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By burglarizing a liquor store, Manson obtained money that enabled him to rent a room.[2]:136–7 He committed a string of burglaries of other stores, including one from which he stole a bicycle, but was eventually caught in the act and sent to an Indianapolis juvenile center. He escaped after one day, but was recaptured and placed in Boys Town. Four days after his arrival there, he escaped with another boy. The pair committed two armed robberies on their way to the home of the other boy's uncle.[2]:137–146

Caught during the second of two subsequent break-ins of grocery stores, Manson was sent, at age 13, to the Indiana Boys School, where, he would later claim, he was brutalized sexually and otherwise.[10] After many failed attempts, he escaped with two other boys in 1951.[2]:137–146

In Utah, the three were caught driving to California in cars they had stolen. They robbed several filling stations along the way. For the federal crime of taking a stolen car across a state line, in violation of the Dyer Act, Manson was sent to Washington, D.C.'s National Training School for Boys. Despite four years of schooling and an IQ of 109 (later tested at age 21),[2]:137–146 he was illiterate. A caseworker deemed him aggressively antisocial.[2]:137–146

First imprisonment
In October 1951, on a psychiatrist's recommendation, Manson was transferred to Natural Bridge Honor Camp, a minimum security institution. Manson was transferred to the Federal Reformatory, Petersburg, Virginia, where he was considered "dangerous."[2]:137–146 In September 1952, a number of other serious disciplinary offenses resulted in his transfer to the Federal Reformatory at Chillicothe, Ohio, a more secure institution.[2]:137–146 About a month after the transfer, he became almost a model resident. Good work habits and a rise in his educational level from the lower fourth to the upper seventh grade won him a May 1954 parole.[2]:137–146

After temporarily honoring a parole condition that he live with his aunt and uncle in West Virginia, Manson moved in with his mother in that same state. In January 1955, he married a hospital waitress named Rosalie Jean Willis, with whom, by his own account, he found genuine, if short-lived, marital happiness.[10] He supported their marriage through small-time jobs and auto theft.[2]:137–146

Around October, about three months after he and his pregnant wife arrived in Los Angeles in a car he had stolen in Ohio, Manson was again charged with a federal crime, specifically another Dyer Act violation, for taking the vehicle across state lines. After a psychiatric evaluation, he was given five years' probation. His subsequent failure to appear at a Los Angeles hearing on an identical charge filed in Florida resulted in his March 1956 arrest in Indianapolis. His probation was revoked; he was sentenced to three years' imprisonment at Terminal Island, San Pedro, California.[2]:137–146

While Manson was in prison, Rosalie gave birth to their son Charles Manson, Jr. During his first year at Terminal Island, Manson received visits from Rosalie and his mother, who were now living together in Los Angeles. In March 1957, when the visits from his wife ceased, his mother informed him Rosalie was living with another man. Less than two weeks before a scheduled parole hearing, Manson tried to escape by stealing a car. He was subsequently given five years probation, and his parole was denied.[2]:137–146

Second imprisonment
Manson received five years' parole in September 1958, the same year in which Rosalie received a decree of divorce. By November, he was pimping a 16-year-old girl and was receiving additional support from a girl with wealthy parents. In September 1959, he pleaded guilty to a charge of attempting to cash a forged U.S. Treasury check, which he claimed to have stolen from a mailbox; the latter charge was later dropped. He received a 10-year suspended sentence and probation after a young woman with an arrest record for prostitution made a "tearful plea" before the court that she and Manson were "deeply in love ... and would marry if Charlie were freed."[2]:137–146 Before the year's end, the woman did marry Manson, possibly so testimony against him would not be required of her.[2]:137–146

The woman's name was Leona. As a prostitute, she had used the name Candy Stevens. After Manson took her and another woman from California to New Mexico for purposes of prostitution, he was held and questioned for violation of the Mann Act. Though he was released, he evidently suspected, rightly, that the investigation had not ended. When he disappeared, in violation of his probation, a bench warrant was issued. An April 1960 indictment for violation of the Mann Act followed.[2]:137–146 Arrested in Laredo, Texas, in June, when one of the women was arrested for prostitution, Manson was returned to Los Angeles. For violation of his probation on the check-cashing charge, he was ordered to serve his 10-year sentence.[2]:137–146

In July 1961, after a year spent unsuccessfully appealing the revocation of his probation, Manson was transferred from the Los Angeles County Jail to the United States Penitentiary at McNeil Island. There, he took guitar lessons from Barker-Karpis gang leader Alvin "Creepy" Karpis, and obtained a contact name of someone at Universal Studios in Hollywood from another inmate, Phil Kaufman.[12] According to Jeff Guinn's 2013 biography of Manson, Charlie's mother Kathleen moved from California to Washington state to be closer to him during his McNeil Island incarceration, working nearby as a waitress.[13]

Although the Mann Act charge had been dropped, the attempt to cash the Treasury check was still a federal offense. His September 1961 annual review noted he had a "tremendous drive to call attention to himself," an observation echoed in September 1964.[2]:137–146 In 1963, Leona was granted a divorce, in the pursuit of which she alleged that she and Manson had a son, Charles Luther.[2]:137–146

In June 1966, Manson was sent, for the second time in his life, to Terminal Island, in preparation for early release. By March 21, 1967, his release day, he had spent more than half of his 32 years in prisons and other institutions. This was mainly because he had broken a number of federal laws. Then as now, federal sentences were much more severe than state sentences for many of the same offenses.[2]:137–146 Telling the authorities that prison had become his home, he requested permission to stay,[2]:137–146 a fact mentioned in a 1981 television interview with Tom Snyder.

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Crowe shooting
Date July 1, 1969
On May 18, 1969, Terry Melcher visited Spahn Ranch to hear Manson and the women sing. Melcher arranged a subsequent visit, not long thereafter, during which he brought a friend who possessed a mobile recording unit, but he himself did not record the group.[1]:156,185[31]

By June, Manson was telling the Family they might have to show blacks how to start "Helter Skelter".[1]:244–247[29][32] When Manson tasked Watson with obtaining money supposedly intended to help the Family prepare for the conflict, Watson defrauded a black drug dealer named Bernard "Lotsapoppa" Crowe. Crowe responded with a threat to wipe out everyone at Spahn Ranch. Manson countered on July 1, 1969, by shooting Crowe at his Hollywood apartment.[1]:99–113[1]:91–96[33][34]

Manson's mistaken belief that he had killed Crowe was seemingly confirmed by a news report of the discovery of the dumped body of a Black Panther in Los Angeles. Although Crowe was not a member of the Black Panthers, Manson concluded he had been and expected retaliation from the Panthers. He turned Spahn Ranch into a defensive camp, with night patrols of armed guards.[33][35] "If we'd needed any more proof that Helter Skelter was coming down very soon, this was it," Tex Watson would later write. "Blackie was trying to get at the chosen ones."[33]

Hinman murder Edit
Hinman murder
Date July 25, 1969-
July 27, 1969
On July 25, 1969, Manson sent Family member Bobby Beausoleil along with Mary Brunner and Susan Atkins to the house of acquaintance Gary Hinman, to persuade him to turn over money Manson thought Hinman had inherited.[1]:75–77[33][36] The three held the uncooperative Hinman hostage for two days, during which Manson showed up with a sword to slash his ear. After that, Beausoleil stabbed Hinman to death, ostensibly on Manson's instruction. Before leaving the Topanga Canyon residence, Beausoleil, or one of the women, used Hinman's blood to write "Political piggy" on the wall and to draw a panther paw, a Black Panther symbol.[1]:33, 91–96, 99–113[37]

In magazine interviews of 1981 and 1998–99,[38][39] Beausoleil would say he went to Hinman's to recover money paid to Hinman for drugs that had supposedly been bad; he added that Brunner and Atkins, unaware of his intent, went along idly, merely to visit Hinman. On the other hand, Atkins, in her 1977 autobiography, wrote that Manson directly told Beausoleil, Brunner, and her to go to Hinman's and get the supposed inheritance—$21,000. She said Manson had told her privately, two days earlier, that, if she wanted to "do something important", she could kill Hinman and get his money.[36] Beausoleil was arrested on August 6, 1969, after he had been caught driving Hinman's car. Police found the murder weapon in the tire well.[1]:28–38 Two days later, Manson told Family members at Spahn Ranch, "Now is the time for Helter Skelter." [40]

