Charles manson jr suicide9/23/2023 ![]() ![]() Kasabian had been living in hiding, under an assumed name, since the trial. ![]() The 60s, the decade of love, ended on that night, on 9 August 1969." "The Manson murders sounded the death knell for hippies and all they symbolically represented," Bugliosi told the Observer last week. It is a claim "that may be high, but could still be true", according to Vincent Bugliosi, the lawyer who prosecuted them. In the end, Manson was convicted of the murders of nine people, thanks to Kasabian who was the prosecution's star witness at his trial in 1970 - although he and his followers claimed they had, in fact, "offed" a total of 35 people whose bodies had been buried in the desert. In addition, the case involved a range of celebrity names including the Beatles, the Beach Boys, and record producer Terry Melcher, the son of Doris Day. Manson's strange, hypnotic hold over his followers turned a group of peaceful hippies living in a commune into a group of merciless killers. The killings horrified America and the rest of the world and the subject has continued to fascinate ever since. ![]() So I went down the hill and I got into the car and I just stayed there and waited." "I thought about going to a house where there were lights down the road and then I said, 'No, don't do that, because they'll find me and kill all those people'. I saw Katie stabbing her," says Kasabian, who is now 60. "I saw a woman in a white dress and she had blood all over her and she was screaming and she was calling for her mom. Her killers wrote the word "pig" in her blood on the wall of her house. In the interview with Kasabian, to be screened in the docu-drama Manson on Channel Five next week, she tells how Tate pleaded in vain for the life of her unborn child. Tate was married to the film director Roman Polanski and was eight months' pregnant. ![]()
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