murdered eight people during two home invasions: six at the home of actress Sharon Tate and the director Roman Polanski, and two at the home of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca. Manson believed the killings would trigger a race war, and his followers—using the victims’ blood—left behind graffiti...
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The crimes committed by Manson and some of the family were so horrific that many believe it is unlikely that any of them will ever walk out of prison. Sharon Tate's sister Debra Tate, is not as convinced and has spent years attending parole hearings as a representative of the victims,...
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 ...
The next night she remained in a car outside the LaBianca house as Manson tied up the victims, then left with him as the others stayed to kill them. The 20-year-old moved in with the “family” a few weeks before the killings and fled immediately after. ...
2. ...but there may have been as many as 35 victims of the Manson Family. Two members of the Manson Family, Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme and Ruth Ann Morehouse being led back to jail after being arraigned. The pair frequently interrupted Charles Manson's trial. ...
from reports saying there were hoods (as opposed to pillow cases) over the victims' heads, or that Tate and Sebring had x's carved in their bodies, or were sexually mutilated. Tate was at one point called "a dabbler in satanic arts," and the macabre aspects of her ...
Even the acting out of the victims was shot as if being filmed by a mobile phone camera! This film has no redeeming features at all.There is much written about these people and the heinous crimes, it's a disservice to viewers not to tell it well, with good script, production and some...
In 1971, Los Angeles prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi used his "Helter Skelter" theory to successfully convict Manson and several of his female compatriots of seven murders: the Tate-LaBianca murders that shocked America and the world (the victims included heavily-pregnant movie star Sharon Tate). ...
" hetold theLos Angeles Timesin 2009. "It's not the brutality—they were extremely brutal murders, but like you say, there have been more brutal murders. Not the prominence of the victims. Another reason—the very name 'Manson' has become a metaphor for evil, and evil has its allure...