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LOS ANGELES, Oct. 21 – After sawing two sets of bars and squeezing through a tiny window 170 feet above the sidewalk, a Manson “family” member gained his freedom from the County Jail atop the Hall of Justice early Wednesday […]

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 28 – More than two months of a costly trial went for naught Friday when a mistrial was declared in the murder proceedings against Steve Grogan, a member of the Charles Manson “family.” Superior Judge Joseph L. […]

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 23 – Five suspects captured in an attempted robbery and 10-minute shootout with police in Hawthorne were identified Sunday as followers of cultist and condemned murderer Charles Manson. A sixth suspect was being sought. He was identified […]

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 11 – Cult leader Charles Manson today in court calmly admitted to a detective that he had struck musician Gary Hinman in the head with a sword, held a gun on him and then ordered his death. […]

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 2 – The trial of Charles (Tex) Watson, 25, for the seven Tate-LaBianca murders begins today. Jury selection will start at 9 a.m. in Superior Judge Adolph Alexander’s small, 46-seat courtroom at the Los Angeles County Courthouse. […]

Newsman looks into a tunnel at the end of a chicken coop where sheriff deputies found five children living. The five children are believed to be the children of Dennis Rice, former member of the Charles Manson “family”, hippie cult […]

LOS ANGELES, Mar. 25 – Prosecutor Vincent T. Bugliosi Wednesday described Charles Manson as an evil, satanic killer who sent out his followers to murder the seven Tate-LaBianca victims. But, he declared in a powerful argument in the penalty phase […]

LOS ANGELES, Mar. 24 – Five members of Charles Manson’s hippie “family,” in a surprise move Tuesday, pleaded “no contest” to conspiring to prevent one of the cult leader’s former followers from testifying in the Tate-LaBianca trial. The legal effect […]

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 25 – Some of the charges were dismissed yesterday against five of Charles Manson’s followers accused of giving an LSD-soaked hamburger to a prosecution witness in the Tate-LaBianca murder trial. However, Superior Court Judge Raymond Choate ordered […]

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 25 — Charles Manson and his three women codefendants shouted angrily at star prosecution witness Linda Kasabian yesterday, when the pig-tailed blonde would not go along with their story that Manson is blameless in the Tate-LaBianca murders. […]

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 10 – The 22-year-old girl whose confession more than a year ago led to the arrest of Charles Manson and five members of his hippie cult, confessed again Tuesday. This time she was in front of a […]

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 3 – Three youths and five girls identified by police as follower of convicted murderer Charles Manson pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges of trespass and loitering at the Hall of Justice but punishment was fixed at the […]

Jan. 27 – A jury of representative citizens has pondered the evidence and reached its verdict, and now the long and arduous trial phase of the Manson murder case is over. Ahead lies still more testimony as prelude to the […]

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 22 — A Manson family member who testified for the state at the Tate-LaBianca murder trial failed to answer a subpoena today, and a bench warrant, without bail, was issued for him in open court by Judge […]

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 31 – Charles Manson’s lawyer, Mr. Irving Kanarek, attemping to lay the blame for the Sharon Tate murders on Charles “Tex” Watson, expects to complete his appeal to the jury for Manson’s acquittal today. Mr. Kanarek yesterday […]

Rules Misspelled ‘Healter Skelter’ Inscription Found on Court Pad of Defendant and at Death Scene Lacks Value LOS ANGELES, Nov. 6 – The prosecution tried but failed Thursday to introduce evidence that Patricia Krenwinkel printed the inscription “Healter Skelter” as […]

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 22 – Charles Manson visited Sharon Tate’s rented estate less than five months before she and four others were murdered there, the owner of the property testified Wednesday at the Tate-LaBianca trial.  Rudy Altobelli, who then lived […]

256 Homes Destroyed as Flames Burn 180,000 Acres LOS ANGELES, Sept. 27 – The worst series of brushfires in Southern California history — including four which joined in one blazing perimeter from Newhall to Malibu — burned out of control […]

Aug. 7 – Death has eliminated a prospective prosecution witness in the Tate-LaBianca murder trial — a movie stunt man who claimed ownership of the gun thought to have been used in the first night’s slaughter. Goateed, one-armed Joseph Randall, […]

Miami, Aug. 7 – A Miami woman said today she had been “scared” into testifying for the defense in the Sharon Tate murder trial. And, she said, she was never given a chance on the stand to explain her testimony […]