Category Archives: Archived News

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Apr. 12 – Former Charles Manson associate Bobby Beausoleil has been transferred out of the California Men’s Colony. Beausoleil, a musician, requested the transfer because CMC shut down its only music course about a year ago. He […]

CORCORAN, Mar. 16 — Convicted mass murderer Charles Manson, perhaps the most infamous of California’s convicts, was transferred Wednesday from San Quentin to the maximum-security facility at Corcoran State Prison. Manson is being housed alone in “one of the most […]

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 19 — The remote house where members of the Charles Manson family killed actress Sharon Tate and four others in 1969 has been put up for sale, a real estate agent said Sunday. Known unofficially as “the […]

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 6 – It has been 19 years now, but people still come around once in a while to stare, take snapshots, ask questions. They haven’t forgotten the Tate-LaBianca murders, or the other Manson family killings, or the […]

CHARLESTON, W. Va., Aug. 25 — Would-be presidential assassin Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme and several other prisoners have been transferred in a major shuffling of female in-mates at federal prisons, officials said yesterday. Among the most affected was the federal prison […]

CHARLESTON, W.Va., Jun. 5 — Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, the Charles Manson follower serving a life term for trying to kill then-President Gerald Ford, has been transferred from a prison where she escaped last year to one in Kentucky with better […]

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 […]

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Mar. 22 — Charles “Tex” Watson, former disciple of Charles Manson, has become the senior inmate serving in the Protestant chapel of the California Men’s Colony in San Luis Obispo, acting as its minister, counseling inmates and […]

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. […]