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LOOK HOW SHAGGY: New Charles Manson Photos Released

AP | LINDA DEUTSCH | Posted 04.05.2012

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LOS ANGELES — It is a mug shot for the ages. Charles Manson, the most notorious mass murderer imprisoned in California and perhaps the nation, ...

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10 True Crime Books You Won't Be Able To Put Down

Peter Manso | Posted 09.04.2011

Read More: True Crime Books, Slidepollajax, Truman Capote, The Valachi Papers, Norman Mailer, Vincent Bugliosi, In Cold Blood, Helter Skelter, Charles Manson, Bestsellers, True Crime, Books News
Peter Manso

What is there to say about true-crime books? They're fun. They can be intellectually compelling, and, like the fictional variety from Hammett, Cain and that crowd, they're more often than not rooted in the far side of respectability or polite society.

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PLAN ForYourArt: April 7-13

Bettina Korek | Posted 06.05.2011

Read More: Blum and Poe, Lacma, Helter Skelter, Free Admission, Alexander Calder, Arts, Paul Schimmel, Ana Prvacki, Culver City, Greeting Committee, Los Angeles, Taylor De Cordoba, Contemporary Art, Art Catalogues, In Your Ear, Hammer Museum, Neighborhood Public Radio, Galleries, Engagement Party, Lari Pittman, Moca, Ocma, Los Angeles News
Bettina Korek

MOCA presents the artist-run radio project Neighborhood Public Radio (NPR) as the spring 2011 collective for the ongoing Engagement Party series of events.

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Spotted Reading In Public: What Have We Seen You Reading Recently? (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Authors, W. Somerset Maugham, Steve Martin, NYC Subways, Helter Skelter, Evelyn Waugh, Books, Julia Child, Jennifer Egan, The Keep, The Sword of Honor, Slidepollajax, Reading, Of Human Bondage, Spotted Reading in Public, Books News

From a book about Charles Manson's murder trial to Steve Martin's autobiography, we saw you reading quite the wide array of books in the past few week...

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Helter Skelter: Racism and Murder

John W. Whitehead | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Charles Manson, The Beatles, Charles Manson Murders, Helter Skelter, Roman Polanski, Sharon Tate, Entertainment News
John W. Whitehead

Charles Manson, the psychopathic killer responsible for the seven murders at this Hollywood Hills home, blamed the Beatles' White Album for the series of killings his "Family" committed.

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Leslie Van Houten: A Friendship, Part 4 of 5

John Waters | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Waters, La Bianca, Helter Skelter, Leslie Van Houten, Sharon Tate, Charles Manson, Stephen Kay, Charles Manson Murders, Manson Women, Entertainment News
John Waters

"Each act we did in that house, I take responsibility for," she testified in 2004, adding "I can't... place the blame on someone else. It was me."

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Leslie Van Houten: A Friendship, Part 3 of 5

John Waters | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Waters, Charles Manson, Cry-Baby, Charles Manson Murders, Leslie Van Houten, Helter Skelter, Johnny Depp, Entertainment News
John Waters

I've always secretly wondered if Leslie ever felt "cool" when she was with the Manson gang and I finally got up the nerve to ask. "Cool? We had no concept by then of any such possible word!"

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Impeachment? Truth and Reconciliation Commission? Never Mind That -- Haul George Bush into a Court of Law, Part 1

Russ Wellen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Murder, George Bush, John Conyers, Helter Skelter, US Military, Vincent Bugliosi, Justice Department, Impeachment, Charles Manson, Death Penalty, Iraq, House Judiciary Committee, Prosecution, Politics News
Russ Wellen

Bugliosi's agenda: Once Bush is out of office, let's drag his butt into a court of law. But the media's perception that much of the public can't conceive of prosecuting a president in a court of law is probably accurate.

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