Tate murders
On the night of August 9, 1969, Manson directed Watson to take Susan Atkins, Linda Kasabian, and Patricia Krenwinkel to Melcher's former home and kill everyone there. He told the three women to do as Watson told them. The Family members proceeded to kill five people: actress Sharon Tate (who was eight months pregnant), who was living there at the time; Jay Sebring, Abigail Folger, and Wojciech Frykowski, who were visiting her; and Stephen Parent, who had been visiting the caretaker of the home. Atkins wrote "pig" in blood on the front door as they left. The murders created a nationwide sensation.[41] In a trial lasting from June 1970 to January 1971, Manson, Atkins, and Krenwinkel were found guilty and sentenced to death. In a separate trial in 1971, Watson was also found guilty and sentenced to death. All the death penalties were commuted to life in prison in 1972 when the death penalty was abolished in California.[42]

LaBianca murders Edit
LaBianca murders
Date August 10, 1969
The next night of August 10, 1969, six Family members—Leslie Van Houten, Steve "Clem" Grogan, and the four from the previous night—rode out on Manson's orders. Displeased by the panic of the victims at Cielo Drive, Manson accompanied the six, "to show them how to do it."[1]:176–184, 258–269[43] After a few hours' ride, in which he considered a number of murders and even attempted one of them,[1]:258–269[43] Manson gave Kasabian directions that brought the group to 3301 Waverly Drive. This was the home of supermarket executive Leno LaBianca and his wife, Rosemary, a dress shop co-owner.[1]:22–25, 42–48 Located in the Los Feliz section of Los Angeles, it was next door to a house at which Manson and Family members had attended a party the previous year.[1]:176–184, 204–210

According to Atkins and Kasabian, Manson disappeared up the driveway and returned to say he had tied up the house's occupants. He then sent Watson up with Krenwinkel and Van Houten.[1]:176–184, 258–269 In his autobiography, Watson stated that having gone up alone, Manson returned to take him up to the house with him. After Manson pointed out a sleeping man through a window, the two of them entered through the unlocked back door.[43] Watson added at trial, he "went along with" the women's account, which he figured made him "look that much less responsible."[44]

As Watson related it, Manson roused the sleeping Leno LaBianca from the couch at gunpoint and had Watson bind his hands with a leather thong. After Rosemary was brought briefly into the living room from the bedroom, Watson followed Manson's instructions to cover the couple's heads with pillowcases. He bound these in place with lamp cords. Manson left, sending Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten into the house with instructions that the couple be killed.[1]:176–184, 258–269[43]

Before leaving Spahn Ranch, Watson had complained to Manson of the inadequacy of the previous night's weapons.[1]:258–269 Now, sending the women from the kitchen to the bedroom to which Rosemary LaBianca had been returned, he went to the living room and began stabbing Leno LaBianca with a chrome-plated bayonet. The first thrust went into the man's throat.[43]

Sounds of a scuffle in the bedroom drew Watson there to discover Mrs. LaBianca keeping the women at bay by swinging the lamp tied to her neck. After subduing her with several stabs of the bayonet, he returned to the living room and resumed attacking Leno, whom he stabbed a total of 12 times with the bayonet. When he had finished, Watson carved "WAR" on the man's exposed abdomen. He stated this in his autobiography.[43] In an unclear portion of her eventual grand jury testimony, Atkins, who did not enter the LaBianca house, said she believed Krenwinkel had carved the word.[1]:176–184[45] In a ghost-written newspaper account based on a statement she had made earlier to her attorney,[1]:160,193 she said Watson carved it.[46]

Returning to the bedroom, Watson found Krenwinkel stabbing Rosemary LaBianca with a knife from the LaBianca kitchen. Heeding Manson's instruction to make sure each of the women played a part, Watson told Van Houten to stab Mrs. LaBianca too.[43] She did, stabbing her approximately 16 times in the back and the exposed buttocks.[1]:204–210, 297–300, 341–344 At trial, Van Houten would claim, uncertainly,[1]:433 that Rosemary LaBianca was dead when she stabbed her. Evidence showed that many of Mrs. LaBianca's 41 stab wounds had, in fact, been inflicted post-mortem.

you do The Black Dahlia case? Don't think that one was solved. Pretty famous too.

Thanks for posting the Rostov Ripper one, he was insane.

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The Tate murders became national news on August 9, 1969. The Polanskis' housekeeper, Winifred Chapman, had arrived for work that morning and discovered the murder scene.[1]:5–6, 11–15 On August 10, detectives of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, which had jurisdiction in the Hinman case, informed Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) detectives assigned to the Tate case of the bloody writing at the Hinman house. Thinking the Tate murders were a consequence of a drug transaction, the Tate team ignored this and the crimes' other similarities.[1]:28–38[47] The Tate autopsies were under way and the LaBianca bodies were yet to be discovered.

Steven Parent, the shooting victim in the Tate driveway, was determined to have been an acquaintance of William Garretson, who lived in the guest house. Garretson was a young man hired by Rudi Altobelli to take care of the property while Altobelli himself was away.[1]:28–38 As the killers arrived, Parent had been leaving Cielo Drive, after a visit to Garretson.[1]:28–38

Held briefly as a Tate suspect, Garretson told police he had neither seen nor heard anything on the murder night. He was released on August 11, 1969, after undergoing a polygraph examination that indicated he had not been involved in the crimes.[1]:28–38, 42–48 Interviewed decades later, he stated he had, in fact, witnessed a portion of the murders, as the examination suggested.[48]

The LaBianca crime scene was discovered at about 10:30 p.m. on August 10, approximately 19 hours after the murders were committed. Fifteen-year-old Frank Struthers—Rosemary's son from a prior marriage and Leno's stepson—returned from a camping trip and was disturbed by seeing all of the window shades of his home drawn and by the fact that his stepfather's speedboat was still attached to the family car, which was parked in the driveway. He called his older sister and her boyfriend. The boyfriend, Joe Dorgan, accompanied the younger Struthers into the home and discovered Leno's body. Rosemary's body was found by investigating police officers.[1]:38

On August 12, 1969, the LAPD told the press it had ruled out any connection between the Tate and LaBianca homicides.[1]:42–48 On August 16, the sheriff's office raided Spahn Ranch and arrested Manson and 25 others, as "suspects in a major auto theft ring" that had been stealing Volkswagens and converting them into dune buggies. Weapons were seized, but because the warrant had been misdated the group was released a few days later.[1]:56

In a report at the end of August when virtually all leads had gone nowhere, the LaBianca detectives noted a possible connection between the bloody writings at the LaBianca house and "the singing group the Beatles' most recent album."[1]:65

Breakthrough
Still working separately from the Tate team, the LaBianca team checked with the sheriff's office in mid-October about possible similar crimes. They learned of the Hinman case. They also learned that the Hinman detectives had spoken with Beausoleil's girlfriend, Kitty Lutesinger. She had been arrested a few days earlier with members of "the Manson Family".[1]:75–77

The arrests had taken place at the desert ranches, to which the Family had moved and whence, unknown to authorities, its members had been searching Death Valley for a hole in the ground—access to the Bottomless Pit.[1]:228–233[49][50] A joint force of National Park rangers and officers from the California Highway Patrol and the Inyo County Sheriff's Office—federal, state, and county personnel—had raided both the Myers Ranch and Barker Ranch after following clues unwittingly left when Family members burned an earthmover owned by Death Valley National Monument.[1]:125–127[51][52] The raiders had found stolen dune buggies and other vehicles and had arrested two dozen people, including Manson. A Highway Patrol officer found Manson hiding in a cabinet beneath Barker's bathroom sink.[1]:75–77, 125–127

