Charles Manson's followers carried out murders on his orders. The terrible charisma of Charles Manson Manson's music was a macabre sidenote. Image source, AFP.
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Published 20 November Published 23 July Atkins was diagnosed with brain cancer in and appealed to prison and parole officials for compassionate release, but the state parole board denied the request. He has been living in exile in Europe for the last four decades and is considered a fugitive by the U. Fromme escaped from a federal prison in West Virginia in and was captured two days later while roaming the countryside about two miles away.
She continued to correspond with Manson while she was in prison, officials said. Both murders occurred before the Tate-LaBianca killings, in which Davis did not participate.
Davis has been denied parole 30 times. A California parole panel again recommended his release in and Brown again rejected parole for him, according to the Associated Press. Davis is serving a life sentence after he was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder and robbery. He became a born-again Christian behind bars, earned a doctoral degree in philosophy of religion, and ministers to other inmates.
Kasabian ended up with the Manson group after she left an unhappy marriage when she was There she became romantically involved with Watson and a devoted member of the family until she fled shortly after the LaBianca murders.
He later had his sentence commuted to life in prison, where he joined the Aryan Brotherhood gang and suffered a broken jaw and other injuries in various fights. He was then moved to the California Medical Facility in Vacaville in Beausoleil, now 71, has been denied parole at least 18 times.
Newsom reversed a parole recommendation to free Beausoleil in Matt Hamilton is a reporter for the Los Angeles Times. He won the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting with colleagues Harriet Ryan and Paul Pringle and was part of the team of reporters that won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the San Bernardino terrorist attack.
All Sections. About Us. B2B Publishing. Business Visionaries. Hot Property. Times Events. Times Store. In , Grogan was convicted of first degree murder for the crime. Grogan was initially sentenced to death but his sentence was commuted to life in prison. In the mids, while doing time at Vacaville State Prison, Grogan got married and fathered two sons.
He eventually helped authorities recover Shea's remains and in , he was paroled — making him one of the few Manson followers to be released from prison. Grogan has reportedly had no run-ins with the law since his release and lives in the Northern California Bay Area where he plays music with various bands.
Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme was born in Santa Monica. Her dad was an aeronautical engineer and her mom was a housewife. As a child, she was a member of a popular dance troupe. When Fromme was in high school, her family moved to Redondo Beach, where Fromme began experimenting with drugs. She graduated high school and briefly enrolled in college.
She dropped out after approximately two months. After a falling out with her family, she became homeless. The ranch's owner, George Spahn, began calling her "Squeaky" due to the noises she supposedly made when touched. Fromme did not participate in any of the Manson murders but she remained devoted to the Family after their arrest. She lingered outside the courthouse and carved an "X" in her forehead, just as her accused companions did.
After the trials, Fromme moved to Sacramento, where she avoided yet another murder conviction. She and four others were arrested for the murders of James and Lauren Willett. The other four, including Aryan Brotherhood members Michael Monfort and James Craig, confessed and Fromme was the only one of them to avoid charges. Fromme finally found herself behind bars in the mid-'70s.
On Sept. She was quickly disarmed by Secret Service agent Larry Buendorf and arrested. Although the gun did not have a round in the chamber and her lawyers argued that she had no intention of killing Ford, she was convicted of the attempted assassination of the president and sentenced to life in prison.
Unlike her more murderous family members, she was not a model prisoner. She also remained devoted to him, even after his other followers had renounced him. Linda Kasabian grew up in New England, dropped out of high school and drifted around the country. She married twice and had a baby girl, Tanya, with her second husband, Robert Kasabian. It was Robert who would lead Linda to Los Angeles, inviting her to come live with him following a brief split during which she had gone to live with her mother in New Hampshire.
Together, she and Robert lived in the hippie communes of Topanga Canyon. After Robert left Linda behind to go on a trip to South America, she became friends with Catherine Share, who invited her to join the commune on Spahn Ranch. Kasabian quickly became a part of the group and often accompanied the Manson family members on what Manson called "creepy crawls," in which they would break into homes and loot them while their owners slept.
Because Kasabian was the only family member with a driver's license, that became her role in the killings. She overheard the slaughter going on in the house on Cielo Drive and said she got out of the car and began running toward the house, hoping she could stop them.
