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NEWS ABOUT: Charles Manson

Charles Manson stories: 20 news summaries
Obituary

 Manson Girl Susan Atkins Dies 


Sep 25, 09 6:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - Susan Atkins, one of the women who killed at the behest of Charles Manson, died last night after a battle with brain cancer that had paralyzed her and cost her one leg. She was 61. She died inside the California Institute for Women, where she had been in hospice care.... More »

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Dying Ex-Manson Disciple Atkins Denied Release 

Parole board refuses Susan Atkins' request for mercy

Sep 3, 09 2:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - California yesterday rejected Susan Atkins' plea for compassionate release, the Los Angeles Times reports. The former Charles Manson family member—California's longest-serving female inmate—has brain cancer and likely has just months to live. Atkins was busted in 1969 for participating in the murder of pregnant actress Sharon Tate and... More »

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parole • Charles Manson • Susan Atkins • Sharon Tate • Manson Family • compassionate release

 Dying Manson 
 Killer Pleads 
 Today for 
 'Sympathy' 
 Parole 

Susan Atkins suffers from brain cancer 40 years after slashing Sharon Tate

Sep 2, 09 4:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Charles Manson cult member who held down pregnant actress Sharon Tate and stabbed her 16 times will plead for sympathy today at her 13th parole hearing, reports CNN. Susan Atkins, 61, is suffering from brain cancer and is 85% paralyzed, according to her husband. The hearing may be held... More »

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Charles Manson • Susan Atkins • Sharon Tate • Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme • Debra Tate

(Newser) - Attempted presidential assassin and Manson Family member Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme is free after more than 30 years in prison, ABC News reports. Fromme. 60, had completed her term for the attempted assassination of Gerald Ford—she didn’t get off a shot—but was held longer because of a... More »

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president • federal prison • Gerald Ford • assassination attempt • Charles Manson • Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme • freedom

 Manson 'Harem' 
 Angles for Freedom 

Atkins up for parole; filmmaker makes case for van Houten

Aug 9, 09 9:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - With Squeaky Fromme, who aimed a gun at President Ford, set for parole next Sunday, other members of the murderous “Manson Family” are pushing for release, the Telegraph reports. Susan Atkins, who at first said she’d stabbed actress Sharon Tate 16 times, plans to plead for freedom at... More »

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crime • murder • cult • Charles Manson • Susan Atkins • Sharon Tate • Manson Family • Leslie Van Houten

Interview

Manson's Prosecutor Looks Back

...But he'd rather be prosecuting
George Bush

Aug 8, 09 12:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - Vincent Bugliosi is sick of talking about Charles Manson. He’d rather discuss his new book, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder. But as the man who prosecuted Manson and co-wrote Helter Skelter, that’s what people ask him about to this day. “They’re... More »

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murder • Charles Manson • interview • Manson Family • Vincent Bugliosi

(Newser) - Squeaky Fromme is going free. The Manson follower who attempted to assassinate President Ford in 1975 is scheduled to be released from prison on Aug. 16, ABC News reports. Fromme, real name Lynette, pointed a pistol at Ford from about 2 feet away before an agent wrestled it away. Now... More »

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Gerald Ford • assassination attempt • Charles Manson • Manson Family • Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme

 Manson 
 Lookout: 
 'Tate Cried Out 
 for Her Mom' 

Linda Kasabian speaks out for first time since Mason cult convictions

Aug 2, 09 6:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - A witness has ended years of silence about the savage 1969 Charles Manson cult attacks with new details of the night pregnant actress Sharon Tate pleaded for her baby and cried out for her mom as she was fatally stabbed 16 times, reports the Guardian. Linda Kasabian served as a... More »

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Charles Manson • Susan Atkins • Sharon Tate • Linda Kasabian • Patricia Krenwinkel • Leslie Van Houten

(Newser) - Charles Mason has reached out to former music producer Phil Spector, sending the actress-killer fan mail in the California prison they now share, reports the New York Post. Manson, a mediocre musician before he turned cult leader, sent Spector a note via a guard that he wanted to meet and... More »

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California • Phil Spector • prison • murder • Los Angeles • Charles Manson • Sharon Tate • prison sentence

 New Photo Shows Old Manson 


Mar 19, 09 12:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - A photo showing an aged, haggard Charles Manson was released yesterday as part of a routine updating of California prison documents, the Los Angeles Times reports. The photo shows Manson mostly bald and with a thick, grey beard, his homemade swastika tattoo faded. Manson, 74, is serving a life sentence... More »

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California • prison • crime • murder • Charles Manson • Josef Fritzl

