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Manson Family Killer Stabbed Hubby?

CHINO, Calif., Dec. 16 — The man who married Manson family killer Susan Atkins and said he would “spend millions” to get her out of jail now claims the woman stabbed him in a jealous rage during a prison visit. […]

Manson Figure May Have Knifed Mate

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 16 — The Texan who married Manson family killer Susan Atkins says his wife stabbed him during a prison visit because she was jealous of attention he was giving one of her murder partners, a prosecutor said […]

Kasabian Pleads No Contest

NASHUA, NH, Sept. 14 – Linda Christian, also known as Linda Kasabian, 33, of 93 Chandler St. pleaded no contest to disorderly conduct and resisting arrest and was fined a total of $83.

Linda Pleads No Contest

HUDSON, NH, Aug. 23 – Linda Christian, also known as Linda Kasabian, 33, of 93 Chandler St. pleaded no contest to driving after suspension of her license and was sentenced to 30 days in the House of Correction, suspended. She […]

Warrant Issued for Kasabian’s Arrest

NASHUA, NH Jul. 8 – Nashua District Court Judge Nicholas Panteias today ordered a warrant for the arrest of former Charles Manson follower Linda Kasabian, now known as Linda Christian, after she failed to appear for arraignment on three motor […]

Prisoner Housed in Jail Here Helped Solve Manson Murders 

FOND DU LA, WI, Feb. 7 – Two men arrested by federal agents on drug charges — including one credited with helping solve the Tate-LaBianca murders in California 12 years ago — were released from the Fond du Lac County […]

Manson Cultist Denied Parole

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Oct. 23 — Charles “Tex” Watson failed for a fourth time to convince parole officials he was no longer the dangerous man who led Manson cultists in the slayings of seven people in 1969. The 35-year-old prisoner […]

Ex-Manson Follower is Wounded in Ambush

LA PUENTE, Oct. 16 — Former Charles Manson follower Kenneth Como, 41, was ambushed and shot in the arm, just two days after he was released from prison, authorities said. Como, who served 10 years at Folsom Prison upon his […]

Ex-Manson Cultist Gets Folsom Parole

FOLSOM, Oct. 14 – Kenneth Como, a onetime disciple of mass-murderer Charles Manson, Tuesday was paroled from Folsom state prison where he had been serving a term for armed robbery and escape. Como, 41, left the prison with $200 in […]

Novelist Says Curse Marks Mass Murderers

MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 30 – It really annoyed him, Vincent Bugliosi said, to watch Tom Snyder’s June interview with Charles Manson, knowing all the while that the mass murderer might be cashing in on his coast-to-coast appearance on NBC. The network […]

Susan Atkins Denied Parole

FRONTERA, Calif., Sept. 18 — Former Charles Manson disciple Susan Atkins Laisure, who this month married a self-professed Texas millionaire, has been denied parole for a fourth time. After a hearing Wednesday, the three-member California Board of Prison Terms denied […]

Susan Atkins Delays Prison Wedding Plans

FRONTERA, Calif., Aug. 29 — Susan Atkins, the Manson family member serving a life term in prison for the Tate-LaBianca slayings, has postponed plans to marry a flamboyant Texas millionaire who vowed to gain her freedom. Sylvia Johnson, superintendent at […]

Manson Man: Inmate Accused of Threatening Berg to Undergo Tests

Jan. 16 – A 26-year-old man linked by California law officials to mass murderer Charles Manson’s notorious Family was ordered to undergo a psychiatric examination in federal court here yesterday. Moments earlier, he was granted permission to act as his […]

Leslie Van Houten Loses Her Appeal 

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 16 — Convicted murderer Leslie Van Houten, due for a second parole hearing next month, lost another round in her attempt to get out of jail when a California appeals court refused to overturn her conviction in […]

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 […]

A Baltimore Psychiatrist Examines Manson’s Women

The Manson Women … By Clara Livsey, M.D. 244 pages. Richard Marek. $10.95. In August of 1969, a group of groupies, primarily female, who had formed an unrelated “family” around a semi-literate petty criminal named Charles Manson, stabbed, slashed and […]

No Parole for Manson Follower

FRONTERA, Jan. 18 — Former “Manson girl” Leslie Van Houten was denied parole Thursday because the murders she committed showed a “complete disregard for human suffering and life,” the panel chairman said. The decision means that Van Houten, 30, who […]

Informant To Tie Defendant To Bank Holdups

SACRAMENTO, Jan. 17 – A former County Jail inmate is scheduled to testify today that a parolee with ties to suspected associates of the Symbionese Liberation Army confided his involvement in at least four large bank robberies. A burglary charge […]

Man, Woman Get Prison Terms After Series Of Area Robberies

SACRAMENTO, Jan. 16 – Superior Court Judge William H. Lally sentenced Priscilla Cooper, 28, and Joseph Garcia, 54, to terms in state prison Tuesday for a series of Sacramento area robberies committed during two weeks in August. Cooper received seven […]

Manson Skips Parole Hearing

VACAVILLE, Calif, Nov. 28 — Mass murderer Charles Manson, now in the tenth year of eight concurrent life sentences in the Sharon Tate killings, refused to appear before a parole board, insisting he “was treated as a fool” after his […]