Category Archives: Archived News
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 […]
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 […]
Vincent Bugliosi – Manson Case Prosecutor Turns Defense Lawyer
CHICAGO, Jun. 4 — Vincent T. Bugliosi, the former deputy Los Angeles County district attorney who prosecuted the Charles Manson family, is now on the other side of the courtroom. “I’d like to try to establish myself as the leading […]
Heroin in the Family Drove Actress From Film Career
Dec. 23 – Veteran character actress, Angela Lansbury, has revealed why she quit Hollywood for most of the last decade — her two children had become addicted to heroin and one was in danger of joining the Charles Manson cult […]
SLA, Manson Linked to Escape
SEATTLE, Oct. 18 — Law enforcement officials insist that radicals connected to the Symbionese Liberation Army, the Charles Manson family and other California militant groups were behind a bloody, ill-fated mass escape from the King County Jail. One of the […]
The Manson Family at it Again?
LONG BEACH, Calif., Oct. 15 — Scattered remnants of Charlie Manson’s family are on a crime spree aimed at freeing the hippie leader and other members of his violence-prone cult from prison, local and federal law enforcement agents have told […]
Watson to Marry Friday at CMC
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Sept. 4 – Charles “Tex” Watson, convicted of murdering actress Sharon Tate and six others during the brutal Manson family Tate-LaBianca slayings in Los Angeles, will be married Friday at the California Men’s Colony. Watson, 33, who […]
Former Manson Follower Indicted On US Charges In Mail Fraud Probe
Aug. 16 – Former Manson family follower Catherine “Gypsy” Como was indicted in absentia by the federal grand jury Wednesday on six counts of mail fraud, interstate transportation of stolen property and fraudulent use of a credit card. Authorities said […]
Decade Later, Manson is Still Mystery Man
VACAVILLE, Jul. 29 – When inmates pull a knife on a San Quentin guard, or torch tiers at Folsom, or emerge as transvestites at Soledad, the California Department of Corrections sends them to Vacaville. Backed up against the Vaca Mountains […]
Manson Follower ‘Tex’ Watson to Marry
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Jul. 26 — Charles “Tex” Watson, the convicted murderer who once called himself Charles Manson’s “lieutenant for killing,” will marry a woman he met at a prison chapel where he preaches. Watson will marry Kristine Svege, who […]
Lansbury Returns to Stage
NEW YORK, Jul. 7 – Anthony Shaw, the 26-year-old son of Angela Lansbury and husband-agent Peter Shaw, arrived in New York for a reunion with his parents and his 24-year-old sister Deidre. And a joyous reunion it will be. “I […]
Fromme Returned To Alderson
PLEASANTON, Calif., Apr. 10 — Would-be presidential assassin Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme will be moved back to a federal prison in Alderson, W. Va. as punishment for striking an inmate with a hammer, prison officials said Monday. A prison investigation found […]
