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    Historical Importance of Charles Manson

    Charles Manson is a convicted serial killer who has become an icon of evil. In the late 1960s, Manson founded a hippie cult group known as "the Family" whom he manipulated into brutally killing others on his behalf.

    Dates: November 12, 1934
    Also Known As: Charles Milles Maddox, Charles Milles Manson

    Overview of Charles Manson

    Charles Manson was born in Cincinnati, Ohio to 16-year-old Kathleen Maddox. Kathleen had run away from home at the age of 15 and spent the next few decades drinking too much, with periods of time spent in jail.

    Since his mother couldn't take care of him, Charles spent his youth at the homes of various relatives and often at special reform schools and boys homes. By age nine, Charles Manson had already started stealing and soon added burglary and stealing cars to his repertoire.

    Manson Gets Married

    In 1954, at age nineteen, he was released on parole after an unusual bout of good behavior. The next year, he married Rosalie Willis, a waitress, and they had a son together, Charles Manson Jr. (born March 1956). Even while married, Manson had continued making extra money by stealing cars. In April 1956, he was again sent to prison. After Manson had been in prison for a year, his wife found someone new and divorced Manson in June 1957.

    Manson the Con Man

    In 1958, Manson was released from prison. While out, Manson began pimping, stealing checks from mailboxes, and conned a young woman out of money. He also married again, to a woman named Leona, and fathered a second son, Charles Luther Manson. Manson was again arrested on June 1, 1960 and sent to the McNeil Island Penitentiary off the coast of Washington. His wife soon divorced him.

    Music in Prison

    Manson spent the next six years in prison. It was during this time that he befriended the infamous Alvin "Creepy" Karpis, former member of Ma Barker's gang. After Karpis taught Charles Manson to play the steel guitar, Manson became obsessed with making music. He practiced all the time, wrote dozens of original songs, and started singing. He believed that when he got out of prison, he could be a famous musician.

    Manson Gets a Following

    On March 21, 1967, Manson was once again released from prison. This time he headed to San Francisco where, with a guitar and drugs, he began to get a following. In 1968, he and several followers drove to Southern California.

    Manson was still hoping for a music career. Through an acquaintance, Manson met and hung out with Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys. The Beach Boys did record one of Manson's songs, which appeared as "Never Learn Not to Love" on the B-side of their 20/20 album.

    Through Wilson, Manson met Terry Melcher, Doris Day's son. Manson believed Melcher was going to advance his music career but when nothing happened, Manson was very upset.

    During this time, Charles Manson and some of his followers moved into the Spahn Ranch. Located northwest of San Fernando Valley the Spahn Ranch had been a popular location to film westerns in the 1940s and 1950s. Once Manson and his followers moved in, it became a cult compound for "the Family."

    Helter Skelter

    Charles Manson was good at manipulating people. He took pieces from various religions to form his own philosophy. When the Beatles released their White Album in 1968, Manson believed their song "Helter Skelter" predicted an upcoming race war. "Helter skelter," Manson believed, was going to occur in the summer of 1969 when blacks were going to rise up and slaughter all the white people. He told his followers that they would be saved because they would go underground, literally, by traveling to an underground city of gold located in Death Valley.

    However, when the Armageddon that Manson had predicted did not occur, he said he and his followers must show the blacks how to do it.

    Manson Orders the Murders

    Manson told four of his followers to go to 10050 Cielo Drive in Los Angeles and kill the people inside. This house once belonged to Terry Melcher, the man who had not helped Manson with his music career. However, Melcher no longer lived there; actress Sharon Tate and her husband, director Roman Polanski, had rented the house. On August 9, 1969, four of Manson's followers brutally murdered Tate, her unborn baby, and four others who were visiting her (Polanski was in Europe for work). The following night, Manson's followers brutally killed Leno and Rosemary LaBianca in their home.

    Manson's Trial

    It took the police several months to determine who was responsible. In December 1969, Manson and several of his followers were arrested. The trial began on July 24, 1970. On January 25, Manson was found guilty of first degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder. On March 29, 1971, Manson was sentenced to death.

    Life in Prison

    Manson was reprieved from the death penalty in 1972 when the California Supreme Court outlawed the death penalty. Charles Manson now serves a lifetime sentence and periodically comes up for parole.

