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Charles Manson — Part 4

551 pages · May 09, 2026 · Document date: Aug 13, 1969 · Broad topic: Cults & Extremism · Topic: Charles Manson · 551 pages OCR'd
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a &e eros 3 ie” Came back Gy ury | Said 3 not; addigg, “T can Y rena cecice Leslis Wiig something on the wall.” _ Watson, testifying, in: his own Vey MEE eid A Pion | said tua iyo OF |fee heiress Abigail Folger at the after: the Tate-La Bianca mur-}| direction of Miss Krenwinkel. Make sure everyhody’s: dead.’ ”| \ders, Manson asked him to kill]] *Speaking in a dull monotone, The slender, six-foot. tal de-| {a forest ranger and a California}}ie said he. committed, the mur- fendant. said he had never been| (Highway Patrol officer in ‘Inyo||dets under the. influence of LSD, at'the La Bianca home. until the) ‘County. pélladonria. root and Methadrine, night of the murders. He said he] | “1 knew then not; to kill,’ he] \anid because Manson had told | jtold the six-man, six-woman} |him to. “Kill everyone. there as jury. “The other people J didn’t} |gruesome.as T could.” even know JI killed. I didn’t)| He said he did not. see, the know they” were real, Now} [faces of his victims, describing things were becoming more] \them as “blobs.” real.” . | { Watson said he had’ no feel- ‘The former high school Donor} ‘ings at the dime the crimes: student’ said. that the day after] were -conimitted but that his Manson -ordered the two new] }‘feelings have grown quite a lot murders, hie: went back to his} jwith the help of other people.” home town in Texas, wheré he; | Asked to describe his feelings stayed for several days. today, Watson saidi, f "“T ¢ouldn’t get away from|/ “You can’t explain how you him (Manson), even though J] |feel about doing a thing ike was. in Texas,” said Watson, ‘Ij that.” oo. H couldn't get him out of my)! He has pleaded innocent, by| head.” reason of insanity to the seven} Watson said he returned to! (intirders for which Manson ‘and California in search -of Mansory ‘ but. never ifound him. At that time, the hippie cultist and) many of his followers weré-in, * the Inyo County jail:. In describitig the Tate ‘mur ders yesterday, Watson said he: shot 17-year-old Steven Parent! in’a car outside. the Tate home, then«shot and. stabbed hair styl- ist Jay Sebring. en | Story of Los. Feliz Deaths © By RICHARD COX Herald-Examiner Staff Writer Charles (Tex) Watson, Who-has: confessed the Sha- ron Tate murders, today added the names of Leno and Rosemary La Bianca lo his list of victims, say- ing he killed the couple on orders from Charles Man- son. “Leslie was hollering—she s ; was screanting,” he continued. leh 25, said yesterday he] |< sean eee the SEE Ee “Ded Kill four of the five per-| | she was screaming, ahd she was flict alain at Miss Tate’s Bene- stabbing another person ... a 1969. anyon home on Aug. 9, woman who: was kind of stand: ing, falling ... I stabbed the female. ; “Katie came running into the room, and called. me: into they other room, and we continued to stab: on the person in the other; room,” he ‘said: Asked by: defense attorney Samuel Bubrick if he had wri ten any of the ‘words found paiuted in blood on thawalls.o the La Bianca home, Watso __——$ $$». + go in and do it. like last night, Jying on a couch. | “T started stabbing on the body on the couch,” he said. “It had a cover over the face. °] couldn't. tell if if was a man or a woman. ‘ " He told the Superior Court off, Judge. Adolph Alexander today Before. starting out, he contin- ued, Manson gave him a knife and an LSD tablet. Charlie got out of the cari” Watson said, describing the group's arrival at the Los Feliz} area _Lésidence occupigd py the grocery executive and his wit ee EE 4" Pe
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