Linda Kasabian, Manson Family Member and
Key Witness in Murder Trials, Dies at 73
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Posted By: Hazymac,
3/2/2023 9:46:10 AM
Kasabian was the lookout for the “Manson Family” during the murder of Sharon Tate on August 9, 1969, when the pregnant actress and four other friends were murdered in California.
Linda Kasabian, a member of the infamous “Manson Family” and the prosecution's key witness to cult leader Charles Manson during the murder trials of him and the Family, has died at 73.
Kasabian was the lookout for the “Manson Family” during the murder of Sharon Tate on August 9, 1969, when the pregnant actress and four other friends were murdered in California.
On the day after the Tate murder spree, Kasabian accompanied Manson and other members of the “Family”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Hazymac 3/2/2023 10:05:35 AM (No. 1415481)
Hippie chick Linda Kasabian turned state's witness against the other defendants. The prosecuting attorney Vince Bugliosi (who co-authored with Kurt Gentry the #1 selling true crime book of all time: "Helter Skelter) stated that Ms. Kasabian, who had not participated in any of the killings, was a far superior witness to the bloodthirsty Susan Atkins, whose jailhouse confessions to two fellow inmates broke the case against Manson and his merry band of murderers. Kasabian, when a defense attorney thrust a picture under her nose of a very dead Sharon Tate, reacted with horror. That's something a real human being would have done. Should Kasabian have been put away with the rest of them? No. She helped convict the rest. What a time to have lived through!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
MissNan 3/2/2023 10:26:49 AM (No. 1415508)
I wonder if she ever expressed any remorse for what she helped
take part in? Anyone who could fall in love with Charles Manson
had some serious problems in my opinion.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Sully 3/2/2023 10:44:37 AM (No. 1415532)
This case came up in the formative years of my childhood. When Helter Skelter came on TV, my father made sure I watched it with him. I now know he wanted me to see what happens to aimless children who seek a "family" to replace their real family. And what drugs do to you.
The Judge in Manson's case was Judge Charles Older. Manson lunged at him at some point in the trial, and a bailiff held him back. Probably saved his life. Not Older's life, Manson's.
Judge Charles Older was a WWII veteran, a pilot in the famed Flying Tigers AVG group. Lt Older flew missions over China in a P-40 Warhawk against IJN pilots who had thus far been unstoppable in their bombers and fast maneuverable fighters, as they continued to brutalize the population after the Rape of Nanjing. But the AVG stopped em in their tracks.
The AVG pilots were a thorn in the side of Tojo, who would have relished shooting one down and capturing a pilot to make an exhibition of his death. Older had met the real devil and it wasn't the scrawny druggie Manson.
God bless Judge Older and the victims of the mindless and merciless who brutalized them. Whose kind is still with us I fear.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Hazymac 3/2/2023 10:57:35 AM (No. 1415552)
#3 has a good memory. At one point during the year long trial Manson said something aloud about the judge (or the system) "trying to kill me," and Judge Older tried to silence him. Manson grabbed a pencil and leaped over the defense table before being subdued--Manson was 5' 2"--by bailiffs. In Bugliosi's non-fiction Helter Skelter, Judge Older quietly armed himself for the rest of the trial. Sensible.
Here in Central Florida there are many legally armed citizens, as the Framers intended, although the courthouse isn't a place a citizen can bring his gun, unless he or she is a policeman. There is one other class of persons who can legally carry firearms in courthouses. Who is it? Here come da judge!
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"Once Upon A Time In Hollywood" - interesting and entertaining film. Sharon Tate's sister said that Margot Robbie nailed the part but also said that she would love to see Tarantino write and direct a movie about just her sister. Pretty morbid, if you ask me - imagine what he would do with that climactic scene. There was an interview with Manson a couple of years ago during which he was shown a tape of Susan Atkins (maybe it was Kasabian - I don't remember) leveling that granting her parole would not release her from the hell she was living, having done what she did - and it was all because of Charlie. When the tape ended and Manson was asked what he thought of it he paused and then replied, "She got old on me!" Indeed, #1, those were wild times.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 3/2/2023 11:37:01 AM (No. 1415605)
Hopefully, she at some point repented her sins and accepted Jesus Christ as her Lord and Savior. If so maybe today she will be with Him in Paradise.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
happywarrior 3/2/2023 12:08:10 PM (No. 1415626)
Kasabian did not start out as a lookout at 10050 Cielo Dr. that night. She scaled that fence with the rest of them but after watching the first victim, 18-year-old Steven Parent, being slaughtered in his car by Tex Watson, and then watching Abigail Folger and Voytek Frykowski being chased around the lawn and stabbed to death, she quickly bailed out and went back to the car. It was after learning this that Charlie made her the lookout driver for the murder of the LaBianca's the following night. Manson really had a soft spot for Kasabian. Anyone else would have faced the wrath of Manson for not doing his bidding at Cielo.
In a strange twist, Voytek's son Bartek died in 1999 in Poland as a result of stab wounds which they ruled a suicide.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
udanja99 3/2/2023 12:43:30 PM (No. 1415647)
Heater Skelter is one of the scariest books that I’ve ever read. It was more frightening and creepy than anything Stephen King could ever come up with.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Newtsche 3/2/2023 1:25:14 PM (No. 1415664)
Wikipedia says Kasabian died in January of this year.
??
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Noj15 3/2/2023 1:41:57 PM (No. 1415677)
Yeah, #8. I read Helter Skelter when it was first published. I never picked it up again. There was a passage in that book that still haunts me today. One of the victims, Abigail Folger, while being repeatedly stabbed, looked at her killer and said, "You can stop now, I'm already dead." Hell awaits.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 3/2/2023 3:47:21 PM (No. 1415760)
Linda Kasabian led a sad life before and after the murders. She did the right thing testifying against the vicious Manson and his associates. The rest of her life was mostly a hot mess.
Agree with #8 and #10 that Helter Skelter is a terrifying book. Every time I read about one of the Manson tribe being up for parole, I remember how vicious they were and pray that they stay locked up.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
formerNYer 3/2/2023 3:54:38 PM (No. 1415768)
If you want to know the truth about the Manson family and the murders read:
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the history of the sixties.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
formerNYer 3/2/2023 3:55:21 PM (No. 1415769)
By Tom O'Neill, sorry for the double post
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DanvilleBill 3/2/2023 5:03:00 PM (No. 1415807)
In the early 70's I had a second job working graveyard on weekends as a lone security guard at a large factory. Except for my flashlight there was no lighting allowed due to the national energy crisis that was in effect back then. Being graveyard, it was pretty hard for me to stay awake when sitting in the guard shack between rounds. To help me out my thoughtful wife bought me a copy of Bugliosi's Helter Skelter to read by flashlight between my rounds. It completely solved the problem of falling asleep.
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