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  • Texas to execute mentally ill man in controversial case

    08/21/2008 11:45:38 PM PDT · by Bailee · 30 replies · 10+ views
    Mean while Charles Mansion still lives and will be eligible for parole one day.
  • Manson Killer Stays in Jail for Sharon Tate's Murder

    07/16/2008 11:06:33 AM PDT · by Coffee200am · 19 replies · 10+ views
    News.au.com ^ | 07.17.2008 | News.au.com
    SUSAN Atkins, who admitted slitting actress Sharon Tate's throat during the Manson Family murders, was refused "compassionate release" from jail. The 12-member parole board listened to arguments on releasing Atkins, who is thought to be suffering brain cancer, before issuing its decision in court documents without further explanation.
  • Manson follower Susan Atkins DENIED compassionate release today

    07/15/2008 7:47:16 PM PDT · by Lizavetta · 262 replies · 7+ views
    Just saw it on AP. She's been hospitalized since March, has only one leg, has terminal cancer and a few months to live, and was denied a "get out of jail" card by the California Board of Prison Terms. Thank you, Board of Prison Terms commissioners. You did the right thing.
  • D.A. Cooley protests Susan Atkins' release request

    07/14/2008 11:20:40 AM PDT · by jazusamo · 14 replies · 6+ views
    LA Times ^ | July 14, 2008 | Andrew Blankstein
    The district attorney says despite Atkins' terminal brain cancer, the Charles Manson follower's crimes warrant denying a 'compassionate release.'Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Steve Cooley has strongly urged state prison officials to reject former Charles Manson follower and convicted murderer Susan Atkins' request for "compassionate release" because of a terminal illness. In a July 11 letter to the chairman of the state Board of Parole Hearings, Cooley said Atkins' "horrific crimes alone warrant a denial of her request" to be released because she is dying of brain cancer. The board is scheduled to hold a hearing Tuesday to consider Atkins'...
  • Should Susan Atkins die at home or in prison?

    07/03/2008 2:34:01 PM PDT · by Free ThinkerNY · 188 replies · 7+ views
    hotair.com ^ | July 3, 2008 | Ed Morrissey
    Few if any murders carry the horrifying cachet of the Manson murders in 1969. The deaths of seven people on two nights at the end of a tumultuous decade combined all of the political and cultural baggage of the era — drugs, counterculture, celebrity, cults, and pure evil in the form of the perpetrators, especially Charles Manson himself. Combining mass murder and serial murder, the Manson Family has played on the imaginations of Americans for almost 40 years, while its members routinely apply for parole and get rejected. Now one of them faces death, although much different in nature than...
  • Manson Follower Wants Freedom to Die

    06/14/2008 11:54:29 AM PDT · by Nick Thimmesch · 48 replies · 11+ views
    AP VIA AOL ^ | 6/14/08 | UNKNOWN AP WRITER
    CORONA, Calif. (June 13) - Former Charles Manson follower Susan Atkins, convicted in the 1969 murder of actress Sharon Tate, could soon be released from prison because she is near death, authorities said.
  • Manson Follower Susan Atkins Being Considered For Release

    06/13/2008 5:03:56 PM PDT · by Clintonfatigued · 54 replies · 17+ views
    KRXI TV Channel 11 ^ | June 13, 2008
    Authorities say Susan Atkins -- a Charles Manson follower convicted in the 1969 murder of actress Sharon Tate -- could soon be released from prison because she is near death. State corrections spokeswoman Terry Thornton says the now 59-year-old Atkins is terminally ill and is being considered for so-called "compassionate release." Thornton says the corrections department is reviewing the request, which would then be passed to a state sentencing court. Such releases are rare -- only 16 percent of requests were granted last year. Thornton did not say what sort of illness Atkins has.
  • Ex-Manson follower dying, seeks release from prison

    06/13/2008 2:24:29 PM PDT · by Baladas · 80 replies · 15+ views
    CNN ^ | June 13, 2008 | staff
    LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Former Manson family member Susan Atkins has requested a "compassionate release" from prison because she has less than six months to live, a California prisons spokeswoman said Friday. Susan Atkins, Califorina's longest-serving female inmate, is shown in her most recent mug shot. 1 of 2 Atkins, 60, was convicted in the 1969 slayings of actress Sharon Tate and four others. She had been incarcerated at the California Institution for Women in Corona, California. But Atkins, the state's longest- serving female inmate, has been hospitalized since March 18 and is listed in serious condition, state corrections...
  • Manson follower Susan Atkins being considered for compassionate release

