Category Archives: Archived News
Kasabian in Nashua District Court
NASHUA, NH, Jul. 7 – Former Charles Manson follower Linda Kasabian, now known as Linda Christian, was before a judge again today, pleading innocent in Nashua District Court to disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. Christian, 33, of 93 Chandler St., […]
Sharon Tate’s Mother Begins Drive for Tough Parole Laws
LOS ANGELES, Jul. 3 – Doris Tate, mother of actress Sharon Tate, killed by the notorious Charles Manson “family,” has begun a campaign for tougher parole laws designed to keep her daughter’s murderers in prison. “I just don’t understand why […]
Manson Joins Main Prison Population
VACAVILLE, Jun. 23 – Charles Manson, convicted mastermind of the 1969 Sharon Tate murders, has been placed in the general prison population after being locked in his cell for most of each day since 1971, officials said Tuesday. Manson, 47, […]
’70’s Cultist is Arrested
LOUDON, N.H., Jun. 23 – More than 200 people were arrested during the weekend at motorcycle races, including former Charles Manson cult member Linda Kasabian, who was charged with indecent exposure, police said. Authorities said the first arrest of the […]
Manson Disciple Beausoleil Stabbed in Prison Incident
TRACY, Calif., Apr. 16 — Manson family member Robert (Cupid) Beausoleil was stabbed in the heart with a prison-made knife in a wing for honor inmates at Deuel Vocational Institution, prison officials said today. Beausoleil, 34, convicted in the torture-slaying […]
Don Laisure Fights for Atkins’ Release
GREENVILLE, Tex., Dec. 6 – Flamboyant, ostentatious, bombastic and garrulous are just a few adjectives to accurately describe Donald Laisure, the self-proclaimed millionaire who last September married Susan Atkins, convicted murderer and Manson cult follower. For the past 10 years, […]
Parole Unit Refuses to Free Manson
VACAVILLE, Calif., Nov. 5 — Mass murderer Charles Manson, saying “I ain’t got no mind” after eight years in “the nut ward,” was refused parole Wednesday by a state parole. The three-man panel from the state Board of Prison Terms […]
Ex-Manson Family Killer Runs Ministry
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif., Oct. 26 — Manson family killer Charles “Tex” Watson, who claims he was “born again” and found Christ while in prison, runs a ministry business on the outside. The former lieutenant to sex and dope cult […]
Ex-Follower Of Manson Receives 3-Year Term
SACRAMENTO, Oct. 20 – Former Manson family follower Catherine Louise Como, 39, was sentenced by a Sacramento Superior Court judge to three years in prison Monday after she pleaded guilty to charges of receiving stolen property. The sentence by Judge […]
Dismissal of $24-Million Libel Suit in Manson Case Upheld on Appeal
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 4 — A state appeals court has upheld the dismissal of a $24-million libel suit against a reporter who spent 46 days in jail for refusing to reveal his source for a story on the Manson Family […]
Man Found Guilty of Mail Threats
Sept. 23 – A California man received a three-month prison sentence as punishment yesterday after pleading no contest to a charge of mailing threatening letters to a federal prosecutor. But because the defendant, Herbert Darrell Hay, has been in federal […]
Ex-Manson Follower Susan Atkins Weds
FRONTERA, Calif., Sept. 3 — Mass murderess Susan Atkins, once a member of Charles Manson’s “family” of drug-driven killers, married a self-described Texas millionaire Wednesday in a private prison ceremony described as highly religious. Miss Atkins, 33, once sentenced to […]
Bride No. 36 Steals His Love
GREENVILLE, Texas, Jun. 30 — Donald Lee Laisure is a marrying man. By his own count he has repeated the vows 35 times and profited from the experience. “I got (wealthy) by using my head. I looked for them (rich […]
$20 Million Libel Suit Dismissed
LOS ANGELES, Jun. 26 – A $20 million libel suit filed by Irving Kanarek, attorney for convicted mass murderer Charles Manson, against Manson’s prosecutor, Vincent T. Bugliosi and others, over statements in Bugliosi’s best selling book, “Helter Skelter,” was dismissed. […]
Manson Lashes Out in Interview
NEW YORK, Jun. 12 — Charles Manson, the convicted mass murderer, strikes out at the media and claims he is “nobody’s leader and I’m nobody’s follower” in an interview with Tom Snyder tonight on NBC’s “Tomorrow Coast to Coast” (12:30 […]
Manson Family Member Asks For New Hearing
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 29 — Manson Family member Leslie Van Houten Wednesday asked the California Supreme Court to overturn her murder conviction because the prosecution in her trial used gruesome photographs of crimes in which she did not participate. Miss […]
Leslie Van Houten: ‘In Touch’ With the Guilt She’ll Always Feel
Dec. 14 – Leslie Van Houten, 31, and looking like a schoolgirl in jeans, plaid shirt, red V-necked sweater, short brown curls and bangs, reached for her pack of cigarettes, lit up and grinned: “I keep telling myself, ‘When this […]
Manson Says He’ll Be in Jail Forever
Click here to read Charles Manson’s November 4, 1980 Parole Hearing Transcript VACAVILLE, Nov. 10 — Eleven years after the shocking Tate-LaBianca killings, an aging but spirited Charles Manson — imprisoned for masterminding the mass murders — dreams of climbing […]
FBI Seeking for Motives in Psychology of Killers
QUANTICO, Va., Nov. 9 — The FBI has entered the world of psycholinguistics and interviews with notorious killers to help solve seemingly senseless crimes. The purpose of the studies by the Behavior Science Unit, which is housed in the basement […]
Charles Manson Assigned to Prison Job
VACAVILLE, Aug. 6 — Former cult leader Charles Manson has emerged from a decade of solitary confinement to work as a gardener and maintenance man at the Protestant chapel in Vacaville State Prison. “It’s taken 10 years to get a […]
