Nov. 21, 2025
"LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE: MANSON'S LEGACY AND THE FAMILIES STILL WAITING FOR PEACE" (Part 3 of 3)
Reid Carter concludes the Manson series examining fifty-six years of aftermath. August 1969 murders ended the peace-and-love era—Hollywood locked doors, bought guns, stopped trusting strangers. Victims' families attended every parole hearing for decades—Debra Tate fought to keep killers imprisoned until her death in 2024. Manson spent forty-six years in prison conducting interviews, releasing albums, getting marriage proposals from fans. Died November 19, 2017 at eighty-three—nobody claimed his body for months. His followers remain imprisoned or recently released. Sharon Tate's son Paul Richard would be fifty-six today. Seven victims remembered not for their lives but for their deaths.
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Calorogus shark media. Good morning, I'm reed Carter Friday, November
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twenty first, twenty twenty five. August ninth, nineteen sixty nine,
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The day the nineteen sixties died. That's how people describe it.
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The Manson murders marked the end of an era. End
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of peace and love, end of trusting strangers, end of
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believing humanity was fundamentally good, end of the hippie dream.
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Before August ninth, nineteen sixty nine, doors in Los Angeles
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were left unlocked, strangers were welcomed, hitchhikers picked up without fear.
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The counterculture preached universal love, breaking down barriers, rejecting violence,
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building a better world. After August ninth, nineteen sixty nine,
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everything changed. Hollywood installed security systems, bought guns, stopped answering doors,
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stopped trusting anyone one who looked like a hippie. The
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counterculture became suspect, dangerous, associated with Charles Manson. Seven people
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were murdered, but millions were affected. An entire generation traumatized.
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Cultural shift over night. Sharon Tate's mother, Doris, spent twenty
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three years attending parole hearings, fighting to keep her daughter's
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killers in prison, twenty three years of reliving August ninth,
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nineteen sixty nine, twenty three years of seeing the people
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who murdered Sharon and her grandson sitting across a table
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asking for freedom. Doris died in nineteen ninety two cancer.
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She was sixty eight. Her daughter, Deborah took over. Attended
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every parole hearing for Susan Atkins, Patricia Crenwinkle, Leslie Van Houghton,
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Tex Watson, argued against their release, gave victim impact statements,
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kept Sharon's memory alive. Deborah died in twenty twenty four,
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sixty nine years old. Spent her in time higher adult
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life fighting the Manson family. Never got closure, never moved on,
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just fought year after year, decade after decade, until she
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couldn't anymore. Sharon Tate's son, Paul Richard would be fifty
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six years old today, never born, died with his mother
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murdered two weeks before he'd take his first breath. He'd
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be middle aged now, maybe have children, maybe have grandchildren,
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a whole family tree that never existed because Charles Manson
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wanted to be famous. I'm reed, Carter. This is Celebrity
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Trials Day three. The aftermath of the Manson murders the
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legacy that haunts America fifty six years later, August tenth,
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nineteen sixty nine, news of the Tate murders broke nationally.
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Sharon Tate, beautiful actress eight and a half months pregnant,
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married to Roman Polanski, murdered in her home along with
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four friends, brutally senselessly. Blood messages left at the scene.
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Hollywood panicked. If Sharon Tate could be murdered in Benedict Canyon,
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one of LA's wealthiest, most secure neighborhoods, nobody was safe.
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Within days, gun sales in Los Angeles increased by two
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hundred percent. Home security companies couldn't keep up with demand.
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Locksmith's worked overtime installing dead bolts, guard dogs sold out
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at Kennel's. Private security hired by every major celebrity. Steve
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McQueen started carrying a gun everywhere. Carried two actually a
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forty five in his car, a magnum and a shoulder
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holster told friends he'd learned martial arts wouldn't go down
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without a fight. Frank Sinatra installed an elaborate security system,
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hired armed guards, carried a gun himself, told his daughter Nancy.
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She couldn't go anywhere without security. Mia Farrow, Sharon's close friend,
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also pregnant at the time, went into hiding, moved to
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a secure location, wouldn't tell anyone where she was, terrified
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she'd be next. The paranoia was everywhere. Who were the killers?
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Why did they target Sharon? Were they coming back? Would
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they target other celebrities, other pregnant women, anyone in Benedict Canyon.
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Theories proliferated. Roman Polanski made controversial films. Maybe he angered
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the wrong people. Jay Sebring had celebrity clients. Maybe he
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was involved in drugs. Voischek Fraikowsky had connections to European underground.
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Maybe mob related. All speculation, no facts. Then August eleventh,
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the Labyanka murders were discovered. Similar blood messages Helter Skelter
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clearly connected to the Tate murders. But the Labyankas weren't celebrities,
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weren't connected to Hollywood, just a middle aged couple in
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Los Felees. That made it worse. If the victims weren't
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specifically targeted, if they were random, then anyone could be next.
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The panic in intensified hippie culture became suspect. Overnight, Charles
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Manson and his followers looked like hippies, long hair, commune,
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living drugs, free love, anti establishment rhetoric. Suddenly every hippie
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was potentially dangerous, potentially a killer, potentially part of a cult.
