Category Archives: Archived News

LOS ANGELES, Jul. 13 – A jury to hear the Tate-LaBianca massacre murder case against cult leader Charles Manson and three of his girl followers will be sworn in Tuesday, it was learned today. The five-woman, seven-man panel selected in […]

LOS ANGELES, Jul. 13 – The selection of 12 permanent jurors was completed today at the trial of Charles Manson and three young women members of his “family” in the Tate-Labianca murder case. After a month of questioning almost 150 […]

LOS ANGELES, Jul. 12 – Approval of a jury for the Charles Manson murder-conspiracy case is closer today than it has been in the four weeks since the trial opened. Whether or not a panel of 12 will be selected […]

LOS ANGELES, Jul. 11 – A California official talked about bringing a $100,000 suit against Texas Friday, charging intentional delays in extraditing Charles Watson, 24, wanted in California for trial in the Sharon Tate murder case. In Austin, Atty. Gen. […]

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 11 – The oft-delayed Sharon Tate murder trial hit a new snag today when the critical illness of the daughter of a defense attorney caused him to delay his final argument. Maxwell Keith, who replaced the missing […]

LOS ANGELES, Jul. 11 – The jury to hear the Tate-LaBianca murder trial is expected to be seated Monday, prosecutors indicated Friday as the fourth week of jury selection came to an end. The prosecutors’ decision not to challenge any […]

LOS ANGELES, Jul. 10 – Tempers appeared to wear thin yesterday at Charles Manson’s murder trial as both attorneys and the judge in the case sniped at each other in the open courtroom. Trial Judge Charles Older apparently was concerned […]

LOS ANGELES, Jul. 10 – Supervisor Kenneth Hahn yesterday criticized the “Roman holiday circus” atmosphere which he said is surrounding the Charles Manson murder trial. Hahn, in an impromptu news conference, claimed courtroom tactics by defense and prosecution attorneys and […]

LOS ANGELES, Jul. 8 – A prosecutor said Tuesday in Los Angeles that film director Roman Polanski, Sharon Tate’s husband, will testify at the trial of four persons accused of killing the actress and six other persons. “I’m relatively sure […]

LOS ANGELES, Jul. 7 – A judge asked a new panel of jurors at the Sharon Tate murder case Monday whether they could give the four defendants a fair trial, Twelve citizens stood up and said they could not. A […]

LOS ANGELES, Jul. 7 – Former University of Wisconsin librarian Mary Brunner, 26, charged in the torture-slaying last year of bagpipe musician Gary Hinman, today sought release on the grounds that she had allegedly been granted immunity from prosecution by […]

LOS ANGELES, Jul. 6 – Opening its fourth week at the Hall of Justice, the Sharon Tate murder trial is taking on the colorful complexity of a three-ring circus, with all participants doing their own thing. With a jury still […]

LOS ANGELES, Jul. 6 – The third panel of 48 prospective jurors was brought into Los Angeles Superior Court today in the opening of the fourth week of the massacre murder trial of Charles Manson and three of his girl […]

LOS ANGELES, Jul. 5 – A year ago, there were about 45 members of the hippie “family” that lived a communal existence on a crumbling movie ranch in the arid, boulder-strewn mountains at the northern end of the San Fernando […]

LOS ANGELES, Jul. 4 – Swathed in satin capes, three women defendants in the Sharon Tate murder trial whispered and drew pictures on yellow legal pads Friday as the third tedious week of jury selection droned to a close. The […]

LOS ANGELES, Jul. 3 – The chief prosecutor in the Tate-LaBianca murder trial was accused of misconduct today after questioning a prospective juror. Dep. Dist. Atty. Aaron Stovitz, who also faces an earlier contempt charge, was charged with misconduct by […]

LOS ANGELES, Jul. 3 – A defense attorney in the Sharon Tate murder case, questioning prospective jurors, intimated Thursday in Los Angeles the effects of the hallucinatory drug LSD could become key to the case. Attorney Paul Fitzgerald, mentioning the […]

LOS ANGELES, Jul. 3 – Charles Manson has sued Dist. Ally. Evelle J. Younger, Sheriff Peter J. Pitchess and 10 others for $1 million each accusing them of violating his civil rights. Manson, on trial with three female codefendants in […]

LOS ANGELES, Jul. 2 – One of Charles Manson’s codefendants, Leslie Van Houten 19, yesterday failed for the third time to fire her attorney, Ira K. Reiner. The reason was the same as on Tuesday — she did not want […]

AUSTIN, Tex., Jul. 2 – Charles “Tex” Watson, the sixth defendant in the Tate-LaBianca murder case, has won at least another 30-day delay in being returned to California, the district attorney’s office reported yesterday. Elvyn Holt, head of the district […]