Following up leads a month after they had spoken with Lutesinger, LaBianca detectives contacted members of a motorcycle gang Manson tried to enlist as his bodyguards while the Family was at Spahn Ranch.[1]:75–77 While the gang members were providing information that suggested a link between Manson and the murders,[1]:84–90, 99–113 a dormitory mate of Susan Atkins informed LAPD of the Family's involvement in the crimes.[1]:99–113 As one of those arrested at Barker, Atkins had been booked for the Hinman murder after she'd confirmed to the sheriff's detectives that she'd been involved in it, as Lutesinger had said.[1]:75–77[53] Transferred to Sybil Brand Institute, a detention center in Los Angeles, she had begun talking to bunkmates Ronnie Howard and Virginia Graham, to whom she gave accounts of the events in which she had been involved.

welcome bro he was a completely unhinged psychopath creeps me out big time lol

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On December 1, 1969, acting on the information from these sources, LAPD announced warrants for the arrest of Watson, Krenwinkel, and Kasabian in the Tate case; the suspects' involvement in the LaBianca murders was noted. Manson and Atkins, already in custody, were not mentioned; the connection between the LaBianca case and Van Houten, who was also among those arrested near Death Valley, had not yet been recognized.[1]:125–127, 155–161, 176–184

Watson and Krenwinkel were already under arrest, with authorities in McKinney, Texas, and Mobile, Alabama, having picked them up on notice from LAPD.[1]:155–161 Informed that a warrant was out for her arrest, Kasabian voluntarily surrendered to authorities in Concord, New Hampshire, on December 2.[1]:155–161

Before long, physical evidence such as Krenwinkel's and Watson's fingerprints, which had been collected by LAPD at Cielo Drive,[1]:15, 156, 273, and photographs between 340–41 was augmented by evidence recovered by the public. On September 1, 1969, the distinctive .22-caliber Hi Standard "Buntline Special" revolver Watson used on Parent, Sebring, and Frykowski had been found and given to the police by Steven Weiss, a 10-year-old who lived near the Tate residence.[1]:66 In mid-December, when the Los Angeles Times published a crime account based on information Susan Atkins had given her attorney,[1]:160,193 Weiss' father made several phone calls which finally prompted LAPD to locate the gun in its evidence file and connect it with the murders via ballistics tests.[1]:198–199

Acting on that same newspaper account, a local ABC television crew quickly located and recovered the bloody clothing discarded by the Tate killers.[1]:197–198 The knives discarded en route from the Tate residence were never recovered, despite a search by some of the same crewmen and months later by LAPD.[1]:198, 273 A knife found behind the cushion of a chair in the Tate living room was apparently that of Susan Atkins, who lost her knife in the course of the attack.[1]:17, 180, 262[54]

Trial Edit
Manson Family
Decided January 25, 1971
The trial began June 15, 1970.[1]:297–300 The prosecution's main witness was Kasabian, who, along with Manson, Atkins, and Krenwinkel, had been charged with seven counts of murder and one of conspiracy.[1]:185–188 Since Kasabian, by all accounts, had not participated in the killings, she was granted immunity in exchange for testimony that detailed the nights of the crimes.[1]:214–219, 250–253, 330–332 Originally, a deal had been made with Atkins in which the prosecution agreed not to seek the death penalty against her in exchange for her grand jury testimony on which the indictments were secured; once Atkins repudiated that testimony, the deal was withdrawn.[1]:169, 173–184, 188, 292 Because Van Houten had participated only in the LaBianca killings, she was charged with two counts of murder and one of conspiracy.
Originally, Judge William Keene had reluctantly granted Manson permission to act as his own attorney. Because of Manson's conduct, including violations of a gag order and submission of "outlandish" and "nonsensical" pretrial motions, the permission was withdrawn before the trial's start.[1]:200–202, 265 Manson filed an affidavit of prejudice against Keene, who was replaced by Judge Charles H. Older.[1]:290 On Friday, July 24, the first day of testimony, Manson appeared in court with an X carved into his forehead. He issued a statement that he was "considered inadequate and incompetent to speak or defend [him]self" – and had "X'd [him]self from [the establishment's] world."[1]:310[55] Over the following weekend, the female defendants duplicated the mark on their own foreheads, as did most Family members within another day or so.[1]:316 (Years later, Manson carved the X into a swastika. See "Remaining in view", below.)

The prosecution argued the triggering of "Helter Skelter" was Manson's main motive.[40] The crime scene's bloody White Album references (pig, rise, helter skelter) were correlated with testimony about Manson predictions that the murders blacks would commit at the outset of Helter Skelter would involve the writing of "pigs" on walls in victims' blood.[1]:244–247, 450–457

Testimony that Manson had said "now is the time for Helter Skelter" was supplemented with Kasabian's testimony that, on the night of the LaBianca murders, Manson considered discarding Rosemary LaBianca's wallet on the street of a black neighborhood. Having obtained the wallet in the LaBianca house, he "wanted a black person to pick it up and use the credit cards so that the people, the establishment, would think it was some sort of an organized group that killed these people."[40] On his direction, Kasabian had hidden it in the women's restroom of a service station near a black area.[1]:176–184, 190–191, 258–269, 369–377 "I want to show blackie how to do it," Manson had said as the Family members had driven along after the departure from the LaBianca house.

Ongoing disruptions Edit
During the trial, Family members loitered near the entrances and corridors of the courthouse. To keep them out of the courtroom itself, the prosecution subpoenaed them as prospective witnesses, who would not be able to enter while others were testifying.[1]:309 When the group established itself in vigil on the sidewalk, some members wore a sheathed hunting knife[citation needed] that, although in plain view, was carried legally. Each of them was also identifiable by the X on his or her forehead.[1]:339

Some Family members attempted to dissuade witnesses from testifying. Prosecution witnesses Paul Watkins and Juan Flynn were both threatened;[1]:280, 332–335 Watkins was badly burned in a suspicious fire in his van.[1]:280 Former Family member Barbara Hoyt, who had overheard Susan Atkins describing the Tate murders to Family member Ruth Ann Moorehouse, agreed to accompany the latter to Hawaii. There, Moorehouse allegedly gave her a hamburger spiked with several doses of LSD. Found sprawled on a Honolulu curb in a drugged semi-stupor, Hoyt was taken to the hospital, where she did her best to identify herself as a witness in the Tate-LaBianca murder trial. Before the incident, Hoyt had been a reluctant witness; after the attempt to silence her, her reticence disappeared.[1]:348–350, 361

On August 4, despite precautions taken by the court, Manson flashed the jury a Los Angeles Times front page whose headline was "Manson Guilty, Nixon Declares". This was a reference to a statement made the previous day when U.S. President Richard Nixon had decried what he saw as the media's glamorization of Manson. Voir dired by Judge Older, the jurors contended that the headline had not influenced them. The next day, the female defendants stood up and said in unison that, in light of Nixon's remark, there was no point in going on with the trial.[1]:323–238

On October 5, Manson was denied the court's permission to question a prosecution witness whom the defense attorneys had declined to cross-examine. Leaping over the defense table, Manson attempted to attack the judge. Wrestled to the ground by bailiffs, he was removed from the courtroom with the female defendants, who had subsequently risen and begun chanting in Latin.[1]:369–377 Thereafter, Older allegedly began wearing a revolver under his robes.[1]:369–377

Defense rests
On November 16, the prosecution rested its case. Three days later, after arguing standard dismissal motions, the defense stunned the court by resting as well, without calling a single witness. Shouting their disapproval, Atkins, Krenwinkel, and Van Houten demanded their right to testify.[1]:382–388

In chambers, the women's lawyers told the judge their clients wanted to testify that they had planned and committed the crimes and that Manson had not been involved.[1]:382–388 By resting their case, the defense lawyers had tried to stop this; Van Houten's attorney, Ronald Hughes, vehemently stated that he would not "push a client out the window". In the prosecutor's view, it was Manson who was advising the women to testify in this way as a means of saving himself.[1]:382–388 Speaking about the trial in a 1987 documentary, Krenwinkel said, "The entire proceedings were scripted – by Charlie."[56]