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The counterculture movement suffered. The peace and love generation got
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associated with violence and murder. Politicians used it to crack down.
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Nixon launched the War on Drugs, targeted hippie communes, dismantled
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the movement. The Manson murders gave Establishment America ammunition to
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destroy what remained of the nineteen sixties idealism, but the
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real aftermath was personal. The families destroyed, the lives shattered.
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Doris Tait, Sharon's mother, learned about the murders from television,
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watching news coverage, seeing her daughter's name, seeing the house,
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the blood, the bodies being carried out. Nobody had called
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her first, She learned from TV. Roman Polanski was in London,
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got a phone call, flew home, immediately arrived to find
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his house a crime scene, blood everywhere, his pregnant wife dead,
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his unborn son dead, his friends dead, all murdered while
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he was working. Roman never recovered made darker films. Afterward,
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more violent, more disturbing. Moved to Europe. Couldn't stay in
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Los Angeles. Too many memories, too much pain. Years later,
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Roman was arrested in Switzerland on charges related to sexual
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assault of a thirteen year old in nineteen seventy seven.
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Fled to France, never returned to America. Some people connected
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his behavior to Charon's murder, said the trauma broke something
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in him. Others said he was always broken either way.
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His life after August ninth, nineteen sixty nine was defined
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by that night. Sharon's father, Paul Tait, army intelligence officer,
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became obsessed with finding the killers. Before arrests were made.
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Paul went under cover, posed as a hippie infiltrated communes,
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carried a gun, looking for whoever murdered his daughter. Dangerous, desperate,
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a father trying to get justice any way possible. When
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the Manson family was arrested, Paul had to step back,
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let the legal system work, but he wanted revenge, wanted
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them dead. Attended every court hearing, stared at Manson, at
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Susan Atkins, at Patricia Crenwinkle. Wanted them to see his
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hatred after their death sentences were commuted to life. Paul
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and Doris Tate founded a victim's rights organization, fought for
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laws giving families more say in parole hearings, more ability
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to present victim impact statements, more power in the justice system.
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Doris attended every parole hearing, every single one, for Susan Atkins,
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for Patricia Crenwinkle, for Leslie Van Houghten, for Text Watson,
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gave statements, read letters from Sharon, described what was taken
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from their family, argued against release. Susan Atkins's first parole
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hearing was in nineteen seventy eight, seven years after conviction.
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Doris attended, told the parole board, Susan Atkins showed no
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mercy to my daughter, showed no mercy to my grandson.
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Why should we show mercy to her? Susan was denied.
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Next hearing scheduled for nineteen eighty five, Doris attended, same statement,
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same result, denied every few years, same routine, same arguments,
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same denials. Doris spent the last twenty three years of
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her life fighting to keep her daughter's killers in prison.
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Paul Tait died in nineteen ninety heart attack, age seventy
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stress grief, decades of pain. He never got over Sharon's death,
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never moved on, just fought until his heart gave out.
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Doris continued alone, attended hearings until cancer made it impossible.
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Died in nineteen ninety two, aged sixty eight. Her last
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words to family, keep fighting, don't let them out. Sharon's
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younger sister, Deborah, took over. She was sixteen when Sharon
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was murdered. Spent her entire adulthood fighting the Manson family.
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Attended parole hearings, gave victim impact statements, wrote books, did interviews,
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kept Sharon's memory alive. I made a promise to my mother,
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Deborah said in an interview. I promised I'd never let
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them forget what they did. I promised I'd fight as
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long as I had breath. I'm keeping that promise. Deborah
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attended Susan Atkins's final parole hearing in two thousand eight.
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Susan was dying brain cancer, paralyzed, only months to live,
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requested compassionate release, wanted to die outside prison with her
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husband in a hospice. Deborah argued against it. My sister
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was allowed no such compassion. Sharon was eight and a
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half months pregnant. She begged for her baby's life. Susan
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Atkins showed her no mercy, stabbed her sixteen times. Why
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should we show Susan mercy now? Compassionate release denied. Susan
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Atkins died in prison September twenty fourth, two thousand and nine,
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aged sixty one. Deborah said justice was served, but the
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fight continued. Patricia Creenwinkle's hearings, Leslie van Houghten's hearings, Tex
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Watson's hearings every few years, same routine, same trauma, same
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reliving of August ninth, nineteen sixty nine. Deborah Tate died
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January twenty, twenty four, sixty nine years old. She'd spent
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fifty four years fighting the Manson family, attended over one
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hundred parole hearings, never missed one. Now she's gone, the
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question becomes who fights now, Sharon's niece, more distant relatives.
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At what point does the family stop fighting? At what
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point does the trauma end? It doesn't, that's the answer.
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It never ends. Seven people murdered in nineteen sixty nine
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created trauma that echoes through generations. Children who never knew
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their aunt, grandchildren who never knew their great aunt all
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defined by August ninth, nineteen sixty nine, Leno Labianca's son
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from a previous marriage, Leno Junior, found his father's body,
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saw war carved into his abdomen, saw the blood messages.
