Catherine "Gypsy" Share is a fellow Manson Family member.

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Charles Montaldo is a writer and former licensed private detective who worked with law enforcement and insurance firms investigating crime and fraud.

In 1969 Charlie Manson emerged from his prison cell onto the streets of Haight-Ashbury and soon became the leader of followers who became known as the Family.

Here is a picture gallery of many of the Manson Family members with brief descriptions of their roles as Manson followers.

Manson wanted to get into the music business, but when that failed his criminal personality emerged and he and some of his followers became involved in torture and murder.

Most notably were the murders of actress Sharon Tate who was eight months pregnant and four others at her home, along with the murders of Leon and Rosemary LaBianca.

On October 10, 1969,Barker Ranch was raided after investigators spotted stolen cars on the property and traced evidence of an arson back to Manson.

Manson was not around during the first Family roundup, but returned on October 12 and was arrested with seven other family members.

When police arrived Manson hid under a small bathroom cabinet, but was quickly discovered.

On August 16, 1969, Manson and the Family were rounded up by police and taken in on suspicion of auto theft (not an unfamiliar charge for Manson).

The search warrant ended up being invalid because of a date error and the group was released.

Manson was originally sent to San Quentin State Prison, but was transferred to Vacaville then to Folsom and then back to San Quentin because of his constant conflicts with prison officials and other inmates.

In 1989 he was sent to California's Corcoran State Prison where he currently resides.

Because of various infractions in prison, Manson has spent a considerable amount of time under disciplinary custody (or as prisoners call it, "the hole"), where he was kept in isolation for 23 hours a day and kept handcuffed when moving within the general prison areas.

Manson was denied parole 10 times, and died in November 2017.

Bobby Beausoleil received the death sentence for the August 7, 1969 murder of Gary Hinman.

His sentence was later commuted to life in prison in 1972, when California outlawed the death penalty.

He is currently at the Oregon State Penitentiary.

Davis was convicted of murder for his participation in the murder of Gary Hinman and Spahn's Ranch hand, Donald "Shorty" Shea.

He is currently at the California Men's Colony in San Luis Obispo, California and has been a born-again Christian for several years.

Joined the Manson Family in 1968 Catherine Share aka Gypsy.

Catherine Share was born in Paris, France on December 10, 1942.

Her parents were part of an anti-Nazi underground movement during World War II.

Catherine was sent to an orphanage after her natural parents killed themselves in act of defiance against the Nazi regime.

She was adopted at the age of eight by an American couple.

For the following years Share's life was fairly normal until her mother, inflicted with cancer, killed herself, leaving Share to care for her blind father.

She met her obligations until he remarried then left home, dropped out of college, married, divorced and began to wander around California.

Catherine "Gypsy" Share was an accomplished violinist who dropped out of college just short of earning a music degree.

She met Manson through Bobby Beausoleil and joined the Family in the summer of 1968.

Her devotion to Manson was immediate and her role was as a recruiter to others to join the Family.

During the Tate murder trial, Gypsy testified that Linda Kasabian was the mastermind to the murders and not Charles Manson.

In 1994 she recounted her statements, saying she was forced into perjuring herself after Family members dragged her behind a truck, threatening her if she did not testify as they directed.

In 1971, eight months after giving birth to her and Steven Grogan's son, she and other Family members were arrested after participating in a shoot out with police during a botched robbery at a gun store.

Share was convicted and spent five years at the California Institute for Women in Corona.

She is now living in Texas with her third husband and is said to be a born-again Christian.

Sherry Cooper and Barbara Hoyt fled from Manson and the family after Hoyt overheard Susan Atkins talking about the Tate murder to Ruth Ann Morehouse.

When Manson found out the two girls had run away he was described as being furious and took off after them.

He found them having breakfast in a diner and gave them $20 after the girls told Manson they wanted to leave.

It is rumored that he later ordered select family members to go get them and bring them back or kill them.

On November 16, 1969 an unidentified body was found which was later identified as possibly being family member, Sherry Cooper.

aka Little Patty and Linda Baldwin Madaline Joan Cottage.

Madaline Joan Cottage, aka Little Patty and Linda Baldwin, joined the Manson Family when she was 23 years old.

Not much is written to indicate she was part of the closer Manson web like Kasabian, Fromme and others, however on November 5, 1969 she was with "Zero" when he supposedly shot himself in a game of Russian roulette.

