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She had been a Manson family member and was along on the nights of the infamous Tate-LaBianca murders, but she later became the prosecution’s lead witness.

She gave crucial testimony against Charles Manson, the wild-eyed cult leader who directed a series of 1969 murders in Los Angeles.

Linda Kasabian, Charles Manson follower who helped send him to prison, dies at 73.

Linda Kasabian, who played a key role in sending her fellow Manson Family members to prison, has reportedly died at the age of 73.

Kasabian was the lookout for the “Manson Family” during the murder of Sharon Tate on August 9, 1969, when the pregnant actress and four other friends were murdered in California.

It was called the end of an era. It shook America to it's core. Those of a certain age that remember the chill that crept across the country in the aftermath of the Tate-Labianca murders still think 'Boogeyman' when the name Charles Manson is uttered.

It was called the end of an era. It shook America to it's core. Those of a certain age that remember the chill that crept across the country in the aftermath of the Tate-Labianca murders still think 'Boogeyman' when the name Charles Manson is uttered.

Linda Kasabian, who dodged jail by testifying against the other members of the cult, was the getaway driver and lookout during the murders in 1969 - in which pregnant Sharon Tate was butchered.

Hutchins was killed just over a year ago - on October 21, 2021 - and the set was shut down at the Bonanza Creek Ranch set in Sante Fe.

Tate murders, the shocking and grisly murders of actress Sharon Tate and four other people by followers of cult leader Charles Manson on the night of August 8–9, 1969, in Los Angeles. Two more people were killed on August 10. After two highly publicized trials, Manson and four of his followers were convicted of all the murders in 1971. Tate, a fledgling actress whose best-known movie was Valley of the Dolls (1967), was married to filmmaker Roman Polanski and was more than eight months pregnan...