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Charles Manson, at left, on his way to court in and, at right, in Charles Manson: Died in at age 83 Manson, who ordered the Tate-LaBianca killings but was not present for any of them, was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death. At right, Krenwinkel in Susan Atkins: Died in prison in Susan Atkins at age 21 in , left, and in an undated prison photo.
Roman Polanski: Living in Europe, wanted in the U. At right, he arrives for a hearing in Krakow, Poland, in Bruce Davis, at left, in and, at right, in Together, she and Robert lived in the hippie communes of Topanga Canyon. After Robert left Linda behind to go on a trip to South America, she became friends with Catherine Share, who invited her to join the commune on Spahn Ranch. Kasabian quickly became a part of the group and often accompanied the Manson family members on what Manson called "creepy crawls," in which they would break into homes and loot them while their owners slept.
Because Kasabian was the only family member with a driver's license, that became her role in the killings. She overheard the slaughter going on in the house on Cielo Drive and said she got out of the car and began running toward the house, hoping she could stop them. She testified she saw Wojciech Frykowski exit the house.
Please make it stop. And then [Atkins] came running out of the house, and I said, 'Sadie, please make it stop. While this was going on, the man had gotten up, and I saw Tex on top of him, hitting him on the head and stabbing him, and the man was struggling, and then I saw [Krenwinkel] in the background with [Abigail Folger], chasing after her with an upraised knife, and I just turned and ran to the car down at the bottom of the hill," Kasabian said.
Note: Sadie was Susan Atkins' nickname in the Manson family. The next night, Kasabian accompanied group members to the LaBianca home but did not go inside. Manson then asked Kasabian to take the rest of them to the home of Saladin Nader, an actor Kasabian and Manson member Sandra Good had recently met.
Kasabian was supposed to knock on the door of Nader's house and, when he answered, Atkins and Grogan were to kill him. However, Kasabian instead went to the wrong apartment. They did not kill the occupant of that apartment. Two days later, Kasabian and her daughter left the Manson family and returned to New Hampshire. Kasabian later turned herself in and agreed to testify against the others in exchange for immunity, becoming the prosecution's key witness.
Bugliosi believed that Kasabian would have testified even without immunity. I doubt we would have convicted Manson without her. Kasabian has since tried to live a quiet life with her children. When she has appeared in her rare interviews, she has used a disguise. She is Mary Brunner was an early Manson devotee, and the mother of one of his sons. She grew up in Wisconsin, but met Manson in Berkeley, where she worked as a library assistant at the University of California.
It was a chance encounter that occurred while taking her dog for a walk. The pair hit if off and Manson moved into her apartment. He would later convince her to allow other women to move in, a portent for the "family" he intended to build. The couple had a son, Valentine Michael , in Brunner ended up settling with Manson and the rest of his followers at Spahn Ranch.
Brunner accompanied Beausoleil and Atkins to the home of Hinman but was not convicted of his murder. Instead, she received immunity for testifying against the others.
Brunner was arrested in after participating in the heist of a Hawthorne surplus store with several other followers, including Catherine Share. She was released in , changed her name and has since gone on to live a quiet, reclusive life, reportedly in the Midwest. Brunner and Manson's son was raised by his maternal grandparents. According to Bugliosi's Helter Skelter :. Until the third grade, he did not know who his father was and believed his mother to be his older sister.
In , Michael told a reporter who tracked him down that he had never visited Manson "nor do I have any desire to see him. He's just some evil person I have nothing to do with. She remained loyal to Manson for many years. In , she and follower Susan Murphy were arrested for sending nearly hostile letters to various corporate executives. According to Helter Skelter , the letters "threatened named corporate executives and U.
After she was released in , she continued her infatuation with Manson. Because she was not allowed to return to California as a condition of her parole, she instead moved to Vermont where she took an assumed name. When her parole ended, she uprooted her life and move to Hanford, California to be closer to Manson, despite being denied visiting privileges.
At least until , Good was still a loyal supporter, calling into talk shows to claim Manson's innocence. It is not clear where Good lives now. Paul Watkins was a drifter who met Charles Manson at a house in Topanga Canyon in the spring of Watkins would testify that on New Year's Eve of that year, Manson gathered the family together to tell them about Helter Skelter.
