Linda Kasabian, a troubled young drifter who joined Charles Manson’s cult, died Jan. 21 at 73. She gave crucial testimony against Charles Manson, the wild-eyed cult leader who directed a series of 1969 murders that terrorized Los Angeles.
. “She stood in the witness box for 17 or 18 days and never broke down, despite the incredible pressure she was under. I doubt we would have convicted Manson without her.”
Ms. Kasabian said that after her husband left her in the summer of 1969, she joined Manson at Spahn Ranch, the Family’s headquarters. Manson mandated group sex and drug use, and he led his followers on a practice called “creepy crawling,” in which they snuck into homes across the city, rearranging furniture and stealing people’s belongings.
On the night of Aug. 8, 1969, the cult leader sent Ms. Kasabian and three other Family members — Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel and Charles “Tex” Watson — to Tate’s home in Benedict Canyon, where Ms. Kasabian said she waited outside just after midnight as her companions murdered the home’s occupants.
The killings went unsolved for months. But that fall, Atkins was jailed on an unrelated murder charge and bragged to cellmates about the Tate-LaBianca killings, tipping off police and leading to the gang’s capture.
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