Where Is Linda Kasabian, the Key Witness in the Charles Manson Murder Trial, Today?
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At the 1970 trial of Charles Manson and his followers, Linda Kasabian’s testimony helped put the cult leader and four members of his “Family” away after the Tate-LaBianca murders.
Peacock’s three-part docuseries Making Manson, streaming now, shines a spotlight on Kasabian’s key role during and after the two-night murder spree in August 1969 that left pregnant actress Sharon Tate and six others dead.
Fifty-five years later, where is Kasabian today? Learn more about the woman who went from being part of Manson’s Family to the star witness for the prosecution at the cult leader’s trial.
Born in 1949 in Maine, Kasabian met Manson in Los Angeles when she was 20. At the time she was pregnant and already the mother of an infant daughter, according to Biography.
Kasabian soon fell under Manson’s thrall. She was a driver and lookout at the L.A. murders that claimed the lives of actress Sharon Tate, hairstylist Jay Sebring, coffee heiress Abigail Folger, producer Wojciech Frykowski, and Steven Parent, as well as Leno and Rosemary LaBianca.
“Linda Kasabian should have been tried with all the rest of them,” journalist Linda Deutsch said in Making Manson, which includes recorded audio jailhouse conversations with Manson and interviews with former family members, reporters, and attorneys.“She drove the car both nights,” Deutsch added. “That is the key to felony murder. She was a participant. She brought them there and she saw them kill people. But Linda Kasabian had a great lawyer.”
Kasabian’s attorney went to prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi and informed him that she was willing to testify against Manson in exchange for immunity.
“She was in custody when she testified and after her testimony was over, she was set free,” trial prosecutor Stephen Kay said in Making Manson. “You have to determine the credibility of people and Linda Kasabian was a very credible witness. She was devastated by these murders.”Deutsch, who covered the sensational true-crime saga, offered another perspective.
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