Posted on 07/28/2016 8:31:05 AM PDT by jazusamo
It’s hard to believe it has been almost fifty years since the infamous Tate-LaBianca murders of 1969. Unfortunately, we are reminded of these murders on too regular a basis. They were again in the news recently when Gov. Brown overruled the parole board’s recommendation to release Leslie Van Houten, one of several Manson Family members convicted of murder.
Good call -- she is where she belongs.
If you lived in southern California at the time, you likely have strong memories of those events. It was an unusually hot August that year, when the Tate murders hit the news. Six people were killed in horrifically brutal fashion. One of the victims, actress Sharon Tate, was eight and a half months pregnant: her baby was the sixth victim. Tate was also the wife of director Roman Polanski, which magnified the crimes’ visibility.
The next night, in upscale Los Feliz, two more people, Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, were also murdered.
As the details came out, the inhumanity, the cruelty involved, was shocking, even to hardened investigators.
All of Southern California was on edge. My aunt and uncle lived in the area, but moved in with another uncle for a period of time. The edge abated only after arrests were made. The trials of the killers, Leslie Van Houten, Tex Watson, Susan Atkins, and Patricia Krenwinkel, ended on March 29, 1971 when four (Linda Kasabian was granted immunity) of the five killers were sentenced to death. The ringleader; Charles ‘Charlie’ Manson, was convicted later.
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Actually, the book "The Family" by Ed Saunders was a better book on the Manson family. In fact, it's one of my favorite true crime books of all time. If you liked Helter Skelter you should definitely check it out.
The libs in California can forgive a lot of things but Charlie and the family killed the summer of love. They’ll never get out.
When I was a senior in high school our sociology class assignment was to do a presentation on a group, cult, sect, etc. I chose the Manson Family. The book was both terrifying and fascinating. I couldn’t sleep well for months afterward. I would stay up late constantly checking the locks on all the doors to the house. It really creeped me out.
I often wonder about the medical examiner who had to do the autopsies on the victims and how it affected him or her. The murders were so horrific, especially Sharon Tate and her unborn baby.
How is Los Feliz significant?
WOW
The LaBianca’s lived there
Its where the LaBianca murders were committed.
Thought I remembered that name from someplace.
They ALL should die in prison but the thing that steams my beans is Tex Watson has been afforded conjugal visits and has 3 (?) children??? That needs to stop. ALL rights should be taken away while in prison and a death penalty should mean just that and a life sentence should mean just that. Susan Atkins died a painful death and that’s OK with me. I have no pity for cold-blooded murderers!
Amen
Moonbeam got it right cause like anyone over mid 50s recalls that horrific time vividly
The true death of the flower children fantasy
Absolutely beyond the pale what they did to those poor people those two nights
And that’s just what we know about
I also recommend Bugliosi’s book, Helter Skelter; and the tv movie of the same name was excellent. Steve Railsback was incredibly effective as Manson.
Los Feliz
The movie was a joke; some scenes were so bad they came across as parody. I kept asking myself, Who would write such a horrible screen play? How could these big name actors perform so poorly? Why did the director allow his name to be attached to this schlock?
It was that bad.
Truly, one of the worst films I have ever watched, down there with Fireball 500.
But it had a lot of big stars in it and was gossipy and salacious (for the time) so the celebrity-watchers came out in droves to watch it.
Acid fueled orgy ranch for Manson and Bobby Beausoleil and Tex Watson etc gangbanged all those goofy waif girls who wandered in there and the Spann ranch
It was not that unique of a scene to be candid....I myself saw similar compounds in early 70s....runaway dumbass meanbitches girls easily pliable and drugs and Roman barge nastiness
But what made the Manson family is Charlie
A sick pup abused as a boy who laid in bed as a child watching his whore mom bang men for money all nite
A perfect storm of human sickness all come together to satisfy everyone’s darkest urges
Just look how so many of those girls acted AFTER the gig was up
Scary man...chilling what young women are capable of.....
Mansons people by blood are big in Cannon county in middle Tennessee not far from here.....where mountain culture starts around here
Back in the 80s I had regular dealings with a tall hippy-ish man who worked in a warehouse in Phoenix. A pleasant fellow, he had a scar in the shape of a tiny swastika on his forehead. One day I asked him if he had been a member of the Manson Family. He said, “Yes.”
Acid fueled orgy ranch for Manson and Bobby Beausoleil and Tex Watson etc gangbanged all those goofy waif girls who wandered in there and the Spann ranch
It was not that unique of a scene to be candid....I myself saw similar compounds in early 70s....runaway dumbass meanbitches girls easily pliable and drugs and Roman barge nastiness
But what made the Manson family is Charlie
A sick pup abused as a boy who laid in bed as a child watching his whore mom bang men for money all nite
A perfect storm of human sickness all come together to satisfy everyone’s darkest urges
Just look how so many of those girls acted AFTER the gig was up
Scary man...chilling what young women are capable of.....
They should have all gotten the death penalty.
Manson also predicted a war between the blacks and whites in the U.S.
>>war between the blacks and whites in the U.S.
That low hanging fruit has always been on the tree of human nature.
Predators like Manson use what they learn to satisfy their selfish appetites by abusing knowledge to facilitate the manipulation of others.
Others, not so much:
“EDUCATE THE COMMON PEOPLE”
—Thomas Jefferson
Thanks for the suggestion.
I still can’t figure out why so many women like bad guys.
Last month I met a young woman at a shop near Disneyland. She was quite attractive, possibly 21 if that, slim, and had tattoos all over her body. When she told me her parents lived in Rolling Hills Estates, a wealthy area, I felt for her parents.
There are people looking for lost souls to fill them with their ego and evil desires.
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