2nd Official Tate-LaBianca Murders Blog

Percolating coffee on the stove is mesmerizing, isn't it? And as I watched the bubbles pop through that glass carafe, the smell made me think of home. Charlie never let us think of our past lives but brewing coffee has a way of luring your thoughts back to simpler times, before Charlie and the Family, before all this pressure and confusion, before Sharon Tate... Tired and beaten, I leaned over the stove top like an old man and as I closed my eyes and let the aroma seep into my senses, a soft voice cut the stillness of my thoughts. "Hi. Can I have a cup?" "Sure", I stammered, my mouth incapable of working while my eyes were filled with the sight of her. She was the most beautiful creature I had ever seen and it was almost sacrilegious to have her standing Tex's galley kitchen. She was smaller and more frail than I remembered seeing on the silver screen; her honey-brown hair loose by her sides, with such an angelic face God himself could...

"Sadie" & Susan This is my last installment on this 1978 Parole Hearing of Susan Atkins but undoubtedly NOT the last time I endeavour to uncover the holes in Ms. Atkins "story" of the Manson murders. Despite the heinous nature of these crimes, one would think it would have been prudent to fess-up to the whole truth regarding her actions instead of constantly reshaping her story to better fit what she thought was a way of being granted parole. I know if I'd been a parole board member, the mere fact that her and her cohorts ever-changing sequence of events in the Hinman , Tate- LaBianca , and Shea murders would have been enough for me to keep their cell doors permanently locked. And from what I can tell, these half-wit murderers never figured that out... On page 95, Hearing Representative Del Pasco refers to a " chrono ", dated 4/4/78, of Ms. Atkins activities, "You [Susan] respond to authority well, require little supervision, bu...

Have you ever felt like you appeared on this Earth a few minutes after the movie about your Life began?  That the phrase "late bloomer" applies to almost every aspect of your being? Or that you do things or meet people a wee bit too late for the happiness you think you deserve? Well, my fellow Mansonites , this is definitely becoming the story of my life; yet, quite possibly, the opposite was true for the lives of The Manson Family victims.... Let's examine my life first, the spoiled brat that I am always likes to be first up even when I arrive late... It has been brought to my attention, several times of late, that good, pure, fantastic people are right around the corner of my life but when I finally saunter over to that corner, those good, pure, fantastic people are otherwise engaged.  And this scenario has played out too many times to be any longer amusing. Yep, I used the word "saunter" because I think that's how I approach life...

Yep, I kept my imaginary dais table and like a puppet master, have forced the Manson gang to sit at it patiently for my next round of questioning. Will there be more questions to ask after this Part II? Hard to tell, really...Will there be more Manson gang parole hearings??? Shall we begin (again)... 1) Sadie, Katie, Lulu and Darling, were you not chilly in those Sybil Brand jailhouse blue dresses? I know they gave all you girls sweaters but what about those bare legs of yours? Your Perp Walks pictures in the Hall of Justice made me shiver! 2) Tex, Sadie, Bobby and Bruce, how come you guys only found Jesus Christ after you killed everybody? Never watched Charlton Heston in the movie epic "Moses", huh? Burning Bush, Ten Commandment Tablets, Thou Shall Not Kill? Not familiar, huh? 3) That LIFE Magazine photo of the kitchen at Spahn Ranch, hey Girls, what was your favorite dish served from that room? Rat atouille ? 4) How come the Barker mailbox in this LIFE...

It has been brought to my attention that I may have misspoken in my last edition of the Sadie Enigma, implying that Deane Moorehouse lived in the Main house at Cielo when in fact, he had lived in the guesthouse. This is no way changes my belief that Sadie was lying when she said she had never been to the Cielo property before, so my conclusion stands. And in my last post, "The Proof Is In The 'Putting", a comment was made that I left out discussing the Blood Map - I did NOT leave it out by accident - I left it out ON PURPOSE because it is my opinion that Granado may have mis -typed some of the blood spots at Cielo and therefore, I believe, that blood map is moot in terms of evidence gathering. Thank-you to EVERYONE who has offered their comments and corrections. Ms. Burb is but one wee chick and can goof up with the best of them! Keep'em comin '!!!

I hate loose ends. Really, I do. Don't you? There are a few Tate crime scene evidence pieces that beg to be "put" in their place. Or rather, the people who put them there should see the light of day. 1) Towel draped over and under the noose of Jay Sebring 2) Eyeglasses near the blue steamer trunks 3) Ear Witness evidence after the Cielo murders had ended   The LAPD tried to "put" these pieces in their places, in terms of who did what, when, but they more or less failed. Yet, until we have a clearer picture of who placed these items in their last positions and when, and why sounds came from the Tate property after the murders, we may never formulate a complete picture of what occurred at 10050 Cielo Drive, midnight to 4am, Saturday August 9th, 1969. Of all the questions I receive on the Manson Family murders, one stands head and shoulders above the rest. "Did Charlie return to Cielo Drive after the killers returned to Spahn?" Before deciding what cam...

On Page 62, Atkins states, "I know in my heart when I was given the death penalty...I know that is what I deserved. Anything given to me beyond a life sentence in here or short of that, to me is Divine mercy. The fact that I'm alive today is mercy, when I had no mercy for anybody and I'm being shown mercy." Well, then, that begs the question, that if Susan REALLY means what she's saying, why, oh why, does she monopolize the Parole Board's time, using countless reams of paper in official documentation of each of her hearings, and force surviving family members to relive their losses every time she gets a chance? Honestly, I'm just not sure which is worse, the initial killings of her victims, or the endless barrage of hearings, the families never able to live past the nights of August 9th and 10th, 1969. If I were monstrous enough to take such heinous actions and then really realize the damage I had caused society, I would relinquish all rights to any ...