Charles Manson

Yes it's true

#1: Hippies don't hate.

#2: Hippies don't REQUIRE long hair to "fit in".

#3: Hippies felt that Charles Manson gives THE HUMAN RACE a bad name.

#4: Nazis are uncomfortable that Charles Manson literally carved a swastika in his forehead.

#5: Hippies are NOT Nazis.

William Garretson was 19 years old at the time of the Tate murders. Living on the property as the groundskeeper, Garretson was in the cottage on the grounds but claimed he heard nothing because he had his music on. He was later given a polygraph which he passed.

After his polygraph, Garretson returned to his family home in the midwest, and for many years remained silent on the subject. Finally admitting that he had heard gunshots and had in fact witnessed at least one murder, Garretson had nightmares for years after the homicides.

According to Garretson's high school alumni page at lhs60.net, Garretson passed away

of cancer on August 16, 2016, one week and day before his birthday.

It really depends. Most jurisdictions will put a closed case's evidence in storage. Sometimes things get thrown out if space is an issue. In Los Angeles the evidence would have been put in storage. But as is true with many famous crimes, the evidence has a way of disappearing, philfered away for the sake of collectables and conversation pieces. So, officially the Manson evidence should be stored safely away, realistically, I'm not sure how much of it remains after 40 plus years after the fact.

Charles Manson has been diagnosed as having APD (anti-social personality disorder) with possible psychotic episodes and paranoia. He is extremely manipulative, violent, cruel, and what most people would call plain evil.

Manson endured an extremely abusive childhood, and spend most of his young life in juvenille detention facilities. Once he crossed the line into adulthood nothing changed. At one point he asked not to be released, as he felt jail was his home. Unfortunately, his jailers could not comply. Charles Manson is the 'poster boy' of why there should be no child abuse.

The prosecution had an extremely difficult job. Manson did not kill the victims himself but ordered the murders and was in fact not present when the murders occured. With such a complex case there were many witnesses, many different individual pieces of evidence and defendants that caused disruption on a daily basis. The prosecution had to lay a foundation if they wanted the case to stand and be successful. Piece by piece, over weeks and then months, the facts were presented to the jury in a way they could understand what was to most people, incomprehensible.

Bugliosi and his team were blazing new trails with the Manson trial. The unique situation left little previous presidence to guide them. Just as it is difficult to prosecute without a body, it was equally difficult to prosecute when Manson, by all accounts was not present. He could not be tied to a murder weapon, the motivation was bizarre to say the least, and Manson himself made little to no sense with his ranting, rambling speaches.

In retrospect, the prosecution was succeessful against great odds. I have no doubt that had Bugliosi been on the OJ Simpson case the outcome would have been much different. And although Vince Bugliosi did not work alone (he had a great team at his disposal) it was his persistance and perserverance to see justice for the Tate-LaBianca victims, and his brilliant legal mind that made the prosecution of Manson and his murdering chums a possiblity. Kudos to Vincent Bugliosi for removing these viralent and dangerous people from society.

Because he was to Death but reduced by abolition of death penalty to life in prison. Next parole hearing scheduled for 2012.

The Manson murders were a wakeup call for America. The 60s were hard on America with the war in Vietnam and the social unrest. And in the middle of all this turbulence came these 'flower children' that wanted to show the world that peace and love were the only way for society to live.

Then came Manson, who claimed to be one of these free thinkers, but had a completely different agenda. He was the dark underbelly of our social reform. When you take Manson into a bright light all you see there is a cult leader. He may have looked different then the Rev. Jim Jones or Rev. Moon but they are the same.

Manson came at the end of a decade and the end of an era. He was to some degree a contributor to the loss of our innocence, America's innocence.

It was rumored that Charles Manson tried out for Monkees, but this was not true. He wrote song and one of them wasn't written for the Beach Boys, but "Never Learn Not To Love" (on the Beach Boys' 20/20 album) was indeed written by Charles Manson, and for a brief time in 1968, about a year before the Tate-LaBianca murders, Manson and Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson were acquaintances.

I am going to assume you mean the ranch that Charles Manson and his 'family' lived at before and right after the Tate-LaBianca murders. The ranch was an old movie set called Spahn's Movie Ranch. It was located east of L.A. and I can imagine it was no Garden of Eden. Hot and dry beyond belief, but a good place to hide from the law.

They did. Susan Atkins died on September 24, 2009 in Central CA Womens Facility in Chowchila, CA.

Dana Ewell resides in the Protective Housing Unit of California State Prison, Corcoran

Shorty Shea, actor, stuntman, sometimes a fringe member of Charles Manson's 'Family' just disappeared after a disagreement with Charlie. His body has never been found and family members bragged about murdering Shea, cutting his body into many small pieces, and burying them in the desert outside of Los Angeles.

As a matter of fact, He graduated from Stonewall Jackson High School, WV in 1972.

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As far as my research can tell, Manson never had a brother. He may have had an uncle that was murdered on May 25, 1969. This was the brother of Manson's illeged father.

64 year old Darwing Scott was found murdered in his apartment with multiple stab wounds, empaled to the floor with a large knife.

As far as I know, Manson seems to enjoy reasonable good health. Except for the aches and pains that come with aging, he has faired much better than his victims.

Yes. Decisions like these are usually up to the warden of the individual prison.

Initially, the Tate-LaBianca murders looked to be random crimes. But they weren't entirely. Tate's address, 10050 Cielo Dr., was known to Manson, and in fact Manson had been to that house at least once before, less than a year prior to the murders. Terry Melcher, record producer and son of actress Doris Day, lived in the home before it was rented to Tate and her husband, movie director Roman Polanski, who was in Europe at the time of the killings. Manson expected Melcher to sign him to a recording contract and was furious when Melcher gave Charlie's music a 'thumbs down'.

The LaBianca's lived on Waverly Dr., a neighborhood that Manson was familiar with. He knew a neighbor of the LaBianca's and was very familiar with the neighborhood.

If my memory hasn't failed me, he was hiding under one of the ramshakle buildings. It took a couple officers to pull him out, Manson was a scrappy little runt.

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The victims of August 9, 1969 were murdered at 10050 Cielo Dr., and the La Bianca murders the next night on Waverly Dr. in the Los Feliz neighborhood in L.A.