He is one of America's most notorious criminals, the charismatic mastermind behind a series of gruesome murders that shocked the world. Former cult leader Charles Manson, whohas died aged 83, gained followers known as the "Manson Family" who killed nine people in California during the summer o...
Who Was Charles Manson? Creating the Manson Family Manson Murders Investigation and Trial Helter Skelter and the Verdict The Manson Aftermath The Manson Murders Police guard the estate of movie director Roman Polanski after his wife, actress Sharon Tate, and four others were killed by the Manson ...
During a break in the Manson Family trial, Manson defense attorney Ronald Hughes, left, goes on a camping trip -- and never returns. His body is found months later. In "Helter Skelter," Bugliosi espouses the theory that Hughes was killed by members of the Manson Family: "the first of ...
In July 1969, Manson ordered the Family to carry out the murder of an acquaintance, Gary Hinman, who Manson claimed in later interviews owed him money. The family members wrote "Political piggy" on the wall in Hinman's blood and a panther paw, seemingly to blame the murder on the Black...
Atkins, now 57, was one of cult leader Manson’s “family” of young killers who burst into a Benedict Canyon home 36 years ago and killed Tate and four others. The following night, they stabbed to death a wealthy couple in their Los Angeles home. ...
A fire patrolman reported thatFamily members had told himthey'd moved into the canyons because they'd "killed a member of the Black Panthers." [Fireman Lynn Seeley, Spahn Ranch Raid docs, pg11of54] pg206 ...Leslie toldDianne(Lake) that she had stabbed someone who was already dead. ....
Manson Family Because God, the Devil, and humanity are all one, Charles Manson reasoned, it really doesn’t matter if you kill someone. Trouble came looking for Charles Manson on the day he was born. His unwed mother was a teenaged hustler named Kathleen Maddox, who shortly after Charlie’...
and later overheard Susan Atkins tell Ruth Ann Moorehouse that she had killed Sharon Tate. Hoyt, along with Sherry Cooper, another Family member, attempted to flee the ranch in Death Valley, but were unsuccessful. Concerned about her testimony at trial, the Family sent Hoyt to Hawaii with oth...
July 1969 -Hinman is killed by Manson follower Bobby Beausoleil, accompanied by Manson Family members Mary Brunner and Susan Atkins. The murder is committed at the behest of Manson. August 8-9, 1969 -At Manson’s command, a small group of his followers brutally murder five people at the B...
November 6, 1969 -Manson Family member Atkins, already charged in the murder of Hinman, tells inmate Virginia Castro that she killed Tate, “Because we wanted to do a crime that would shock the world, that the world would have to stand up and take notice.” November 12, 1969 -LA Sherif...