She gained some notoriety in the Family when others who entered the room after the gunshot, reported her response to Zero's death was, "Zero shot himself, just like in the movies!"

Cottage left the family not long after the shooting incident.

Dianne Lake was one of the tragedies of the early 1960s.

She was born in the early 50s and lived much of her childhood at the Wavy Gravy Hog Farm commune with her hippie parents.

Before turning 13, she had participated in group sex and drug use including LSD.

At the age of 14, she met members of the Manson Family while visiting the house they were living in at Topanga Canyon.

With her parent's approval, she left the Hog Farm and joined the Manson group.

Manson named her Snake and using the excuse that she sought a father figure, subjected her to several beatings in front of the other family members.

Her experience with the Family included her regular participation in group sex, drug use and listening to Manson's constant pontifications about Helter Skelter and the "Revolution."

During the Spahn Ranch raid on August 16, 1969, Lake and Tex Watson avoided arrest having left days before to Olancha.

While there, Watson told Lake he had killed Sharon Tate, under the orders of Manson, and described the killing as "fun."

Lake kept silent about Watson's confession even after being strongly interrogated after her arrest at the Barker Ranch raid in October 1969.

She continued her silence until Jack Gardiner, an Inyo County police officer, and his wife entered her life and offered her friendship and parental guidance.

In late December, Lake disclosed to the DA what she knew about the Family's involvement in the Tate and LaBianca murders.

The information proved to be invaluable to the prosecution because Watson, Krenwinkel and Van Houten had confided their participation in the murders to Lake.

At the age of 16, Lake suffered from LSD flashbacks and she was sent to Patton State Hospital to undergo treatment for behavioral enhanced schizophrenia.

She was released after six months and went to live with Jack Gardiner and his wife, who had become her foster parents.

With the professional help she received and the fostering of the Gardiners, Lake graduated from high school then college and is said to be living a normal happy life as a wife and mother.

aka Yellerstone Ella Jo Bailey aka Yellerstone.

In 1967 Ella Jo Bailey and Susan Atkins were living in a commune in San Francisco.

It was there that they met Manson and decided to leave the commune and join the Manson Family.

During that year she travelled around the southwest with Manson, Mary Brunner, Patricia Krenwinkel and Lynne Fromme, until they moved to the Spahn Ranch in 1968.

Not much has been written about Bailey, other than it was Bailey along with Patricia Krenwinkel who were hitchhiking in Malibu, California when picked up by Beach Boys' Dennis Wilson.

This meeting was the jumpstart in the Family's relationship with the famous musician.

Bailey stayed with the Family up until murder became part Manson's agenda.

After the murder of Donald "Shorty" Shea Bailey left the group and later testified for the people during the Hinman murder trial.

"He (Charles Manson) stated that he had words with Mr. Hinman, and they had a heated argument, and then it became necessary for him to quiet Gary Hinman down, and he stated that he used a sword and cut Gary Hinman from his left ear down to his chin.

"He also said that he had quieted Gary down, and the girls put Gary in bed, and that Mr. Hinman asked for his prayer beads and after that he said that he had left Bobby to finish up.

"He said that two or three shots had been fired at the house.

He also said that Bobby was foolish to ever let Sadie hold the gun on Mr. Hinman."He said that all they had gained from going to Gary's house were the two vehicles and around $27."

Steve Grogan was convicted and sentenced to death in 1971 for his participation in the murder of Spahn ranch hand, Donald "Shorty" Shea.

His death sentence was commuted to life when judge James Kolts decided Grogan was "too stupid and too hopped up on drugs to decide anything on his own."

Grogan, who joined the family at the age of 22, was a high school drop out and viewed by some family members as having been borderline retarded.

He was a good musician however, and easy to manipulate, two characteristics which made him of value to Charles Manson.

In prison Grogan eventually renounced Manson and voiced his regret for his actions while in the Manson family.

In 1977 he provided authorities with a map to the location to where Shea's body was buried.

His remorse and his excellent prison record won him parole in November 1985 and he was released from prison.

To this day, Grogan is the only Manson family member convicted of murder who has been released from prison.

Since his release he has kept away from media and it is rumored he is a law abiding house painter in the San Francisco area.

