Charles Manson Reign of Terror: 40 Years Later
source: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/MansonMurders/story?id=8266725&page=1
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It's been 40 years since actress Sharon Tate and four others were slaughtered in a posh Los Angeles canyon mansion. It's been 40 years ago that a couple's children found the bodies of their parents Leno and Rosemary LaBianca savagely slashed to ribbons.
Forty years after that carnage the man responsible for the two day murderous rampage in Southern California remains a household name synonymous with evil, hatred, even the devil.
Now 74, Charles Manson, whose reign of terror once represented the end of the swinging '60s, has been relegated to a dark place in pop culture.
Several of the "Manson women" who supported him with the devotion of acolytes are now gray haired, completing lengthy prison terms and have a chance to be released in the coming years.
Manson himself never carried out any of the killings but was convicted of murder and sentenced to death for commanding the Aug. 9, 1969, murders of Tate, who was more than eight months pregnant at the time, and houseguests Jay Sebring, a hairstylist, heiress Abigail Folger, writer Wojciech Frykowski and teenager Steven Parent. The convictions include the LaBianca killings Aug. 10, 1969.
Also attributed to Manson and his cultish Family was the death of Gary Hinman, killed July 25, 1969.
The death sentences of Manson and his lethal Family were commuted to life sentences when a California Supreme Court ruling abolished capital punishment in 1972. While some of his followers have already been paroled, with others possibly to follow, it seems certain Manson will die behind bars.
Vincent Bugliosi, the Los Angeles prosecutor in the 1970 trial, said Manson represented a special brand of evil and that's why he remains so intriguing to this day.
Forty years after that carnage the man responsible for the two day murderous rampage in Southern California remains a household name synonymous with evil, hatred, even the devil.
Now 74, Charles Manson, whose reign of terror once represented the end of the swinging '60s, has been relegated to a dark place in pop culture.
Several of the "Manson women" who supported him with the devotion of acolytes are now gray haired, completing lengthy prison terms and have a chance to be released in the coming years.
Manson himself never carried out any of the killings but was convicted of murder and sentenced to death for commanding the Aug. 9, 1969, murders of Tate, who was more than eight months pregnant at the time, and houseguests Jay Sebring, a hairstylist, heiress Abigail Folger, writer Wojciech Frykowski and teenager Steven Parent. The convictions include the LaBianca killings Aug. 10, 1969.
Also attributed to Manson and his cultish Family was the death of Gary Hinman, killed July 25, 1969.
The death sentences of Manson and his lethal Family were commuted to life sentences when a California Supreme Court ruling abolished capital punishment in 1972. While some of his followers have already been paroled, with others possibly to follow, it seems certain Manson will die behind bars.
Vincent Bugliosi, the Los Angeles prosecutor in the 1970 trial, said Manson represented a special brand of evil and that's why he remains so intriguing to this day.