    Though he's been in prison for over three decades, Charles Manson has received more mail than any other prisoner in the U.S. Charles Manson is currently being held in California's Corcoran Prison.

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    Manson follower denied parole for 5 more years

    SACRAMENTO, Calif.—California officials have rejected parole for a follower of cult leader Charles Manson for the 15th time.

    The state's Board of Parole Hearings decided Monday that Robert Beausoleil (boh-so-LAY') can try again in five years.

    Beausoleil, who is 63, was an aspiring musician and actor before he joined the Manson family.

    He was arrested for the murder of musician Gary Hinman in August 1969.

    He was in jail when other Manson followers killed actress Sharon Tate and four others, then murdered grocer Leno LaBianca and his wife Rosemary.

    Beausoleil was convicted of Hinman's murder in 1970 and sentenced to death. The sentence was commuted to life when the California Supreme Court found the death penalty unconstitutional in 1972.

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    'Helter Skelter' murderer Charles Manson gets 30 days added to life sentence for possessing cellphone in prison

    Charles Manson, who is serving a life sentence for his conspiracy role in the killing of seven people in the Tate-LaBianca murders in Los Angeles, 1969, has been handed down an extra 30 days on his life term after being found in possession of a contraband cellphone within jail premises.

    Manson, the man behind the ritualistic murders of pregnant actress Sharon Tate and six others in 1969, had 30 days added to his life sentence after he was caught with an LG flip phone under his prison mattress, according to Los Angeles Times.

    According to Terry Thornton, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Corrections, Manson had made calls and sent text messages to people in California, New Jersey, Florida and British Columbia

    Thornton said it was "troubling that he (Manson) had a cellphone since he's a person who got other people to murder on his behalf."

    However, prison officials did not release the identities of the people Manson had contacted.

    Though in August President Obama had signed a bill that bans cellphones from federal prisons and makes smuggling of a cellphone a crime, punishable by up to a year in jail, the same law does not apply to California state prisons.

    Though prison officials are against usage of cellphones in prisons as inmates are known to use cellphones for all manner of criminal activity, including running drug rings from behind bars, intimidating witnesses and planning escapes, the plea of prison administrators to jam cellphone signals on prison grounds have been ignored so far by the Federal Communications Commission, which regulates the nation's airwaves.

    The politically powerful telecommunications industry lobby has also argued that jamming is not a precise solution because legitimate customers trying to use their phones near prisons could also be denied service.

    The lobby has suggested a better, albeit more expensive solution, called "managed access" that would allow only calls from approved phones to transmit through towers near prisons.

    The system has been successfully tested in Mississippi and prison officials in California are expected to do a pilot run next year.

    According to Sen. Alex Padilla (D - Pacoima), who sponsored a bill that imposes a $5,000 fine on anyone caught giving a phone to a prisoner, said it is time California made a law banning cellphones in state prisons.

    "The fact that Charles Manson had a cellphone in prison is just further proof that the situation is out of control," Padilla was quoted as saying. "I'm not giving up. Until we have a law on the books with real consequences, this will continue to be a danger."

    The bill SB525 was vetoed by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in September on grounds that it did not make it a serious crime for a prisoner to possess a phone and did not include the threat of jail time for the smuggler.

    Padilla said he was caught between a governor who wants to put smugglers in prison and a Senate Public Safety Committee policy that is against adding new felonies to the state penal code for fear of exacerbating California's prison overcrowding.

    As for Manson, 76, the 30-days sentencing means little. Manson, who is incarcerated in a maximum security prison in California, is technically eligible for parole but was denied parole for the eleventh time in 2007. His next parole hearing is scheduled for 2012 but has almost no hope of ever being released.

    The 1969 murders

    Charles Manson, a messiah to a band of hippies known as the "family" believed that the lyrics of "Helter Skelter," a Beatles song, warned of an apocalyptic race revolution.

    Manson also brainwashed his followers into believing that a revolt by blacks against the white establishment was imminent. In August 1969, he hatched a plan at his headquarters, the Spahn Ranch (some 30 miles northwest of Los Angeles), to kill record producer Terry Melcher and spark a race war.

    Manson, an aspiring songwriter held a grudge against Melcher, who refused to have one of Manson's songs recorded, and ordered his followers to kill "whatever pigs" were in Melcher's house.