The next day, Manson testified. Lest Manson's address violate the California Supreme Court's decision in People v. Aranda by making statements implicating his co-defendants, the jury was removed from the courtroom.[1]:134 Speaking for more than an hour, Manson said, among other things, that "the music is telling the youth to rise up against the establishment." He said, "Why blame it on me? I didn't write the music." "To be honest with you," Manson also stated, "I don't recall ever saying 'Get a knife and a change of clothes and go do what Tex says.'"[1]:388–392

As the body of the trial concluded and with the closing arguments impending, defense attorney Hughes disappeared during a weekend trip.[1]:393–398 When Maxwell Keith was appointed to represent Van Houten in Hughes' absence, a delay of more than two weeks was required to permit Keith to familiarize himself with the voluminous trial transcripts.[1]:393–398 No sooner had the trial resumed, just before Christmas, than disruptions of the prosecution's closing argument by the defendants led Older to ban the four defendants from the courtroom for the remainder of the guilt phase. This may have occurred because the defendants were acting in collusion with each other and were simply putting on a performance, which Older said was becoming obvious.[1]:399–407

Conviction and penalty phase Edit
On January 25, 1971, the jury returned guilty verdicts against the four defendants on each of the 27 separate counts against them.[1]:411–419 Not far into the trial's penalty phase, the jurors saw, at last, the defense that Manson—in the prosecution' view—had planned to present.[1]:455 Atkins, Krenwinkel, and Van Houten testified the murders had been conceived as "copycat" versions of the Hinman murder, for which Atkins now took credit. The killings, they said, were intended to draw suspicion away from Bobby Beausoleil by resembling the crime for which he had been jailed. This plan had supposedly been the work of, and carried out under the guidance of, not Manson, but someone allegedly in love with Beausoleil—Linda Kasabian.[1]:424–433 Among the narrative's weak points was the inability of Atkins to explain why, as she was maintaining, she had written "political piggy" at the Hinman house in the first place.
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Midway through the penalty phase, Manson shaved his head and trimmed his beard to a fork; he told the press, "I am the Devil, and the Devil always has a bald head."[1]:439 In what the prosecution regarded as belated recognition on their part that imitation of Manson only proved his domination, the female defendants refrained from shaving their heads until the jurors retired to weigh the state's request for the death penalty.[1]:439, 455

The effort to exonerate Manson via the "copycat" scenario failed. On March 29, 1971, the jury returned verdicts of death against all four defendants on all counts. On April 19, 1971, Judge Older sentenced the four to death.

On the day the verdicts recommending the death penalty were returned, news came that the badly decomposed body of Ronald Hughes had been found wedged between two boulders in Ventura County.[1]:457 It was rumored, although never proven, that Hughes was murdered by the Family, possibly because he had stood up to Manson and refused to allow Van Houten to take the stand and absolve Manson of the crimes.[1]:387, 394, 481 Though he might have perished in flooding,[1]:393–394, 481[57] Family member Sandra Good stated that Hughes was "the first of the retaliation murders".[1]:481–482, 625

Watson returned to McKinney, Texas after the Tate-LaBianca murders. He was arrested in Texas on November 30, 1969, after local police were notified by California investigators that his fingerprints were found to match a print found on the front door of the Tate home. Watson fought extradition to California long enough that he was not included among the three defendants tried with Manson.[58] The trial commenced in August 1971; by October, he, too, had been found guilty on seven counts of murder and one of conspiracy. Unlike the others, Watson had presented a psychiatric defense; prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi made short work of Watson's insanity claims. Like his co-conspirators, Watson was sentenced to death.[1]:463–468

In February 1972, the death sentences of all five parties were automatically reduced to life in prison by California v. Anderson, 493 P.2d 880, 6 Cal. 3d 628 (Cal. 1972), in which the California Supreme Court abolished the death penalty in that state.[1]:488–491 After his return to prison, Manson's rhetoric and hippie speeches held little sway. Though he found temporary acceptance from the Aryan Brotherhood, his role was submissive to a sexually aggressive member of the group at San Quentin.[59]

Before the conclusion of Manson's Tate/LaBianca trial, a reporter for the Los Angeles Times tracked down Manson's mother, remarried and living in the Pacific Northwest. The former Kathleen Maddox claimed that, in childhood, her son had suffered no neglect; he had even been "pampered by all the women who surrounded him."[60]

Willett murders Edit
On November 8, 1972, the body of 26-year-old Vietnam Marine combat veteran James L. T. Willett was found by a hiker near Guerneville, California.[61] Months earlier, he had been forced to dig his own grave, and then was shot and poorly buried; his body was found with one hand protruding from the grave and the head and other hand missing (most likely because of scavenging animals). His station wagon was found outside a house in Stockton where several Manson followers were living, including Priscilla Cooper, Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, and Nancy Pitman. Police forced their way into the house and arrested several of the people there, along with Fromme who had called the house after they had arrived. The body of James Willett's 19-year-old wife Lauren "Reni" Chavelle[62] Olmstead Willett was found buried in the basement.[61] She had been killed very recently by a gunshot to the head, in what the Family members initially claimed was an accident. It was later suggested that she was killed out of fear that she would reveal who killed her husband, as the discovery of his body had become prominent news. The Willetts' infant daughter was found alive in the house. Michael Monfort[who?] pled guilty to murdering Reni Willett, and Priscilla Cooper, James Craig, and Nancy Pitman pled guilty as accessories after the fact. Monfort and William Goucher[who?] later pled guilty to the murder of James Willett, and James Craig pled guilty as an accessory after the fact. The group had been living in the house with the Willetts while committing various robberies. Shortly after killing Willett, Monfort had used Willett's identification papers to pose as Willett after being arrested for an armed robbery of a liquor store.[62] News reports suggested that James Willett was not involved in the robberies[63] and wanted to move away, but was killed out of fear that he would talk to police. After leaving the Marines following two tours in Vietnam, Willett had been an ESL teacher for immigrant children.

In a 1971 trial that took place after his Tate/LaBianca convictions, Manson was found guilty of the murders of Gary Hinman and Donald "Shorty" Shea and was given a life sentence. Shea was a Spahn Ranch stuntman and horse wrangler who had been killed approximately 10 days after an August 16, 1969, sheriff's raid on the ranch. Manson, who suspected that Shea helped set up the raid, had apparently believed Shea was trying to get Spahn to run the Family off the ranch. Manson may have considered it a "sin" that the white Shea had married a black woman; and there was the possibility that Shea knew about the Tate/LaBianca killings.[1]:99–113[64] In separate trials, Family members Bruce Davis and Steve "Clem" Grogan were also found guilty of Shea's murder.[1]:99–113, 463–468[65]

In 1977, authorities learned the precise location of the remains of Shorty Shea and, contrary to Family claims, that Shea had not been dismembered and buried in several places. Contacting the prosecutor in his case, Steve Grogan told him Shea's corpse had been buried in one piece; he drew a map that pinpointed the location of the body, which was recovered. Of those convicted of Manson-ordered murders, Grogan would become, in 1985, the first— and, as of 2017, the only one—to be paroled.[1]:509

On September 5, 1975, the Family rocketed back to national attention when Squeaky Fromme attempted to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford.[1]:502–511 The attempt took place in Sacramento, to which she and Manson follower Sandra Good had moved to be near Manson while he was incarcerated at Folsom State Prison. A subsequent search of the apartment shared by Fromme, Good, and a Family recruit turned up evidence that, coupled with later actions on the part of Good, resulted in Good's conviction for conspiring to send threatening communications through the United States mail and transmitting death threats by way of interstate commerce. The threats involved corporate executives and U.S. government officials vis-à-vis supposed environmental dereliction on their part.[1]:502–511 Fromme was sentenced to 15 years to life, becoming the first person sentenced under United States Code Title 18, chapter 84 (1965),[66] which made it a Federal crime to attempt to assassinate the President of the United States.

