Hughes disappeared during a two-week recess where Judge Older had to appoint a replacement, Irving Kanarek, to continue as the lead attorney for Manson and the others. By the end of the trial the girls begged to testify, but oddly the defense rested without calling any witnesses.
The defense attorney who represented Charles Manson in the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders and continued to maintain Manson’s innocence after his conviction reportedly died …
Monday, March 29th, 1971. LOS ANGELES, Mar. 29 — A body believed to be that of missing Manson case defense attorney Ronald Hughes was found in the rugged Sespe Hot Springs near Ojai, and a team of Ventura County sheriff’s deputies was hiking into the area, officials reported today. Hughes vanished in that area last November.
At least one Manson Family member, Lynette Fromme, said Hughes was murdered in retaliation for betraying Charles Manson.
They were told to search in the area of the Barker Ranch in Inyo County, California, an area where Manson and several family members lived after the Spahn Ranch raids. It took weeks of searching but the badly decomposed and naked body of Ronald Hughes was found between two rocks on March 29, 1971.
Ronald Hughes was a defense attorney for Charles Manson and later Leslie Van Houten. Hughes was different from the other attorneys in that he had experience with the hippy movement and subculture in Southern California. This became useful in his defense strategies.
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The defense attorney who represented Charles Manson in the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders and continued to maintain Manson’s innocence after his conviction reportedly died last week at age 100. Irving Kanarek was known as loud and combative in the courtroom – by the third day of testimony in the Manson murder trial he had already objected ...
The next night Manson went along with his group for a random murder. He told his followers to kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, who were sitting on their couch in their home.
LOS ANGELES, Mar. 29 — A body believed to be that of missing Manson case defense attorney Ronald Hughes was found in the rugged Sespe Hot Springs near Ojai, and a team of Ventura County sheriff’s deputies was hiking into the area, officials reported today.
Hughes, defense attorney for Leslie Van Houten, one of the three female defendants convicted with Charles Manson of the Tate-LaBianca murders, had been late to court several times, so when he failed to show Nov. 30 it didn’t cause too much of a stir.