    In the carnage that followed on Aug. 9, Hollywood actress Sharon Tate, 27, and four others, including an international hair stylist and an heiress to a San Francisco coffee fortune, were brutally stabbed and/or shot to death.

    Tate, who was married to Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski, was eight and half months pregnant at the time of her murder.

    Melcher was not present at the time of the murders because he had moved on to Malibu with his girlfriend. The victims, who had rented the house, did not even know Manson.

    However, Manson was not satisfied with the murders. About 11 miles to the east of the house where Tate and others were murdered, Manson instigated his followers to brutally murder supermarket owner Leno LaBianca, 44, and his wife, Rosemary, 38.

    Initially, the police investigators thought It took the investigators several months to connect the two incidents. They also thought a black racist group had committed the murders because of the words "pig" "war" and "rise" written in blood on walls, refrigerator doors and bodies of the murdered victims.

    The investigators made their first breakthrough when Susan Atkins, who was arrested on charges of arson and grand theft along with other Manson "family" members, described to a prison inmate how the grisly murders were carried out. The inmate informed the authorities.

    Atkins' testimony later led the authorities to Manson, 35, Charles "Tex" Watson, 23, Patricia Krenwinkel, 22, and Linda Kasabian, 20. The five were charged with seven counts of murder and one of conspiracy. Kasabian, who did not directly take part in the killings, traded her testimony for immunity. The trial began on June 15, 1970. Just three days later, the defense rested its case without calling even one witness.

    Manson, Atkins, Watson, Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten were eventually convicted of murder and sentenced to death.

    In a separate trial that began in August 1971, Watson was convicted of seven counts of murder and one of conspiracy. He, too, was sentenced to death.

    However, after a 1972 decision by the California Supreme Court temporarily eliminated the state's death penalty, the sentences of the Manson family members were commuted to life.

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    Manson follower faces parole hearing

    CORONA, Calif. (AP) — A follower of Charles Manson who has been imprisoned longer than any other woman in California is facing a parole hearing on her conviction in the Sharon Tate killings.

    Grey haired Patricia Krenwinkel, one of Manson's two surviving female followers, has maintained a clean prison record in her four decades behind bars, but her chances for release appear slim following the parole officials' rejections in other Manson cases.

    Krenwinkel, 63, was convicted along with Manson and two other female followers in seven 1969 murders, considered among the most notorious crimes of the 20th Century.

    None of those convicted has ever been paroled and one of them, Susan Atkins, died in prison last year after being denied compassionate release when she was terminally ill with cancer.

    Leslie Van Houten, 61, the youngest of the women convicted was long thought to be the most likely to win eventual release. But she was denied a parole date last summer by officials who said she had not gained sufficient insight into her crimes.

    Parole boards have repeatedly cited the callousness, viciousness and calculation of the seven murders committed by members of the Manson Family.

    Krenwinkel admitted during her trial that she chased down and stabbed heiress Abigail Folger at the Tate home on Aug. 9, 1969 and participated in the stabbing deaths of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca the following night, Both homes were defaced with bloody scrawlings. She was convicted along with Manson, Van Houten and Atkins. Another defendant, Charles "Tex" Watson was convicted in a separate trial.

    All were sentenced to death but their sentences were commuted to life when the U.S. Supreme Court briefly outlawed the death penalty in 1972.

    In her 40 years at the California Institution for Women, Krenwinkel has earned a bachelor's degree and participated in numerous self help programs as well as teaching illiterate prisoners how to read. In recent years, she has been uninvolved in a program to train service dogs for the disabled.

    She has had a discipline-free record in prison. But so have a number of other Manson followers who have been refused parole. Last year, a number of them came before parole panels but were turned away.

    Manson follower Bruce Davis was able to win a parole date only to have it revoked by former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger who found that his release would be a danger to society. The 67-year-old Davis was convicted of the 1969 murder of musician Gary Hinman but had no involvement in the Tate-LaBianca killings.

    Robert Beausoleil, 63, also convicted in the Hinman murder, was denied parole last year and told to come back to the board in five years.

    Cult leader Manson, 75, has refused to appear at his most recent parole hearings where he was denied a release date. His multiple disciplinary violations and refusals to participate in rehabilitation activities make it likely that he will never be released. At times he has said that he does not want his freedom and considers prison his home.