Catherine Gillies, aka Cappy, was born August 1, 1950 and joined the Manson Family in 1968.

It was not long after she joined the group that they all moved to her grandmother's ranch in Death Valley which sat next to the Barker Ranch.

Eventually the family took over both ranches which became infamous after the Barker Ranch police raid in October 1969.

It is alleged that Manson sent Gillies and other family members to kill her grandmother in order for her to get an early inheritance, but the mission failed when they got flat tire.

During the sentencing phase of the Tate and LaBianca murders, Gillies testified that Manson had nothing to do with the murders.

She said the real motivation behind the murders was to get Bobby Beausoleil out of jail by making it appear that the Hinman murders and the Tate and LaBianca murders were racially motivated by a group of black revolutionist.

She also said the murders did not upset her and that she had volunteered to go, but was told she was not needed.

She also admitted that she would murder in order to get a "brother" out of prison.

On November 5, 1969, Gillies was in a Venice house when Manson follower John Haught "Zero" allegedly killed himself during a game of Russian roulette.

She is said to have never completely denounced Manson and after the Family broke up, she joined a motorcycle gang, married, divorced and had four children.

Juan Flynn was Panamanian, working as a ranch hand at Spahn Ranch during the time the Manson family lived there.

Although not a family member, he spent a lot of time with the group and participated in turning stolen cars into dune buggies, which became a regular source of income for the family.

In return, Manson would often allow Flynn to have sex with some of the female family members.

During the Tate and LaBianca murder trial, Flynn testified that Charles Manson had confided in him and admitted he was "doing all the killings."

The Oldest Female Manson Follower Catherine Share aka Gypsy.

Share began doing small roles in low-budget movies, mostly porn movies.

During the filming of the porn movie, Ramrodder, she met Bobby Beausoleil and Share moved in with Bobby and his wife.

It was during this time that she met Manson and became an instant follower and family member.

aka Katie Patricia Krenwinkel aka Katie.

In the late 1960s, Patricia "Katie" Krenwinkel became a member of the infamous Manson family and participated in Tate-LaBianca murders in 1969.

Krenwinkel and co-defendants, Charles Manson, Susan Atkins, and Leslie Van Houten were found guilty and sentenced to death on March 29, 1971 and later automatically commuted to life in prison.

The Murders Patricia Krenwinkel aka Katie.

Manson selected specific family members to go to the Tate and the LaBianca homes to commit murder.

According to testimony later given during the murder trial, his instinct about Krenwinkel (Katie) being able to handle murdering innocent people was correct.

When the butchering began at the Tate residence, Krenwinkel fought with houseguest, Abigail Folger, who managed to escape out onto the lawn, but was chased down and stabbed numerous times by Katie.

Krenwinkel said Folger pleaded with her to stop by saying "I'm already dead."

During the murders of the LaBiancas, Krenwinkel attacked Mrs. LaBianca and stabbed her repeatedly.

She then stuck a carving fork into the stomach of Mr. LaBianca and pinged it so she could watch it wobble back and forth.

This picture was taken after Krenwinkel spent several years in prison and had long denounced Manson.

Some believe, however, that in this picture she is giving a subtle hand gesture similar to those Manson's followers outside the courtroom used to show solidarity and honor to their fallen leader, Charles Manson.

Patricia Krenwinkel separated herself from Manson fairly quickly once in prison.

Of the entire group, she seems the most remorseful about her participation in the murders.

In an interview conducted by Diane Sawyer in 1994, Krenwinkel told her, "I wake up everyday knowing that I'm a destroyer of the most precious thing, which is life; and I do that because that's what I deserve, is to wake up every morning and know that."

She has been denied parole 11 times and her next hearing is around July, 2007.

Larry Bailey (aka Larry Jones) hung around Spahn's Ranch but was never fully accepted by Manson because of his black facial features.

According to reports, he was the person who gave Linda Kasabian a knife on the evening of the Tate murders.

He was also present when Manson told Kasabian to go with Tex Watson to the Tate home and do whatever he told her to do.

After the trails were over, Bailey stayed involved with some of the lingering family members and allegedly participated in conspiring ways to get family members out of prison.

In October 1969, the Manson family was arrested for auto theft and Squeaky was rounded up with the rest of the gang.

By this time, some of the group members had participated in the infamous murders at the home of actress Sharon Tate and the murders of the LaBianca couple.