    06/13/2008 7:56:28 AM PDT · by Lizavetta · 80 replies · 29+ views
    AP | June 13, 2008
    CORONA, Calif. (AP) — Former Charles Manson follower Susan Atkins, convicted in the 1969 murder of actress Sharon Tate, could soon be released from prison because she is near death, authorities said. Atkins, 59, is terminally ill and being considered for so-called "compassionate release," state corrections spokeswoman Terry Thornton said. She gave no details of Atkins' illness, but said a doctor had determined she had less than six months to live. The corrections department was reviewing the request, which if approved would then be passed to the state Board of Parole which has the power to release Atkins under state...
  • Manson ranch to be searched for bodies

    05/18/2008 9:42:14 PM PDT · by hole_n_one · 45 replies · 41+ views
    UPI ^ | 10 May 2008
    Manson ranch to be searched for bodies Published: May 10, 2008 at 9:26 PM INDEPENDENCE, Calif., May 10 (UPI) -- Authorities say they will dig at a desert ranch in California once used by 1960s convicted killer and cult leader Charles Manson in search of bodies. Inyo County Sheriff Bill Lutze issued a statement Friday saying an earlier search of Barker Ranch, located in Death Valley 150 miles west of Las Vegas, utilizing a cadaver dog and detection equipment was inconclusive, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Saturday. "There was no consistent response from the dogs that searched, and no conclusive...
  • Dept. launches official probe of Barker Ranch [Charles Manson Family]

    04/01/2008 8:39:50 PM PDT · by Inyo-Mono · 9 replies · 41+ views
    Inyo Register, Inyo County, California ^ | March 31, 2008 | Ken Koerner
    After weeks of speculation in the international media over whether bodies are indeed buried at a former Death Valley hide-out for Charles Manson and his followers, the Inyo County Sheriff’s Department has decided to launch an official investigation. The Sheriff’s Department will, nevertheless, proceed cautiously. “What we’ve determined after a careful review of all of the recent data that has been provided to us, following those trips out to Barker Ranch by laboratory scientists, professors and some highly-trained search dogs,” Inyo County Sheriff Bill Lutze said, “is that there’s reason enough to look for more scientific indicators of potential burial...
  • More Manson Family victim's bodies found

    03/16/2008 8:17:14 AM PDT · by null and void · 115 replies · 4,059+ views
    Fox news | 16 Mar 08 | nully
    Breaking on Fox, no link yet. This means there are new murders to tie to Charles Manson. Maybe, just maybe, he can get the death penalty for one or more of these. Assuming the liberal gods in black robes don't block it again to save him.
  • Threat Matrix: March 2008

    03/05/2008 5:59:39 PM PST · by nwctwx · 1,515 replies · 15,287+ views
    Petraeus: Al Qaida Trying to 'Come Back In' U.S. military officials said there will be no significant reduction in coalition troops in the Baghdad area as part of an effort to stop the Al Qaida offensive in northern Iraq. They said Al Qaida was trying to reenter Baghdad and reverse its losses in 2007. "Al Qaida is trying to come back in," U.S. military commander Gen. David Petraeus said. "We can feel it and see it, and what we're trying to do is rip out any roots before they can get deeply into the ground." Read More Militants Assert...
  • Experts Find Possible Evidence of More Manson Family Murders

    03/15/2008 7:15:45 PM PDT · by RDTF · 3 replies · 1,425+ views
    Fox News.com ^ | March 15, 2008 | AP
    DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — Bone-white stretches of salt, leached up from the lifeless soil, lay like a shroud over the high desert where a paranoid Charles Manson holed up after an orgy of murder nearly four decades ago. Now, as then, few venture into this alkaline wilderness — gold-diggers, outlaws, loners content to live and let live. But a determined group of outsiders recently made the trek. They were leading forensic investigators searching for new evidence of death — clues pointing to possible decades-old clandestine graves. And the results of just-completed followup tests suggest bodies could indeed be...
  • AP Exclusive: On Manson's trail, forensic testing suggests possible new grave sites

