Charles Manson
You probably all know The Charles Manson case. He was the cult leader of "The Manson Family"
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Sharon Tate, a young movie star, lived with her husband, and the father of her unborn child, Roman Polanski, on Cielo Drive
Sharon was 8 month pregnant, and Saturday night, The 9th of August 1969, she had company. Abigail Folger, The coffee heiress and her boyfriend Voytek Frykowski, and an international known hair stylist Jay Sebring.
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Sharon’s nearest neighbors, The Knotts, heard a few gunshots coming from the Sharon’s property somewhere between 12:30 and 1 A.M. But when nothing else happened, they went to bed. Around the same time, a guy named Tim, who was supervising the camp, heard someone yelling “OH GOD NO, PLEASE NO!!” But he found nothing strange, when he went around checking in the area.
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Robert Bullington, a member of a private security patrol, thought he heard several gunshots a little after 4 A.M. and called his headquarters. Headquarters, in turn, called Los Angeles Police Department, known as LAPD, to report the disturbance. The LAPD officer said: "I hope we don’t have a murder; we just had a woman-screaming call in that area."
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Winifred Chapman was the Sharon Tate’s housekeeper. She came to the house around 8 A.M. As she went through the gate, she saw that the front door was open and that there were pools of blood everywhere. She screamed and ran back through the house and down the driveway, passing close enough to the Rambler and saw that there was yet another body inside the car.
LAPD Officer Jerry DeRosa arrived first.
He looked into the Rambler and saw a young man with blood all over his body. Then Officer William Whisenhunt and Robert Burbridge joined DeRosa. On the lawn they found two bodies. One was a white man that appeared to be in his thirties. Someone had battered in his head and face, while savagely puncturing the rest of his body with dozens of wounds. The other body was of a young woman with long brown hair lying in a full-length nightgown with multiple stab wounds.
Whisenhunt found an open window on the side of the house where he and Burbridge made their entry. On the lower half of the door, he saw that the word “PIG” was written with blood.
When they reach the couch they saw a young blond pregnant woman who was lying on the floor, smeared in blood, and with a rope tied around her neck. The other end of the rope was around the neck of a man lying nearby, also smeared in blood.
The officers searched the rest of the house, and found the caretaker William Garretson, whom they arrested.
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Later that night, Leno and Rosemary LaBianca and Susan Struthers, Rosemary's 21-year-old daughter, drove back from their vacation. They dropped off Susan at her apartment and drove home. It wasn't until the next day that anybody came to the house to see them. Around 8.30 AM Frank Struthers came to the house. He knocked on the door, but got no answer, so he went to a payphone and called, but again with no response. He finally got in touch with his sister, and she showed up at their parent’s house. Frank and the boyfriend found the back door open. They left Susan in the kitchen and walked into the living room, they saw Leno, lying with a pillow over his head and a cord around his neck. Something was sticking out from his stomach.
Soon an ambulance and police cars arrived. Leno was found with a bloody pillowcase over his head and the cord of a large lamp tied tightly around his neck. His hands had been tied behind him with a leather thong. The word "WAR" had been cut in his flesh. In the master bedroom, they found his wife Rosemary lying on the floor. She also had a pillowcase over her head and a lamp cord tied tightly around her neck. In three places of the room something was written with the blood of the victims. "DEATH TO PIGS;" on "RISE;” and "HEALTHER SKELTER," misspelled.
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Eventually, all of the victims of the massacre at Sharon Tate’s home were identified. The young man in the car was a teenager named Steve Parent who had come to visit Garretson, the caretaker. The two victims found outside the house were Abigail Folger and her lover, Voytek Frykowski. In the living room joined by rope were Sharon Tate and Jay Sebring. A .22 caliber gun had shot Steve Parent, Jay Sebring and Voytek Frykowski. Of the five victims, all but Steve Parent had been stabbed repeatedly. Sebring had been hit in the face and Frykowski had been repeatedly hit on the head with a blunt object. The stab wounds suggested that only one knife had been used for the wounds. The nature of the wounds indicated that something like a bayonet was the weapon. A strange knife, a Buck brand clasp-type pocketknife was very close to Sharon Tate’s body.