Watkins did not maintain his devotion to Manson as much as the others and did not participate in any of the murders. Watkins was, however, key in testifying to the impetus for the Manson Family's crimes, and told investigators about Helter Skelter. You can read his testimony here. Watkins continued to renounce Manson after the trial. He settled in Tecopa, near Death Valley. He founded the Death Valley Chamber of Commerce, married twice and had two children. One of his daughters, author Claire Vaye Watkins, has written about the impact her father's legacy had on her life.
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Freely accessible local news is vital. Please power our reporters and help keep us independent with a donation today. Monthly Donation One-Time Donation. Sharon Tate, left, and at right, her body being taken from her rented house in Bel Air on Aug. Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, left, in an undated photo outside the home where the were murdered. At right, the home the day after the couple's bodies were discovered. Coroner Thomas Noguchi, facing camera center, directs the removal of the body of Abigail Folger, on Aug.
In the foreground is the covered body of Voityckyk Frokowski. But it was through the confession of Susan Atkins, while held in detention on suspicion of murdering Gary Hinman during an unrelated incident, that led detectives to realize that Manson and his followers were involved in the killings.
Various motivations were examined during the course of the trial. The most feasible was that Manson's pathological ego, insanity and belief in Armageddon were influences that led him to leave behind a trail of destruction. Manson believed that he was the new Messiah, and that after a "nuclear attack" he and his followers would be saved by hiding in a secret world under the desert.
His prophetic visions included a belief that the race war would result in a Black victory, and Manson along with his Family members would have to mentor the Black community, as they would lack experience to run the planet.
As Manson and the Family were to be the beneficiaries of the race war, he told his followers that they had to help initiate it. According to defense witness and killer Van Houten, this was the primary reason why they murdered the LaBiancas.
Manson had taken the wallet of murdered Rosemary LaBianca with the intention that he would deposit it in a section of L. Later in court, Van Houten, who was just 19 when she took part in the LaBianca killings, alleged that Manson had taken advantage of her vulnerability and dislike for her mother, although she believed, like the other members, that he was a man of vision.
Thirty years later, during a parole board hearing, Van Houten said she was horrified by what she had done that night and desperately wanted to redeem herself. She was denied parole in and again in Susan Atkins admitted in initial confessions to fellow prisoners that she had wanted to cut out Tate's unborn baby but didn't have the time. She also revealed that other grisly and macabre acts were to be perpetrated against the victims and that a list of other high-profile Hollywood stars were on a list to be killed and mutilated.
When asked why they wanted to kill celebrities, Atkins replied that the Manson Family wanted to commit murders that would shock the world and make people take notice. Hughes soon dropped Manson as a client, reportedly because he felt he could convince the jury that Van Houten had been unduly influenced by the Family leader.
The move may have cost him his life: Late in the year, Hughes went camping and disappeared, and his decomposed body turned up several months later. It is thought that he was the victim of a retaliation killing by members of Manson's Family. During the trial, Manson released an album titled Lie in an effort to raise money for his defense.
He reveled in the media attention, and during court proceedings he turned up with an X carved into his forehead. Some of his female followers copied the act and shaved their heads, sometimes sitting outside the courthouse. The X was gradually modified until it turned into a swastika. Throughout the trial, the killers often giggled and exchanged grimaces with Manson, showing no remorse for their crimes.
On January 25, , Manson was convicted of first-degree murder for directing the deaths of the Tate-LaBianca victims. He was sentenced to death, but this was automatically commuted to life in prison after California's Supreme Court invalidated all death sentences prior to He was sentenced to life in prison and spent the next four decades behind bars.
Kasabian was granted immunity for her part as star witness. Susan Atkins was sentenced to death, but her sentence was later commuted to life in prison. She was incarcerated from until her death in In , between prison sentences, Manson married Rosalie Jean Willis, a year-old hospital waitress. Tate's sister, Debra told the TMZ website that she had received a phone call from prison officials shortly after Manson's death. Gathering young followers around him in the late s, Manson claimed to believe in a coming race war in America.
He planned to hasten the war and emerge as the leader of a new social order - a vision he nicknamed "Helter Skelter", after a Beatles song Manson became obsessed with. Prosecutors argued that Manson hoped black Americans would be blamed for the Tate-LaBianca killings, heightening racial tensions.
Manson convinced a number of his followers that he was the reincarnation of Jesus Christ, using a combination of drugs and genuine charisma to bring the "Family" - mainly young, middle-class women - under his control. Before Manson's death sentence could be carried out, California outlawed capital punishment and his sentence was reduced to nine life sentences.
Over the course of his four decades in prison, Manson applied for parole 12 times. The last attempt was turned down by the parole board in
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