In December 1987, Fromme, serving a life sentence for the assassination attempt, escaped briefly from Alderson Federal Prison Camp in West Virginia. She was trying to reach Manson, whom she had heard had testicular cancer; she was apprehended within days.[1]:502–511 She was released on parole from Federal Medical Center, Carswell on August 14, 2009.[67]

1980s–present Edit
In a 1994 conversation with Manson prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi, Catherine Share, a one-time Manson-follower, stated that her testimony in the penalty phase of Manson's trial had been a fabrication intended to save Manson from the gas chamber and that it had been given on Manson's explicit direction.[1]:502–511 Share's testimony had introduced the copycat-motive story, which the testimony of the three female defendants echoed and according to which the Tate-LaBianca murders had been Linda Kasabian's idea.[1]:424–433 In a 1997 segment of the tabloid television program Hard Copy, Share implied that her testimony had been given under a Manson threat of physical harm.[68] In August 1971, after Manson's trial and sentencing, Share had participated in a violent California retail store robbery, the object of which was the acquisition of weapons to help free Manson.[1]:463–468

In January 1996, a Manson website was established by latter-day Manson follower George Stimson, who was helped by Sandra Good. Good had been released from prison in 1985, after serving 10 years of her 15-year sentence for the death threats.[1]:502–511[69]

William Garretson, once the young caretaker at Cielo Drive, indicated in a program broadcast (The Last Days of Sharon Tate) in July 25, 1999 on E!, that he had, in fact, seen and heard a portion of the Tate murders from his location in the property's guest house. This comported with the unofficial results of the polygraph examination that had been given to Garretson on August 10, 1969, and that had effectively eliminated him as a suspect.[70] The LAPD officer who conducted the examination had concluded Garretson was "clean" on participation in the crimes but "muddy" as to his having heard anything.[1]:28–38 Garretson did not explain why he had withheld his knowledge of the events.[48]

It was announced in early 2008 that Susan Atkins was suffering from brain cancer.[71] An application for compassionate release, based on her health status, was denied in July 2008,[71] and she was denied parole for the 18th and final time on September 2, 2009.[72] Atkins died of natural causes 22 days later, on September 24, 2009, at the Central California Women's facility in Chowchilla.[73][74]

In September 2009, The History Channel broadcast a docudrama covering the Family's activities and the murders as part of its coverage on the 40th anniversary of the killngs.[75] The program included an in-depth interview with Linda Kasabian, who spoke publicly for the first time since a 1989 appearance on A Current Affair, an American television news magazine.[75] Also included in the History Channel program were interviews with Vincent Bugliosi, Catherine Share, and Debra Tate, sister of Sharon.[76]

As the 40th anniversary of the Tate-LaBianca murders approached, in July 2009, Los Angeles magazine published an "oral history", in which former Family members, law-enforcement officers, and others involved with Manson, the arrests, and the trials offered their recollections of—and observations on—the events that made Manson notorious. In the article, Juan Flynn, a Spahn Ranch worker who had become associated with Manson and the Family, said, "Charles Manson got away with everything. People will say, 'He's in jail.' But Charlie is exactly where he wants to be."

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/embed/_HQyTumht6A[/youtube]

Charles Manson And the Manson Family Murders VII

Beginning in January 1970, Manson was embraced by the underground newspapers Los Angeles Free Press and Tuesday's Child, with the latter proclaiming him "Man of the Year."[69] In June 1970, he was the subject of a Rolling Stone cover story, "Charles Manson: The Incredible Story of the Most Dangerous Man Alive."[69] When a Rolling Stone writer visited the Los Angeles District Attorney's office in preparing that story,[70] he was shocked by a photograph of the bloody "Healter [sic] Skelter" that would bind Manson to popular culture.[71] Bugliosi pointed out the dispute in the underground press over whether Manson was "Christ returned" or "a sick symbol of our times"[where?] to his Helter Skelter co-author, Curt Gentry.

Bernardine Dohrn, a leader of the Weather Underground reportedly said about the Tate murders: "Dig it, first they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, then they even shoved a fork into a victim's stomach. Wild!"[72]

Manson has been a presence in fashion,[73][74] graphics,[75][76] music,[77] and movies, as well as on television and the stage. In an afterword composed for the 1994 edition of the non-fiction book Helter Skelter, prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi quoted a BBC employee's assertion that a "neo-Manson cult" existing then in Europe was represented by, among other things, approximately 70 rock bands playing songs by Manson and "songs in support of him".[2]:488–491

Manson has even influenced the names of musical performers such as Kasabian, Spahn Ranch, and Marilyn Manson, the last a stage name which Brian Warner (his real name) assembled from "Charles Manson" and "Marilyn Monroe." The story of the Family's activities inspired John Moran's opera The Manson Family and Stephen Sondheim's musical Assassins, the latter of which has Lynette Fromme as a character.[78][79] The tale has been the subject of several movies such as the 1984 film Manson Family Movies,[80] including two television dramatizations of Helter Skelter. In the South Park episode "Merry Christmas, Charlie Manson," Manson is a comical character whose inmate number is 06660, an apparent reference to 666, the Biblical "number of the beast."[81][82]

The 2002 novel The Dead Circus by John Kaye includes the activities of the Manson Family as a major plot point.[83]

In 2015, J. Davis released the American indie comedy Manson Family Vacation portraying two brothers traveling through to California, retracing Manson's steps. The movie deals with Manson present-day followers such as Grey Wolf. The movie was independently released and later released on Netflix.

In 2015, NBC premiered the crime drama Aquarius, with Gethin Anthony playing Manson. The series was set in 1967 and included storylines that were inspired by actual events which involved Manson.[84]

thank you

Disappearance of Jennifer Kesse I







Jennifer Joyce Kesse (born May 20, 1981) is an American woman who lived in Orlando, Florida, and has been missing since January 24, 2006. Her disappearance puzzled investigators and an aggressive search for her was conducted in the area surrounding her home. Shortly after her disappearance, her car was discovered a little over a mile from her home at a nearby apartment complex. Captured footage from a nearby security camera showed a person parking her car and walking away; however, this person was never identified. The case received state and national press attention at the time of her disappearance.

Born Jennifer Joyce Kesse
May 20, 1981
New Jersey, U.S.[1]
Disappeared
January 24, 2006 (aged 24) , Orlando, Florida, U.S

[1]
Status Missing for 11 years, 7 months and 16 days
Nationality American
Education University of Central Florida
Known for Missing person
Height 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Parent(s) Drew and Joyce Kesse
Events prior

A graduate of Vivian Gaither High School in Tampa, Florida, Kesse attended the University of Central Florida in Orlando, graduating in 2003 with a degree in finance. She was a member of the Alpha Delta Pi sorority (her former sorority sisters have led many searches to find Kesse). Before her disappearance, she had recently bought a condominium and was working at Central Florida Investments Timeshare Company as a finance manager.[2] The weekend before her disappearance, she had visited Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, with her boyfriend on vacation.[2] After returning from vacation, on the morning of January 23, 2006, Kesse drove straight from her boyfriend's home in south Florida to her work in Ocoee, Florida, and returned home to her condo in Orlando later that evening.[2]

Disappearance Edit

Jennifer Kesse was last seen on January 23, 2006, at approximately 6pm, leaving her place of employment, Westgate Resorts, in Ocoee, Florida. That evening she made several calls to family and friends; the last call around 10 p.m. was to her boyfriend. Typically, Jennifer would call or text her boyfriend every morning on her drive to work to talk and wish him a good day. On the morning of January 24, Jennifer never called or sent a text message.[3] Any call to Jennifer's phone went directly to voice-mail.[3] When Jennifer failed to arrive at work that morning, her employer contacted her parents, who immediately made a two-hour drive from their home to her residence. Her parents noticed that her car was missing, but upon entering her condo, they saw nothing that looked out of the ordinary.[3] Evidence at her residence, including a wet towel and clothes laid out, indicated that Jennifer was at home the morning of January 24 and had showered and dressed for work.[3][4] Friends and family began passing out fliers of her that evening, and the Orlando Police Department began organizing search parties to scout the surrounding area on foot, horseback, boat, helicopter, and ATV.
Timestamps are approximate and based on witness statements.

