2nd Official Tate-LaBianca Murders Blog

Maybe LSD lessens the reality. Maybe you can go from one laced sugar cube to the next, one blood-soaked knife-wielding sore hand to the next, one blood curdling scream to the next and have it all be okay… But the little birdie inside my tummy wonders… Tex and Katie seemed just to go from the next high to sleeping off the last high in those two days of murder. Sadie, ahhh, shit, she could have done this crap completely SOBER, and we all know it! Linda, well, Hell, who the Hell actually knows what’s REALLY the truth inside that “Little Hippie Girl” head of hers, doubtful it is as angelic as The Bug made it out to be though. I DO think of any, Linda was the one who had the first pangs of some sort that following day when her eyes glommed onto George’s TV set. Charlie just happy, Tex and Katie too high and Sadie, well, just Sadie to feel anything close to human… Barbara Hoyt, and I dare say, many others there not participants in the last...

On a chance meeting with Hucktunes , on a subject entirely separate from Manson and The Family, I was un expectantly surprised to find that he had a one-on-one meeting with the diminutive man whose squirrelly hair and bugged-out eyes stared back at all of us in the '69 edition of LIFE Magazine. And, with his gracious permission, I have re-published his experience which was originall written in 2008 on his own blog spot for all of you to read as well. It's truly amazing how a few words from one who was "there" can easily usurp the volumes of words I, or anyone like me, who was only on the outside, looking in, could ever write. Enjoy! "The Charlie Manson story? OK. It was back in the summer of 1969. I had graduated from high school and was feeling real happy about being done with it once and for all. I had this friend, Steve Seymore , that lived in Temple City but would hang out a lot in South Pasadena. He was a few years older than me and my school m...