Can We Ever Get Back…Really?

By -


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Sharon, Why Didn’t You Flee?

By -
Image
In this post, I examine why Sharon acted as she did. And in so doing, maybe put our hearts at rest. That what happened to that poor woman and her unborn baby, in that house, on that night, could not be avoided. For Sharon, there were no other outs. This examination belongs in the "What If" department store of Life. Doubtless another store where Charlie would have had Mary and Sandy skulk into and buy stuff on a stolen credit card while other Family members sliced, diced and julienned their way into the criminal history books. But in the wee hours, a writer's imagination soars. At the witching hour, when I'm tucked up safely in bed, I wonder if the surviving family members of this Cielo slaughter — Paul, Doris, Patti (now deceased), Debra Tate and Roman Polanski — ever laid awake in their beds, asking similar why's. I'm sure the family members had more inside information than the public has ever had, regarding Sharon's actions and why escaping from that l...
Read more

“Return To Sender”…Charlie At Cielo on THAT Night?

By -
Image
Of all the IMs and emails I receive on The Manson Family topic, one in particular stands head and shoulders above the rest… “MsBurb, what’s your opinion? Did Charlie return to Cielo Drive after the killers returned to Spahn?” This, above all others, seems to be the burning question. Beyond the answer, one wonders why, above all other enquiries on this complicated set of events, this particular mystery seems to need some sort of solution? I’ve given it some thought, (without spraining my brain, of course!) and I tend to think that there is some part of us which is STILL trying to either, 1) make some logical sense out of these wholly senseless acts; or 2) put Charlie at the Tate crime scene to believe that he was indeed responsible for these crimes; or 3) make sense of his following actions, that to go back and see what he saw, there at Tate, was the real reason he joined in with his killers the following night, knowing that after all that, there would be no turning back. I do...
Read more

Bill Garretson…More Unplugged Than Usual? Part One

By -
Image
We always say Rest In Peace for the Dead…but I wonder sometimes if it’s the Living who need the peace… Such has been the on and off fate of William “Bill” Eston Garretson, now aged 62, the only surviving witness of the Tate-Labianca two nights of Manson horror. Researchers have often cited the LAPD as having conducted shoddy investigative procedures in this case but by and large, for that era, for the technology available and for the fact that this set of crimes basically eclipsed all others in Los Angeles as the most gruesome ever perpetrated on persons of affluence in that town, I basically give the police a pass. My feelings are that we should be lucky we have the evidence we do have in this case for it could have been much less and much more compromised… But the one investigative tool the detectives never chose to use, that to this day I believe could have been one of the most initially useful, was to submit Bill Garretson to hypnosis. When the investigators realized that for...
Read more

L to R: Charles Manson - Charles "Tex" Watson - Bobby Beausoleil - Bruce Davis - Susan Atkins - Patricia Krenwinkel - Leslie van Houten