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July 31 the murder of music teacher Gary Hinman approached LAPD shortly after the Tate-LaBianca murders. On his wall there were written: "POLITICAL PIGGY," witch also was written with blood. Hinman had also been stabbed to his death.
Surprisingly LAPD didn’t want to compare the cases; witch probably would have lead to a quicker arrest of, Bobby Beausoleil, who also was a member of the Manson family. But, LAPD thought that the Tate murders were a result of a drug deal gone badly. On the other hand, LAPD had William Garretson in custody, who said he slept through it all. The case never came up, since he passed a polygraph test.
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Roman Polanski was interviewed for hours by the police and agreed to a polygraph examination, which he passed. On August 15th, he returned to Cielo Drive for the first time since the crime. Along he had a Psychic named Peter Hurkos. Polanski hated the newspapers for suggesting that he and his wife were Satanists, indulging in sex and drug orgies.
Some time after the crime, Polanski added in the newspapers an: REWARD $25, 0000 which he offered to pay anyone who could help leading an arrest of the killer.
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On September 1, 1969, 10-year-old Steven Weiss found a gun on his lawn in Sherman Oaks. His father immediately called LAPD. A couple of days later, LAPD sent out flyers to all personnel describing the murder gun and attaching a photo of the revolver, and the gun sat in the Property Section of the Van Nuys division. Still none of the groups made any real progress. However, the detectives working for the Sheriff’s Office were younger and more aggressive than their LAPD and they came to the conclusion that the Tate and LaBianca cases, with out a doubt were connected. They had several suspects; one of them was Charles Manson.
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LAPD began to talk to the Sheriff’s Office and started investing similarities. The investigation lead to the Spahn Ranch, where the Hippie group, witch called them self The Manson Family, belonged.
Bobby Beausoleil, the man charged with the murder of Gary Hinman, had lived at the Spahn Ranch with the Manson Family. His girlfriend, 17-year-old Kitty Lutesinger, told the police that Manson sent Bobby and a girl named Susan Atkins to Hinman’s house to get money from him. When Hinman refused they killed him. When police questioned Susan Atkins, who was still in jail, she admitted that she went with Beausoleil to Hinman’s home to get some money he had inherited. When he refused, Beausoleil slashed his face. They hold him a prisoner in his own house, and then killed him a couple of days later.
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Susan Atkins shared a cell with Ronnie Howard, and Virginia Graham. Susan had an almost unbelievable story that Ronnie and Virginia listened to with absolute amazement. Susan told Virginia that she was in for first degree murder. Virginia and Ronnie asked her if she did it, and she answered sure, as if it was the most natural thing in the world. She also told Virginia that her lover Charles Manson was Jesus Christ and he was going to lead her to a hole in the earth in Death Valley where the group belonged. Several days later Susan started talking about the Sharon Tate case. "You know who did it don’t you? Virginia said she didn’t. "Well, you’re looking at her." Virginia asked why she could do such a thing "Because we wanted to do a crime that would shock the world, which would have to stand up and take notice." Atkins explained. Susan also told her that there were four of them, three girls and a man, all of who had been given their instructions by Charlie
"Sharon was the last to die," Susan said. ”Please don’t kill me. Please don’t kill me. I don’t want to die. I want to live. I want to have my baby. I want to have my baby." Susan said she just looked at Sharon straight in the eye and said, "Look, bitch, I don’t care about you. I don’t care if you’re going to have a baby. You had better be ready. You’re going to die and I don’t feel anything about it…In a few minutes I killed her." Virginia asked Susan if it didn’t bother her to kill a pregnant woman. "I thought you understood. I loved her, and in order for me to kill her I was killing part of myself when I killed her," Susan explained. She had wanted to cut out Sharon’s baby but there wasn’t enough time. She had also wanted to take out all the victims’ eyes and squash them against the walls and cut off and mutilate all of their fingers, but they didn’t have the chance. Susan told Virginia that after they left the Tate house she realized that she didn’t have her knife with her any more. Susan also admitting that they killed the LaBianca’s the next night. "That’s part of the plan,"
Later that day Susan gave Virginia a list over celebrities who all were supposed to be killed: Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra, Steve McQueen and Tom Jones. It was important to select victims that would shock the world. She had planned to carve the words "helter skelter" on Elizabeth Taylor’s face with a red-hot knife and then gouge her eyes out. Then she would castrate Richard Burton and put his penis along with Elizabeth Taylor’s eyes in a bottle and mail it to Eddie Fisher. Sinatra was to be skinned alive, while he listened to his own music. Tom Jones would have his throat slit, but only after being forced to have sex with Susan Atkins.