Monday, January 23, 2006

6:00 p.m. – Jennifer gets off from work, returns home and calls her family. This is the first time that she has been to her condo since returning from her vacation and the last time her immediate family would ever hear from her.[2]
10:00 p.m. – Jennifer calls her boyfriend and they talk awhile before telling each other they are going to bed. He is the last known person to talk to her before her abduction.[2]
Tuesday, January 24, 2006

7:30 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. – Investigators believe that Jennifer was abducted at some point after leaving her condo and walking to her car to go to work.[2][6]
8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. – Jennifer's boyfriend, who has normally heard from her by this time, calls her on his way to work but his call goes directly to voice-mail. Her boyfriend assumes she is busy with a meeting she had told him about previously. He tries to call her again after his 9 a.m. meeting at work but his call goes to her voice-mail again. He continues his day at work until Jennifer's parents call him later that morning to tell him that Jennifer hadn't shown up for her job.[3]
11:00 a.m. – Jennifer's co-workers are worried that she has been a no call, no show and has missed an important meeting at work. Management contacts her parents, who realize that something is wrong. All calls to Jennifer's phone go straight to voice-mail, indicating that it is powered off. Her parents immediately begin driving to Orlando from their home in Tampa.[2] Jennifer's condo manager, at her parent's request over the telephone, obtains a spare key and enters Jennifer's condo. The manager informs them that Jennifer is absent and her car is gone, but everything inside the condo looks normal.[2][6]
12:00 p.m. – At an apartment complex 1.2 miles (1.9 km) away from Jennifer's condo, a hidden surveillance camera catches an unidentified person parking Jennifer's car and then walking away.[7] The car and the surveillance tape wouldn't be discovered until 2 days later on Thursday, January 26, 2006.
3:00 p.m - 3.15 p.m. – Jennifer's parents arrive, followed shortly after by her brother.[8] They discover that it appears as if Jennifer had been there that morning and prepared for work. They noticed her unmade bed with work clothes on it, a wet towel on the drier, wet bathtub, her pajamas in the bathroom floor, along with her hair drier and makeup products around the bathroom sink. Jennifer's parents notify the police, who at first feel that she may have had a fight with her boyfriend and will return, which is common in missing persons cases. Jennifer's friends and family will go on to use her condo as a base of operations for the next 8 months.[6]
5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. – Jennifer's family and friends began distributing fliers with her picture on it to people around the area. The police start to take the situation more seriously and send a detective to her condo. Police begin their interrogations and searching for Jennifer and her car.[2][6]
Thursday, January 26, 2006

8:10 a.m. – After seeing Jennifer's car on the news, a tenant at a nearby apartment complex calls police to inform them that a car matching that description had been parked outside their apartment for several days. Police arrive and confirm that it is in fact Jennifer's car. The car is photographed and hauled to the crime-lab for forensic examination. Police confiscate the local surveillance footage and discover an unidentified person parking it, walking away, and never looking back. This would turn out to be the strongest lead that the case would have and confirmed the possibility of foul play.[5][9]

Rumor has it some illegal immigrant somehow kidnapped her. They had video of a unknown person getting out of her car but they couldn't see his/her face because of the railings of the fence. Whoever it was was short.

Dissaperence of Jennifer Kesse II

With the absence of any sign of forced entry or struggle, investigators theorized that Jennifer left her condo for work on the morning of January 24, locked the door, and was abducted at some point of the walk to her car or as she was getting into it.[3] Two days later, on January 26, 2006, around 8:10 a.m.,[9] Jennifer's car, a black 2004 Chevy Malibu, was found parked at a condo complex approximately a mile away from her residence. Investigators were initially excited to learn that the complex had several hidden surveillance cameras installed and were viewing the place where her car was parked, as well as the exit.[5] The surveillance video shows an unidentified "person of interest" dropping the vehicle off at approximately noon the day that Jennifer went missing.[5][7] Family and friends of Kesse did not recognize the individual, whose physical features were not made clear on the video.[10] Investigators were disheartened when they realized that the best video captures of the subject was obscured by the complex fencing in three separate snapshots, concealing their face.[5] One journalist called the suspect, "The luckiest person of interest ever".[5] The FBI was called in to help determine the person's size and gender, but could only say the person was someone who was about 5'3" to 5'5". NASA also assisted in the investigation by enhancing the video to help in identifying the suspect.[5] Investigators interpreted that the valuables left inside the vehicle implied that robbery was not a motive in Jennifer's disappearance.[5] A search dog tracked a scent from the car back to her apartment complex, leading investigators to believe that the suspect returned to her apartment parking lot after leaving the car.[9] No other evidence was found along the route. After forensic examination of her car, only two pieces of evidence were found, a latent print and a small DNA fiber.[5] Investigators believed the car was wiped down.[5] The items known to be missing are her cell phone, iPod, keys, purse, briefcase, and the outfit she was wearing.[3][5] Investigators could not ping her cellphone as it remained turned off and her banking account card was never used.[6]

Investigators first questioned her family and close friends to see if anyone would have a motive for abducting her.[5] Her ex-boyfriend, who had recently been upset and wanted to get back together with her, was also interrogated. Investigators ultimately concluded that he had nothing to do with her abduction.[5] Her current boyfriend at the time was also questioned, but his alibi checked out and eliminated him as a suspect as well.[5] At the time of her abduction, Jennifer's condominium complex was undergoing major expansion and construction, and many of the workers employed were illegal immigrants living in the complex.[5]:13:01 Jennifer had told her family on several occasions that the workers would continually harass and catcall her.[5] Investigators tried to interrogate many of them but it proved to be very difficult and no other leads were discovered.[5] Investigators then turned to her place of employment and began questioning her coworkers.[11] Her computer was also collected for forensic examination.[11] It was learned that one of her coworkers who was in management wanted to pursue a relationship with her, to which she declined as she was against workplace relationships. Investigators interviewed him on multiple occasions but later concluded that he was not a suspect in the case.[11] Investigators and Jennifer's friends and family have remained open to the possibility that Jennifer was a victim to human trafficking, but do not consider it likely.[11]

In May 2007, her company led by David A. Siegel offered a $1 million reward with a July 4 deadline for information leading to Jennifer's whereabouts with the stipulation that she had to be alive.[10][11] It was never claimed. A $5,000 reward[12] for information leading to her whereabouts remains available through Central Florida Crimeline. The case received state and national press attention at the time of her disappearance, and Jennifer Kesse is still considered missing and endangered by Orlando Police Department, FBI, Orange County Police, FDLE, NCIC, NCMA, and Interpol. On Friday, May 2, 2008, the Florida House of Representatives unanimously passed Senate Bill 502, "The Jennifer Kesse and Tiffany Sessions Missing Persons Act", changing the way missing persons cases are handled in Florida.[13] As of June 10, 2010, the FBI has taken over the case of Jennifer Kesse from the Orlando Police Department at the urging of police chief Val Demings. She remains on the FBI's Most Wanted/Missing List.[14] The latest search for her took place in February 2014 and investigators continue to receive leads to this day.[11]

In early 2017, a jewelry store worker in Decherd, Tennessee, reported to the authorities that in the late winter of either 2006 or 2007, a woman had entered the store, held by the wrists by a well-groomed black man with dreadlocks and wearing impeccable high-end clothing. She was described as being in her twenties, approximately 5 ft 7 with blond hair and an old tan, which was noticeable in the Tennessee winter. The woman appeared to be there against her will, and the store worker and her colleagues felt immediately that the woman was being abused and was possibly the victim of human trafficking. The woman had a hollow expression and her hair appeared not to have been washed in a long time. She never spoke and did not respond or make eye contact when the store worker asked her, out of the man's earshot, whether she was OK. The encounter ended when the store worker shook the woman's hand and the woman cried out, upon which the store worker noticed that the woman's hand was bruised and had been broken. The man and the woman left in a small, dark-colored car that was possibly being driven by a third person. The store worker was unaware of Jennifer Kesse until she saw a news report while visiting Florida in early 2017. After viewing more photos of Jennifer, she became "100% certain" that the woman in the store that day was Jennifer and reported the event to the tip line.

