They were later sentenced to death, but those sentences were changed to life in prison after California temporarily banned the death penalty in Later that year, Watson was convicted of the Tate murders, and Manson was also convicted of the murders of Gary Hinman and Donald Shea, a Hollywood stuntman who was killed at Spahn Ranch in late August of The lead prosecutor, Vincent Bugliosi, wrote a bestseller , and died in Linda Kasabian was granted immunity for giving testimony.
Watson, Beausoleil and Van Houten are still alive and in prison. And there are several other Manson family members who were not involved in the Tate-LaBianca murders, but have talked to the press and done documentaries about life on the ranch, including the upcoming one Day is executive producing, Manson: The Women.
So with all that time talking to Charles Manson, what does Day believe actually happened? Write to Olivia B. Waxman at olivia. Charles Manson is escorted to court for a preliminary hearing on Dec. Gary Hinman knew Beausoleil and Atkins.
He willingly let them in. Both Atkins and Beausoleil were drugged and unstable. When they approached Hinman to join their family, he again declined. The conversation turned to money, and Hinman put his foot down. It turned ugly. The Manson Family members took Hinman hostage and began torturing him. Manson told Atkins and Beausoleil to keep Hinman tied up till he got there. Hinman still refused to give in. Bobby Beausoleil took that as a clear signal and authorization from his leader—Charles Manson—to kill Gary Hinman.
Beausoleil was drugged, fatigued and not thinking straight. His clothes were bloody and so was the murder weapon still in the trunk. He was concerned—really concerned—that Bobby Beausoleil would crack, squeal and implicate Charles Manson as a murder accomplice. Charles Manson calculated that if similar murders occurred with a modus operandi MO like what Beausoleil did to Hinman, then the police would have to conclude the real killers were still out there.
He knew he could convince his most-trusted lieutenants who accepted his Helter Skelter prophesies. Manson gathered them and said it was now time to start Helter Skelter. He said nothing about covering up the botched Gary Hinman murder.
The first place Manson targeted was Cielo Drive. Manson knew Terry Melcher moved out. In fact, Manson came face-to-face with Sharon Tate when he went looking for Melcher one day. One was he knew that celebrity murders would get a lot of attention. Secondly, Manson was familiar with the layout.
Manson also directed them to make the scene look like a Black Panther attack by writing bloody messages on the walls.
He implicitly said this was the start of Helter Skelter and it was their privilege to carry it out. The drug-fueled cult members bought every word of it. He picked the LaBianca home simply because he knew the layout and that they were wealthy.
Once Manson located the home, he left and the Manson Family cult members went in for the kill. It took a while for the police to connect the Tate and LaBianca murders and find evidence linking the Manson cult to the crimes.
Even when the police raided the Spahn Ranch and arrested Manson and his remaining followers on car theft suspicion, they failed to make any connection to the August murder spree. Only Charles Manson knew his real motive for his cult killings. It makes sense when you think about it. He was a shrewd little con-man and a calculating criminal. His entire MO was using people to commit criminal acts, and his cult following—which was supposed to be a Beatles-like fan club—got carried away into one of the most notorious murder cases in history.
It was all about covering up a crime gone bad. I have always believed that Helter Skelter was something he told his followers to help control them but never believed it himself. My theory for his reasons for ordering the murders at Cielo Drive os because he was furious at being denied his music career and that house, even though he knew Terry Melcher no longer lived there, represented that. In his hate-filled psyche, all of them represented the wealthy elite that he felt were equally responsible for his lack of success so they were fair game for being brutally murdered.
I also find it highly unlikely that Frykowski or Sebring ever dealt drugs to Manson or his followers. If they did sell drugs, it would have been to other wealthy people in the entertainment industry. My interest started about Manson upon reading Helter-Skelter around He and Tex had been on the property quite a few times from my readings….. Tex knew what lines to cut,and possibly knew what window was open. Manson knew that Ms. Tate and the other celeb types would really cause a sensation and fear in Hollywood and in LA.
How did Tex know that there would be anyone home?? She was mercilessly stabbed in the stomach by Atkins. Kasabian told of Atkins's chilling words to Tate before she stabbed her: "Look, bitch, I have no mercy for you. You're going to die, and you'd better get used to it. Atkins then used Tate's blood to write the word "pig" on the front door. However, instead of this brutal massacre sating the pathological Manson, he criticized the murderers for being sloppy.
Ironically, Manson and his Family were arrested not on suspicion of the Tate-LaBianca murders, but simply on the belief that they had vandalized a portion of the Death Valley National Park while they were hiding out in the Mojave Desert.
In , the county sheriff had taken them into custody, not realizing that they were involved in the heinous murders. But it was through the confession of Susan Atkins, while held in detention on suspicion of murdering Gary Hinman during an unrelated incident, that led detectives to realize that Manson and his followers were involved in the killings.
Various motivations were examined during the course of the trial. The most feasible was that Manson's pathological ego, insanity and belief in Armageddon were influences that led him to leave behind a trail of destruction.
Manson believed that he was the new Messiah, and that after a "nuclear attack" he and his followers would be saved by hiding in a secret world under the desert. His prophetic visions included a belief that the race war would result in a Black victory, and Manson along with his Family members would have to mentor the Black community, as they would lack experience to run the planet.
As Manson and the Family were to be the beneficiaries of the race war, he told his followers that they had to help initiate it. According to defense witness and killer Van Houten, this was the primary reason why they murdered the LaBiancas.
Manson had taken the wallet of murdered Rosemary LaBianca with the intention that he would deposit it in a section of L. Later in court, Van Houten, who was just 19 when she took part in the LaBianca killings, alleged that Manson had taken advantage of her vulnerability and dislike for her mother, although she believed, like the other members, that he was a man of vision. Thirty years later, during a parole board hearing, Van Houten said she was horrified by what she had done that night and desperately wanted to redeem herself.
She was denied parole in and again in Susan Atkins admitted in initial confessions to fellow prisoners that she had wanted to cut out Tate's unborn baby but didn't have the time. She also revealed that other grisly and macabre acts were to be perpetrated against the victims and that a list of other high-profile Hollywood stars were on a list to be killed and mutilated.
When asked why they wanted to kill celebrities, Atkins replied that the Manson Family wanted to commit murders that would shock the world and make people take notice. Hughes soon dropped Manson as a client, reportedly because he felt he could convince the jury that Van Houten had been unduly influenced by the Family leader. The move may have cost him his life: Late in the year, Hughes went camping and disappeared, and his decomposed body turned up several months later.
It is thought that he was the victim of a retaliation killing by members of Manson's Family. During the trial, Manson released an album titled Lie in an effort to raise money for his defense.
He reveled in the media attention, and during court proceedings he turned up with an X carved into his forehead. Some of his female followers copied the act and shaved their heads, sometimes sitting outside the courthouse. The X was gradually modified until it turned into a swastika. Throughout the trial, the killers often giggled and exchanged grimaces with Manson, showing no remorse for their crimes. In his early 20s, he married twice and fathered a son. Manson was considered so thoroughly institutionalized by authorities that upon his release from a California prison, he asked the warden if he could stay.
Instead, Manson migrated to Berkeley and then San Francisco, cities that became flooded with young people looking to embark on a new way of life.
An older figure among the crowd, he amassed a small group of followers almost entirely women and, in , headed along with several female followers to Los Angeles to pursue a music career, having learned to play the guitar in prison. Through Wilson, Manson met other music-industry players and grew increasingly fixated on stardom, all the while exercising greater and greater control over the group that came to be known as the Manson Family.
After the Family members behind the August murders were apprehended, Manson was put on trial for murder along with them.
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