On an abandoned bus in a gully, investigators discovered magazines from World War II, all containing articles about Hitler. Based on Ronnie Howard's account of Susan Atkin's jailhouse confession and interviews conducted with various Manson Family members, the LAPD eventually identified the five persons who participated in the actual Tate and LaBianca murders. Atkins remained in custody at Dormitory Van Houten was picked up for questioning in California.
Watson was arrested by a local sheriff in Texas. Patricia Krenwinkel was apprehended in Mobile, Alabama. Kasabian voluntarily surrendered to local police in Concord, New Hampshire. Knowing that convictions of at least some defendant would require testimony from one of those persons present at the murders, the D. Atkins appeared before the Grand Jury on December 5. She told the grand jury she was "in love with the reflection" of Charles Manson and that there was "no limit" to what she would do for him.
In an emotionless voice, she described the horrific events in the early morning hours of August 9 at the Tate residence. She told of Tate pleading for her life: "Please let me go. All I want to do is have my baby. Atkins said that on returning to Spahn Ranch she "felt dead.
When efforts to extradite Tex Watson from became bogged down in local Texas politics, the District Attorney's Office decided to proceed against the four persons indicted for the Tate-LaBianca murders who were in custody in California.
Manson's request to ask potential jurors "a few simple, childlike questions that are real to me in my reality" was denied. During the voir dire, Manson fixed his penetrating stare for hours, first on Judge Older and then one day on Prosecutor Bugliosi. After getting Manson's stare treatment, Bugliosi took advantage of a recess to slide his chair next to Manson and ask, "What are you trembling about Charlie?
Are you afraid of me? The jury knew it would be sequestered for a long time, but it didn't know how long. As it turned out, their sequestration would last days, longer than any previous jury in history.
Opening statements began on July Manson entered the courtroom sporting a freshly cut, bloody "X" on his forehead--signifying, he said in a statement, that "I have X'd myself from your world. Bugliosi, in his opening statement for the prosecution, indicated that his "principal witness" would be Linda Kasabian, a Manson Family member who accompanied the killers to both the Tate and LaBianca residences.
The prosecution turned to Kasabian, with a promise of prosecutorial immunity for her testimony, when Susan Atkins--probably in response to threats from Manson--announced that she would not testify at the trial. Bugliosi promised the jury that the evidence would show Manson had a motive for the murders that was "perhaps even more bizarre than the murders themselves.
She would remain on the stand for an astounding eighteen days, including seven days of cross-examination by Kanarek. Kasabian told the jury that no Family member ever refused an order from Charles Manson: "We always wanted to do anything and everything for him. Manson told you and Katie to check out the car and remove the blood?
Kasabian also offered her account of the night of the LaBianca murders. She testified that she didn't want to go, but went anyway "because Charlie asked me and I was afraid to say no. Kasabian proved a very credible witness, despite the best efforts during cross-examination of defense attorneys to make her appear a spaced-out hippie.
After admitting that she took LSD about fifty times, Kasabian was asked by Kanarek, "Describe what happened on trip number Testimony corroborating that of Kasabian came from several other prosecution witnesses, most notably the woman Atkins confided in at Dormitory , Virginia Graham. Other witnesses described receiving threats from Manson, evidence of Manson's total control over the lives of Family members, or conversations in which Manson had told of the coming Helter Skelter.
Nineteen-year-old Paul Watkins , Manson's foremost recruiter of young women, provided key testimony about the strange motive for the Tate-LaBianca murders--including its link to the Bible's Book of Revelation.
Watkins testified that Manson discussed Helter Skelter "constantly. So, in retaliation-this would scare; in other words, all the other white people would be afraid that this would happen to them, so out of their fear they would go into the ghetto and just start shooting black people like crazy.
But all they would shoot would be the garbage man and Uncle Toms, and all the ones that were with Whitey in the first place. And underneath it all, the Black Muslims would-he would know that it was coming down. So, after Whitey goes in the ghettoes and shoots all the Uncle Toms, then the Black Muslims come out and appeal to the people by saying, 'Look what you have done to my people.