I've heard of some of the one's here; here's a couple of informative videos about people who may be behind this kind of stuff

Still to come Bundy, toy box Killer, Gacy, Dr.Holmes, Gein, Bundy, Aum Shinrikyo, Jim jones,

I read about one where there was a severed penis in a dead mans anus like 10 years ago. Can't find it on google

yikes post it if ya find it bro

I'll get the black dahlia tomorrow bro

ty for thread. been feeling creepy at work, also watched it this weekend

This is one of the creepiest I've ever read about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_A...t_shop_murders

CLIFFS:
- Patrol cop notices Yoghurt shop is on fire.
- After fire is extinguished, they find the bodies of 4 teenage girls (3 were stacked on each other in a pile).
- All of them were bound and gagged with their own clothes, and they were undressed.
- Each victim had been shot in the head.
- Over 50 people have since confessed to the crime, but no one has since been found guilty.

you a TCG brah?

Real life isn't some Taken movie, trafficked girls are almost always runaways, drug addicts, homeless etc. Girls that are easy to snatch, easy to put to work and with no one to look for them. 99.99% likely she was raped and murdered by one of the workers that was living on site who buried her body nearby.

The creepiest one I have ever read was the death of Philip Kramer.

Sorry, can't find the story to include it right now.

then again, you have a scenario like that one in Cleveland where three young women were held in a house against their will for over a decade

OP would it KILL you to add some cliffs at the end of each novel FFS ??? *******ry is off the hook. repping those providing cliffs.

can't get the creeps from the cliffs - put some effort in.

OP - thank you for this thread btw

Seth Rich

DNC staffer who had leaked info detrimental to the Hillary Clinton campaign to Wikileaks, shot in the back in the morning outside of his apartment in D.C. Ruled a robbery but nothing was taken from him.


Antonin Scalia

Supreme Court Justice found dead with a pillow on his face a year before the end of President Obama's presidency. Ruled natural causes, no autopsy done, cremated within days without investigation.


Vince Foster

Former Whitehouse counselor & colleague of Hillary Clinton.
Died of a gunshot wound to the head. Ruled a suicide.

Ed Willey

Clinton fund raiser. Found dead, deep in the woods of Virginia in November 1993.
Gunshot wound to the head. Ruled a suicide. The very same day, Willey's wife
claimed Clinton had groped her in the oval office.

Kathy Ferguson

Found dead with a gunshot wound to the head. Ruled a suicide. She had several
packed suitcases as if ready to go somewhere. Kathy was a witness for Paula Jones.

Bill Sherton

State trooper. He was the fiancé of Kathy Ferguson (above). Found at her graveside
with a gunshot wound to the head. Ruled a suicide.

Ron Brown

Secretary of Commerce at the White House. Reportedly killed in a plane crash.
Post-mortem: 'hole in the skull, looks like a gunshot wound'.

Suzanne Coleman

Reportedly had an affair with Clinton whilst an Attorney General. Died of a gunshot
wound to the head. Ruled a suicide. She was pregnant at the time of her death.

Mary Mahoney

Former Whitehouse intern. Murdered July 1997 at a coffee shop in Georgetown.
Allegedly about to go public about sexual harassment in the Whitehouse.

Paul Tulley

Democratic National Committee Political Director. Found dead in a hotel room
in Little Rock CA, Sept 1992. Described by Clinton as a dear and trusted friend.

Jerry Parks

Head of Clinton security. Gunned down at a quiet intersection in Little Rock,
CA. He was allegedly building a dossier on Clinton. Threatened to reveal
secret information. After his death the dossier mysteriously vanished from his house.

C. Victor Raiser II & Montgomery Raiser

Major players in Clinton fund raising campaign. Died in a private plane crash in 1992.

Charles Meissner

Assistant secretary at the Department of Commerce. Died in a small plane crash.

Dr. Stanley Heard

Treated Clintons' mother, stepfather & brother. Died in a small plane crash.
His attorney, Steve Dickson, was also killed.

Hershell Friday

Clinton fund raiser. Died when his private jet exploded.

Gandy Baugh

Attorney for Clinton's friend, Dan Lassater. Fell to his death by falling
from a tall building in Jan 1994.

Paula Grober

Clinton's speech interpreter for the deaf. Died in a car-crash.

Barbra Wise

Worked closely with Ron Brown (See above). Her nude body was locked in her
Department of Commerce office.

Stan Huggins

Investigated Madison Guarantee Scandal. Committed suicide before the report was published.

John Parnell
Previously investigated the 'Whitewater' scandal. Jumped to his death from his Virginia
apartment balcony. He was investigating Madison Guarantee Scandal.

James McDougall

Clinton's convicted 'Whitewater' partner. Died of a heart attack whilst in solitary confinement.

James Wilson

Found hanging. Ruled a suicide. He was linked to the 'Whitewater' case.

James Bunch

Died of a gunshot wound to the head. Ruled a suicide. It was reported Bunch had a 'black book'
of influential figures who visited prostitutes in Arkansas, Clinton's constituency.

Florence Martin

Accountant sub-contractor for the CIA; Also related to the Mena Airport drug smuggling case.
Died of three gunshot wounds. Mena is a small airport in Arkansas, 160 miles from Little Rock.

Danny Casolaro

Investigative reporter, reporting on the Mena Airport case. Slit his wrists during the investigation.
Ruled a suicide.

Kevin Ives & Don Henry

Youngsters, rumoured to have stumbled upon the smuggling operation at Mena Airport.
Both bodies were found dead on railway track, near the airport.
Coroner's verdict: Death due to falling asleep on track.

Paul Wilcher

Investigating corruption at Mena Airport along with Danny Casolaro (above). Found dead
on the toilet at his Washington DC apartment. 3 weeks earlier he produced an investigative
report on the case.

All of the following were connected with the Mena Airport investigation:

Keith Conley
Died in a motor cycle accident

Keith McMaskie
Stabbed 113 times in Nov 1988

Gregory Collins
Died from a gunshot wound in Jan 1989

Jeff Rhodes
Shot, mutilated, and found burned in trash dump.

James Milan
Found decapitated. Coroner's verdict: Natural causes

Jordan Kettleson
Found stabbed in his pick up truck June 1990

Richard Winters
Killed in a robbery in July 1989

The following Clinton bodyguards have all died of unnatural causes:

Major Willie S Barkley Jr
Capt. Scott Reynolds
Sgt Brian Hanley
Sgt. Tim Sabel
Maj. Gen. William Densberger
Col. Robert Kelly
Spec. Gary Rhodes
Steve Willis
Robert Williams
Conway LeBieu
Todd McKeehan.

Norwegian black metal I

The early 1990s Norwegian black metal scene is credited with creating the modern black metal genre and produced some of the most acclaimed and influential artists in extreme metal. It attracted massive media attention when it was revealed that its members had been responsible for two murders and a wave of church burnings in Norway.

The scene had an ideology and ethos and was likened to a cult, with the core members referring to themselves as "The Black Circle" or "Black Metal Inner Circle". It consisted primarily of young men, many of whom gathered at the record shop Helvete ("Hell") in Oslo. In interviews, they voiced extreme anti-Christian and misanthropic views, presenting themselves as genuine Satanists who wanted to spread terror, hatred and evil. They adopted pseudonyms and appeared in photographs wearing 'corpse paint' and wielding medieval weaponry. The scene was exclusive and created boundaries around itself, incorporating only those it deemed to be "true" or committed. Musical integrity was highly important and artists wanted black metal to remain underground and uncorrupted.

In August 1993, several of its members were arrested and in May 1994 were convicted variously for arson, murder, assault and possession of explosives. Most showed no remorse for their actions. The Norwegian media covered events closely, but the reporting of the scene was often sensationalist. For example, one Norwegian TV channel interviewed a woman who claimed Satanists had sacrificed her child and killed her dog. The early Norwegian black metal scene has since been the subject of books and documentaries.