Squeaky had no direct involement in the murders and was released from prison.

With Manson in jail, Squeaky became the head of the family.

She remained dedicated to Manson, branding her forehead with the infamous "X".

aka Mother Mary, Mary Manson Mary Brunner.

Mary Brunner had a Bachelors degree in History from the University of Wisconsin and was working as a librarian at UC Berkeley when she met Manson in 1967.

Brunner's life changed drastically once Manson became part of it.

She accepted his desire to sleep with other women, started doing drugs and soon left her job and began traveling with him around California.

She was instrumental in helping entice people they met to join the Manson Family.

On April 1, 1968, Brunner (age 24) gave birth to Manson's third son, Valentine Michael Manson who he named after a character in Robert Heinlein's book "Stranger in a Strange Land."

Brunner, now mother to Manson's child, grew even more loyal to Manson's ideas and to the growing Manson Family.

On July 27, 1969, Brunner was present when Bobby Beausoleil stabbed and killed Gary Hinman.

She was later arrested for her involvement in the murder, however received immunity after agreeing to testify for the prosecution.

Her dedication to Manson remained after his incarceration for the Tate-LaBianca murders.

On August 21, 1971, not long after Manson was sentenced, Mary along with five other Manson family members, participated in a robbery at a Western Surplus store.

The police apprehended them in the act after an exchange of gunfire.

The plan for the robbery was to obtain weapons, which could be used to hijack a jet and kill passengers by the hour until authorities released Manson from prison.

Bruner was convicted and sent to the California Institute for Women for a little over six years.

It is said that after her release she cut communication with Manson, changed her name, regained custody of her son and is living somewhere in the Midwest.

Susan Bartrell joined the Manson family after the Tate-LaBianca murders, but before arrests in the case were made.

She was arrested during the October 10, 1969 Barker Ranch raid and released.

She was present when Family member John Philip Haught (aka Zero) supposedly committed suicide while playing Russian roulette with a fully loaded pistol.

Bartrell stayed with the family until the early 1970s.

Watson went from being an "A" student in his Texas high school to being Charles Manson's right-hand man and a cold-blooded murderer.

He led the killing spree at both the Tate and LaBianca residences and participated in killing each member of both households.

Found guilty of killing seven people, Watson is now living his life out in prison, he is an ordained minister, married and father of three, and claims he feels remorse for those he murdered.

At age 22, self-proclaimed Manson family member, Leslie Van Houten, took part in the 1969 brutal murders of Leon and Rosemary LaBianca.

She was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder and one count of conspiracy to commit murder and sentenced to death.

Because of an error in her first trial she was granted a second which deadlocked.

After spending six months free on bond, she returned to the courtroom a third time and was convicted and sentenced to life.

aka Linda Christian, Yana the Witch, Linda Chiochios Linda Kasabian.

A one time Manson follower, Kasabian was present during the Tate and LaBianca murders and gave eye-witness testimony for the prosecution during the murder trials.

Her testimony was instrumental in the conviction of Charles Manson, Charles "Tex" Watson, Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten.

Manson, 74, is currently at Corcoran State Prison in Corcoran, about 150 miles from Los Angeles.

This is his most recent mug shot taken in March 2009.

The night of August 10, 1969 he rode with members of the Manson family. Tex Watson, Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten were dropped off at the house of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, but Grogan, Manson, Susan Atkins and Linda Kasabian continued to Venice Beach where Manson sent Grogan, Atkins and Kasabian to kill actor Saladin Nader, but Kasabian led them to the wrong apartment and the plan was aborted.
 Grogan later helped Manson, Watson and Bruce M. Davis kill Spahn ranch hand Donald "Shorty" Shea. The jury returned verdicts of life imprisonment for Manson and Davis, but death for Grogan. However, on December 23, 1971, Judge James Kolts stated that "Grogan was too stupid and too hopped on drugs to decide anything on his own" and that it was really Manson "who decided who lived or died" and reduced Grogan's sentence to life imprisonment.
 Grogan later assisted the authorities and drew a map to where Shea's body was buried. In prison he was head of the prison's program to deter juveniles from a life of crime and kept away from fellow inmate Manson. Grogan was released on parole from prison in 1985.


On January 5, 1971, Catherine "Gypsy" Share gave birth to a son while in jail awaiting trial.