She testified she saw Wojciech Frykowski exit the house. Please make it stop. And then [Atkins] came running out of the house, and I said, 'Sadie, please make it stop.
While this was going on, the man had gotten up, and I saw Tex on top of him, hitting him on the head and stabbing him, and the man was struggling, and then I saw [Krenwinkel] in the background with [Abigail Folger], chasing after her with an upraised knife, and I just turned and ran to the car down at the bottom of the hill," Kasabian said.
Note: Sadie was Susan Atkins' nickname in the Manson family. The next night, Kasabian accompanied group members to the LaBianca home but did not go inside. Manson then asked Kasabian to take the rest of them to the home of Saladin Nader, an actor Kasabian and Manson member Sandra Good had recently met.
Kasabian was supposed to knock on the door of Nader's house and, when he answered, Atkins and Grogan were to kill him. However, Kasabian instead went to the wrong apartment. They did not kill the occupant of that apartment. Two days later, Kasabian and her daughter left the Manson family and returned to New Hampshire. Kasabian later turned herself in and agreed to testify against the others in exchange for immunity, becoming the prosecution's key witness. Bugliosi believed that Kasabian would have testified even without immunity.
I doubt we would have convicted Manson without her. Kasabian has since tried to live a quiet life with her children. When she has appeared in her rare interviews, she has used a disguise. She is Mary Brunner was an early Manson devotee, and the mother of one of his sons. She grew up in Wisconsin, but met Manson in Berkeley, where she worked as a library assistant at the University of California.
It was a chance encounter that occurred while taking her dog for a walk. The pair hit if off and Manson moved into her apartment.
He would later convince her to allow other women to move in, a portent for the "family" he intended to build.
The couple had a son, Valentine Michael , in Brunner ended up settling with Manson and the rest of his followers at Spahn Ranch.
Brunner accompanied Beausoleil and Atkins to the home of Hinman but was not convicted of his murder. Instead, she received immunity for testifying against the others. Brunner was arrested in after participating in the heist of a Hawthorne surplus store with several other followers, including Catherine Share.
She was released in , changed her name and has since gone on to live a quiet, reclusive life, reportedly in the Midwest. Brunner and Manson's son was raised by his maternal grandparents.
According to Bugliosi's Helter Skelter :. Until the third grade, he did not know who his father was and believed his mother to be his older sister. In , Michael told a reporter who tracked him down that he had never visited Manson "nor do I have any desire to see him. He's just some evil person I have nothing to do with.
She remained loyal to Manson for many years. In , she and follower Susan Murphy were arrested for sending nearly hostile letters to various corporate executives. According to Helter Skelter , the letters "threatened named corporate executives and U. After she was released in , she continued her infatuation with Manson. Because she was not allowed to return to California as a condition of her parole, she instead moved to Vermont where she took an assumed name.
When her parole ended, she uprooted her life and move to Hanford, California to be closer to Manson, despite being denied visiting privileges. At least until , Good was still a loyal supporter, calling into talk shows to claim Manson's innocence. It is not clear where Good lives now. Paul Watkins was a drifter who met Charles Manson at a house in Topanga Canyon in the spring of Watkins would testify that on New Year's Eve of that year, Manson gathered the family together to tell them about Helter Skelter.
Watkins did not maintain his devotion to Manson as much as the others and did not participate in any of the murders. Watkins was, however, key in testifying to the impetus for the Manson Family's crimes, and told investigators about Helter Skelter.
You can read his testimony here. Watkins continued to renounce Manson after the trial. He settled in Tecopa, near Death Valley. He founded the Death Valley Chamber of Commerce, married twice and had two children.
One of his daughters, author Claire Vaye Watkins, has written about the impact her father's legacy had on her life. Watkins died in of leukemia, when Claire was a child. Support for LAist comes from. Become a sponsor. LAist logo. We Explain L. The Brief.
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Please power our reporters and help keep us independent with a donation today. Monthly Donation One-Time Donation. Sharon Tate, left, and at right, her body being taken from her rented house in Bel Air on Aug. Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, left, in an undated photo outside the home where the were murdered.
At right, the home the day after the couple's bodies were discovered. Coroner Thomas Noguchi, facing camera center, directs the removal of the body of Abigail Folger, on Aug.
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