A California panel has denied parole for a follower of cult leader Charles Manson convicted of slayings more than a half-century ago. 9News
dispatched a group of disaffected young followers on a two-night killing rampage that terrorised Los Angeles.arrived at the Hollywood Hills home of Sharon Tate on August 8, 1969, where they stabbed, beat and shot to death the young actress and her friends — celebrity hairstylist Jay Sebring, coffee heiress Abigail Folger and aspiring screenwriter Wojciech Frykowski.
— Charles Manson was a petty criminal who had been in and out of jail since childhood when he reinvented himself in the late 1960s as a guru-philosopher who targeted teenage runaways and other lost souls, particularly attractive young women he used and bartered to others for sex. Decades after his conviction, Manson would continue to taunt prosecutors, parole agents and others, sometimes denying any role in the killings and other times boasting of them, as when he told a 2012 parole hearing: "I have put five people in the grave. I am a very dangerous man."— Susan Atkins, convicted of the Tate, LaBianca and Hinman murders, was a teenage runaway working as a topless dancer in a San Francisco bar when she met Manson in 1967.
Van Houten met Manson at an old movie ranch on the outskirts of Los Angeles where he had established his so-called "family" of followers. Leslie Van Houten, former Charles Manson follower, looks from the window of a sheriff's van in Los Angeles, July 21, 1978 as she left the county court house following her court appearance for sentencing. The judge approved the addition of a second attorney for Ms. Van Houten, and delayed sentencing until August 10 when attorneys will seek a reduction of her first degree conviction to second degree murder.
She testified at a 2016 parole hearing that she repeatedly stabbed Folger, then stabbed Leno LaBianca in the abdomen the following night and wrote "Helter Skelter," ''Rise" and "Death to Pigs" on the walls with his blood.— Charles "Tex" Watson was a college dropout from Texas when he arrived in California in 1967 seeking "satisfaction through drugs, sex and rock 'n' roll," as he explains on his website.
Tate's husband, director Roman Polanski, was out of the country the night of the killings and has said it took him years to recover from the grief of losing his wife and baby. — Steven Parent, a recent high school graduate planning to attend college in the fall, had dropped by a guest house on the property to visit the estate's 19-year-old caretaker, a casual acquaintance named William Garretson. He was leaving the property when Watson confronted him at the front gate and shot him to death.
Their home was chosen at random by Manson, who tied them up and then, before leaving, ordered his followers to kill them. Among the weapons used was a chrome-plated bayonet.— Vincent Bugliosi was an ambitious but anonymous deputy district attorney when he was handed the Manson family murder trial after a more experienced prosecutor was removed for mocking one of the defendants to reporters.
— Stephen Kay was a 27-year-old deputy district attorney when he joined the prosecution team two months into the trial.
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