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Charles Montaldo is a writer and former licensed private detective who worked with law enforcement and insurance firms investigating crime and fraud.

In 1969 Charlie Manson emerged from his prison cell onto the streets of Haight-Ashbury and soon became the leader of followers who became known as the Family.

Here is a picture gallery of many of the Manson Family members with brief descriptions of their roles as Manson followers.

Manson wanted to get into the music business, but when that failed his criminal personality emerged and he and some of his followers became involved in torture and murder.

Most notably were the murders of actress Sharon Tate who was eight months pregnant and four others at her home, along with the murders of Leon and Rosemary LaBianca.

On October 10, 1969,Barker Ranch was raided after investigators spotted stolen cars on the property and traced evidence of an arson back to Manson.

Manson was not around during the first Family roundup, but returned on October 12 and was arrested with seven other family members.

When police arrived Manson hid under a small bathroom cabinet, but was quickly discovered.

On August 16, 1969, Manson and the Family were rounded up by police and taken in on suspicion of auto theft (not an unfamiliar charge for Manson).

The search warrant ended up being invalid because of a date error and the group was released.

Manson was originally sent to San Quentin State Prison, but was transferred to Vacaville then to Folsom and then back to San Quentin because of his constant conflicts with prison officials and other inmates.

In 1989 he was sent to California's Corcoran State Prison where he currently resides.

Because of various infractions in prison, Manson has spent a considerable amount of time under disciplinary custody (or as prisoners call it, "the hole"), where he was kept in isolation for 23 hours a day and kept handcuffed when moving within the general prison areas.

Manson was denied parole 10 times, and died in November 2017.

Bobby Beausoleil received the death sentence for the August 7, 1969 murder of Gary Hinman.

His sentence was later commuted to life in prison in 1972, when California outlawed the death penalty.

He is currently at the Oregon State Penitentiary.

Davis was convicted of murder for his participation in the murder of Gary Hinman and Spahn's Ranch hand, Donald "Shorty" Shea.

He is currently at the California Men's Colony in San Luis Obispo, California and has been a born-again Christian for several years.

Joined the Manson Family in 1968 Catherine Share aka Gypsy.

Catherine Share was born in Paris, France on December 10, 1942.

Her parents were part of an anti-Nazi underground movement during World War II.

Catherine was sent to an orphanage after her natural parents killed themselves in act of defiance against the Nazi regime.

She was adopted at the age of eight by an American couple.

For the following years Share's life was fairly normal until her mother, inflicted with cancer, killed herself, leaving Share to care for her blind father.

She met her obligations until he remarried then left home, dropped out of college, married, divorced and began to wander around California.

Catherine "Gypsy" Share was an accomplished violinist who dropped out of college just short of earning a music degree.

She met Manson through Bobby Beausoleil and joined the Family in the summer of 1968.

Her devotion to Manson was immediate and her role was as a recruiter to others to join the Family.

During the Tate murder trial, Gypsy testified that Linda Kasabian was the mastermind to the murders and not Charles Manson.

In 1994 she recounted her statements, saying she was forced into perjuring herself after Family members dragged her behind a truck, threatening her if she did not testify as they directed.

In 1971, eight months after giving birth to her and Steven Grogan's son, she and other Family members were arrested after participating in a shoot out with police during a botched robbery at a gun store.

Share was convicted and spent five years at the California Institute for Women in Corona.

She is now living in Texas with her third husband and is said to be a born-again Christian.

Sherry Cooper and Barbara Hoyt fled from Manson and the family after Hoyt overheard Susan Atkins talking about the Tate murder to Ruth Ann Morehouse.

When Manson found out the two girls had run away he was described as being furious and took off after them.

He found them having breakfast in a diner and gave them $20 after the girls told Manson they wanted to leave.

It is rumored that he later ordered select family members to go get them and bring them back or kill them.

On November 16, 1969 an unidentified body was found which was later identified as possibly being family member, Sherry Cooper.

aka Little Patty and Linda Baldwin Madaline Joan Cottage.

Madaline Joan Cottage, aka Little Patty and Linda Baldwin, joined the Manson Family when she was 23 years old.

Not much is written to indicate she was part of the closer Manson web like Kasabian, Fromme and others, however on November 5, 1969 she was with "Zero" when he supposedly shot himself in a game of Russian roulette.

