Category Archives: Archived News

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 14 — The FBI is investigating a woman prisoner’s complaint that she was attacked with a claw hammer by fellow inmate Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, the would-be assassin of former President Ford, agents said Tuesday. FBI special agent […]

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 […]