LOS ANGELES, Jul. 2 – The Los Angeles bungalow where four members of the Manson family murdered Rosemary and Leno LaBianca in 1969 is for sale for $599,000, but the place is a mess, one of the listing agents and […]
The Detective Who Drove Sirhan Sirhan to Parker Center That Night is Still a Cop
Jun 1 – On the night of June 4, 1968, Detective Frank J. Patchett was at home with his family. But it was not an evening destined for tranquility. Shortly after midnight the phone rang. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy had […]
Charles Manson Transferred to Corcoran Prison
CORCORAN, Mar. 16 — Convicted mass murderer Charles Manson, perhaps the most infamous of California’s convicts, was transferred Wednesday from San Quentin to the maximum-security facility at Corcoran State Prison. Manson is being housed alone in “one of the most […]
No Parole for Follower of Manson
FRONTERA, Dec. 17 — Former Charles Manson family member Susan Atkins, convicted in the 1969 cult slayings of actress Sharon Tate and seven others, was denied parole Friday for the seventh time. Despite tears and expressions of remorse from Ms. […]
Man Charged In Shooting Of Ex-Judge
TYLER, Tx., Dec. 7 – A 41-year-old Lindale area man surrendered to authorities about 9:30 this morning to face a charge of attempted murder in the October shooting of a former state district judge who remains hospitalized in Dallas. William […]
Site of Manson Family’s Attack for Sale
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 19 — The remote house where members of the Charles Manson family killed actress Sharon Tate and four others in 1969 has been put up for sale, a real estate agent said Sunday. Known unofficially as “the […]
Postscript: curious still seek out the sites of the Manson family killings
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 6 – It has been 19 years now, but people still come around once in a while to stare, take snapshots, ask questions. They haven’t forgotten the Tate-LaBianca murders, or the other Manson family killings, or the […]
High-Security Female Prison Unit is Closed at Lexington
CHARLESTON, W. Va., Aug. 25 — Would-be presidential assassin Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme and several other prisoners have been transferred in a major shuffling of female in-mates at federal prisons, officials said yesterday. Among the most affected was the federal prison […]
Authorities Move Fromme to Kentucky
CHARLESTON, W.Va., Jun. 5 — Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, the Charles Manson follower serving a life term for trying to kill then-President Gerald Ford, has been transferred from a prison where she escaped last year to one in Kentucky with better […]
Fromme Given a ‘Standby Counsel’
BLUEFIELD, W.Va., Jan. 16 — A public defender was named Friday as “standby counsel” for Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, who is facing trial for fleeing a prison where she is serving a life term for trying to kill former President Gerald […]
The Stuff of Crime: Evidence Piles Up in Police Property Division Warehouses
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 10 — They had seen it all, they thought: evidence from jewelry heists, blood-stained clothing and hold-up guns, narcotics and urine samples. Into the Los Angeles Police Department’s massive property division had come hara-kiri knives and ransom […]
Grand jury Indicts Fromme in Prison Escape
CHARLESTON, W.Va., Jan. 6 — A federal grand jury handed up an escape indictment Tuesday against Charles Manson follower Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, serving a life sentence for trying to kill President Gerald Ford. Fromme will be arraigned Jan. 14 in […]
Manson Follower in Vermont During Fromme’s Escape
CHARLESTON, W.Va, Dec. 31 — Manson family member Sandra Good was in Vermont when former roommate and prison cellmate Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme broke out of prison and remained at large for two days, a U.S. Justice Department spokesman said yesterday. […]
Fromme Recaptured
ALDERSON, W.Va., Dec. 26 — Manson disciple Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, sentenced to life for trying to shoot President Ford, was recaptured Friday near the prison she escaped two days earlier, authorities said. “There is a Santa Claus after all,” Ron […]
Hunt Widens For Fromme; Jurist Alerted
ALDERSON, W.Va., Dec. 25 – Federal agents issued a national alert for West Virginia prison escapee Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme on Thursday while the U.S. marshal’s office offered protection in Sacramento to a judge who sentenced her for the attempted assassination […]
‘Squeaky’ Fromme Disappears
ALDERSON, W.Va., Dec. 24 — Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, serving a life sentence for the attempted assassination of President Gerald Ford, apparently escaped from prison Wednesday night, officials said. Fromme, 39, was discovered missing from the Alderson Federal Prison for Women […]
Manson Follower Bobby Beausoleil Denied Parole For Ninth Time
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Dec. 10 — Parole officials denied a ninth bid for freedom from a 40-year-old inmate who has spent 17 years in prison after admitting his role in the first of a string of murders linked to Charles […]
Victim of Crime Also Knows the Needs of a Journalist
By PAUL ROILY LOGAN, UTAH, Oct. 26 — Perhaps the germ was born 18 years ago in Cory LaBianca, when her father and stepmother were brutally murdered by members of the Manson Family in Orange California, and their deaths became […]
Manson Associate Davis Denied Parole
SAN LUIS OBISPO, May 15 – A member of cult leader Charles Manson’s murderous “family” was denied parole for the seventh time, but the parole board told him he’s close to getting a release date. Bruce Davis, 44, who appeared […]
Ex-Manson Cultists Lead in Prison Chapel
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Mar. 22 — Charles “Tex” Watson, former disciple of Charles Manson, has become the senior inmate serving in the Protestant chapel of the California Men’s Colony in San Luis Obispo, acting as its minister, counseling inmates and […]
