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PHOTOS: Manson Family murders

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Tuesday, June 16, 2015
Charles Manson is escorted on his way back to jail after court arraignment in Los Angeles, Calif., Dec. 22, 1969.
Charles Manson is escorted to his arraignment on conspiracy-murder charges in conneciton with the Sharon Tate murder case, 1969, Los Angeles, Calif.
Charles Manson followers, from left: Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten, shown walking to court on Aug. 20, 1970.
A scowling Charles Manson goes to lunch after an outbreak in court that resulted in his ejection, along with three women co-defendants, from the Tate murder trial, Dec. 21, 1970.
Actress Sharon Tate and director Roman Polanski.
Manson murder victims: (From top left to bottom right) Gary Hinman, Abigail Folger, Jay Sebring, Leno LaBianca, Sharon Tate, Steven Parent, Wojciech Frykowski, Rosemary LaBianca
The body of actress Sharon Tate is taken from her rented house at 10050 Cielo Drive in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Aug. 9, 1969.
Bloodstains are seen on the flagstone porch at the front door of the rented Beverly Hills home of actress Sharon Tate on Aug. 20, 1969.
Steven Parent, 18, was the first victim at the Tate house on Aug. 9, 1969. He was killed in his car in the driveway.
The killers used Sharon Tate's blood to write 'pig' on the front door; a macabre message that shocked and confused the city.
The Los Feliz home of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, where the couple was brutually murdered by Manson followers on Aug. 10, 1969.
'Death to pigs' was written in blood on the wall inside the LaBianca home.
'Healter (sic) Skelter' was also written in blood on the LaBianca's refrigerator.
The bloody clothes worn by Sharon Tate's murderers were discovered by former ABC7 Eyewitness News reporter Al Wiman and his film crew four months after the killings.
Wiman recalled their thinking that led to the discovery: 'If we had just killed these people, we are covered with blood, where would we go and where would we throw the clothes.'
Estimating the murderers' escape, Wiman and his crew drove down Benedict Canyon from Tate's home, timing how long it would take to get undressed and redressed.
It took just over 6 minutes. ''We stopped and got out and looked over and I said 'My God, those have to be the clothes,''' Wiman said.
The long barrel .22-caliber revolver used in the murders at the Tate-Polanski home.
The blood stained rope used to tie up Sharon Tate, who was 8 1/2 months pregnant, and Jay Sebring.
This is the Spahn ranch near Chatsworth, shown Dec. 11, 1969, where Charles Manson and his 'family' of hippies lived at the time actress Sharon Tate and seven others were slain.
Charles Manson is escorted to court for formal sentencing in Los Angeles, Calif., on April 19, 1971.
Unsuccessful in his attempts to obtain a mistrial, Manson heads for court in Los Angeles on Aug. 6, 1970 to listen to further cross-examination of state's witness, Linda Kasabian.
Cult leader Charles Manson looks back and smiles as his attorney, public defender Fred Schaefer, talks to him in Independence, Calif., on Dec. 4, 1969.
Three members of Charles Manson's clan leave a Los Angeles Courtroom just after being found guilty, along with Manson of first degree murder, Jan. 25, 1971.
Four young female members of the Charles Manson 'family' kneel on the sidewalk outside the Los Angeles at Hall of Justice, March 29, 1971 with their heads shaved.
Four members of the Charles Manson "family" kneel on the sidewalk outside the Los Angeles at Hall of Justice, March 29, 1971, keeping vigil.
Three women co-defendants in the Sharon Tate murder case, from left, Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten, laugh as they walk to court on March 29, 1971.
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Charles Manson is escorted on his way back to jail after court arraignment in Los Angeles, Calif., Dec. 22, 1969.
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