Posted on 01/04/2019 12:00:19 AM PST by Olog-hai
A California parole panel on Thursday recommended for the first time that Charles Manson follower Robert Beausoleil be freed after serving nearly a half-century in prison for murder.
Beausoleil, 71, was not involved in the most notorious killings of actress Sharon Tate and six others by the Manson “family” in 1969. He was convicted in the slaying of musician Gary Hinman that same year.
Hinman was tortured for three days, according to testimony at previous parole hearings, including when Manson cut his face with a sword.
Parole panels ruled against releasing Beausoleil 18 prior times.
California’s incoming governor, Gavin Newsom, could block the parole in coming months. Termed-out Gov. Jerry Brown has consistently stopped releases for followers of the cult leader, who died in prison in 2017.
The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office, which has opposed such paroles, did not respond to a request for comment. …
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All of this makes much more of a case that the Manson murders were about sex and drug trade than “political revolution” (which was a cover for the murders).
They were connected to movie stars and music stars. Dealing in sex and drugs. Can’t have the scandal get out and to get Manson, Bugliosi (who authored a book about GW Bush being a murderer) sold a conspiracy story about “Helter Skelter” and a worldwide revolution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Beausoleil
... In his later teen years, he moved to the Los Angeles area and subsequently drifted between there and San Francisco gravitating towards the emerging music scene and acting, until becoming a member of several rock bands beginning about 1965, including The Milky Way and Love. The following year, he met Kenneth Anger and secured a part in Anger’s film Lucifer Rising. In 1969, Beausoleil was living with Gary Hinman when Beausoleil began associating with Charles Manson and his cult.[5]
As described in the book Helter Skelter by Manson prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi, Gary Hinman was killed over money and property that Manson claimed Hinman owed to the Family. This slaying became the first in a series of murders committed by the Family to start “Helter Skelter”, a “war” that Manson had preached to his Family would happen in the summer of 1969. Accompanying Beausoleil that night were Susan Atkins and Mary Brunner, both of whom were later involved in other murders and crimes as well.
More than a decade later, Beausoleil would assert that he had unknowingly supplied members of the Straight Satans motorcycle gang with a batch of bad mescaline, sold to him by Hinman. When the bikers demanded their money back, Atkins and Brunner rode along with Beausoleil to retrieve a refund back at Gary’s cottage, where Bobby was staying. Hinman is said to have refused to pay, saying “I don’t have any money to give you.” When Beausoleil phoned back to Spahn Ranch to report that no money was forthcoming, Manson instructed them to hold Gary captive at the residence and convince him to come up with a way to refund the money, while Manson made his way there.
Manson arrived and proceeded to slice off a part of Hinman’s ear with a sword in the course of a confrontation. Atkins and Brunner stitched it up with dental floss afterwards, as despair set in about not resolving the gang’s cash issue. Manson then ordered Beausoleil to kill Hinman and told him to make it look as if the crime had been committed by black revolutionaries, as he had been predicting to his Family that a race war was imminent. Beausoleil stabbed Hinman to death while Hinman chanted a Buddhist chant and afterwards wrote the words “Political piggy” on a wall in Hinman’s blood, in an attempt to lead police to believe the murder was done by a group of radicals. After he wrote the words, Beausoleil dipped his hand in Hinman’s blood and left a paw print, symbolizing The Black Panthers, in order to mislead the investigators of Hinman’s murder. Beausoleil was subsequently arrested on August 6, 1969[6], after falling asleep in Hinman’s broken down Fiat alongside the highway at Cuesta Grade, a steep segment of U.S. Route 101 between San Luis Obispo and Atascadero.
At Beausoleil’s two trials for the murder, the defense mentioned nothing about the murder being the result of a drug transaction gone wrong. His first revelation of this came in 1981, 12 years after the murders, in an interview published in Oui magazine.[7] In that interview, he also denied that Manson had come to the Hinman residence during the event that led to the murder, although he later reversed himself about that aspect. This[which?] is the version that Beausoleil currently maintains as truth.[8] Also, conspirator Susan Atkins had stated before her death that she never heard any mention by Beausoleil indicating that the reason they went to Hinman’s residence had anything to do with a drug transaction.[9] See Helter Skelter (Manson scenario) for more details on the murders perpetrated by Charles Manson and members of his Family.
...Beausoleil was to star in Kenneth Anger’s film Lucifer Rising, but little was shot before Beausoleil and Anger had a falling out and the project was abandoned. Some of the footage later appeared in Invocation of My Demon Brother (and again in the resurrected Lucifer Rising film). He appeared in a softcore porn film titled The Ramrodder (a.k.a. Savage Passion), which also featured his friend Catherine Share, who went on to become a full-fledged member of the Manson Family. This film was shot, in part, at the infamous Spahn Ranch.
Beausoleil had a brief appearance as Cupid in the 1967 film Mondo Hollywood, a documentary about the social, political, and cultural climate of Los Angeles featuring a wide cast of Hollywood figures, including hair stylist Jay Sebring, who was also murdered by the Family.
Around 1965, Beausoleil was a member of Arthur Lee’s band the Grass Roots, not to be confused with the successful recording artists of the same name. To avoid confusion, the band later changed its name to Love. Lee claimed to have bestowed the nickname “Bummer Bob” on Beausoleil due to a drug burn. Beausoleil claims that Lee named his band Love in reference to another of his many nicknames – “Cupid”. Around 1966, Beausoleil joined a band called The Orkustra; bandmate David LaFlamme went on to greater success with It’s a Beautiful Day. Following his stint in The Orkustra, Beausoleil put together the band he called The Magick Powerhouse of Oz.
