As for Kasabian, I've always wondered about her. Why did Manson select her to go along when she had only been with the Family for less than two months? I don't buy the "she-had-the-only-valid-license" reason. These people were doing illegal things left and right. Why stop at driving without a license? Besides Watson did much of the driving the night of the Tate murders. I believe that all three women knew exactly why they were going to the Tate house. It seems pretty stupid to me for Watson to keep his crime partners in the dark and unprepared.
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explain the cashing in part, would you? she's had almost zero publicity since the trial and kept a very low profile for the most part. She never wrote a book or tried to become famous and a media whore.
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To say that Linda tried to cash in on the case and "set-up" Charlie and the rest, I think is pure *beep*
But I will say this:
In Helter Skelter, it says that Linda just thought that they where going on yet another "creepy-crawl."
But in a documentary, Manson Women, Barbara Hoyt say that she had heard from a ranch-hand that had asked Sadie were they where going on the night of the Tate murders. And Sadie "lean out of the car window and said 'we are going to kill some mother F pigs"
So if Sadie did say that, Linda most have known what was going on, also:
(from the book The Family, by Ed Sanders) page 202:
Tex told Linda that the gun was in the glove compartment. Three knives were on the front right floor of the automobile. Tex told her to bundle up the knives and gun and then to throw them out the window if the police attempted to pick them up. This Linda did, bundling them with her very own shirt.
Linda Kasabian testified that she believed she was merely going on a second-story caper in Beverly Hills. A second-story caper with forty three feet of rope and gun, change of clothing and three sharp knives.
Now, I don't say that I believe that Linda was in on the murders. In fact she did prevent a murder from happening the next night.
I just don't like the idea that if you only read Bugliosi's book, or watch the tv-movie(s), and don't know anything else about the case, you might be left with the idea that Linda was such a sweat-heart. were in real life, nobody is a saint.
And this is what Bugliosi did wrong, in order to understand the Manson Family and what made it tick, you can't use the old "good guys vs. bad guys"-cliché because that isn't how it comes down in real life.
This might be why I don't like the tv-movie Helter Skelter, neither the original or the remake.
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poppyviolet
14 years ago
So what if he had sex with numerous women per week (if that IS the truth??) He was single and not doing anything that many other people in that era weren't doing too!!
As far as the drugs, if he was such a major "coke head," why wasn't any found in his system during his autopsy? If he was so addicted, there'd certainly be some there because a true addict couldn't be without it.
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