caretaker of the Polanski residence at the time of Sharon Tates murder by the Charles Manson family. ...
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On August 12, 1969, LAPD told the press it had ruled out any connection between the Tate and LaBianca homicides.[66] On August 16, the sheriff’s office raided Spahn Ranch and arrested Manson and twenty-five others, as "suspects in a major auto theft ring" that had been stealing Volkswagens and converting them into dune buggies. Weapons were seized, but because the warrant had been misdated the group was released a few days later.[70] is the 224th day of the year (225th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Dune buggy George W. Bush in a Dune buggy A dune buggy is a recreational vehicle with large wheels, and wide tires, designed for use on sand dunes or beaches. ...
By the end of August, when virtually all leads had gone nowhere, a report by the LaBianca detectives, generally younger than the Tate team, noted a possible connection between the bloody writings at the LaBianca house and "the singing group the Beatles’ most recent album."[71]
In mid-October, the LaBianca team, still working separately from the Tate team, checked with the sheriff’s office about possible similar crimes and learned of the Hinman case. They also learned that the Hinman detectives had spoken with Beausoleil’s girlfriend, Kitty Lutesinger, who had been arrested a few days earlier with members of "the Manson Family."[48]
The arrests had taken place at the desert ranches, to which the Family had moved and where, unknown to authorities, its members had been in the midst of a search for a hole in the ground — access to the Bottomless Pit.[38][72] Known to authorities was that someone had set fire to a piece of earthmoving equipment in the area.[73][74] Raiding the Myers and Barker ranches, authorities had found stolen dune buggies and other vehicles and had arrested two dozen persons, including Manson. Manson was found hiding in a cabinet beneath a bathroom sink at Barker.[48][73]
A month after they, too, had spoken with Lutesinger, the LaBianca detectives made contact with members of a motorcycle gang she'd told them Manson had tried to enlist as his bodyguards while the Family was at Spahn Ranch.[48] While the gang members were providing information that suggested a link between Manson and the murders,[63][25] a dormitory mate of Susan Atkins succeeded in informing LAPD of the Family’s involvement in the crimes.[25] One of those arrested at Barker, Atkins had been booked for the Hinman murder after she’d confirmed to the sheriff’s detectives that she’d been involved in it, as Lutesinger had said.[48] Transferred to Sybil Brand Institute, a detention center in Los Angeles, she had begun talking to two women she bunked with.[45] Susan Atkins during the trial. ...
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On December 1, 1969, acting on the information from these sources, LAPD announced warrants for the arrest of Watson, Krenwinkel, and Kasabian in the Tate case; the suspects' involvement in the LaBianca murders was noted. Manson and Atkins, already in custody, were not mentioned; the connection between the LaBianca case and Van Houten, who was also among those arrested near Death Valley, had not yet been recognized.[73][19][57] is the 335th day of the year (336th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Watson and Krenwinkel, too, were already under arrest, authorities in Texas and Alabama having picked them up on notice from LAPD.[19] On December 2, in New Hampshire, Kasabian turned herself in.[19]
Conviction and sentencing At the trial, which began June 15, 1970,[59] the prosecution's main witness was Kasabian, who, along with Manson, Atkins, and Krenwinkel, had been charged with seven counts of murder and one of conspiracy.[20] Not having participated in the killings, she was granted immunity in exchange for testimony that detailed the nights of crimes.[21][16][75] is the 166th day of the year (167th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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The prosecution placed the triggering of Helter Skelter as the main motive.[76] The crime scenes' bloody White Album references — pig, rise, helter skelter — were correlated with testimony about Manson predictions that the murders blacks would commit at the outset of Helter Skelter would involve the writing of “pigs” on walls in victims’ blood.[35][77] Testimony that Manson had said "now is the time for Helter Skelter" was supplemented with Kasabian’s testimony that, on the night of the LaBianca murders, Manson considered discarding Rosemary LaBianca's wallet on the street of a black neighborhood.[53] Having obtained the wallet in the LaBianca house, he "wanted a black person to pick it up and use the credit cards so that the people, the establishment, would think it was some sort of an organized group that killed these people."[78] On his direction, Kasabian had hidden it in the women's rest room of a service station near a black area.[57][79][53][41] "I want to show blackie how to do it," Manson had said as the Family members had driven along after the departure from the LaBianca house.[78] // The murders perpetrated by Charles Manson and members of his Family were inspired in part by Mansons prediction of Helter Skelter, an apocalyptic war he believed would arise from tension over racial relations between blacks and whites. ...
The self-titled double album The Beatles, released by the Beatles in 1968 at the height of their popularity, is often hailed as one of the major accomplishments in popular music. ...
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During the trial, Family members haunted the entrances and corridors of the courthouse and were
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