VACAVILLE, Aug. 6 — Former cult leader Charles Manson has emerged from a decade of solitary confinement to work as a gardener and maintenance man at the Protestant chapel in Vacaville State Prison. “It’s taken 10 years to get a […]
A Baltimore Psychiatrist Examines Manson’s Women
The Manson Women … By Clara Livsey, M.D. 244 pages. Richard Marek. $10.95. In August of 1969, a group of groupies, primarily female, who had formed an unrelated “family” around a semi-literate petty criminal named Charles Manson, stabbed, slashed and […]
Vincent Bugliosi – Manson Case Prosecutor Turns Defense Lawyer
CHICAGO, Jun. 4 — Vincent T. Bugliosi, the former deputy Los Angeles County district attorney who prosecuted the Charles Manson family, is now on the other side of the courtroom. “I’d like to try to establish myself as the leading […]
No Parole for Manson Follower
FRONTERA, Jan. 18 — Former “Manson girl” Leslie Van Houten was denied parole Thursday because the murders she committed showed a “complete disregard for human suffering and life,” the panel chairman said. The decision means that Van Houten, 30, who […]
Informant To Tie Defendant To Bank Holdups
SACRAMENTO, Jan. 17 – A former County Jail inmate is scheduled to testify today that a parolee with ties to suspected associates of the Symbionese Liberation Army confided his involvement in at least four large bank robberies. A burglary charge […]
Man, Woman Get Prison Terms After Series Of Area Robberies
SACRAMENTO, Jan. 16 – Superior Court Judge William H. Lally sentenced Priscilla Cooper, 28, and Joseph Garcia, 54, to terms in state prison Tuesday for a series of Sacramento area robberies committed during two weeks in August. Cooper received seven […]
Heroin in the Family Drove Actress From Film Career
Dec. 23 – Veteran character actress, Angela Lansbury, has revealed why she quit Hollywood for most of the last decade — her two children had become addicted to heroin and one was in danger of joining the Charles Manson cult […]
Manson Skips Parole Hearing
VACAVILLE, Calif, Nov. 28 — Mass murderer Charles Manson, now in the tenth year of eight concurrent life sentences in the Sharon Tate killings, refused to appear before a parole board, insisting he “was treated as a fool” after his […]
Manson Link ‘Exaggerated’
EUREKA, Oct. 20 — Reports of ties between a southern Humboldt County commune farm and both the Manson family and Symbionese liberation Army were exaggerated, but a gang of criminals with links to several radical movements in California has used […]
Jail Escapee Nabbed as Poacher
SEATTLE, Oct. 18 — Loaded with camping gear and an Army manual on how to escape capture, David Warriner, the last of seven men who escaped from King County Jail, was captured as a poacher Tuesday night. Washington Fish and […]
SLA, Manson Linked to Escape
SEATTLE, Oct. 18 — Law enforcement officials insist that radicals connected to the Symbionese Liberation Army, the Charles Manson family and other California militant groups were behind a bloody, ill-fated mass escape from the King County Jail. One of the […]
The Manson Family at it Again?
LONG BEACH, Calif., Oct. 15 — Scattered remnants of Charlie Manson’s family are on a crime spree aimed at freeing the hippie leader and other members of his violence-prone cult from prison, local and federal law enforcement agents have told […]
One-time Cultist Sought for Fraud in Roseville Office
ROSEVILLE, Calif., Oct. 11 – A former member of the Charles Manson family has been charged with operating a fraudulent business scheme at a rented office in Roseville’s Old Town. Catherine Louise “Gypsy” Como, a one-time follower of cult leader […]
FBI Claims No Knowledge of Plot to Free Manson
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 8 — The FBI says it “has no knowledge” to back up a newspaper report that two terrorist cults have joined forces in a mission to free Charles Manson and jailed members of his “family” and the […]
Manson Case Informant Dies After Beating
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 5 – Ronnie Howard, one of two informants credited with tying the Charles Manson “family” to the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders, has died from injuries received in a robbery and beating, Los Angeles police reported Thursday. Police said […]
Watson to Marry Friday at CMC
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Sept. 4 – Charles “Tex” Watson, convicted of murdering actress Sharon Tate and six others during the brutal Manson family Tate-LaBianca slayings in Los Angeles, will be married Friday at the California Men’s Colony. Watson, 33, who […]
Former Manson Follower Indicted On US Charges In Mail Fraud Probe
Aug. 16 – Former Manson family follower Catherine “Gypsy” Como was indicted in absentia by the federal grand jury Wednesday on six counts of mail fraud, interstate transportation of stolen property and fraudulent use of a credit card. Authorities said […]
Decade Later, Manson is Still Mystery Man
VACAVILLE, Jul. 29 – When inmates pull a knife on a San Quentin guard, or torch tiers at Folsom, or emerge as transvestites at Soledad, the California Department of Corrections sends them to Vacaville. Backed up against the Vaca Mountains […]
Manson Follower ‘Tex’ Watson to Marry
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Jul. 26 — Charles “Tex” Watson, the convicted murderer who once called himself Charles Manson’s “lieutenant for killing,” will marry a woman he met at a prison chapel where he preaches. Watson will marry Kristine Svege, who […]
Lansbury Returns to Stage
NEW YORK, Jul. 7 – Anthony Shaw, the 26-year-old son of Angela Lansbury and husband-agent Peter Shaw, arrived in New York for a reunion with his parents and his 24-year-old sister Deidre. And a joyous reunion it will be. “I […]