This would split them in the middle and a big civil war would start and really split them up in all these different factions, and they would just kill each other off in the meantime through their war. And after they killed each other off, then there would be a few of them left who supposedly won. Then the Black Muslims would come out of hiding and wipe them all out. By sneaking around and slitting their throats. When we was [sic] in the desert the first time, Charlie used to walk around in the desert and say-you see, there are places where water would come up to the top of the ground and then it would go down and there wouldn't be no more water, and then it would come up again and go down again.
He would look at that and say, 'There has got to be a hole somewhere, somewhere here, a big old lake. Then we started from the 'Revolution 9' song on the Beatles album which was interpreted by Charlie to mean the Revelation 9. Then later on, I believe it is in It talks about there will be a city where there will be no sun and there will be no moon. That there would be a city of gold, but there would be no life, and there would be a tree there that bears twelve different kinds of fruit that changed every month.
And this was interpreted to mean-this was the hole down under Death Valley. That was in there, too. It was supposed to get back to the , people. The Family was to grow to this number.
See, it was all happening simultaneously. In other words, as we are making the music and it is drawing all the young love to the desert, the Family increases in ranks, and at the same time this sets off Helter Skelter. So then the Family finds the hole in the meantime and gets down in the hole and lives there until the whole thing comes down.
He is supposed to be the servant, see. He will clean up the mess that he made, that the white man made, and build the world back up a little bit, build the cities back up, but then he wouldn't know what to do with it, he couldn't handle it. It is all over. When the trial resumed three days later, the defense startled courtroom spectators and the prosecution by announcing, without calling a single witness, "The defense rests.
In chambers, attorneys for the women explained that although their clients wanted to testify, they were strongly opposed, believing that they would--still under the powerful influence of Manson--testify that they planned and committed the murders without Manson's help. Returning to the courtroom, Judge Older declared that the right to testify took precedence and said that the defendants could testify over the objections of their counsel. Atkins was then sworn as a witness, but her attorney, Daye Shinn, refused to question her.
Returning to chambers, one defense attorney complained that questioning their clients on the stand would be like "aiding and abetting a suicide. The next day came another surprise. Charles Manson announced that he, too, wished to testify--before his co-defendants did. He testified first without the jury being present, so that potentially excludable testimony relating to evidence incriminating co-defendants might be identified before it prejudiced the jury.
His over one-hour of testimony , full of digressions, fascinated observers:. You made your children what they are. You taught them.
I didn't teach them. I just tried to help them stand up. So I did the best I could and I took them up on my garbage dump and I told them this: that in love there is no wrong. I don't try to judge nobody. I know that the only person I can judge is me. But I know this: that in your hearts and your own souls, you are as much responsible for the Vietnam war as I am for killing these people.
I have no malice against you and no ribbons for you. But I think that it is high time that you all start looking at yourselves, and judging the lie that you live in.
And you can project it back at me. July Manson is transferred to San Quentin Prison In a televised interview with Geraldo Rivera, Manson warns, "I'm going to chop up more of you mfers. I'm going to kill as many of you as I can. I'm going to pile you up to the sky. March Manson is denied parole for the ninth time in a hearing broadcast live on Court TV.
Manson responds by saying, "That's cool I'm not saying I wasn't involved [in Helter Skelter]. I'm just saying that I did not break God's law Thank you. May 23, Manson is refused parole for the eleventh time. Manson, now 72, will next be up for parole in July 15, The parole board denies Susan Atkin's request, based on the fact that she has terminal brain cancer and only months to live, for a compassionate release.
Atkins will now almost certainly die in prison. September 24, Atkins dies. Her husband releases the following statement: "Susan passed away peacefully surrounded by friends and loved ones Her last whispered word was 'Amen.
To Top. Charles Manson is born in Cincinnati, the illegitimate son of a sixteen-year-old girl named Kathleen Maddox. Manson's mother, a heavy drinker, is sentenced to prison for armed robbery. Manson's mother tries to send Charles to a foster home. Manson commits his first known crime, the burglary of a grocery store. Manson escapes from the School for Boys and heads west in a stolen car, burglarizing 15 to 20 gas stations along the way. In his last act of criminal violence before the murders, Manson sodomizes a boy while holding a razor to his throat.
