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 murders of Malibu musician Gary Hinman and Donald “Shorty” Shea, will come up for parole again next year, the board announced.

Manson, now in the California Medical Facility at Vacaville, is scheduled for a parole hearing Nov. 16, and another “family” member, Charles parole Watson, in Soledad State Prison, is due for a hearing Oct. 27.

Hinman, 34, was tortured for three days and killed about July 27, 1969, in what the board called a “callous, cruel and unusually vicious” slaying.

Shea, 36, was a stuntman who worked on the Spahn Movie Ranch where the Manson group lived. His body was never found. Manson family members said his body was dismembered after hes was killed in August 1969.

A week after Hinman was murdered, members of the Manson clan killed actress Sharon Tate and four others at a Bel Air home, followed one night later by the slaying of grocer Leno LaBianca and his wife, Rosemary.