 Manson Follower Won't Go Free  

Board won't release ailing Susan Atkins, who admitted murdering Sharon Tate

Jul 15, 08 6:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - A California parole board today refused to grant a compassionate release for Susan Atkins, a follower of Charles Manson who admitted murdering Sharon Tate 40 years ago, the AP reports. Atkins, 60, is dying of brain cancer, and the parole board listened to impassioned pleas from both sides in a... More »

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Charles Manson • Susan Atkins • Sharon Tate • Manson Family

DA to Prison Board: Don't Free Ailing Manson Killer

Terminally ill Atkins is seeking release

Jul 15, 08 9:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Los Angeles County district attorney has asked the California parole board to deny Charles Manson follower Susan Atkins' request for compassionate release from prison. Atkins, who was convicted of seven 1969 murders, is terminally ill with brain cancer. The DA noted that Atkins stabbed pregnant actress Sharon Tate, tasted... More »

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crime • murder • Charles Manson • Susan Atkins • Sharon Tate • Manson Family

Manson Family Member Pleads for Release

Dying killer seeks mercy after almost 40 years behind bars

Jun 14, 08 8:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - A member of Charles Manson's "family" of killers is asking for compassionate release after 37 years in jail, the Los Angeles Times reports. Susan Atkins, who stabbed Sharon Tate to death while the 8-months-pregnant actress begged for mercy—and then used her blood to write "PIG" on the... More »

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murder • Charles Manson • Sharon Tate • Manson Family

 Manson Body Hunt a Bust 

Diggers come up empty at Death Valley ranch 

May 22, 08 2:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - Investigators yesterday packed up and left the the Death Valley ranch used as a hideout by the murderous Manson Family after finding no trace of bodies a member of the group once suggested might be buried there. The search was triggered by a cadaver-sniffing dog and initial findings of scientific... More »

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crime • murder • Oak Ridge National Laboratory • Charles Manson • Sharon Tate • Manson Family • Death Valley National Park

'Big Dig' Seeks More Manson Bodies

Investigators
pore over cult's
Death Valley ranch

May 20, 08 2:06 PM CDT
(Newser) - Investigators with high-tech equipment and shovels will be spending the next few days combing the Manson Family's desert hide-out for bodies, the Los Angeles Times reports. Rumors that murder victims are buried at the isolated ranch have persisted for decades. Police called in scientists after corpse-sniffing dogs became agitated at... More »

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murder • desert • forensic science • bodies • cult • Charles Manson

Lohan Dumped From Movie About Manson

Producers can't find big-name actresses
to work with her

May 9, 08 11:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - Lindsay Lohan has been dumped from the upcoming Manson Girls movie—and not for the official reasons being circulated, says Deadline Hollywood columnist Nikki Finke in LA Weekly. Apparently, Lohan has become something of an industry pariah—the producers couldn’t find a single name actress willing to work... More »

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film • Lindsay Lohan • movie industry • Charles Manson

Dear Mass Murderer:
I Need Advice

Fake 10-year-old solicits wisdom from famous, infamous

Apr 30, 08 10:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - An unemployed writer posing as a 10-year-old boy seeking advice wrote letters to a number of celebrities, including some of America's most infamous killers. The responses to the queries from the "pop-culture historian," as Radar magazine described Bill Geerhart, range from the weirdly sensible (Ted Kaczynski) to the... More »

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serial killers • Charles Manson • Ted Kaczynski

 Top 10 Crazy Cults 

Polygamists, UFOs, and apocalyptic prophesies abound

Apr 12, 08 10:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - Experts are debating whether the polygamist sect raided in Texas last week is a cult. Meanwhile, LiveScience has cooked up a list of bona fide cults—the top 10 craziest of them all:
  1. Raëlians: Followers believe that UFOs spawned most religions and cloning can lead to reincarnation.
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religion • list • polygamy • Jim Jones • Jonestown massacre • cult • Charles Manson • FLDS • Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

Lindsay Lohan to Play Teen in Manson Family

Signs on to portray
rich Malibu girl mesmerized by Charlie

Mar 28, 08 8:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Actress Lindsay Lohan will play a member of the violent Manson family in the upcoming movie Manson Girls, reports E! Online. LiLo will portray Nancy Pitman, who grew up well-to-do in Malibu and was just 16 when she met Manson through a  friend and quickly became one of his followers. More »

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Lindsay Lohan • actor • movie industry • movies • Charles Manson • Nancy Pitman

More Manson Victims?

Amateur sleuths and a corpse-sniffing dog search Manson ranch in the Calif. Desert

Mar 16, 08 9:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - A rag-tag group of forensic investigators, a gold miner, and a corpse-sniffing dog say they have turned up evidence of long suspected killings by the Manson family in the California desert, AP reports. Using the tools and techniques of chemistry and archeology, the group has concluded that there may be... More »

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murder • Los Angeles • desert • forensic science • cult • Charles Manson • Susan Atkins • Sharon Tate • crime scene

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