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a, . + a —— =Sreaad been a fair student if San-ame [ : ‘ : Mibon=@ black-garbed band Tppies schools and a church choir singer until her, “Tre nasabian has decided to testifs-actke= prosecution’s star witness and has been prom- ised immunity from prosecution. Described by her attorney, Gary Fleisch- man, as a “true flower child;” she is: origingl: ly from New Hampshire. She came out 6 Cal: - ifornia in July of 1969 to be re-united with her wooped down out of the dark to take the mother died of cancer in 1963, ives of Sharon Tate and six others on suc- oo essive summer nights, they were carrying After her mother’s death, Miss Atkins be ut a plan mastermineded by cult leader came increasingly alienated from her father, ‘harles Manson, prosecutors claim. as he took her and a younger brother to snl Bancs-amd Oregon in search of construction The tumultuous trail that has deadended work, | or Manson jn an eighth floor courtroom at the{’——=-—> >> >= - ds ee estranged husband, Robert ASSIA. jal” Justice started Nov. 11, 1934, when he te Or girls are now on trial with Man- Fy a:.cnman says that she ended up at: the vas born in Cincinnati as the illegitimate son! 50" and Miss Atkins. " Spatin Ranch with the Manson “family” after fa li-vear-ald prostitute, Patricia Krenwinkel, 22, is the daughter of, the reunion with Kasabian “didn’t work out.” - j : .,,, an Inglewood insurance man. One day in the)! . . In the 35-year interim, the slightly-built spring of 1968, she left her job as ag oe She had been living with the Mangon groyp fanson has spent 22 years in various corret-| company clerk, abandoned her car in a park | only about a month when she was told to go tonal institutions, ranging in type from ‘Boys ing lot, and joined Manson’s “family.” 1 along on the two murder orgies, according te ‘own to federal prison. | , , e attorney. —— His record includes sentences for auto! eft, interstate transportation of women for umoral purposes, and the forging of govern- rent checks. She had attended a Catholic: girls college for a year before going to work. | Some time after the Tate and La Bianca slayings, she returned to Mobile, Ala. to stay with her divorced mother and ‘a step-sister] It was on the latter charge that he served She was arrested Dec. 1 in Mobile. even years of a ten-year sentence before eing released from Washington’s McNeil Is- ind Penitentiary in March of 1967. , Leslie Van Houten, who will turn 20 in a few weeks, is a wide-eyed, willowy girl who looks like she might be a homecoming prin- Shortly after his release, he made his way cess—which she was five years ago at Mon-\ ) the Haight-Ashbury section of San Francis- rovia High School. | o where he described himself to the “flower ° hildren’”’ as st ane freUnadie” and Her parents also are separated. She: Vdren” as a traveling troubadour” and worked briefly as a legal secretary prior to uitar-playing “soul singer. l joining the Manson clan. | | . I 1 a VES on. he eee il the: Still fighting extradition from Texas is a: on ae res aeaver the eubsenvent fifth defendant, Charles D. Watson, 24, now uf ‘ 5 hi * Par er i 7 1 wo years became a cult which migrated first Ragga Medptad Skinners Le. ) the Spahn Ranch near Chatsworth and later One of the most mystifying questions of the’ 0 Death Valley. =~ yManson “family” and this case is how an : ; Ajl-American-boy-type like Watson ended up Co-defendant Susan Atkins, 21, met Manson! an this situation. 1 Haight-Ashbury and they lived and loved to-|i ether there. { Baek at Farmerville High School in Collin; fTex., Watson was not only a star in football, basketball and track, but he was also a top, student who never got a grade lower than| They remained inseparable, even after ‘harlie’s female followers increased in num- ex's, until both were jailed last October when law enforcement posse raided their Inyo { ‘ounty camp on the edge of Death Valley. , In 1964, he enrolled at North Texas State Silden ‘Keambd to waver ‘n her allesiawes (University but after a year transferred to Cal-| shen she told the Los Angeles County Grand I fornia State College’at Los Angeles. | ury her version of the Tate-La Bianca slay-/' Friends remember Watson as a ‘‘clean-cut, ags, testimony which resulted in a murder- textremely polite guy,” and they attribute the} onspiracy indictment against herself, Manson startling change that came over him to the nd four others last Dec. 8. | fact that he started using drugs while on the| t She has since repudiated her testimony and| ‘“?"P¥S there and soon dropped out, ‘ll not testify as a prosecution witness in the, One other person has been indicted in the ase. case but she is not on trial now and it is ex-, Prier to meeting Manson, Susan had pected iat she never will he. | ounced. around the San Francisco Bay Afea,|, She is Linda Kasabian, 20, a mother ef-two' ‘orking mainly as a go-go girl and_t who had her. second child after being jailed in Ir - * Beane theZetals Bianes case.