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    Charles Manson follower convicted in Tate killings, denied parole in US for at least 7 years

    Parole board officials turned aside Patricia Krenwinkel's claims of being a changed woman and ordered the Charles Manson follower to remain in prison, saying the deaths of seven people in the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders still "remain relevant."

    The two member panel said Thursday that the viciousness and notoriety of her crimes outweighs her efforts at rehabilitation behind bars.

    "This is a crime children grow up hearing about," said parole commissioner Susan Melanson. She said they had received 80 letters from around the world advocating Krenwinkel's continued incarceration. "These crimes remain relevant."

    Melanson and deputy parole commissioner Steven Hernandez not only refused Krenwinkel's parole bid but made her ineligible for reconsideration for another seven years., the longest denial handed down so far to any Manson family convict. Her four decades behind bars has made her the longest incarcerated woman in the California prison system.

    Melanson and Deputy Commissioner Steven Hernandez issued their decision after the intense hearing and more than an hour of deliberations .

    Krenwinkel, now grey haired and grandmotherly looking at 63, wept and apologized.

    "I'm just haunted each and every day by the unending suffering of the victims, the enormity and degree of suffering I've caused," Krenwinkel said.

    She was soft spoken and contrite in response to board members' questions, describing the downward spiral of her life after she met Manson and came under his spell.

    "He sang to me and made love to me," she said. "...I left everything and went with him. He seemed like the answer to my salvation.".

    Because of him, she said, "Everything that was good and decent in me I threw away."

    It was her late father, she said, who helped her realize during his visits to her in prison, "what had happened, and the monster I became."

    The panel had the option to deny parole for up to 15 years. Melanson said they felt that was unnecessary and commended Krenwinkel for her self-improvement and community service in her four decades at the California Institution for Women.

    But they dismissed Krenwinkel's explanation that she was seeking approval from Manson by following his orders to kill.

    "The panel finds it hard to believe a person can participate in this level of crimes and can't identify anything but 'I wanted him to love me,'" Melanson said.

    Krenwinkel's claim that she is rehabilitated was met by anger and opposition from a prosecutor and families of the victims.

    "If Patricia Krenwinkel has remorse, I don't see how she could walk into this room," said a tearful Anthony Di Maria, the nephew of Jay Sebring, who was killed along with Tate. "No punishment could atone for the cold-blooded murders in this case."

    Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Patrick Sequeira also suggested that if Krenwinkel was remorseful she would waive her parole hearings and accept her punishment.

    Krenwinkel was convicted along with Manson and two other female followers in the seven murders. One of her co-defendants, Susan Atkins, died of cancer last year. The board's commitment to keep the Manson killers in prison was evident when they refused her compassionate release as she was dying.

    Krenwinkel admitted during her trial that she chased down and stabbed heiress Abigail Folger 28 times at the Tate home on Aug. 9, 1969, and participated in the stabbing deaths of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca the following night. Both homes were defaced with bloody scrawlings. She was convicted along with Manson, Leslie Van Houten and Atkins. Another defendant, Charles "Tex" Watson was convicted in a separate trial.

    All were sentenced to death after a tumultuous nine-month trial. But their sentences were commuted to life when the U.S. Supreme Court briefly outlawed the death penalty in 1972.

    None of those convicted in the Tate-LaBianca killings has ever been paroled. Parole boards have repeatedly cited the callousness, viciousness and calculation of the murders.

    Van Houten, 61, the youngest of the women convicted, was long thought to be the most likely to win eventual release. But she was denied a parole date last summer.

    Manson, now 75, refused to appear at his most recent parole hearings where he was denied a release date, and it is likely that he will never be released.

    Manson followers convicted of other murders remain behind bars.

    Debra Tate, sister of Sharon Tate, who also tearfully testified during the hearing, said outside the prison afterward that she will continue attending parole hearings for Manson family members to assure that they are not released.

    "People want to forget. I want to forget and forgive and I have forgiven," Tate said. "I want them to have full lives in a controlled setting. I would never trust them in a free society."

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    Saddam Hussein's attorney represents Charles Manson in petition

    Prominent attorney Giovanni Di Stefano, who has represented former Iraq dictator Saddam Hussein and his right-hand man, "Chemical Ali," or Ali Hassan al-Majid, is representing Charles Manson in his attempt for a new trial, Di Stefano told CNN on Monday.

