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Charles Manson, 1969.
Everett Collection Historical/Alamy Stock Photo.
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The house at Barker Ranch.
William Girard/Alamy Stock Photo.
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Leslie Van Houten leaving the courthouse in 1978 after her third trial.
AP Photo/Nick Ut.
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Leslie Van Houten at age 53, pleading her case to the parole board in 2002.
Reuters/Alamy Stock Photo.
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Patricia Krenwinkel, March 3, 1970, as she entered the Los Angeles Superior Court for arraignment on murder charges.
Zuma Press, Inc./Press/Alamy Stock Photo.
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Patricia Krenwinkel, 63, appearing before the parole board in January 2011.
AP Photo/Reed Saxon.
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During the August 1970 trial, and for years afterward, Leslie Van Houten, Susan Atkins, and Patricia Krenwinkel buttressed each other with Manson’s pathological ideology.
Everett Collection Historical/Alamy Stock Photo.
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Squeaky Fromme (left) and Catherine “Gypsy” Share are shown outside the courtroom during the January 1970 trial of Manson, Watson, and the three women.
AP Photo/David F. Smith File.
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Susan Atkins at age 54. Eight years later, in 2009, she died in prison of brain cancer.
Photo courtesy California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
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Charles “Tex” Watson at age 61.
Photo courtesy California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
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Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Stephen Kaye, shown here in 1996, worked closely with prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi in the 1970 trial.
AP Photo/ Michael Caulfield.
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Charles Manson at age 80 in 2014.
Photo courtesy California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.