As the scene dissolved into panicked calamity, Atkins held down Sharon Tate. In Susan Atkins' grand jury testimony in 1969, she recalls saying to Tate, who pled for her life and the life of her unborn baby. “Woman, I have no mercy for you,” Atkins told her — though Atkins claimed she was talking to herself.
September 2, 2020Irving Kanarek / DiedIrving Allan Kanarek (May 12, 1920 – September 2, 2020) was an aerospace engineer and a criminal defense attorney, best known for representing defendants such as cult leader Charles Manson and kidnapper Jimmy Lee Smith. Seattle, Washington, U.S. Orange County, California, U.S.
Wilson invited Watson to his home, where he met Charles Manson and ultimately joined Manson's followers. Watson was sentenced to death in 1971, which was commuted to life in prison the following year. He is currently an inmate of Mule Creek State Prison in Ione, near Sacramento.
Ron Hughes (May 6, 1943 – February 12, 2019) was the college scouting coordinator of the NFL's Pittsburgh Steelers. Saint Petersburg, Florida, U.S. Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Linda KasabianBornLinda Darlene Drouin June 21, 1949 Biddeford, Maine, U.S.NationalityAmericanOther namesLinda Darlene Drouin Linda ChristianKnown forAssociation with the Manson Family and as a prosecution witness in the Tate-LaBianca murder trial
Irving KanarekIrving Kanarek, the hard-charging and bombastic criminal defense attorney who represented Charles Manson and argued through the decades that his notorious client had nothing to do with the gruesome Tate-LaBianca murders, has died at age 100.
Originally sentenced to death on November 11, 1971, Watson's sentence was commuted down to life with the possibility of parole in March of 1973 when the death penalty was briefly outlawed. He has been denied parole 18 times and will not be eligible for another hearing until 2026.
Of the three so-called Manson girls who were convicted of murder and went to prison, two of them — Leslie Van Houten and Patricia Krenwinkel — are still alive and still in prison. The third, Susan Atkins, died of brain cancer in 2009 at age 61.
Van Houten is being held at the California Institution for Women in Corona and is scheduled to return for another parole suitability hearing in May 2023.
Ronald W. Hughes disappeared while on a camping trip during a ten-day recess from the Tate-LaBianca murder trial in November 1970. His body was found in March 1971, but his cause of death could not be determined.