    Di Stefano has filed an application with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on behalf of Manson, he said. The petition says Manson didn't receive a fair trial when he was convicted 40 years ago because, among other things, he was not allowed to represent himself, Di Stefano said.

    The prosecutor in the Manson case, however, said Di Stefano's claim has no merit.

    Manson was assigned a public defender after the judge in his case became frustrated with Manson's behavior while he was acting as his own attorney.

    Di Stefano said that was a violation of Manson's Sixth Amendment rights and is grounds for a new trial.

    Di Stefano said he wants Manson's case to be reviewed in the federal courts in the United States. Because of the notorious clients he has represented, he has been dubbed "the devil's advocate." He lives in Italy.

    In a telephone interview with CNN, Stefano said he is working on the case because he believes in justice, even though the murders Manson is accused of orchestrating were "horrendous."

    "This is a question of law," Di Stefano told CNN. "I have no interest in the facts of this case. The law is the law."

    Vincent Bugliosi, who prosecuted Manson, said he thinks Di Stefano is "wasting his time," adding that "he may be a fine lawyer and very sincere, but he's coming up against a brick wall here because there is no merit."

    Bugliosi said the issue of Manson representing himself has already been ruled on by an appellate court. According to the law, it is up to the trial judge to determine whether someone should represent himself, Bugliosi said.

    In this case, Bugliosi said he actually went along with Manson's request. "I felt that he might even do a better job at cross examining the witnesses than real lawyers," Bugliosi said.

    However Bugliosi said he believes there is no way Manson could have done everything himself. "He needed counsel to help him," Bugliosi said.

    Di Stefano said he believes there were other flaws with Manson's trial, including what he claims was a lack of any proof that Manson told his followers to commit murder.

    Manson was convicted of ordering the 1969 "Helter Skelter" murders of actress Sharon Tate and six others.

    Manson was originally given the death penalty, but the sentence was changed to life in prison when California temporarily abolished the death penalty in 1972.

    Manson is a prisoner at Corcoran State Prison in California, where he's housed in a protective unit.

    http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/02/07/...nson.attorney/

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    Charles Manson's Attorney Asks Obama for Presidential Pardon

    Charles Manson's attorney, Giovanni Di Stefano aka "The Devil's Advocate," has sent President Barack Obama an unbelievable communication. Di Stefano, who also represented Saddam Hussein, faxed the President a request that his infamous client who is serving a life sentence in California's maximum security Corcoran Prison be set free.

    According to TMZ, Di Stefano is seeking a presidential pardon for Manson who was convicted and sentenced to death in 1970 for his role in the infamous Tate-LaBianca murders in Los Angeles. When the death penalty was temporarily outlawed 2 years later, Manson and his followers--Patricia Krenwinkle, Leslie Van Houten, Charles "Tex" Watson, and the late Susan Atkins--all had their sentences commuted to life. Manson has maintained his innocence ever since, arguing that he never ordered any of his followers to commit murder.

    Which is exactly what his attorney explained to President Obama in his fax. "Manson was nothing more than a cult leader, not a murderer," claims Di Stefano. "Manson didn't do the killing." According to the lawyer, Manson was at the very worst, guilty only of telling his followers to "do something witchy." If they misunderstood and took things too far, it wasn't the cult leader's fault.

    Unbelievably enough, there are two amusing aspects to this tragic story. The first is the fact that Di Stefano would actually think that President Obama or any other Commander-in-Chief, past or future, would pardon Charles Manson or any of his three remaining incarcerated followers. The second is the weird fact that the goal of Manson's long-ago "witchy" mission was to start an apocalyptic race war after which the cult leader, as one of the few surviving white males, would ultimately rule the country. It is the height of irony that his attorney now implores an African American president to grant him his freedom.

    Sometimes, history gets "witchy."

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    Charles Manson breaks silence

    Charles Manson, the leader of the cult that murdered the actress Sharon Tate, has broken a 20-year silence in an interview from his prison cell to warn the world of the dangers of global warming.

    Showing no remorse for the crimes for which he was condemned 40 years ago, 76 year-old Manson chose instead to express his views on President Barack Obama and environmental doom.

    In a series of rambling interviews from his Californian jail, the man who brainwashed members of his commune known as The Manson Family into killing eight people on two nights in August, 1969, described himself as a "very mal hombre."