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On November 12, the LA Sheriff’s detectives had a chance to interview Al Springer who was a member of the motorcycle gang called the Straight Satans who had been involved with the Manson Family off and on. Spring told the police that Manson had bragged about him killing people.
Another earlier member, DeCarlo told them that they also killed a 36-year-old ranch hand named Shorty, a nickname for Donald Shea. He was killed because he’d tell the owner of the Spahn Ranch what really was going on. A member named Clem told DeCarlo with a big grin that "we got five piggies" the day after the Tate murders.
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Just who was this Charlie anyway? LAPD started digging up information about this 36 years old man, and found out he’d been very miserable as a kid.
An illegitimate and unplanned child, he was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, November 12, 1934 to Kathleen Maddox, a promiscuous sixteen-year-old who drank too much and got into a lot of trouble. Two years later, Kathleen started lawsuit against Colonel Scott of Ashland, KY, for child support which she was awarded, but never received. Kathleen was briefly married to William Manson.
Kathleen’s parents were named Nancy and Charles Maddox, and she was the youngest of the three children. Her parents loved her and meant well by her, but they were fanatical in their religious beliefs. Especially Grandma, who dominated the household, who probably were the most religious of them all. For Kathleen, life was filled with a never-ending list of denials. From awakening in the morning until going to bed at night.
In 1933, at age fifteen, Kathleen ran away. In later years, because of hard knocks and tough times, she may have sold her body some… Charlie never knew his father and never had a real father figure. Kathleen had a habit of disappearing for day and weeks at a time, leaving Charlie with his grandmother or his aunt. When Kathleen and her brother were both sentenced to the penitentiary for armed robbery, Charlie got sent off to live with his aunt and uncle in McMechen, West Virginia. The aunt was very religious. When Kathleen was released from jail, she was not responsible enough to take care of Charles.
He began to steal. There was a consistency and permanency to the habit of stealing and it became easier. When he was nine, he was caught stealing and sent to reform school and then later when he was twelve, he was caught stealing again and sent to the Gibault School for Boys in Terre Haute, Indiana, in 1947. He ran away less than a year later and tried to return to his mother who didn’t want him. Living entirely by stealing and burglary, he lived on his own until he was caught. The court arranged for him to go to Father Flanagan’s Boys Town. He didn’t last long at Boys Town. A few days after his arrival, thirteen-year-old Charlie and another kid committed two armed robberies. A few more episodes like that landed Charlie in the Indiana School for Boys for three years. In 1951, Charlie and two other boys escaped and headed for California living entirely by burglary and grand theft auto. They got as far as Utah when they were caught. This time he was sent to the National Training School for Boys in Washington, D.C. While he was there they gave him various tests which established that his IQ was 109, that he was illiterate and that his aptitude for everything but music was average.
For a short time, things started to look up for Charlie. His aunt had agreed to take care of him and his chances for parole were good. Shortly before the parole hearing, Charlie held a razor blade against another boy’s throat. Charlie was transferred to the Federal Reformatory at Petersburg, Virginia, where he was characterized as a homosexual, dangerous and safe only under supervision. In September of 1952, he was sent to a more secure institution in Chillicothe, Ohio. For some reason, Manson suddenly changed his attitude. These improvements lead to his parole in May of 1954 at the age of nineteen. At first he lived with his aunt and uncle, then his mother for a short period of time. Early in 1955, he married a waitress who bore him a son, Charles Manson, Jr. Charlie worked at various low-paying jobs but raised his income by stealing cars. One of them he took to Los Angeles with his then pregnant wife. Inevitably, he was caught again eventually found his way to the prison at Terminal Island in San Pedro, California. His wife had the good sense to divorce him after he spent three years in jail. In 1958, he was released on parole. This time Manson took up a new occupation – pimping. He supplemented this income by getting money from an unattractive wealthy girl in Pasadena. In 1959, Manson was arrested on two federal charges: stealing a check from a mailbox and attempting to cash a U.S. Treasury check for $37.50. This time Manson was lucky, a young woman pretended she was pregnant and pleaded with the judge to keep him out of jail. The judge believed the story and had pity on him. While he sentenced Charlie to ten years, he then immediately placed him on probation. A couple of months later, he was arrested by LAPD for stealing cars and using stolen credit cards, but the charges were dropped for lack of evidence. Near the end of 1959, Manson conned a young woman out of $700 in savings to invest in his nonexistent company. To make matters worse, he got her pregnant and then drugged and raped her roommate. He fled to Texas but was arrested and put in prison to serve out his ten-year sentence. At the age of 26 he was sent to the U.S. Penitentiary at McNeil Island, Washington.