She gained some notoriety in the Family when others who entered the room after the gunshot, reported her response to Zero's death was, "Zero shot himself, just like in the movies!"

Cottage left the family not long after the shooting incident.

Dianne Lake was one of the tragedies of the early 1960s.

She was born in the early 50s and lived much of her childhood at the Wavy Gravy Hog Farm commune with her hippie parents.

Before turning 13, she had participated in group sex and drug use including LSD.

At the age of 14, she met members of the Manson Family while visiting the house they were living in at Topanga Canyon.

With her parent's approval, she left the Hog Farm and joined the Manson group.

Manson named her Snake and using the excuse that she sought a father figure, subjected her to several beatings in front of the other family members.

Her experience with the Family included her regular participation in group sex, drug use and listening to Manson's constant pontifications about Helter Skelter and the "Revolution."

During the Spahn Ranch raid on August 16, 1969, Lake and Tex Watson avoided arrest having left days before to Olancha.

While there, Watson told Lake he had killed Sharon Tate, under the orders of Manson, and described the killing as "fun."

Lake kept silent about Watson's confession even after being strongly interrogated after her arrest at the Barker Ranch raid in October 1969.

She continued her silence until Jack Gardiner, an Inyo County police officer, and his wife entered her life and offered her friendship and parental guidance.

In late December, Lake disclosed to the DA what she knew about the Family's involvement in the Tate and LaBianca murders.

The information proved to be invaluable to the prosecution because Watson, Krenwinkel and Van Houten had confided their participation in the murders to Lake.

At the age of 16, Lake suffered from LSD flashbacks and she was sent to Patton State Hospital to undergo treatment for behavioral enhanced schizophrenia.

She was released after six months and went to live with Jack Gardiner and his wife, who had become her foster parents.

With the professional help she received and the fostering of the Gardiners, Lake graduated from high school then college and is said to be living a normal happy life as a wife and mother.

aka Yellerstone Ella Jo Bailey aka Yellerstone.

In 1967 Ella Jo Bailey and Susan Atkins were living in a commune in San Francisco.

It was there that they met Manson and decided to leave the commune and join the Manson Family.

During that year she travelled around the southwest with Manson, Mary Brunner, Patricia Krenwinkel and Lynne Fromme, until they moved to the Spahn Ranch in 1968.

Not much has been written about Bailey, other than it was Bailey along with Patricia Krenwinkel who were hitchhiking in Malibu, California when picked up by Beach Boys' Dennis Wilson.

This meeting was the jumpstart in the Family's relationship with the famous musician.

Bailey stayed with the Family up until murder became part Manson's agenda.

After the murder of Donald "Shorty" Shea Bailey left the group and later testified for the people during the Hinman murder trial.

"He (Charles Manson) stated that he had words with Mr. Hinman, and they had a heated argument, and then it became necessary for him to quiet Gary Hinman down, and he stated that he used a sword and cut Gary Hinman from his left ear down to his chin.

"He also said that he had quieted Gary down, and the girls put Gary in bed, and that Mr. Hinman asked for his prayer beads and after that he said that he had left Bobby to finish up.

"He said that two or three shots had been fired at the house.

He also said that Bobby was foolish to ever let Sadie hold the gun on Mr. Hinman."He said that all they had gained from going to Gary's house were the two vehicles and around $27."

Steve Grogan was convicted and sentenced to death in 1971 for his participation in the murder of Spahn ranch hand, Donald "Shorty" Shea.

His death sentence was commuted to life when judge James Kolts decided Grogan was "too stupid and too hopped up on drugs to decide anything on his own."

Grogan, who joined the family at the age of 22, was a high school drop out and viewed by some family members as having been borderline retarded.

He was a good musician however, and easy to manipulate, two characteristics which made him of value to Charles Manson.

In prison Grogan eventually renounced Manson and voiced his regret for his actions while in the Manson family.

In 1977 he provided authorities with a map to the location to where Shea's body was buried.

His remorse and his excellent prison record won him parole in November 1985 and he was released from prison.

To this day, Grogan is the only Manson family member convicted of murder who has been released from prison.

Since his release he has kept away from media and it is rumored he is a law abiding house painter in the San Francisco area.

Catherine Gillies, aka Cappy, was born August 1, 1950 and joined the Manson Family in 1968.

