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Sold Date: 07/10/2009
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SEE PHOTO----- COMPLETE ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the Baltimore News American (MD) dated Aug 11, 1969.

Front page headling: "California Has 2nd 'Pig' Slaying" and inside page photos of what would become known as the MANSON MURDERS (or the TATE-LaBIANCA murders) in Los Angeles, CALIFORNIA.

Charles Milles Manson (born November 12, 1934) is an American criminal who led what became known as the Manson Family, a quasi- commune that arose in California in the late 1960s. He was convicted of conspiracy to commit the Tate /LaBianca murders, carried out by members of the group at his instruction. He was found guilty of the murders themselves through the joint-responsibility rule, which makes each member of a conspiracy guilty of crimes his fellow conspirators commit in furtherance of the conspiracy's object.

Manson is associated with " Helter Skelter ," the term he took from the Beatles song of that name and construed as an apocalyptic race war the murders were putatively intended to precipitate. This connection with rock music linked him, from the beginning of his notoriety, with pop culture , in which he became an emblem of insanity, violence, and the macabre . Ultimately, the term was used as the title of the book that prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi wrote about the Manson murders.

Tate murders

Two days after Beausoleil's arrest, Charles Manson told Family members at Spahn Ranch, "Now is the time for Helter Skelter."

On the night of August 8, Manson directed Watson to take Atkins, Linda Kasabian , and Patricia Krenwinkel —one of the hitchhikers allegedly picked up by Dennis Wilson—to "that house w Melcher used to live" and "totally destroy everyone in [it], as gruesome as you can." He told the women to do as Watson would instruct them.

When the four arrived at the entrance to the Cielo Drive property, Watson, who had previously been to the house on Manson's orders, climbed a telephone pole near the gate and cut the phone line. It was now around midnight and into August 9, 1969.

Backing their car down to the bottom of the hill that led up to the place, they parked t and walked back up to the house. Thinking the gate might be electrified or rigged with an alarm, they climbed a brushy embankment at its right and dropped onto the grounds. Just then, headlights came their way from farther within the angled property. Telling the women to lie in the bushes, Watson stepped out, gave a command to halt, and shot to death the approaching driver, 18-year-old Steven Parent . After cutting the screen of an open window of the main house, Watson told Kasabian to keep watch down by the gate. He removed the screen, entered through the window, and let Atkins and Krenwinkel in through the front door.

Slaughter

As Watson whispered to Atkins, Polanski's friend Wojciech Frykowski awoke on the living-room couch; Watson kicked him in the head. When Frykowski asked him who he was and what he was doing t, Watson replied, "I’m the devil , and I’m to do the devil’s business."

On Watson’s direction, Atkins found the house's three other occupants and, with Krenwinkel's help, brought them to the living room. The three were Tate, eight and a half months pregnant ; her friend and former lover Jay Sebring , a noted hairstylist; and Frykowski’s lover Abigail Folger , heiress to the Folger coffee fortune . Polanski, Tate's husband, was in London , at work on a film project.

Watson began to tie Tate and Sebring together by their necks with rope he'd brought and slung up over a beam. Sebring's protest—his second—of rough treatment of Tate prompted Watson to shoot him. After Folger was taken momentarily back to her bedroom for her purse, out of which she gave the intruders $70, Watson stabbed Sebring seven times.

Frykowski, whose hands had...