    Among those stabbed in the killing spree was Tate, the wife of the film director Roman Polanski, who was eight months pregnant.

    Referring to the crimes for which he was sentenced to death, a penalty later commuted to life imprisonment when California abolished the death penalty, Manson said: "I live in the underworld, I'm very mean, I'm a very bad man."

    But he went on: "I am a martyr. But I am also a victim. And a performer. I am everything and I am nothing."

    During the interviews with Spain's Vanity Fair magazine, he said: "You have to accept yourself as God. You have to realise you're just the Devil just as much as you're God, that you're everything and you're nothing at all."

    Manson refused to discuss whether he still posed a danger to society ahead of a parole review scheduled for next year, but instead warned of a "greater danger" - that of global warming.

    "Everyone's God and if we don't wake up to that there's going to be no weather because our polar caps are melting because we're doing bad things to the atmosphere," he said. "The automobiles and fossil fuels are destroying the atmosphere and we won't have air to breathe.

    "If we don't change that as rapidly as I'm speaking to you now, if we don't put the green back on the planet and put the trees back that we've butchered, if we don't go to war against the problem..." he added, trailing off.

    He went on to describe Mr Obama as "a slave of Wall Street". "I think Obama is an idiot for doing what he's doing," he said, in his first published words since the late 1980s. "They're playing with him."

    At his trial in 1971, the court heard that Manson had established a commune in the desert where he demonstrated hypnotic control over his devotees, the majority vulnerable young women, driven by drugs and sex.

    He ordered his followers to commit the murders in the warped belief that it would provoke an apocalyptic race war, which he called Helter Skelter after The Beatles' song that he interpreted as a coded prophecy of such a conflict.

    Manson, a hardened racist who appeared in court with a tattoo of a swastika crudely carved on to his forehead, believed that he and his followers would lead the survivors of the war that ensued.

    Five members of The Family, four of them women, were found guilty of carrying out the murders and Manson of being the ringleader.

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    Will Charles Manson be paroled?

    Charles Manson prosecutor Vince Bugliosi told a Wichita Falls audience that he believed the convicted murderer would never be paroled.

    An MSNBC program featuring Manson which aired today (Saturday), said that the convicted murderer of actress Sharon Tate would have his 12th parole hearing in the year 2012.

    Is it possible the California Board of Pardon and Paroles would actually release America's most famous killer from custody?

    Conventional wisdom would say no. But with Charles Manson who knows for sure?

    This is the same man who was assessed the death penalty by a Los Angeles jury. When the United States Supreme Court declared the death penalty unconstitutional, Manson along with other people on death row across America had their senctences commuted to life.

    The Furman decision declared the death penalty "cruel and unusual punishment."

    Widely acclaimed as "America's quintessential prosecutor", Bugliosi told a meeting of Wichita Falls lawyers that Manson was a unique serial killer in that he sent "his disciples out like robots to physcially commit the murders."

    An FBI profiler who appeared today on the MSNBC nationally broadcast program agreed with Bugliosi, saying, "Manson felt because he didn't actually stab the LaBiancas with the knife that he was okay. But he tied the husband and wife up before his followers murdered them."

    Manson actually said during a Today show interview which was aired during Saturday's show, "Murderer? I'm no murderer."

    Manson, who was residing in San Quentin Prison in San Francisco during the interview, has since been transferred to the notorious Corcoran Prison.

    He shares the same address with such other infamous killers as Sirhan Sirhan and Juan Corona.

    Sirhan was convicted of the assassination of Presidential candidate Robert Kennedy in Los Angeles.

    The MSNBC program alleges Manson's "Family" is responsible for at least nine murders.

    Coffee heiress Abigail Folger was also murdered in the same house with Sharon Tate and others in a bloody crime scene which left residents of southern California paralyzed with fear.

    That fear only escalated the next night when Manson and his group randomly murdered the LaBiancas in their home.

    Tex Watson, of North Texas, was reportedly Manson's top lieutenant, and stabbed to death more of the victims than anyone else.

    http://www.examiner.com/law-enforcem...#ixzz1MNfTyU2d

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    My step-dad, at this time was a very high ranking police officer. When Manson was brought back to Northern CA from Southern CA, my step-dad was his escort. It amazes me. There are so many good people I have known in my life that were taken to young, yet someone like Charles Manson gets to 77 years old. Sick, Sick, Sick.

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