Manson peruses different religious philosophies, e.g. Scientology and Buddhism; however, he never remains long enough with any given teachings to reap meaningful benefits. And had a great obsession with The Beatles. Manson’s guitar was another obsession. He felt that with the right opportunities he would be much bigger than the Beatles. In prison, he became friends with the a gangster, Alvin Karpis who taught him how to play the steel guitar, and he became hopeful that he can be a secured employment as a guitar player or as a drummer or singer."
On March 21, 1967, Charlie was released from prison and given transportation to San Francisco. He was 32 years old and more than half of his life had been spent in institutions. Finally they released him.
Charlie was able to blend in with his guitar into the hippie scene in San Francisco. Charlie was never impressed by the hippie culture, but he lived off it and it didn’t expect much from him.
Charlie started to attract a group of followers, many of whom were very young women with troubled emotional lives who were rebelling against their parents and society in general. For the most part, Charlie’s followers were weak-willed people who were naive, gullible and easy to lead. LSD and amphetamines were additional tools by which Charlie altered their personalities to his needs. In spring of 1968, Manson and his followers left San Francisco in an old school bus, witch they named HOLY WOOD and traveled around. Eventually, he and a few of his group moved in with Gary Hinman, a music teacher with a house on the Canyon Road. Through Hinman, Charlie met Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys. Manson and his girls starting hanging around Wilson every chance they had. Eventually, Wilson became uncomfortable with Manson and his girls and told them to split. About that time, Manson found George Spahn and conned the old man into letting him and his followers live on the Ranch. Charlie was still hell-bent to market his music to somebody. Through his contacts with Dennis Wilson and another man in the music business, Charlie met Doris Day’s son Terry Melcher. The plan was to interest Melcher in financing a film with Manson’s music. At that time, Melcher owned the house on Cielo Drive that was eventually leased to Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate. At various times, Manson had been by the property in a car with Dennis Wilson. Melcher was asked to listen to Charlie and decide whether or not he wanted to record them. Melcher went out the first time and listened to Charlie sing his own compositions and play the guitar. Some of the girls sang and played tambourines. Melcher went out a second time a week later, but the music was nothing he was interested in recording. What he didn’t realize is that Manson had built this recording opportunity with Melcher into something very real in his mind. When nothing came of it, Charlie was plenty angry and blamed Melcher for his disappointment. Another facet of Charlie, although not nearly as important to him as his music, was his philosophy. To a large extent, this "philosophy" was a kind of Armageddon. Charlie preached that the black man was going to rise up and start killing the whites and turn the cities in to an inferno of racial revenge. In 1968, Charlie was forecasting racial war when all of a sudden the Beatles released their White Album, which had the song "Helter Skelter." The lyrics fit Charlie’s theory to a tee: "Look out helter skelter helter skelter helter skelter/She’s coming down fast/ Yes she is/Yes she is." Now, the racial Armageddon had a name. It was Helter Skelter. Charlie and the Family would survive this racial holocaust because they would be hiding in the desert. He pulled from the Book of Revelations, the concept of a "bottomless pit," the entrance of which, according to Charlie, was a cave underneath Death Valley that led down to a city of gold. This paradise was where Charlie and his Family were going to wait out this war. Then Charles, Jesus Christ, would then rule the world. The other four angels were the Beatles.
