Category Archives: Archived News

BLUEFIELD, W.Va., Jan. 16 — A public defender was named Friday as “standby counsel” for Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, who is facing trial for fleeing a prison where she is serving a life term for trying to kill former President Gerald […]

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 10 — They had seen it all, they thought: evidence from jewelry heists, blood-stained clothing and hold-up guns, narcotics and urine samples. Into the Los Angeles Police Department’s massive property division had come hara-kiri knives and ransom […]

CHARLESTON, W.Va., Jan. 6 — A federal grand jury handed up an escape indictment Tuesday against Charles Manson follower Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, serving a life sentence for trying to kill President Gerald Ford. Fromme will be arraigned Jan. 14 in […]

CHARLESTON, W.Va, Dec. 31 — Manson family member Sandra Good was in Vermont when former roommate and prison cellmate Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme broke out of prison and remained at large for two days, a U.S. Justice Department spokesman said yesterday. […]

ALDERSON, W.Va., Dec. 26 — Manson disciple Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, sentenced to life for trying to shoot President Ford, was recaptured Friday near the prison she escaped two days earlier, authorities said. “There is a Santa Claus after all,” Ron […]

ALDERSON, W.Va., Dec. 25 – Federal agents issued a national alert for West Virginia prison escapee Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme on Thursday while the U.S. marshal’s office offered protection in Sacramento to a judge who sentenced her for the attempted assassination […]

ALDERSON, W.Va., Dec. 24 — Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, serving a life sentence for the attempted assassination of President Gerald Ford, apparently escaped from prison Wednesday night, officials said. Fromme, 39, was discovered missing from the Alderson Federal Prison for Women […]

By PAUL ROILY LOGAN, UTAH, Oct. 26 — Perhaps the germ was born 18 years ago in Cory LaBianca, when her father and stepmother were brutally murdered by members of the Manson Family in Orange California, and their deaths became […]

SAN LUIS OBISPO, May 15 – A member of cult leader Charles Manson’s murderous “family” was denied parole for the seventh time, but the parole board told him he’s close to getting a release date. Bruce Davis, 44, who appeared […]

Manson in The Own Words, by Charles Manson as told to Nuel Emmons (256 pages, Grove Press, $16.95) Every year a man with a swastika cut into his brow just above his eyes appears before the California parole board and […]

NEW YORK, Jan. 29 — Mass murderer Charles Manson said he never killed actress Sharon Tate and six others in the 1960s but told a television interviewer that if he had killed “400 or 500 people” he would have “felt […]

“Manson in His Own Words, As Told to Nuel Emmons.” Illustrated. Grove Press, 232 pages, $16.95. Charles Manson in his own words? Why would anyone want to hear them? Why would anyone want to do so, even knowing that, according […]

Jan. 18 – “Manson in His Own Words,” as told to Nuel Emmons. Grove Press, $16.95. Nuel Emmons and Charles Manson were fellow prisoners 30 years ago. Emmons, now a photojournalist, was doing time on auto theft and drug charges. […]

Jan. 13 – Brace yourself for what could become the most controversial book of 1987: “Manson in His Own Words,” which Grove Press is to publish this month. The book presents for the first time Charles Mansons’s side of his […]

Nov. 15 – John J. Merrick did not have the typical background for a judge, but he was not judging typical people. Merrick was a comedy gag writer before he became the no-nonsense judge of a sleepy community that was […]

LOS ANGELES, May 9 – A former Charles Manson follower was paroled and is working as a house painter after serving 14 years in prison for fatally stabbing a Hollywood stuntman. Steve “Clem” Grogran, 34, was released Nov. 19 from […]

BEND, OR, Feb. 11 — A gold record, earned by the Beach Boys and once owned by Charles Manson, is now in the possession of a Bend woman and is for sale — if the price is right. Cheryl Spahn, […]

Click here to read Charles Manson’s February 4, 1986 Parole Hearing Transcript SAN QUENTIN, Feb. 4 — Famed killer Charles told parole officials today to “stick it” because he is not interested in parole and would rather “keep my soul.” […]

FRONTERA, Jan. 1 — A tearful Susan Denise Atkins, the former Charles Manson disciple convicted in the 1969 cult slayings of actress Sharon Tate and seven others, pleaded for freedom, but was denied parole Tuesday for the sixth time. Ms. […]

BURLINGTON, VT, Dec. 11 — It is not unusual these days in this city near Canada for some Vermonters to scan strangers’ foreheads for signs of a crudely engraved “X” between their eyebrows. “You worry that a whole trail of […]