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The Last Homestead When police raided the Barker Ranch on suspicion of auto theft last August, they couldn't tind Manson— until they noticed his hair dangling from under the sink at left. He had squeezed himself into the 12x16-inch cupboard but then couldn't quite close the door Clean-shaven and outfitted more like a local prospector than a mystic, Manson (in plaid shirt) prepared for an outing with a fellow resident of Death Valley. He had tet his hair and beard grow in the last few months The family’s final home was the de- serted Barker Ranch on the desolate edge of Death Valley. 20 miles from the nearest paved road but reachable by dune buggy and by the family bus, which ts stl parked in the front yard