ALDERSON, WV, Jul. 3 – Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, the Manson cultist accused of trying to gun down former President Gerald Ford, is among a contingent of new inmates being shipped to the Federal Reformatory for Women. Warden Carson Markley says […]
The Manson Mystique, Whatever It Is, Lives On
When Leslie Van Houten began taking the witness stand in Los Angeles a few weeks ago to give her version of the 1969 LaBianca slayings, I realized how baffled I still was by the senseless “Helter Skelter” killings. Even her […]
Van Houten Jury Hears Manson Tape
LOS ANGELES, Jun. 28 – After more than two months of testimony that has almost always focused on Charles Manson, the jury in the retrial of Leslie Van Houten heard the voice of Manson himself Monday. What the jurors heard […]
California Court of Appeal Upholds Manson’s Convictions in 2 Killings
LOS ANGELES, Jun. 24 – Ruling it found no evidence of “prejudicial error,” the State Court of Appeal yesterday upheld Charles Manson’s 1971 convictions for the murders of Gary Hinman and Donald (Shorty) Shea. The three-judge panel, in an unanimous […]
Doctor Disputes Van Houten Domination
LOS ANGELES, Jun. 22 – A psychiatrist called by the prosecution testified Tuesday that Leslie Van Houten was not a “robot” under the domination of Charles Manson the night she took part in the murders of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca. […]
Manson Follower Knifed: Shots Halt DVI Racial Fight
TRACY, Jun. 8 — Security remained tight and tension high at nearby Deuel Vocational Institution last night in the aftermath of a racial battle which required warning shots to stop. Eleven prisoners were injured, one seriously. The seriously injured inmate […]
Files On Manson Are Shut To Lawyer For Van Houten
LOS ANGELES, Jun. 7 – Leslie Van Houten’s lawyer lost a fight Monday for access to the medical and psychiatric records of mass murderer Charles Manson. Attorney Maxwell Keith, defending Miss Van Houten in her Los Angeles retrial for murder […]
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 […]
LSD Influence on Miss Van Houten Told
LOS ANGELES, May 20 – A psychiatrist who specializes in “medicines of the mind” testified Thursday that Leslie Van Houten’s use of LSD so changed her values that she ended up “not caring for life, even her own.” That is […]
Mrs. Van Houten testifies Leslie ‘Free of Manson’
LOS ANGELES, May 19 – Leslie Van Houten’s mother fought back tears in Los Angeles Wednesday as she told a jury of her daughter’s journey back from Charles Manson’s cult of death. Jane Van Houten, of Monrovia, recalling her personal […]
Prosecutor to End Van Houten Case
LOS ANGELES, May 17 – Prosecutor Stephen Kay plans to wind up his case against Leslie Van Houten today in the retrial of the former Charles Manson follower for the murders of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca. On Monday, Kay completed […]
Miss Van Houten Tells Role in Slaying
LOS ANGELES, May 13 – Former Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten testified Thursday that she stabbed Rosemary LaBianca only after Mrs. LaBianca apparently was dead. Miss Van Houten said that after both Mrs. LaBianca and her husband, Leno, were […]
Miss Van Houten Tells of Perjury
LOS ANGELES, May 6 – Former Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten testified Thursday she took LSD during the Tate-LaBianca murder trial and said she gave false testimony in that trial on Manson’s orders. Taking the stand for the first […]
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, […]
Linda Kasabian Finishes Slaying Account
LOS ANGELES, Apr. 26 – Linda Kasabian completed her courtroom account Monday about a night in 1969 when she said Charles Manson and a carload of his followers roamed from the mountains to the sea searching for someone to kill. […]
Manson Prosecutor Discounts Parole Idea
COLUMBIA, Mo., Apr. 8 – Vincent Bugliosi, prosecutor in the Charles Manson murder trial, smiled out at the large crowd assembled in the University’s Jesse Auditorium. “This is really a good crowd,” he said. “I think some of you thought […]
Manson Girl to Get New Day in Court
LOS ANGELES, Mar. 27 – The Charles Manson follower who six years ago calmly described to a startled jury in her murder trial how she “just started stabbing and cutting the lady up,” Monday will face a new jury in […]
Two Murders Still Haunt Former Manson Cultist
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 17 – Former Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten says she still has nightmares about the gruesome murders of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, for which she was once condemned to death and for which she will be […]
Follower of Manson Sentenced
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 30 — Susan Murphy, a Charles Manson cultist, and her escape companion, Diane Ellis, have been sentenced to 10 extra years in prison for beating a guard unconscious while escaping in August from Terminal Island Federal Prison. […]
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 […]
