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Charles Manson — Part 4

551 pages · May 09, 2026 · Document date: Aug 13, 1969 · Broad topic: Cults & Extremism · Topic: Charles Manson · 551 pages OCR'd
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FD-350 (Rev. 7-16-63) or = Sd (Mount Clipping In Space Below) (Indicate page, name of # newspaper, city and state.) _A-1 Herald-Examiner Los Angeles, Calif. Two" Glendale: “men fisting” in” “Ventura County Shetit’s tiep: i ; ms the Sespe Hot! Springs . area of uties said the two men found the/ body. anda. pair of rate onthe] . , 2S Ventura County | have found the body. laying ‘face Gown, in, a pod ‘bank | , downstream, but . they : decomposed body, of, a “large of water. |: : es: wcll cae to fit: “the. —_— man” believed to be. ‘that , of}. - Heavy -fog-in fie ‘Rebbe ida ‘pody.’” ommeeni missing ‘Taet murder trial | ‘at- hampered the search party, acz| .. torney Ronald Hughes; Veritura cording to a sheriff's deputy. .. come too . ee ea a County’ ‘Sheriff's-- deputies ~ Te-|: Hughes; 35). was: " defending watiig—over 200. pounds—and° Date: 3/29/71 ported today. @ *-- “ese Vs ‘lTeslie Van Houten in the Sharon} he had been. there for quite Edition: § Stan The two men. found ‘the pody Tate:Leno: ‘La. Bianca’ murder some time, Td guess}? Chess- Author: in Sespe Gorge, seven” miles| trial “when “he ‘disappeared ‘last} man said. Phau Editor: east of Sespe Hot Springs, Sat-| Thanksgiving in the Sespe Hot}’ The d aldin‘g, bewhtiskered, , urday afternoon but “could not) Springs area, Nyy Uys 250-pound Hughes was last seen laid inform the Ventura County) wells, 47, and Chessman, 49 Nov. 28, 1970, by two teen-agers Sheriff's office until they hiked] pixeg into t the area Friday. evé-| Who ” drove ‘with’ him fo the out of the area late yesterday. |ning and discovered .the body Sespe Hot Springs area. ee Sheriff’§ deputies and coro-| about: noon’ Agcording.; fo depu-| The weekend Hughes disapp- - ner’s personnel’ hiked into . the! ties. eared the area was hit by a rugged area this morning to lo-) “Tt was a ‘horrible siant. The [heavy storm; and temperatures Classifications cate the bedy based on incorma-| body wis midé and -one arm|dipped to sub-fréezing at night. Submitting Officer Log Angele tion supplied by'the two men. ‘|was missing,” Chessman said.”} Following’ Hughes’ disappear Ciieing Invenilnated Don Chessman, of 17. S.| ‘The head was face down-and}ance, Superior Court Judge ing AMER nate Charles H. Older appointed at- —— torney Maxwell Keith to defend Miss Van Houten. * - Two weeks ago, the search for b 2-6 #17 Hughes was rekindled when an anonymous callér told the Los SEARCHED, Brand Blvd., and John Wells, of/ wedged under a boulder. We 1329 Loreto St., hiked out of the] couldn’t see the face or top of gorge area, 30° ‘miles north of} the head, only the back of the Fillmore, and contacted’ depu-| head, which was covered: wilh: pes the Lockwood Valley sub- long black hair,” Wells: said. on near the northeast end The stream is about .50 feet Angeles County Sheriff's office SERIALIZE FILE = Of Frazier Park, wide, at that point and filled : _ Deputies said they gave a de-|with boulders, rocks and tree that Hughes was “buried behind {3 MARR 4 1971 tailed description “ol, now to} limbs. In places it is kyce.dcep, the barn” at the deserted Bar- FEIS=0S ANGELES Fete wie" hoily, “We found a black and while, = REIN the edge of Death 5 eee
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