Emotions ran high on both sides as each made convincing arguments to determine whether 60-year-old Susan Atkins, a follower of notorious killer Charles Manson, should be granted compassionate release...
(CBS) LOS ANGELES A one-time Manson Family disciple convicted in connection with two killings in 1969 was denied parole Thursday.
A parole board panel meeting at the California Men's Colony at San Luis Obispo decided Bruce Davis should next be eligible for parole in 2008...
...Davis, now in his 60s, was convicted along with others in the stabbing death of musician Gary Hinman in his Topanga Canyon home and the slaying of Donald "Shorty" Shea...
(CBS) LOS ANGELES Former Charles Manson disciple Leslie Van Houten was denied parole for the 18th time for the 1969 murders of a Los Feliz couple.
A parole board panel meeting at the California Institute for Women in Frontera gave Van Houten a two-year denial and set her next hearing for 2009...
...Van Houten was convicted of murder and conspiracy for participating with fellow Mason family members Charles "Tex" Watson and Patricia Krenwinkel in the Aug. 9, 1969, slayings of grocers Leno and Rosemary La Bianca at their Los Feliz home...
Charles Manson was denied parole Wednesday, the 11th time since 1978 that the cult leader was ordered to continue serving life sentences for a murderous rampage in 1969...
...He will not be eligible for release again until 2012...
2006
December 27, 2006Ford escaped 2 assassination attempts
Both happened in California -- one in capital, other in S.F., Edward Epstein, Chronicle Washington Bureau, San Francisco Chronicle
...Gerald R. Ford...
...On Sept. 5, 1975, Charles Manson groupie Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme had tried to fire at Ford on the state Capitol grounds in Sacramento as he walked...
...Fromme never got a shot off, even though her gun was loaded with four rounds...
...Fromme was convicted of trying to kill Ford and sentenced to life in prison. She is now in a federal prison in Fort Worth, Texas, and still pledges allegiance to Manson, the mastermind behind Los Angeles' notorious Tate-LaBianca murders of 1969...
LOS ANGELES A former Manson Family member convicted in connection with two 1969 killings was denied parole Monday.
The state parole board decided Bruce Davis should remain behind bars, according to Sandi Gibbons of the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office. He was denied parole for the next year...
(AP) SACRAMENTO The sister of murdered actress Sharon Tate says followers of charismatic cult leader Charles Manson should never be freed from prison for the string of brutal slayings they committed in 1969...
...A decision on Davis' parole is expected next month.
LOS ANGELES -- Former Charles Manson disciple Leslie Van Houten was denied parole for the 16th time Thursday for the 1969 murders of a Los Feliz couple.
Van Houten, now 57, was allowed to plead her case before the parole board at the California Institute for Women in Frontera. She expressed remorse and apologized to the victims' family...
...the board said she could seek parole in another 12 months...
...Van Houten was convicted of murder and conspiracy for participating with fellow Manson family members...
In Sacramento, California, an assassination attempt against President Gerald Ford is foiled when a Secret Service agent wrests a semi-automatic .45-caliber pistol from Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a follower of incarcerated cult leader Charles Manson. Fromme was pointing the loaded gun at the president when the Secret Service agent grabbed it...
August 10, 2006Today in History, Associated Press via sfgate.com
In 1969, Leno and Rosemary LaBianca were murdered in their Los Angeles home by members of Charles Manson's cult, one day after actress Sharon Tate and four other people were slain.
Five people are killed in film director Roman Polanski's home in Hollywood, California, including Polanski's pregnant wife, Sharon Tate, by a members of a cult. Less than two days later, they struck again, killing Leno and Rosemary LaBianca in their home...
EL MONTE - Steven Earl Parent was working two jobs the summer he graduated from El Monte's Arroyo High School in 1969 to save money to attend Citrus College.
The 18-year-old wore horn-rimmed glasses...
...He was found the next day, slumped over in his Ambassador, with four .22-caliber bullets in his body. Parent was the youngest of the Manson Family's victims that night...
Charles Herman Older, the Los Angeles Superior Court judge who presided over the murder trial of Charles Manson and his followers, has died. He was 88...
...He had been on the bench only a few years when he was handed the Manson case and its circus-like atmosphere. Manson and three of his LSD-dropping followers -- Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten -- were tried for the 1969 cult killings of actress Sharon Tate, Leno and Rosemary La Bianca and four others...
Manson Trial, Associated Press via the Wayback Machine (The story of Charles Manson and his band of "hippie" followers strained credulity.
At first, no one knew what was behind the 1969 murders of actress Sharon Tate and six others in the hills near Hollywood, a fearsome spectacle of butchered bodies...) (Photo included.)
BBC - Crime Case Closed - Charles Manson and the Family (Self-styled guru and leader of the 1960s religious cult the Manson Family, Charles Manson is a convicted serial killer who never actually killed any of his victims himself...) (Photos included.)
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