Subject: Sharon Tate

• Beverly Hills Matchmaker Spills about Manson Family Member Susan Atkins

  In the summer of 1969, Susan Atkins stabbed to death a pregnant Sharon Tate a gruesome 16 times at Tate’s Benedict Canyon mansion. Later, Atkins told fellow inmate and Beverly Hills matchmaker Virginia Graham that the 26-year-old actress begged for her life and the life of her unborn child. “She told me this thing with great glee,” said Graham who shared a dorm room with Atkins at the Sybil Brand Institute for Women in the fall of 1969. After killing Tate, prosecutors said Atkins tasted

  June 16, 2008

• Parole Anyone? Chilling Details Emerge from Susan Atkins’ Last Prison Hearing

  June 17, 2008

• CNN to Interview Former Prison Confidante of Manson Family Member Susan Atkins

  Former Beverly Hills matchmaker Virginia Graham told the LA Weekly that she has a date with CNN. CNN contacted Graham after reading, Beverly Hills Matchmaker Spills About Manson Family Member Susan Atkins, she said. Graham’s upcoming interview will likely focus on her prison chat fest with Atkins who she shared a dorm room with at the Sybil Brand Institute for Women in the fall of 1969. Atkins stabbed to death a pregnant Sharon Tate a gruesome 16 times at Tate’s Benedict Canyon mansion i

  June 24, 2008

• Los Angeles District Attorney Opposes “Compassionate Release” for Charles Manson Follower Susan Atkins

  The state Board of Parole Hearings will decide today whether they will grant Charles Manson follower and convicted murderer Susan Atkins “compassionate release.” Atkins, 60, reportedly has terminal brain cancer and her bid for “compassionate release” will be one of two cases considered as part of a regularly scheduled monthly board meeting. The other case involves inmate Robert Ramirez, a convicted burglar and three-striker who was sentenced to 35-years in prison in 1995. He is 41. S

  July 15, 2008

• Charles Manson Follower Susan Atkins Denied “Compassionate Release”

  The state Board of Parole Hearings on Tuesday denied a request for “compassionate release” to Charles Manson follower and convicted murderer Susan Atkins who is dying of brain cancer. In the summer of 1969, Atkins stabbed to death a pregnant Sharon Tate a gruesome 16 times at Tate’s Benedict Canyon mansion. After killing Tate, prosecutors said Atkins tasted the actress' blood and used it to scrawl “PIG” on her front door. On that dreadful August 9 night, the Manson Family also killed

  July 17, 2008

• Last Prison Hearing of Manson Follower Susan Atkins

  The LA Weekly recently took a peek at last month’s state Board of Parole Hearings transcript in which Manson follower and convicted murderer Susan Atkins was denied “compassionate release.” In May, Atkins’ husband asked for “compassionate release” for his wife because she is dying from brain cancer and has less than three months to live. In the summer of 1969, Atkins stabbed pregnant actress Sharon Tate a gruesome 16 times at Tate’s Benedict Canyon mansion. After killing Tate, pro

  August 14, 2008

• Is It Helter Skelter for Manson Girl Susan Atkins?

  Susan Atkins, who is suffering from brain cancer, will be lucky to see the end of the year. In September, prison authorities quietly moved the 60-year-old Charles Manson follower (who has her own Web page) from an undisclosed hospital in Southern California to the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla. The most likely scenario is that doctors determined that they couldn't do anything more for Atkins who,  last spring, was only given three months to live. The Central California W

  December 29, 2008

• Manson Anniversary Song

  As reported here yesterday by Christine Pelisek, Charles Manson disciple Susan Atkins has been sent to a prison hospice to die from incurable brain cancer. Atkins was convicted in 1971 of murder for participating in an eight-death homicide spree carried out by the Manson Family in 1969. That summer of carnage included the murder of pregnant actress Sharon Tate. Atkins was denied a "compassionate release" from a state parole board last July, ensuring that she will die behind bars. It is 39 years

  December 30, 2008

• A Pasadena Author Researching Jogging Trails Cracks an Old Serial-Killer Case

  October 9, 2008

• Movie Reviews: Confessions of a Shopaholic, Friday the 13th, Gomorrah

  Also, Fuel, Polanski: Unauthorized, and more

  February 12, 2009

• Kenneth Anger Is a Rolling Stone

  Zachary Lazar’s ’60s hash, Sway

  November 20, 2008

• Wanted and Desired: Was Roman Polanski a Pedophile?

  July 10, 2008

• Manson Clan Body Dig Underway

  A rural cop convinces Inyo County to probe a remote ranch. Global media descend

  May 22, 2008

• Film Reviews: Semi-Pro, Summer Palace, A Walk to Beautiful

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  February 28, 2008

• Rock Picks

  May 3, 2007

• Halloweekend

  November 2, 2006

• Back to the Garden

  June 15, 2006

• Coroner to the Suicides

  May 5, 2005

• Hollywood Satiricon

  Bruce Wagner infects his novels with madness, celebrity, name-dropping, drugs and sex. And that's just the realism.

  January 27, 2005

• Apocalypse Culture Now

  June 6, 2002

• Gays & Dolls

  November 8, 2001

• Death Takes a Meeting

  September 3, 1998

• Breaking the Law

  April 16, 1998

• Charles Manson's Hide-Away Gutted in Suspicious Fire

  Charles Manson's former remote hide-out has been gutted in a suspicious fire, according to the Death Valley National Park Service. Authorities are not sure whether Barker Ranch, famous for being Manson's last home before he was nabbed by police for the notorious Tate-LaBianca murders, was torched accidentally or if someone maliciously tried to burn down the 70-year old mining cabin. "It has been burned," said Terry Baldino, chief of interpretation at Death Valley National Park. "All we know is a

  May 8, 2009

• Manson Dig Officially Over

  Inyo County sheriff investigators officially called off the dig for human remains Wednesday at remote Barker Ranch, the last known hideout of Charles Manson and his followers. Investigators reported that 20 law enforcement officials and scientists using portable ground penetrating radar, lasers and Alternate Light Source technology found no bodies after two-days of relentless digging. On May 20, law enforcement agencies, shadowed by a small army of local and international reporters, descende

  May 21, 2008

• No Human Remains Found yet at Manson Dig

  So far…nada. Inyo County sheriff investigators reported today that they have not found any bodies yet at Barker Ranch, the last known hideout of Charles Manson and his followers. “One bullet casing was found in the site,” said Inyo County Sheriff’s Lt. Jim Jones,” but forensic testing indicates that there were no human remains in or around that site.” The .38 caliber casing was found just two inches below the surface of the first dig site. Investigators also found remnants of

  May 21, 2008

• Today in Photographs: August 3, 1970

  ​Court spectator/actor Sal Mineo gets frisked prior to entering the Manson Family murder trial of Sharon Tate and others. Mineo himself would be murdered in a West Hollywood alley in 1976.LA Herald-Examiner/LAPL

  August 3, 2009

• The Last Supper: Mansonites Converge at El Coyote

  August 13, 2009

• Weathermen’s Ticking Time Bomb

  September 17, 2009