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Manson Link ‘Exaggerated’
EUREKA, Oct. 20 — Reports of ties between a southern Humboldt County commune farm and both the Manson family and Symbionese liberation Army were exaggerated, but a gang of criminals with links to several radical movements in California has used […]
Jail Escapee Nabbed as Poacher
SEATTLE, Oct. 18 — Loaded with camping gear and an Army manual on how to escape capture, David Warriner, the last of seven men who escaped from King County Jail, was captured as a poacher Tuesday night. Washington Fish and […]
One-time Cultist Sought for Fraud in Roseville Office
ROSEVILLE, Calif., Oct. 11 – A former member of the Charles Manson family has been charged with operating a fraudulent business scheme at a rented office in Roseville’s Old Town. Catherine Louise “Gypsy” Como, a one-time follower of cult leader […]
FBI Claims No Knowledge of Plot to Free Manson
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 8 — The FBI says it “has no knowledge” to back up a newspaper report that two terrorist cults have joined forces in a mission to free Charles Manson and jailed members of his “family” and the […]
Manson Case Informant Dies After Beating
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 5 – Ronnie Howard, one of two informants credited with tying the Charles Manson “family” to the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders, has died from injuries received in a robbery and beating, Los Angeles police reported Thursday. Police said […]
Manson Family Cast Spell on Beach Boys
“Pet Sounds” and “Good Vibrations,” an album and a single released by the Beach Boys in 1966, established the group as the leaders of a new type of pop music, Art Rock. First came “Pet Sounds,” an album fraught with […]
Manson, Women Live Life of Ease, Bugliosi Claims
COLUMBUS, OHIO, Oct. 19 – Charles Manson sits in a private cell in California today strumming a guitar and watching television. He lives a better life today than he did before he was convicted for the 1969 murders of eight […]
Ex-Manson Follower Finds Faith In Christ
FRONTERA, Feb. 18 – The brutal Sharon Tate-LaBianca murders burned their way into the nation’s headlines in 1969 as a group of young followers of Charles Manson left a trail of blood and destruction across southern California. Nine years later, […]
Delay Granted on Third Van Houten Murder Trial
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 26 – The first thing former Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten did after she bailed out of jail a month ago was “go to the ocean and look into the distance without a wire fence between […]
May Have Been Shorty Shea: Pass Road Body Is Still Unidentified
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 23 – It could be a month before Los Angeles County coroners can positively identify the bones found Dec. 15 near Simi Valley as those of Donald “Shorty” Shea, one of Charles Manson’s murder victims. L.A. County […]
Shorty Shea’s Body Believed Found
CHATSWORTH, Dec. 16 – The skeletal remains of what investigators believe is Donald “Shorty” Shea — slain in 1969 by Charles Manson and two of his followers — was found Thursday afternoon in a shallow grave along Santa Susana Pass […]
The Way Up – Manson Killers Are Born Again
Dear Pat: Every now and then, I read something about Charles Manson. I know he’s cooling his heels in prison (thank God), but what’s happened to his “disciples,” the ones who actually did the killing of Sharon Tate and her […]
Third Leslie Van Houten Trial Scheduled for Jan. 16
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 20 – Former Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten will go to trial for the third time Jan. 16 in connection with the 1969 slaying of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, it was ruled today. Superior Judge Gordon […]
Manson Follower Moved
SAN DIEGO, Oct. 19 — Sandra Good, a follower of convicted mass murderer Charles Manson, has been moved to a federal women’s prison at Alderson, W.Va., where two other Manson disciples are imprisoned. Miss Good, 33, was transferred Tuesday from […]
Sandra Good, Manson Cultist, to be Transferred to Alderson
SAN DIEGO, Oct. 9 — Sandra Good, a Charles Manson cultist and inmate of the federal jail in San Diego since Sept. 8, will be transferred to the federal prison for women at Alderson, W. Va. Miss Good, 33, was […]
Cops Finally Believe He’s a Killer
SAN JOSE, Oct. 4 – He had told his parents, the police and his psychiatrist, but no one believed 34-year-old Dennis Mignano when he claimed he had killed documentary filmmaker Laurence Merrick in 1977. Last week, the police finally began […]
Van Houten Could Have Deceived Psychiatrists, a Specialist Testifies
LOS ANGELES, May 24 – Leslie Van Houten could have deceived psychiatrists into taking a favorable defense stance at her murder retrial, one of several specialists who have examined the former Charles Manson cultist testified yesterday. During cross-examination, Dr. Keith […]
Roman Polanski and the Hounds of Hell
May 1 – Roman Polanski’s films are macabre, heavy with themes of isolation, rage, guilt and humiliation. “He seems to have been born with fixed and pessimistic conclusions about the human condition,” says a Polanski compatriot and journalist. His life, […]
Services Today For ‘Manson’ Film Producer
HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 30 — Funeral services will be held today for Laurence Merrick, producer of a film about the Charles Manson family, who was shot to death as he left his drama studio. Services will be at 3 p.m. at […]
Aide Wants Manson In Vacaville
VACAVILLE, Dec. 21 — A California Medical Facility administrator has recommended that convicted mass murderer Charles Manson remain in the Vacaville prison. “But I want to keep the option of sending him back to San Quentin if he becomes a […]
