Category Archives: Archived News

REDONDO BEACH, Oct. 17 – Defense attorney Irving Kanarek Thursday named Vincent Bugliosi as one of the men responsible for news leaks during the Charles Manson trial. Speaking to members of the SouthWest Press Association in Redondo Beach, Kanarek called […]

Sept. 6 – “Manson” is a sort-of documentary by American International on the murdering Charles Manson Family of California. It’s at the Kensington and Towne, rated “R” and twin-billed with the rerun “Wild in the Streets.” “Manson” uses television film […]

SAN FRANCISCO, Jul. 27 — Charles Manson “family” member Robert Beausoleil has filed a petition with the California Supreme Co. asking for a reversal of his conviction on a first-degree murder charge. Beausoleil filed a request for a hearing Thursday, […]

LOS ANGELES, Jul. 15 – Just four years ago, Charles Manson and members of his “family” were sitting at the Spahn Movie Ranch, planning the Tate-LaBianca murders. For decades before August, 1969 the ranch existed in peaceful anonymity. In the […]

LOS ANGELES, Jun. 3 – The late Jay Sebring’s hair-styling salon, once a hub of the Los Angeles jet-set, has been sold and will be converted to sales offices. The salon, at 723-729 N. Fairfax Blvd., was sold Friday for […]

May 3 – A $2,000,000 malpractice and fraud suit brought by convicted murderess Susan Atkins against two attorneys who once represented her and against former Dep. Dist. Atty Vincent T. Bugliosi has been dismissed. Superior Court Judge Rodney Potter granted […]

SAN QUENTIN, Apr. 25 – A free-swinging brawl involving six convicts with two prison-made knives and two baseball bats broke out shortly after lunch yesterday in San Quentin’s lower yard but was broken up after a guard fired a warning […]

LOS ANGELES, Mar. 21 – Mary Brunner, a Charles Manson follower convicted of committing two armed robberies as part of a plan to free the murder cult leader, was sentenced Tuesday to two consecutive 10-year-to-life prison terms. And in another […]

FOLSOM, Mar. 5 — The lifestyle of convicted killer Charles Manson has been sharply altered since he was moved off San Quentin’s Death Row and out of the shadow of the state’s gas chamber. For one thing, he has dropped […]

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 28 – Kenneth Como, one of four Charles Manson followers convicted of committing two robberies as part of a plan to free the cult leader from prison, told jurors Tuesday that “all I wanted to do was […]

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 28 – The Manson family was just “a lot of people having fun,” said Charles Manson, returning to the courthouse where he was convicted of nine murders as the guru-svengali of the hippie tribe. He had no […]

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 24 – “You had better pray I never get out,” convicted murderer Bobby (Cupid) Beausoleil told a jammed courtroom Friday at a sanity hearing for four other members of the Charles Manson “family.” The 25-year-old Beausoleil was […]

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 22 – Four followers of hippie cult leader Charles Manson were found guilty Wednesday of committing a Hawthorne surplus store robbery which led to a shootout with police. The seven-women, five-man jury deliberated four days before returning […]

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 17 – Charles Manson and 10 other convicted murderers will not testify in the robbery trial of four of his followers as had been expected. The defense rested Friday without the appearance of Manson and the others […]

LOS, ANGELES, Feb. 16 — A second juror in the case against four Manson Family members has been excused by a Superior Court judge because of telephone threats against him. The juror, Michael Flores, said he was upset and wished […]

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 16 – Two jurors in the robbery trial of four Charles Manson followers have been excused after receiving telephoned death threats, it was learned Thursday. In excusing juror Michael Fiores, Superior Judge Arthur Alarcon described those who […]

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 14 – The jury in the trial of four Charles Manson followers charged with robbery was sequestered Tuesday after one of the jurors reportedly received a phone call. In addition to sequestering the eight women and four […]

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 11 – Charles Manson and the three female “family” members convicted with him for the Sharon Tate-Leno LaBianca murders are due back in Los Angeles Superior Court this week for the trial of four other followers. Manson […]

VAN NUYS, Feb. 1 – A former Manson family member, jailed since November in connection with a Stockton, Calif., murder and a Granada Hills armed robbery, has been freed and Dep. Dist. Atty. William C. Melcher said that clearing her […]

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 21 – Sandra Good sat demurely on the wooden bench in City Prison speaking softly and gesturing like a musical conductor. “None of us with the mark can get a fair trial; that’s why I jumped O.R. […]