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First-degree murder. Criminal penalty. Death, commuted to life imprisonment. Date apprehended. August 6, 1969. Robert Kenneth Beausoleil (born November 6, 1947) is an American murderer and associate of Charles Manson and members of his communal Manson Family. He was convicted and sentenced to death for the July 27, 1969, fatal stabbing of Gary ...
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Undetermined. The Tate–LaBianca murders were a series of murders perpetrated by members of the Manson Family during August 9–10, 1969, in Los Angeles, California, United States, under the direction of Tex Watson and Charles Manson. The perpetrators killed five people on the night of August 8–9: pregnant actress Sharon Tate and her ...
- Linda Kasabian
- Mary Brunner
- Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme
- Susan Atkins
- Leslie Van Houten
- Patricia Krenwinkel
- Tex Watson
- Bobby Beausoleil
After two failed marriages and the birth of her daughter Tanya, Kasabian joined Manson's commune at Spahn Ranch in July 1969. During the Tate-LaBianca murders, Kasabian waited outside. The prosecutor called her a "star witness," and she was granted immunity in exchange for her testimony. At trial, she told jurors Manson's women did "anything and ev...
Mary met Manson in 1967, and is often regarded as his first follower. On April 15, 1968, Mary gave birth to Manson's son, who she named Valentine. Brunner was charged for the murder of Gary Hinman, but later received immunity as she testified against fellow Manson followers Bobby Beausoleil and Susan Atkins. However, in 1971, Brunner assisted other...
While many of the members were on trial and testifying, Fromme and other Manson family members camped outside and spouted their devotion to Manson at passers-by and the media. Fromme was never linked to the Tate-LaBianca murders, but she was eventually charged and convicted for the 1975 attempted assassination of President Gerald R. Ford. She was c...
Atkins was known as "Sexy Sadie" on Spahn Ranch, an abandoned movie set used as the group's commune. She was sentenced to death, but the sentence was commuted to life in prison after the state changed its death penalty laws in February 1972. Atkins was denied parole 13 times before dying in prison from brain cancer on Sept. 24, 2009, at age 61, CNN...
Former homecoming princess Van Houten was charged with two counts of first-degree murder and one count of conspiracy to commit murder. She was granted a retrial in 1976 because her lawyer disappeared during her initial trial. She was found guilty and began her sentence at the California Institute for Women in Corona in 1978. After 53 years behind b...
Krenwinkel was convicted of seven counts of first-degree murder in 1971 and became the state's longest-serving female inmate after the death of Atkins, according to the Los Angeles Times. In May 2022, the California State Board of Parole Hearings recommended Krenwinkel's release. However, on Oct. 21, 2022, California Gov. Gavin Newsom blocked her p...
Convicted of seven counts of murder, Watson was sentenced to life in prison in 1971. However, after the California Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty was unconstitutional in 1972, his sentence was commuted to life in prison. During his sentence, he married, divorced and became a father of four while incarcerated. He also earned a degree in ...
Beausoleil was convicted in 1970 of the first-degree murder of Gary Hinman, the first murder committed by Manson's follower that set the precedent for the "Helter Skelter" killing spree. He has been denied parole review nearly 20 times; in 2019, the California Board of Parole commissioners recommended that he be released on parole, which was denied...
Jan 31, 2021 · Manson and his followers carried out a series of gruesome murders in Los Angeles in 1969. Davis, now 78 years old, was sentenced to life in prison in 1972 for the killings of Hinman and Donald ...
The Charles Manson (Tate-LaBianca Murder) Trial. In the annals of crime, there might never have been a more bizarre motive for killing than that revealed in the 1970-71 trial of four Manson "Family" members. In the twisted mind of thirty-four-year-old Charles Manson, a wave of bloody killings of high-society types in Los Angeles would be the ...
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Jun 9, 2015 · Late on Monday, just a week shy of the trial’s 45-year anniversary, we learned that Vincent Bugliosi—the prosecutor who made his name putting Manson and his followers in prison—passed away ...