    03/15/2008 2:47:22 PM PDT · by kellynla · 40 replies · 2,197+ views
    International Herald Tribune ^ | March 15, 2008 | staff
    DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif.: Bone-white stretches of salt, leached up from the lifeless soil, lay like a shroud over the high desert where a paranoid Charles Manson holed up after an orgy of murder nearly four decades ago. Now, as then, few venture into this alkaline wilderness — gold-diggers, outlaws, loners content to live and let live. But a determined group of outsiders recently made the trek. They were leading forensic investigators searching for new evidence of death — clues pointing to possible decades-old clandestine graves. And the results of just-completed followup tests suggest bodies could indeed be lying...
  • R.I.P.- Charles Herman Older, 88; L.A. County Judge Presided Over Manson Murder Trial

    06/20/2006 7:26:23 AM PDT · by lunarbicep · 11 replies · 312+ views
    latimes.com ^ | June 20, 2006 | Jocelyn Y. Stewart
    Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Charles Herman Older had been on the bench only a few years when the trial of accused mass murderer Charles Manson landed in his courtroom. By the time the 10-month, highly publicized trial ended, he was a veteran. In the early 1970s the case was as bizarre as anything the city had seen until then: Manson and his LSD-dropping followers — mostly young women — told of committing gruesome murders in the name of starting a race war, showed up in court with shaved heads and Xs on their foreheads, and sometimes chanted nonsensically, in...
  • Judge who presided over Manson trial dies

    06/20/2006 8:38:52 AM PDT · by Borges · 15 replies · 510+ views
    KTVO - AP ^ | 6/20/06
    LOS ANGELES The Los Angeles judge who presided over the murder trial of Charles Manson and his followers has died. Charles Older was 88. He died Saturday of complications from a fall. A longtime friend and former law partner describes Older as "a Renaissance man" who enjoyed painting and golf. He'd also been a war hero -- serving as a pilot with the Flying Tigers and shooting down at least 18 Japanese planes during World War Two. Manson prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi remembers Older as a man who handled the circus-like trial in a firm, fair and dignified way. Manson tried...
  • Manson, Corcoran guard have incident (Tough guy, Charlie Manson)

    06/25/2005 10:41:01 AM PDT · by Enterprise · 47 replies · 1,274+ views
    The Fresno Bee ^ | 6-25-05 | unknown
    "Manson apparently refused to go back to his cell and assumed a fighting stance with a correctional officer, said Todd Slosek, a spokesman for the California Department of Corrections. Slosek didn't have exact details on when the incident occurred, other than to say it happened sometime this week. He said he didn't believe either Manson or the officer was injured in the confrontation. "
  • An American Traitor: Guilty As Charged [Jane Fonda]

    06/10/2005 5:48:00 AM PDT · by SJackson · 34 replies · 3,850+ views
    Frontpagemagazine ^ | 6-10-05 | Henry Mark Holzer and Erika Holzer
    An American Traitor: Guilty As Charged By Henry Mark Holzer and Erika HolzerFrontPageMagazine.com | June 10, 2005For three decades Jane Fonda obfuscated, distorted and lied about virtually everything connected with her wartime trip to North Vietnam: her motive, her acts, her intent, and her contribution to the Communists’ war effort.  With the aid of clever handlers, she so successfully suppressed and spun her conduct in Hanoi that many Americans didn’t know what she had done there, and, more important, the legal significance. Three years ago, our book, “Aid and Comfort”: Jane Fonda in North Vietnam (McFarland & Co.), laid bare...
  • Manson Follower Denied Parole

    06/02/2005 1:43:36 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 44 replies · 1,619+ views
    Los Angeles Times ^ | June 2, 2005
    Former Charles Manson follower Susan Atkins was denied parole for the 11th time Wednesday for her role in the 1969 murders of actress Sharon Tate and six others during a crime rampage that stunned the nation. Atkins, now 57, was one of cult leader Manson's "family" of young killers who burst into a Benedict Canyon home 36 years ago and killed Tate and four others. The following night, they stabbed to death a wealthy couple in their Los Angeles home. Although Atkins has since embraced Christianity and apologized for the killings, Board of Prison Terms spokesman Tip Kindel said the...
  • COP KILLER UNCAGED -- '60s radical Boudin free

    09/18/2003 1:38:07 PM PDT · by Coleus · 32 replies · 765+ views
    NY Post ^ | 09.18.03
    <p>Kathy Boudin, carrying roses she was given after her mother died, walks out of a Westchester prison yesterday (above). She was jailed 22 years ago for her role in the infamous Brinks heist that left two cops and a guard dead.</p>
  • Manson Family Member Van Houten Loses Parole Bid