Manson marries Rosalie Willis, a waitress from Wheeling. In October, he is arrested for auto theft and sentenced to five years probation. Manson is sentenced to three years imprisonment at San Pedro, California for violating the terms of his probation.
Manson is divorced. Manson is arrested for forging a treasury check. In January, Manson marries again--this time, a nineteen-year-old. Manson is transferred to a federal penitentiary at McNeil Island, Washington. After fathering a second child, Charles Luther Manson, Manson is again divorced. Manson becomes obsessed by the music of the Beatles. Manson aspires to be a song writer, and devotes most of his spare time in prison to the task.
Manson asks prison officials to let him remain in prison, but having completed a ten-year prison term, he is released. Manson and a number of his followers, now called "The Family," move into Spahn ranch in southern California. The Beatles release their White Album, which proves to be a great influence Manson's thinking. Manson visits Cielo Drive the Tate residence looking for Terry Melcher, who he hoped might publish his music.
A music teacher named Gary Hinman is stabbed to death. Manson tells Family members, "Now is the time for Helter Skelter. Shortly after midnight, the brutal attack on residents at the Tate residence begins. Under a bush near his home, a ten-year-old boy finds the gun used in the Tate murders. Is that a conspiracy? The music speaks to you every day, but you are too deaf, dumb, and blind to even listen to the music.
It is not my conspiracy. It is not my music. I hear what it relates. It says "Rise," it says "Kill. I didn't write the music. Danny DeCarlo. But actually all I ever did with Danny DeCarlo or any other human being was reflect him back at himself. If he said he did not like the black man, I would say 'O. I don't think like you people. You people put importance on your lives. Well, my life has never been important to anyone. She knew it was my fault because she couldn't face death. And if she can't face death, that is not my fault.
I can face death. I have all the time. In the penitentiary you live with it, with constant fear of death, because it is a violent world in there, and you have to be on your toes constantly.
I told [Paul Watkins],"To be a man, boy, you have to stand up and be your own father. I do feel some responsibility.
I feel a responsibility for the pollution. I feel a responsibility for the whole thing. To be honest with you, I don't recall ever saying "Get a knife and a change of clothes and go do what Tex says. I don't even like to eat meat-that is how much I am against killing. I haven't got any guilt about anything because I have never been able to see any wrong.
I have always said: Do what your love tells you, and I do what my love tells me. Is it my fault that your children do what you do? What about your children? You say there are just a few? There are many, many more, coming in the same direction. They are running in the streets-and they are coming right at you! You say you are already dead, is that right, Charlie?
Dead in your mind or dead in my mind? Define it any way you want to. As any child will tell you, dead is when you are no more. It is just when you are not there. If you weren't there, you would be dead. How long have you been dead? To be precise about it, you think you have been dead for close to 2, years, don't you?
Bugliosi, 2, years is relative to the second we live in. Suffice it to say, Department is a long way from Calvary, isn't that true? The jury in this case never heard a single, solitary word you said. Manson, are you willing to testify in front of the jury and tell them the same things that you have testified to here in open court today?
Older asked Manson if he now wished to testify before the jury. He replied, "I have already relieved all the pressure I had. As he walked by the counsel table, he told his three co-defendants, "You don't have to testify now.
In , Manson sent the California Parole Board a lengthy statement. The following is an excerpt from that statement:.
All of the judgments and the blame that is pushed off on me will be reflected back in the fires of the Holy War that call crime I did invoke a balance for life on Earth. From behind the time locks of courtrooms and from the worlds of darkness, I did let loose devils and demons with the power of scorpions to torment.
I did unseal seven seals and seven jars in accord with the judgments placed upon me You've drugged me for years, dragging me up and down prison hallways, laying my head on every chopping block you've got, chained me, burnt me, but you cannot defeat me In all that was said about me, it was not me saying it, and if you see a false prophet, it is only a reflection of your own judgments.
In March , the California Parole Board, for the ninth consecutive time, announced that it would deny parole to Charles Manson.
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