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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) Ley @ * . (Mount Clipping in Space Below) Se i ee 4 sinc oe ne ee ae: Watson's Tale of Watson, testified, yesterday at} He said Manson gave him a By RICHARD COX oHerald-Examiner Staff Writer his murgeh trial that he shot 17-|gun and a knife and referred to Charles (Tex) Watson} has|year-old Steven. Parent outside|the murder scene as the house confessed that he pafTicipated|the adtvessHome on Aug. 9,\“Terry Melcher used to live in the brutal Sharon Tate mur-|1969,? “ep ste ager wean big pemeees ders of 1969, saying he shot,] He saidtHé:shot and stabbed|@28er Doris Day, had lived tn clubbed and stabbed four of the|pair stylist Say Sebring inside|M® Cielo Drive residence until (dicate page Hest of te.) five victims because “I was|ihe Benedict Canyon house,|'0® Spring of 1969 when Miss doingntwhat Charlie (Manson) |c\nbbed and stabbed film produ-|/#¥@ and her director husband, told me to do.” poten is cer Voityck Frykowski and Roman Polanski, leased it. . | ere nsentimarer AA stabbed coffee-heiress Abigail Watson, who has pleaded in- A ol Herald-Examiner Folger as she lay “covered with|nocent and innocent by reason Los Angeles, Calif, plood” on the front lawn. of insanity, said that when the F killings began he “could see h on tant or ae Te le Charlie and hear Charlie’s voice — times before the savage night of telling me to kill everybod in murder, testified that he was|'%e Place. under the influence of LSD, He said he felt as if he were Methadrine and belladonna root|‘‘in a dream, half-awake and when he wielded the death|valf not-awak.” weapons. _| Acting on Manson’s orders, he Speaking in a dull monotone, |said, he cut telephone lines out- —_ Watson, 25, said Manson sent|side the home and, with his him to the Tate home with Lin-|three women companions, jda Kasabian, Susan Atkins andiclimbed a fence and started {Patricia Krenwinkel with orders|walking up the driveway. (pal gyeryone there as grue-; Acar, pulled. up and some as I could.” === =, [Stopped,” he said, “I stuck the & car an aL recall the exact number o times ... He (Parent) was jus a blob to me.” ‘ gthe former high sc Date: 9/2/91 Edition: Wednesday Latest Author: Editor: Title: Character: or Classification: Submitting Office: Los Angeles CJ Being Investiqated af - 6517 —20b SERIALIZED. ru eS : SEP 3197 [Sra LOS hts wt
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