Norwegian black metal singer Gaahl wearing corpsepaint


During the 1980s, black metal was a loose grouping of a handful of metal bands who shared Satanic lyrics, although most of the "first wave" bands referred to Satanism only for shock value.[2] During 1990–1992, a number of Norwegian artists, who were strongly influenced by those bands, began performing and releasing a new kind of black metal music. The surge of interest and popularity that followed is often referred to as the "second wave of black metal". The Norwegian bands developed the style of their 1980s forebears as a distinct genre of heavy metal music. This was partly thanks to a new style of guitar playing developed by Snorre 'Blackthorn' Ruch of Stigma Diabolicum/Thorns and Øystein 'Euronymous' Aarseth of Mayhem, in which guitarists played full chords using all the strings of the guitar in place of power chords using only two or three strings.[3][4] Gylve 'Fenriz' Nagell of Darkthrone has credited them with this innovation in a number of interviews. He described it as being "derived from Bathory"[5] and noted that "those kinds of riffs became the new order for a lot of bands in the '90s".[6]

Visually, the dark themes of their music was complemented with corpsepaint, which became a way for black metal artists to distinguish themselves from other metal bands of the time.

Dead's suicide Edit

On 8 April 1991, Mayhem vocalist Per Yngve Ohlin (who called himself 'Dead') committed suicide while alone in a house shared by the band.[8][9] Fellow musicians described Dead as odd, introverted and depressed. For performances, he made himself look like a corpse and would self-harm while singing.

Dead was found with his wrists and throat slit and a shotgun wound to the head, by Mayhem guitarist Euronymous. Before calling the police, he got a camera and photographed the body, after re-arranging some items.[5][8][11] One of these photographs was later used as the cover of a bootleg live album: Dawn of the Black Hearts.

Euronymous used Dead's suicide to foster Mayhem's 'evil' image and claimed Dead had killed himself because black metal had become 'trendy' and commercialized.[12] He made necklaces with bits of Dead's skull and gave them to musicians he deemed worthy.[13][14][15][16][17] There was also a fake rumor that he had made a stew with bits of Dead's brain.[13][14]

Mayhem bassist Jørn 'Necrobutcher' Stubberud noted that "people became more aware of the black metal scene after Dead had shot himself [...] I think it was Deadly's suicide that really changed the scene".[18] The suicide caused a rift between Euronymous and some of his friends, especially Necrobutcher, who were disgusted by his attitude towards Dead.[8] Some claimed Euronymous "went into a fantasy world" and "tried to be as extreme as he had talked about".[8]

Two other members of the scene would later commit suicide: Erik 'Grim' Brødreskift (of Immortal, Borknagar, Gorgoroth) in 1999[19][20][21] and Espen 'Storm' Andersen (of Strid) in 2001.



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Norwegian black metal II



The basement of Helvete
Mayhem guitarist Euronymous was "the central figure involved in the formation of the Norwegian black metal scene",[23] which he "almost single-handedly founded".[24] During May–June 1991,[25] he opened a record shop called Helvete[26] (Norwegian for "Hell").[27] The shop was at Schweigaards gate 56 in Oslo. Norwegian black metal musicians often met at the shop and in its basement. They included the members of Mayhem, the members of Emperor, Varg 'Count Grishnackh' Vikernes of Burzum, and Snorre 'Blackthorn' Ruch of Thorns. Euronymous also founded an independent record label called Deathlike Silence Productions, which was based at Helvete. It released albums by Norwegian bands Mayhem and Burzum, and Swedish bands Merciless and Abruptum. Euronymous, Varg,[5] and Emperor guitarist Tomas 'Samoth' Haugen[28] lived in the shop at various times. Emperor drummer Bård 'Faust' Eithun also lived and worked there.[3][5] The shop's walls were painted black and bedecked with medieval weapons, posters of bands, and picture discs, while its window featured a polystyrene tombstone.[3]

According to Stian 'Occultus' Johannsen, the space that Euronymous rented "was far too big and the rent was too high. That's the reason why it never did well". Only a small part of the building was used for the shop itself.[29] Euronymous would shut Helvete in early 1993 when it began to draw the attention of the police and media. Nevertheless, during the time that it was open, it became the focal point of the Norwegian black metal scene. Jon 'Metalion' Kristiansen, writer of the fanzine Slayer, said that the opening of Helvete was "the creation of the whole Norwegian Black Metal scene".[30] Daniel Ekeroth wrote in 2008,

Within just a few months [of Helvete opening], many young musicians had become obsessed with Euronymous and his ideas, and soon a lot of Norwegian death metal bands transformed into black metal bands. Amputation became Immortal, Thou Shalt Suffer turned into Emperor, and Darkthrone swapped their Swedish-inspired death metal for primitive black metal. Most notoriously, Old Funeral's guitar player Varg Vikernes had already left the band to form his own creation, Burzum.[31]

Those who gathered at Helvete have been referred to as the "Black Circle" or "Black Metal Inner Circle". Faust says that the name was invented by Euronymous.[5] At the time, some in the media implied that the "Black Circle" was an organized, cult-like group. In Lords of Chaos, Faust said that the media made it seem more organized than it was:

It's just a name that was invented for the people who hung around the shop ... there wasn't anything like members and membership cards and official meetings.[32]

In his review of Lucifer Rising, Varg Vikernes said:

First of all the so-called 'Black Circle' was something Euronymous made up because he wanted to make people believe there was such a thing, but it was nonsense and never existed. The media on the other hand believed it existed for a while, but quickly stopped talking about it when they understood it was a fake rumor.[33]

The store has since been reopened under the name Neseblod Records, in the same location but with much less floor space.[34] Many of the original artifacts still remain, and the store also identifies as a "black metal museum".

The Norwegian black metal scene was bitterly opposed to Christianity and organized religion as a whole. In interviews during the early 1990s, Euronymous and other members of the scene presented themselves as misanthropic Devil worshippers[36] who wanted to spread hatred, sorrow and evil. They attacked the Church of Satan for being too "humane".[37] The theistic Satanism they espoused was an inversion of Christianity.[38] Euronymous was the key figure behind this ideology.[23][30] He professed to be in favor of totalitarianism and against compassion, peace, happiness and fun.[39] When asked why such statements were made to the press, Ihsahn of Emperor said: "I think that was very much to create fear among people".[40] He added that the scene "wanted to be in opposition to society" and "tried to concentrate more on just being 'evil' than having a real Satanic philosophy".[41] Vikernes said that the reason they claimed to advocate "evil" was to provoke.[42]

According to Lords of Chaos, many who knew Euronymous say that "the extreme Satanic image he projected was, in fact, just that – a projection which bore little resemblance to his real personality".[43] They include Kjetil Manheim,[9] Vikernes[5] and Blackthorn[44] (the latter two were convicted for his murder). Faust said that with Euronymous, "there was a lot of smoke but not so much fire".[3] Mortiis, however, said that Euronymous "was such a devil worshipper you wouldn't believe it",[45] and Metalion (who knew Euronymous since 1985[46] and considered him to be his best friend)[47] said that Euronymous "was always telling what he thought ... worshipping death and being extreme".[30] As for the other scene members, Samuel Fridh says that there is no evidence to support their early claims of being Devil worshippers,[48] and Leif A. Lier, who led the police investigation after Euronymous's death, said he and his men had not met one Satanist.[1] Faust said that "For some people it [Satanism] was bloody serious, but to a lot of them it was all a big hype".[49]

In retrospect, Metalion wrote: "In the past, people just wrote about Satan, but now people meant it. I believe it was serious—maybe not all the Satanism, but definitely the approach to the music and the lifestyle. It was certainly more destructive than metal had been in the past".[50] Tenebris from the Misanthropic Luciferian Order (a Swedish Satanic order) wrote that the Norwegian scene "meant a lot as long as it lasted. Back then, in 1991, things mainly concerned black metal and ideological Satanism (not so much practical Satanism, but anyway ...) ... It grew quickly to become a sort of black metal army ... and kind of stood and fell with Euronymous and his shop. Therefore, it vanished with his death in '93 ... Sadly enough, many people involved at the time betrayed their ideals and lost their interest when things fell apart. Like it was nothing more than a hype of temporary nature".[51]

Regarding the term 'black metal', Euronymous said that it applies to any heavy metal band who are theistic Satanists and write Satanic lyrics.[39] Such ideas were repeated by other scene members, such as Faust.[52] At the time, bands with a style similar to Norwegian black metal, but without Satanic lyrics, tended to use other terms for their music.

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