In the late 1970s, with the permission of the prison, he composed and recorded the soundtrack for Kenneth Anger’s film Lucifer Rising. The official Beausoleil soundtrack was released on CD (along with archival material from The Orkustra and The Magick Powerhouse of Oz) in 2004.[15] He recorded and released two albums of instrumental material (Orb and Mantra).[16][17]
In 2005, a selection of his artwork was exhibited in Clair Obscur Gallery, Los Angeles. Just before the exhibition, the gallery exhibited photos of Sharon Tate.[18] The parole board, in denying parole in 2005, stated that this display and marketing of Beausoleil’s artwork was exploitative of the victims and showed a lapse of judgment by Beausoleil.[19]
In 2013, The Lucifer Rising Suite was rereleased for the last time on LP. This anthology documents the entire Lucifer Rising soundtrack project from its earliest beginnings in 1967 to its ultimate completion and delivery to the filmmaker in 1979. In addition to the actual soundtrack, some alternate themes, musical and soundscape experiments, and live performances are contained in the boxed set. All of those recordings were acquired from the original reel-to-reel tapes and meticulously restored and mastered for vinyl by Robert Ferbrache. In 2014, a CD version of the boxed set was released. This album package has all of the features of the LP version scaled down to compact disc size.[20]...
Within three days of Beausoleil’s arrest, all the occupants of the Sharon Tate and Labianca homes were brutally slaughtered. Though blood writing on the walls was a common factor at all three murder sites (“Pig” on the Tate wall and “Death to the Pigs” on the La Bianca refrigerator), investigators failed to make the link.
According to Beausoleil, this came as something of a shock to the Manson group who had hoped that the authorities would assume the same killer responsible for all three homicidal sprees, and then release Beausoleil. Having been in jail during the Tate-La Bianca killings, he was therefore not the Hinman killer. This was the “lunatic logic” of the Manson family.
http://www.bardachreports.com/articles/oa_19811100.htm
Oui Magazine
November 1981
Jailhouse Interview: Bobby Beausoleil
The first Manson Family homicide actually was a month before the Tate-LaBianca murders. Over three days in Tracy Prison in northern California, Bobby Beausoleil talks, confesses, and talks some more....
http://www.bardachreports.com/articles/oa_19811100.htm
Let him die in jail. Or if they let him out, put Moonbeam in. Both are psychopaths.
Seems to be just part of the trend where states don’t want the bills as these killers get old...
They tortured the guy for three days? What is wrong with the CA Parole Board?
Should have paroled a long time ago.
There are two sets of laws in the US, if you murder a member of the elite you stay in prison, if you murder one of us you serve 10 years or less. Look at the man who killed John Lennon. The list is long
the answer is NO.
not only about him, but about teaching the populace.
SPJNK.
So you can torture and murder someone in America and walk free? Something is terribly wrong here.
Or let him die alone, cold and homeless on the streets. Works for me.
Gary Hinman was “elite”?
No.Manson.Family.murderer.should.ever.be.parolled.
Bingo! And over time, there are fewer people with a personal interest in objecting because most of the victim’s immediate family and friends pass away or decline to revisit their loss. In addition, there are few murders or other major crimes by 71 year old former inmates in ill health.
Both good points; unless it involves a cop-killer, I rarely see any opposition to these releases. For those, they’ll find the retired widow, as well as other cops, to publicly oppose it for the message it sends.
Unfortunately, the victims of murder and their families are rarely organized and commonly lack knowledge of how to make their case and pressure the system. Absent such opposition, the killer and his advocates get to spin the details of the crime in a mitigating or even false way while claiming that the killer has become a prodigy of rehabilitation and potential candidate for sainthood.
The media wouldn’t even let them make their case; they are completely ignored, while the perps are lionized.
Jail has just become a continuation of public assistance for our permanent underclass, and states simply don’t have the money anymore.
In many states though, in spite of the news media, public sentiment and policy are strongly anti-criminal, sentencing standards provide for long incarcerations for serious crimes, and civilian gun ownership and defensive use are backed by law.
Beausoleil has extensive writings available online. His music seems to indicate he did have some talent back then, but did too many drugs and hung out with the wrong people. Made poor choices and is still paying the price, not a worse price than his victim, though.
He, and many other criminals, should have been executed long ago, but there’s too much money to be made by lawyers, administration, etc. keeping them alive in prison.
He’d probably cost more outside the system (medical, monitoring, EBT, etc.)
Oh, I agree these releases aren’t popular - I just think the states are pressed financially. When you see this BS about non-violent offenders getting the kid glove treatment, I believe it is the same logic - yet we’re all devoting more effort to preventing identity theft and such.
In truth, crime burdens many minority communities, with inadequate law enforcement and weak sentences being frequent complaints -- along with complaints that the police are heavy-handed. In such minority communities, criminals and victims not only live in close quarters but are often the same people.
The dividing line between violent and non-violent offenders is often an arbitrary one. Is the murderer out on parole who gets caught shoplifting a violent or non-violent offender? If he scuffles with and resists the storekeeper when he is caught is that an act of violence?
And as much as state finances and the criminologists' algorithms urge that elderly prisoners are safe for release, there are cases of seventy year olds in ill health who get released from supposed lifetime sentences who then go on to kill again in petty disputes.
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