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Manson is sentenced to three years imprisonment at San Pedro, California for violating the terms of his probation. Manson is divorced. Manson is arrested for forging a treasury check. In January, Manson marries again--this time, a nineteen-year-old. Manson is transferred to a federal penitentiary at McNeil Island, Washington.

After fathering a second child, Charles Luther Manson, Manson is again divorced. Manson becomes obsessed by the music of the Beatles. Manson aspires to be a song writer, and devotes most of his spare time in prison to the task.

Manson asks prison officials to let him remain in prison, but having completed a ten-year prison term, he is released. Manson and a number of his followers, now called "The Family," move into Spahn ranch in southern California. The Beatles release their White Album, which proves to be a great influence Manson's thinking.

Manson visits Cielo Drive the Tate residence looking for Terry Melcher, who he hoped might publish his music. A music teacher named Gary Hinman is stabbed to death. Manson tells Family members, "Now is the time for Helter Skelter. Shortly after midnight, the brutal attack on residents at the Tate residence begins. Under a bush near his home, a ten-year-old boy finds the gun used in the Tate murders. Manson is arrested at Barker Ranch in Death Valley and charged with grand theft auto.

While incarcerated in Los Angeles on other charges, Susan Atkins tells a fellow inmate, Virginia Castro Graham , that she participated in the Tate murders. Danny DeCarlo implicates Manson in the Spahn ranch murder of Shorty Shea, and also suggests that persons at the Spahn ranch might also have been responsible for the Tate murders--but, he tells detectives, he would be afraid to testify.

Judge Older grants Linda Kasabian immunity from prosecution for the Tate-LaBianca murders in return for agreeing to appear as the prosecution's star witness at the Manson trial. The defense announces, without having presented any evidence, that it also rests. Manson announces that he wishes to testify. Defense attorney Ronald Hughes fails to show up in court. Vincent Bugliosi presents the prosecution's closing argument in the Manson trial.

The jury convicts all Tate-LaBianca defendants of first-degree murder. Concluding the penalty phase of the trial, the jury fixes the penalty as death for all four Tate-LaBianca defendants. Judge Older sentences Manson to death. Charles "Tex" Watson is convicted on seven counts of first-degree murder. The California Supreme Court declares the death penalty unconstitutional and Manson's sentence is automatically reduced to life in prison. Manson is sent to Vacaville prison, where he remains for the next nine years.

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Back to News Releases In this section. However, instead of this brutal massacre sating the pathological Manson, he criticized the murderers for being sloppy. Ironically, Manson and his Family were arrested not on suspicion of the Tate-LaBianca murders, but simply on the belief that they had vandalized a portion of the Death Valley National Park while they were hiding out in the Mojave Desert.

In , the county sheriff had taken them into custody, not realizing that they were involved in the heinous murders. But it was through the confession of Susan Atkins, while held in detention on suspicion of murdering Gary Hinman during an unrelated incident, that led detectives to realize that Manson and his followers were involved in the killings.

Various motivations were examined during the course of the trial. The most feasible was that Manson's pathological ego, insanity and belief in Armageddon were influences that led him to leave behind a trail of destruction.

Manson believed that he was the new Messiah, and that after a "nuclear attack" he and his followers would be saved by hiding in a secret world under the desert. His prophetic visions included a belief that the race war would result in a Black victory, and Manson along with his Family members would have to mentor the Black community, as they would lack experience to run the planet. As Manson and the Family were to be the beneficiaries of the race war, he told his followers that they had to help initiate it.

According to defense witness and killer Van Houten, this was the primary reason why they murdered the LaBiancas. Manson had taken the wallet of murdered Rosemary LaBianca with the intention that he would deposit it in a section of L.

Later in court, Van Houten, who was just 19 when she took part in the LaBianca killings, alleged that Manson had taken advantage of her vulnerability and dislike for her mother, although she believed, like the other members, that he was a man of vision.

Thirty years later, during a parole board hearing, Van Houten said she was horrified by what she had done that night and desperately wanted to redeem herself. She was denied parole in and again in Susan Atkins admitted in initial confessions to fellow prisoners that she had wanted to cut out Tate's unborn baby but didn't have the time. She also revealed that other grisly and macabre acts were to be perpetrated against the victims and that a list of other high-profile Hollywood stars were on a list to be killed and mutilated.

When asked why they wanted to kill celebrities, Atkins replied that the Manson Family wanted to commit murders that would shock the world and make people take notice. Hughes soon dropped Manson as a client, reportedly because he felt he could convince the jury that Van Houten had been unduly influenced by the Family leader. The move may have cost him his life: Late in the year, Hughes went camping and disappeared, and his decomposed body turned up several months later.

It is thought that he was the victim of a retaliation killing by members of Manson's Family. During the trial, Manson released an album titled Lie in an effort to raise money for his defense. He reveled in the media attention, and during court proceedings he turned up with an X carved into his forehead. Some of his female followers copied the act and shaved their heads, sometimes sitting outside the courthouse.

The X was gradually modified until it turned into a swastika. Throughout the trial, the killers often giggled and exchanged grimaces with Manson, showing no remorse for their crimes.

On January 25, , Manson was convicted of first-degree murder for directing the deaths of the Tate-LaBianca victims. He was sentenced to death, but this was automatically commuted to life in prison after California's Supreme Court invalidated all death sentences prior to He was sentenced to life in prison and spent the next four decades behind bars. Kasabian was granted immunity for her part as star witness. In June , he was removed from the courtroom after taking on the pose of the crucifixion, bowing his head and extending his arms, refusing to sit down.

In October, he jumped from the defense table toward the bench of Judge Charles H. In January , he was again ejected from the courtroom after punching his attorney. He has been denied parole 12 times. Guards said they found other items in the facility that indicated Manson may have been trying to escape, including nylon rope and a catalog that showed how to order hot-air balloons. Two years later, Manson was doused with a flammable liquid and set ablaze by a fellow Vacaville inmate, who told guards he attacked Manson in retaliation for threats the cult leader made against him for practicing the Hare Krishna faith.

Manson was treated for second- and third-degree burns, and his scalp, hair and beard were singed. In , he tried to smuggle a hacksaw blade into San Quentin State Prison in the sole of his shoe, days after being transferred to that facility from Vacaville. In the decade between his and parole hearings, he accumulated 60 prison violations.

Parole transcripts chronicling his prison offenses show female officers bore the brunt of his verbal abuse. Manson has been housed at Corcoran State Prison since He has obtained illegal cellphones in the facility at least three times, according to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Prison officials found Manson with a second cellphone , equipped with a camera, in January