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How did this hokey philosophy result in the blood bath at the Tate and LaBianca houses? Well, Charlie the Prophet had already forecast that the murders would start in the summer of 1969, but as the summer went on, it looked as though the "prophet" was wrong. After the LaBianca murder, one of Manson’s girls, Linda Kasabian, was told to take Rosemary LaBianca’s wallet and credit cards and leave them in the ladies room of a gas station in an area heavily populated by blacks. That way, when, theoretically, the credit cards would be used by some black woman, it would appear that blacks were responsible for the LaBianca deaths. However, the credit cards were never used or turned in to the authorities. On November 18, 1969, 35-year-old Deputy District Attorney Vincent T. Bugliosi was assigned the Tate-LaBianca murder cases. Aaron Stovitz, head of the Trials Division of the District Attorney’s Office, was assigned as a co-prosecutor, but was later pulled off for another case. Bugliosi had an unbelievably difficult job ahead of him. Not only did he need to prove that members of the Manson Family were responsible for the Tate and LaBianca murders, but he had to prove the Charles Manson ordered them to do it. While Manson had sent four Family members to the Cielo Drive massacre, he did not go himself. He did, however, tie up Rosemary and Leno LaBianca and gave three others instructions to kill them. The prosecutor had to establish Charlie’s dominance over the members of his Family and convince a jury that Charlie had sufficient motive to want these seven people dead. Things started to look up for the prosecution when a fingerprint of the member Patricia Krenwinkel’s was found on a door inside of Sharon Tate’s bedroom. A few days later, the wallet belonging to Rosemary LaBianca was found in the ladies restroom at the service station where Linda Kasabian left it. The wallet had gotten lodged in the toilet tank. This piece of evidence was necessary to bolster Susan Atkins’ story in case she decided to repudiate her testimony when Charlie started to pressure her. Another piece of evidence was The.22 caliber Hi Standard Longhorn revolver with the broken gun grip which had been found by Bernard Weiss’ son and turned over to the police three and a half months earlier
The gun was "found" where it had been "lost" in the Van Nuys police station. After the tests had been run, there was no doubt that it was the murder weapon. One thing remained to be done linking Manson to that particular revolver. Eventually Randy Starr provided that link. He once owned the revolver and had given it to Manson. Another important development occurred when the man who owned the place that the Tate killers had used to clean up right after the murders contacted the police. The man had remembered the car and the license plate that was traced to a Spahn Ranch employee who had let Manson and his girls borrow his car. Manson mugshot Even though it was not necessary for the prosecution to establish the motive for the crimes, Bugliosi considered motive an important piece of evidence, especially since Manson was not physically present at the Tate murders. Bugliosi set out to establish that the primary motive was Helter Skelter: Manson’s beliefs that he could start a race war and personally gain from it. But certainly, there was the connection between Manson’s anger at Terry Melcher and the crimes committed on his former property. To further bolster that motive, it was established that two different people had chased Manson off the property a few months before the murders. Rudi Altobelli, the man who bought the Cielo Drive property from Melcher, was an important man in the entertainment industry. He represented stars like Katherine Hepburna and Henry Fonda. Because he traveled so much, he rented out the property to the Polanski’s and stayed in the guesthouse when he visited the area.
In March of 1969, Manson went to the house where four of the five murdered people were staying. He said he were there do see Terry Melcher. Sharon’s houseguest sent him away in not too friendly terms, but not before he saw Sharon, who wondered what the "creepy looking guy" wanted. Then Manson went to the guesthouse and told Rudi Altobelli that the people in the main house told him to ask at the guesthouse. Altobelli admonished Manson for bothering his tenants and told him he didn’t know where Terry Melcher had moved. It was quite possible that the "Helter Skelter" crimes were committed at that particular house because Charlie wanted to pay back the residents for rejecting him.
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The trial officially began in mid-June of 1970. Judge Charles Older presided. He decided that the jury, once selected, would be locked up until the end of the trial–"to protect them from harassment and to prevent their being exposed to trial publicity." Older was given a bodyguard and his home was provided with protection.