    08/25/2004 7:43:56 PM PDT · by CounterCounterCulture · 118 replies · 2,071+ views
    Reuters ^ | 25 August 2004
    Manson Family Member Van Houten Loses Parole Bid LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A California prison board on Wednesday refused for the 15th time to parole Leslie Van Houten, a Charles Manson disciple who was sentenced to life behind bars for her role in the sensational cult murders. Van Houten, now 55 and serving her sentence at the California Institution for Women in Frontera, was rejected in her bid for parole despite a tearful apology for her part in the grisly 1969 crimes. (snip) The former homecoming princess admitted to holding down Rosemary LaBianca while two other Manson followers, Charles "Tex"...
  • Manson Cleared Of Crotch Assault

    09/09/2003 11:28:53 AM PDT · by bedolido · 23 replies · 231+ views
    SkyNews ^ | 09/09/03 | Staff Writer
    Shock rocker Marilyn Manson has been cleared of grabbing a security guard's head and thrusting it into his crotch. The suit was filed by David Diaz who claimed he was left with emotional distress, mental anguish and humiliation after the incident. The star, famed for dressing in black and wearing heavy makeup, grabbed the guard's head and held it against his crotch while gyrating his hips. It happened during a show at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis in October 2000. But after three days of deliberations, a jury agreed with Manson's claim that the contact between him and the guard...
  • Rewarding Murder

    07/19/2003 8:38:35 PM PDT · by DocFarmer · 14 replies · 296+ views
    ChronWatch.com ^ | 19 July 2003 | Doc Farmer
    "Rewarding Murder" Posted by Doc Farmer Saturday, July 19, 2003 About 20 years ago, there was a vicious triple murder in my hometown of Fort Wayne, Indiana. A man, his wife, and their 11-year-old son were brutally bludgeoned to death one weekend in their own home. When the man didn’t arrive at work on Monday morning, his co-workers got worried, went to his home, and found the bodies. And they found wandering among the corpses the only survivor--a toddler, barely two years old. The little girl had been alone for two days with her murdered family. The police investigated, the...
  • JAILED SQUEAKY'S LESBIAN LUST

    06/27/2003 8:52:10 AM PDT · by presidio9 · 37 replies · 928+ views
    NY Post ^ | June 27, 2003 -- | Dick Johnson
    <p>THREE decades after being sent to prison for trying to assassinate President Gerald Ford, Charles Manson disciple Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme has found love - with a lesbian serial killer.</p> <p>Kristen Gilbert, a former Northampton, Mass., veterans affairs nurse, was convicted in 2001 of poisoning four patients in her care. Now she is said to be carrying on a caged-heat affair with none other than Manson's former groupie Fromme.</p>
  • Ex-Manson follower says she's political prisoner

    05/31/2003 4:24:23 PM PDT · by Houmatt · 44 replies · 1,360+ views
    Houston Chronicle ^ | May 31, 2003 | Associated Press
    RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Former Charles Manson disciple and convicted murderer Susan Atkins is suing Gov. Gray Davis, contending his policy opposing parole for nearly all murderers has made her a political prisoner. Parole board members and prison officials also are named in the federal civil rights lawsuit, which accuses them of ignoring the Constitution and parole rules to keep Atkins behind bars. "Over the course of her incarceration, Ms. Atkins has been transformed into a political prisoner," said the suit, filed by attorney Eric P. Lampel of Irvine. He said psychiatrists call her a model prisoner who is not a...
  • DIXIE CHICKS SPOOKED BY EVIL MANSON VIBES (Trio calls in medicine man for exorcism)

    03/26/2003 10:41:16 PM PST · by Mister Magoo · 25 replies · 285+ views
    Star Magazine ^ | March 26, 2003 | Star Magazine
    DIXIE CHICKS SPOOKED BY EVIL MANSON VIBES Trio calls in medicine man for exorcism DIXIE CHICKS The sizzling-hot Dixie Chicks needed a little special spiritual help recently to calm their nerves. Confidential hears the country trio called on an Indian shaman to "cleanse" a California set they were using to film a television commercial. No April Fools' Day joke! The wildly popular singers – Emily Robison, Martie Maguire and Natalie Maines – drafted a medicine man in full regalia and armed with traditional Indian sage-and-cedar wands after they learned that the place picked for the ad once was home to...