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That image haunted him forever. He testified at parole hearings,
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argued against release. Died in two thousand, age fifty three,
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heart attack stress grief. Rosemary Labianca's daughter, lou Smaldino, also
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attended hearings, fought againainst parole, said they took my mother
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from me, stabbed her forty one times. Why should they
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ever be free? The victim's family spent decades trapped in
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nineteen sixty nine, unable to move forward, unable to heal,
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just fighting, just surviving, just making sure the killers stayed
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in prison. That's Charles Manson's real legacy. Not the murders themselves,
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not the trial, not the cultural impact, but the ongoing trauma,
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the family still fighting fifty six years later, the pain
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that never ends. We'll be right back with Charles Manson's
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life in prison, his death in twenty seventeen, and why
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we're still obsessed with him. April twenty second, nineteen seventy one,
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Charles Manson arrived at California State Prison Corcoran life sentence,
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no parole, eligibility for seven years, but realistically never getting out.
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Too famous, too dangerous, too much public hatred. Manson adapted
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to prison. He'd spent most of his life incarcerated anyway,
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knew how to survive, how to manipulate, how to maintain power.
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In prison, Manson became a celebrity. Other inmates feared him,
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respected him, some worshiped him. He ran groups of followers
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inside just like on the outside, convinced young inmates he
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was special, important, worth following. He also became a media phenomenon.
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Journalists requested interviews constantly, Manson granted, some refused, others controlled access,
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maintained mystique. Manson gave his first major TV interview, talked
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about the murders, still denied ordering them, said his followers
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misunderstood him, said society he created him, blamed everyone but himself.
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The interviewer asked if he felt remorse, Manson laughed, I
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don't feel remorse for things I didn't do. These people
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did what they believed was right. That's on them, not me.
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Throughout the nineteen eighties and nineteen nineties, Manson gave more interviews,
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each one crazier than the last, rambling about the environment,
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about Atwa air trees, water animals, about how humans were
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destroying the planet, about how he was trying to save it.
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He also recorded music, released albums from prison. Punk and
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alternative artists covered his songs. Guns N' Roses covered look
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at Your Game Girl on their nineteen ninety three album.
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Beach Boys released a Manson song Ceased to Exist in
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nineteen sixty nine, before anyone knew Manson was a killer.
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After the murders, they were mortified. Manson's music got cult following,
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not because it was good it wasn't, but because it
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was Manson dangerous taboo. People collected it, listened to it,
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tried to understand him through his art. He also became
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a symbol, an icon, t shirts with his face, posters,
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article tattoos, people wearing Charles Manson merchandise, like he was
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a rock star, like he was cool, like mass murder
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was edgy. This disturbed victim's families. Deborah Tate spent years
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protesting companies that sold Manson merchandise. He's not a celebrity,
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she said, he's a murderer, Stop glorifying him. But the
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obsession continued, books, documentaries, movies, TV shows. Manson appeared in
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everything American Horror Story, mind Hunter, Aquarius, Once upon a
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Time in Hollywood. Charles Manson, the character, the myth, the
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cultural phenomenon was everywhere. The real Charles Manson, the aging
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man in prison, kept giving in interviews, kept trying to
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stay relevant, changed his forehead X into a swastika, made
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himself look more evil, more shocking, played the villain everyone expected.
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Over decades in prison, Manson received thousands of letters, marriage
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proposals from women, fan mail from people who idolized him,
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requests for autographs, money gifts, all sent to a man
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serving life for orchestrating seven murders. Manson's parole hearing first
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one since nineteen seventy eight, automatic every few years, formality.
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Really nobody expected him to be released, but the hearing
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happened anyway. Doris Tate was dead by then. Deborah Tate attended,
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gave victim impact statement described August ninth, nineteen sixty nine,
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described her sister's murder, described her nephew, who never lived,
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asked the board to deny parole, Manson didn't help himself,
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ran ambled, made threats, said if released, he'd disappear into
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the desert, become a hermit, or maybe start another cult,
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depends on his mood. Parole denied obviously. Manson's last parole hearing,
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age seventy seven, had been imprisoned forty one years. Deboratate attended,
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argued against release. Parole denied again. Manson wouldn't be eligible
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for another hearing until twenty twenty seven. He'd be ninety two,
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not likely to see it. He didn't. November nineteenth, twenty seventeen,
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Charles Manson died at Kern County Hospital. Natural causes respiratory failure,
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cardiac arrest, age eighty three. Had been transferred from Corcoran
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in prison a week earlier due to health complications. News
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broke immediately international headlines. Charles Manson, cult leader who orchestrated
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the Tate LaBianca murders, was dead, finally, after forty six
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years in prison, or a lifetime of manipulation after becoming
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one of America's most infamous criminals. Reactions were mixed. Victim's
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families expressed relief, good riddance, said one relative. He should
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have died decades ago, should have been executed, but at
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least he's gone. Others were sad it happened. Wanted him
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to suffer longer, wanted him to rot in prison for decades.
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