If Manson’s followers testified against him, he was doomed. He had to set up and maintain an effective communications network between himself and the other Family members, particularly those under indictment. He needed the Family members who were not in jail to communicate his wishes to those who were. Just how sinister this communication would be was evidenced by what happened to Barbara Hoyt. Hoyt was one of the prosecution’s witnesses who were threatened that if she testified at the trial, she and her family would be killed. She was then lured to Honolulu by one of Manson’s girls and given a lethal dose of LSD. Fortunately, she got to the hospital in time to save her. By then Susan Atkins had repudiated her testimony to the grand jury, and her and the other girls came up with bizarre stories that would implicate themselves but spare their beloved Charlie. As the evidence was presented, things were looking bad for Charlie and the girls. A pattern was developing, according to Bugliosi: "The more damaging the testimony, the more chance that Manson would create a disturbance, thereby assuring that he – and not the evidence itself – would get the day’s headlines. Often these disturbances would result in Judge Older removing them from the courtroom. The drama hit a high point when Manson got into an argument with Judge Older and jumped towards the judge, yelling, "someone should cut your head off!" Atkins, Krenwinkel and Van Houten stood up and started chanting in Latin. When Manson and his girls were removed from the court, a shaken Judge Older instructed the jury to disregard what they heard and saw, but the effect was indelible. The jury got a first hand chance to see the real Charles Manson. After 22 weeks of trial, the Prosecution rested. It was time for the defense attorneys to do their part. Judge Older told the lawyers that were assisting Manson and defending the girls to call their first witness. The defense responded: "Thank you, Your Honor. The defendants rest." The court was stunned. Then the three girls shouted that they wanted to testify. The judge and everyone else were bewildered. The girls had decided that they would testify that they planned and committed the murders themselves and that Charlie had nothing to do with it. Ronald Hughes, Leslie Van Houten’s "hippie lawyer" objected and stood up against Manson’s transparent ploy: "I refuse to take part in any proceeding where I am forced to push a client out the window." A few days later, Ronald Hughes had disappeared. After the trial was over, his body was found wedged between two boulders in Ventura County. One of Manson’s followers later admitted that the Manson Family had murdered him. A new lawyer had to be found immediately to take over the defense. Maxwell Keith was appointed. When the court reconvened, Manson and the girls created a disturbance suggesting that Judge Older "did away with Ronald Hughes," which resulted in them being removed again from the courtroom. For the most part, the lawyers for the defense put forth a disappointing presentation. Paul Fitzgerald, Patricia Krenwinkel’s attorney, spent more time defending Manson than his client. Daye Shinn, Susan Atkins’ lawyer made a brief defense for his client. Irving Kanarek went on for days in his rambling style. Finally, Judge Older accused him of filibustering. Manson apparently also tired of Kanarek’s exhausting argument, shouted at him: "Why don’t you sit down? You’re just making things worse."
After a great deal of time, the jury finally came to a verdict:
"We, the jury in the above-entitled action, having found the defendant Charles Manson guilty of murder in the first degree...do now fix the penalty as death." Patricia Krenwinkel responded: "You have just judged yourselves." "Better lock your doors and watch your own kids," Susan Atkins said. All four defendants received the death penalty.
On April 19, 1971, Superior Court Judge Charles H. Older pronounced the judgement: "It is my considered judgment that not only is the death penalty appropriate, but it is almost compelled by the circumstances. I must agree with the prosecutor that if this is not a proper case for the death penalty, what should be?" The judge shook the hands of each juror. "If it were within the power of a trial judge to award a Medal of Honor to jurors, believe me, I would bestow an award on each of you." At a later date, Robert Beausoleil, Charles Manson, Charles Watson, Bruce Davis and Steve Grogan were tried and convicted for the murders of Gary Hinman and Donald (Shorty) Shea. Bugliosi wrote," it had been the longest murder trial in American history, lasting nine and a half months; the most expensive, costing approximately $1 million; and the most highly publicized; while the jury had been sequestered 225 days, longer than any jury before it. The trial transcript alone ran to 209 volumes, 31,716 pages, approximately eight million words." In 1972, the California Supreme Court abolished the death penalty in the state and all of the defendants are serving life sentences. Right after the trial, there were a number of articles written that were favorable to Manson and his followers. For a while, it appeared that he might become some sort of cult hero. That never really materialized however and there is very little left of the Manson Family today. However, Manson still receives a large amount of mail, much of it from young people who want to join the Family.
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