Category Archives: Archived News

SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 13 — Lynette (Squeaky) Fromme, the Charles Manson cult member convicted of trying to kill former President Gerald R. Ford, attacked a woman inmate in federal prison with a hammer and may face charges in the incident, […]

SACRAMENTO, Mar. 4 – Former Manson cultist Catherine “Gypsy” Como is sought by U.S. postal inspectors and the FBI in connection with a credit card fraud which has bilked Northern California merchants out of more than $200.000 in merchandise. Como, […]

WOODLAND, Mar. 2 — A former member of the Manson family is suspected of leading a credit card fraud scheme in six Northern California cities, the federal government said. Assistant U.S attorney Malcolm Segal said Thursday that the woman, Catherine […]

SACRAMENTO, Feb. 3 – A former Charles Manson family follower has been arrested for giving false statements to a bank on a credit application for a bank loan, the FBI reported. Catherine Como, 36, was arrested at her home on […]

PLEASANTON, Jan. 29 — Even if it means spending the rest of her life in prison, Lynette Fromme vows undying loyalty to Charles Manson and the special world he envisions for his “family.” “I’m basically scheduled to go to the […]

PLEASANTON, Jan. 28 — We’ve become friends of a sort, Lynette Fromme and I, in the few months we’ve been writing and talking to each other. I was there, outside the capitol building in Sacramento, the day three years ago […]

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 18 — A Charles Manson cult member serving a prison term for trying to assassinate then-President Gerald Ford in 1975, Friday denied that two ex-convicts found shot in Sacramento had ties to the notorious band. “That’s not […]

SACRAMENTO, Nov. 16 — James T. Craig, who was convicted of a 1972 Charles Manson family murder, was discovered today shot and stuffed into the trunk of a burning car with a corpse. Fire fighters put out the blaze and […]

Oct. 20 – The state’s Community Release Board Thursday denied parole to Bruce Davis, a former member of the Charles Manson family, because of the unusually vicious way one of his two victims was killed. Davis, convicted of the 1969 […]

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 12 – Convicted slayer Leslie Van Houten was denied probation and sentenced to life in prison Friday after an emotional hearing before Superior Court Judge Gordon Ringer. A Superior Court jury had found Miss Van Houten, a […]

VACAVILLE, Aug. 1 — A prison guard has accused convicted mass killer Charles Manson of punching him in the face during a routine inspection of cells at the California Medical Facility here, it was disclosed today. Prison information officer Bill […]

VACAVILLE, Jul. 10 — In a rare prison interview, convicted mass murderer Charles Manson admits he got in trouble “for cutting people, for shooting people,” but he claims he didn’t want to kill. “Not because I wanted to, but because […]

SACRAMENTO, Jul. 9 — A former Charles Manson follower has lost her bid in federal court to resume visiting her husband in prison. U.S. District Court Judge Thomas MacBride ruled against Catherine Como after reviewing Folsom prison officials’ assertion that […]

LOS ANGELES, Jul. 5 – Former Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten was convicted of first-degree murder today in her third trial for the Aug. 10, 1969, slayings of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca. She also was found guilty of conspiracy […]

LOS ANGELES, May 31 — Leslie Van Houten said at her third murder trial she was so heavily drugged on LSD that she was incapable of functioning on her own and mindlessly carried out Charles Manson’s orders to kill. Miss […]

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Apr. 30 — Charles “Tex” Watson says he spent the first 23 years of his life chasing the all-American dream and the next five chasing after the devil. Now Watson — the former Texas farm boy and […]

WASHINGTON, Apr. 3 — Charles Manson’s bid to have his conviction and life sentence overturned in the 1969 murders of two California men was turned down by the Supreme Court today. The justices left intact Manson’s 1970 conviction for the […]

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 22 – Leslie Van Houten walked into her third trial for the Charles Manson-led murders of a Los Angeles grocer and his wife wearing a broad smile she said was due to nervousness rather than optimism over […]

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 2 — The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the conspiracy conviction of Sandra Good, the disciple of convicted mass murderer Charles Manson who once begged to join Manson in prison. Miss Good was sentenced […]

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Jan. 16 — “We love this special person from the bottom of our hearts,” said Golden Bristol of the man who murdered her daughter. The tiny housewife from Dearborn, Mich., confessed to a little nervousness as she […]