It was not long after she joined the group that they all moved to her grandmother's ranch in Death Valley which sat next to the Barker Ranch.

Eventually the family took over both ranches which became infamous after the Barker Ranch police raid in October 1969.

It is alleged that Manson sent Gillies and other family members to kill her grandmother in order for her to get an early inheritance, but the mission failed when they got flat tire.

During the sentencing phase of the Tate and LaBianca murders, Gillies testified that Manson had nothing to do with the murders.

She said the real motivation behind the murders was to get Bobby Beausoleil out of jail by making it appear that the Hinman murders and the Tate and LaBianca murders were racially motivated by a group of black revolutionist.

She also said the murders did not upset her and that she had volunteered to go, but was told she was not needed.

She also admitted that she would murder in order to get a "brother" out of prison.

On November 5, 1969, Gillies was in a Venice house when Manson follower John Haught "Zero" allegedly killed himself during a game of Russian roulette.

She is said to have never completely denounced Manson and after the Family broke up, she joined a motorcycle gang, married, divorced and had four children.

Juan Flynn was Panamanian, working as a ranch hand at Spahn Ranch during the time the Manson family lived there.

Although not a family member, he spent a lot of time with the group and participated in turning stolen cars into dune buggies, which became a regular source of income for the family.

In return, Manson would often allow Flynn to have sex with some of the female family members.

During the Tate and LaBianca murder trial, Flynn testified that Charles Manson had confided in him and admitted he was "doing all the killings."

The Oldest Female Manson Follower Catherine Share aka Gypsy.

Share began doing small roles in low-budget movies, mostly porn movies.

During the filming of the porn movie, Ramrodder, she met Bobby Beausoleil and Share moved in with Bobby and his wife.

It was during this time that she met Manson and became an instant follower and family member.

aka Katie Patricia Krenwinkel aka Katie.

In the late 1960s, Patricia "Katie" Krenwinkel became a member of the infamous Manson family and participated in Tate-LaBianca murders in 1969.

Krenwinkel and co-defendants, Charles Manson, Susan Atkins, and Leslie Van Houten were found guilty and sentenced to death on March 29, 1971 and later automatically commuted to life in prison.

The Murders Patricia Krenwinkel aka Katie.

Manson selected specific family members to go to the Tate and the LaBianca homes to commit murder.

According to testimony later given during the murder trial, his instinct about Krenwinkel (Katie) being able to handle murdering innocent people was correct.

When the butchering began at the Tate residence, Krenwinkel fought with houseguest, Abigail Folger, who managed to escape out onto the lawn, but was chased down and stabbed numerous times by Katie.

Krenwinkel said Folger pleaded with her to stop by saying "I'm already dead."

During the murders of the LaBiancas, Krenwinkel attacked Mrs. LaBianca and stabbed her repeatedly.

She then stuck a carving fork into the stomach of Mr. LaBianca and pinged it so she could watch it wobble back and forth.

This picture was taken after Krenwinkel spent several years in prison and had long denounced Manson.

Some believe, however, that in this picture she is giving a subtle hand gesture similar to those Manson's followers outside the courtroom used to show solidarity and honor to their fallen leader, Charles Manson.

Patricia Krenwinkel separated herself from Manson fairly quickly once in prison.

Of the entire group, she seems the most remorseful about her participation in the murders.

In an interview conducted by Diane Sawyer in 1994, Krenwinkel told her, "I wake up everyday knowing that I'm a destroyer of the most precious thing, which is life; and I do that because that's what I deserve, is to wake up every morning and know that."

She has been denied parole 11 times and her next hearing is around July, 2007.

Larry Bailey (aka Larry Jones) hung around Spahn's Ranch but was never fully accepted by Manson because of his black facial features.

According to reports, he was the person who gave Linda Kasabian a knife on the evening of the Tate murders.

He was also present when Manson told Kasabian to go with Tex Watson to the Tate home and do whatever he told her to do.

After the trails were over, Bailey stayed involved with some of the lingering family members and allegedly participated in conspiring ways to get family members out of prison.

In October 1969, the Manson family was arrested for auto theft and Squeaky was rounded up with the rest of the gang.

By this time, some of the group members had participated in the infamous murders at the home of actress Sharon Tate and the murders of the LaBianca couple.

Squeaky had no direct involement in the murders and was released from prison.

