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Manson brainwashed the gullible young people that lived with him and called themselves 'the family'. Like any good cult leader he stripped them of the worldly posessions, isolated them from the other family and friends, drilled his view of the world into their heads 24/7, ect. Brainwashing doesn't happen overnight but the methods worked very well. The lucky ones were not asked to participate in the Tate-LaBianca and Hinman murders. But for Tex Watson, Patricia Krenwinkle, Susan Atkins, Linda Kasabian, Leslie Van Houton and Bobby Beausoleil, Manson's influence was too strong. At the time of the murders these people said they would have gladly died for Manson. They almost did. California's death penalty law was struck down in 1972, all death sentences were reduced to life. They are all elegible for parole, including Manson himself.

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