SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif., Oct. 26 — Manson family killer Charles “Tex” Watson, who claims he was “born again” and found Christ while in prison, runs a ministry business on the outside. The former lieutenant to sex and dope cult […]
Manson Cultist Denied Parole
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Oct. 23 — Charles “Tex” Watson failed for a fourth time to convince parole officials he was no longer the dangerous man who led Manson cultists in the slayings of seven people in 1969. The 35-year-old prisoner […]
Ex-Follower Of Manson Receives 3-Year Term
SACRAMENTO, Oct. 20 – Former Manson family follower Catherine Louise Como, 39, was sentenced by a Sacramento Superior Court judge to three years in prison Monday after she pleaded guilty to charges of receiving stolen property. The sentence by Judge […]
Ex-Manson Follower is Wounded in Ambush
LA PUENTE, Oct. 16 — Former Charles Manson follower Kenneth Como, 41, was ambushed and shot in the arm, just two days after he was released from prison, authorities said. Como, who served 10 years at Folsom Prison upon his […]
Ex-Manson Cultist Gets Folsom Parole
FOLSOM, Oct. 14 – Kenneth Como, a onetime disciple of mass-murderer Charles Manson, Tuesday was paroled from Folsom state prison where he had been serving a term for armed robbery and escape. Como, 41, left the prison with $200 in […]
Dismissal of $24-Million Libel Suit in Manson Case Upheld on Appeal
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 4 — A state appeals court has upheld the dismissal of a $24-million libel suit against a reporter who spent 46 days in jail for refusing to reveal his source for a story on the Manson Family […]
Novelist Says Curse Marks Mass Murderers
MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 30 – It really annoyed him, Vincent Bugliosi said, to watch Tom Snyder’s June interview with Charles Manson, knowing all the while that the mass murderer might be cashing in on his coast-to-coast appearance on NBC. The network […]
Man Found Guilty of Mail Threats
Sept. 23 – A California man received a three-month prison sentence as punishment yesterday after pleading no contest to a charge of mailing threatening letters to a federal prosecutor. But because the defendant, Herbert Darrell Hay, has been in federal […]
Susan Atkins Denied Parole
FRONTERA, Calif., Sept. 18 — Former Charles Manson disciple Susan Atkins Laisure, who this month married a self-professed Texas millionaire, has been denied parole for a fourth time. After a hearing Wednesday, the three-member California Board of Prison Terms denied […]
Ex-Manson Follower Susan Atkins Weds
FRONTERA, Calif., Sept. 3 — Mass murderess Susan Atkins, once a member of Charles Manson’s “family” of drug-driven killers, married a self-described Texas millionaire Wednesday in a private prison ceremony described as highly religious. Miss Atkins, 33, once sentenced to […]
Susan Atkins Delays Prison Wedding Plans
FRONTERA, Calif., Aug. 29 — Susan Atkins, the Manson family member serving a life term in prison for the Tate-LaBianca slayings, has postponed plans to marry a flamboyant Texas millionaire who vowed to gain her freedom. Sylvia Johnson, superintendent at […]
Bride No. 36 Steals His Love
GREENVILLE, Texas, Jun. 30 — Donald Lee Laisure is a marrying man. By his own count he has repeated the vows 35 times and profited from the experience. “I got (wealthy) by using my head. I looked for them (rich […]
$20 Million Libel Suit Dismissed
LOS ANGELES, Jun. 26 – A $20 million libel suit filed by Irving Kanarek, attorney for convicted mass murderer Charles Manson, against Manson’s prosecutor, Vincent T. Bugliosi and others, over statements in Bugliosi’s best selling book, “Helter Skelter,” was dismissed. […]
Manson Lashes Out in Interview
NEW YORK, Jun. 12 — Charles Manson, the convicted mass murderer, strikes out at the media and claims he is “nobody’s leader and I’m nobody’s follower” in an interview with Tom Snyder tonight on NBC’s “Tomorrow Coast to Coast” (12:30 […]
Manson Family Member Asks For New Hearing
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 29 — Manson Family member Leslie Van Houten Wednesday asked the California Supreme Court to overturn her murder conviction because the prosecution in her trial used gruesome photographs of crimes in which she did not participate. Miss […]
Manson Man: Inmate Accused of Threatening Berg to Undergo Tests
Jan. 16 – A 26-year-old man linked by California law officials to mass murderer Charles Manson’s notorious Family was ordered to undergo a psychiatric examination in federal court here yesterday. Moments earlier, he was granted permission to act as his […]
Leslie Van Houten Loses Her Appeal
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 16 — Convicted murderer Leslie Van Houten, due for a second parole hearing next month, lost another round in her attempt to get out of jail when a California appeals court refused to overturn her conviction in […]
Leslie Van Houten: ‘In Touch’ With the Guilt She’ll Always Feel
Dec. 14 – Leslie Van Houten, 31, and looking like a schoolgirl in jeans, plaid shirt, red V-necked sweater, short brown curls and bangs, reached for her pack of cigarettes, lit up and grinned: “I keep telling myself, ‘When this […]
Manson Says He’ll Be in Jail Forever
Click here to read Charles Manson’s November 4, 1980 Parole Hearing Transcript VACAVILLE, Nov. 10 — Eleven years after the shocking Tate-LaBianca killings, an aging but spirited Charles Manson — imprisoned for masterminding the mass murders — dreams of climbing […]
FBI Seeking for Motives in Psychology of Killers
QUANTICO, Va., Nov. 9 — The FBI has entered the world of psycholinguistics and interviews with notorious killers to help solve seemingly senseless crimes. The purpose of the studies by the Behavior Science Unit, which is housed in the basement […]