With Manson in jail, Squeaky became the head of the family.

She remained dedicated to Manson, branding her forehead with the infamous "X".

aka Mother Mary, Mary Manson Mary Brunner.

Mary Brunner had a Bachelors degree in History from the University of Wisconsin and was working as a librarian at UC Berkeley when she met Manson in 1967.

Brunner's life changed drastically once Manson became part of it.

She accepted his desire to sleep with other women, started doing drugs and soon left her job and began traveling with him around California.

She was instrumental in helping entice people they met to join the Manson Family.

On April 1, 1968, Brunner (age 24) gave birth to Manson's third son, Valentine Michael Manson who he named after a character in Robert Heinlein's book "Stranger in a Strange Land."

Brunner, now mother to Manson's child, grew even more loyal to Manson's ideas and to the growing Manson Family.

On July 27, 1969, Brunner was present when Bobby Beausoleil stabbed and killed Gary Hinman.

She was later arrested for her involvement in the murder, however received immunity after agreeing to testify for the prosecution.

Her dedication to Manson remained after his incarceration for the Tate-LaBianca murders.

On August 21, 1971, not long after Manson was sentenced, Mary along with five other Manson family members, participated in a robbery at a Western Surplus store.

The police apprehended them in the act after an exchange of gunfire.

The plan for the robbery was to obtain weapons, which could be used to hijack a jet and kill passengers by the hour until authorities released Manson from prison.

Bruner was convicted and sent to the California Institute for Women for a little over six years.

It is said that after her release she cut communication with Manson, changed her name, regained custody of her son and is living somewhere in the Midwest.

Susan Bartrell joined the Manson family after the Tate-LaBianca murders, but before arrests in the case were made.

She was arrested during the October 10, 1969 Barker Ranch raid and released.

She was present when Family member John Philip Haught (aka Zero) supposedly committed suicide while playing Russian roulette with a fully loaded pistol.

Bartrell stayed with the family until the early 1970s.

Watson went from being an "A" student in his Texas high school to being Charles Manson's right-hand man and a cold-blooded murderer.

He led the killing spree at both the Tate and LaBianca residences and participated in killing each member of both households.

Found guilty of killing seven people, Watson is now living his life out in prison, he is an ordained minister, married and father of three, and claims he feels remorse for those he murdered.

At age 22, self-proclaimed Manson family member, Leslie Van Houten, took part in the 1969 brutal murders of Leon and Rosemary LaBianca.

She was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder and one count of conspiracy to commit murder and sentenced to death.

Because of an error in her first trial she was granted a second which deadlocked.

After spending six months free on bond, she returned to the courtroom a third time and was convicted and sentenced to life.

aka Linda Christian, Yana the Witch, Linda Chiochios Linda Kasabian.

A one time Manson follower, Kasabian was present during the Tate and LaBianca murders and gave eye-witness testimony for the prosecution during the murder trials.

Her testimony was instrumental in the conviction of Charles Manson, Charles "Tex" Watson, Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten.

Manson, 74, is currently at Corcoran State Prison in Corcoran, about 150 miles from Los Angeles.

This is his most recent mug shot taken in March 2009.

The night of August 10, 1969 he rode with members of the Manson family. Tex Watson, Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten were dropped off at the house of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, but Grogan, Manson, Susan Atkins and Linda Kasabian continued to Venice Beach where Manson sent Grogan, Atkins and Kasabian to kill actor Saladin Nader, but Kasabian led them to the wrong apartment and the plan was aborted.
 Grogan later helped Manson, Watson and Bruce M. Davis kill Spahn ranch hand Donald "Shorty" Shea. The jury returned verdicts of life imprisonment for Manson and Davis, but death for Grogan. However, on December 23, 1971, Judge James Kolts stated that "Grogan was too stupid and too hopped on drugs to decide anything on his own" and that it was really Manson "who decided who lived or died" and reduced Grogan's sentence to life imprisonment.
 Grogan later assisted the authorities and drew a map to where Shea's body was buried. In prison he was head of the prison's program to deter juveniles from a life of crime and kept away from fellow inmate Manson. Grogan was released on parole from prison in 1985. Catherine "Gypsy" Share is a fellow Manson Family member.


Share later revealed that Grogan was the father.

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In 1969 Charlie Manson emerged from his prison cell onto the streets of Haight-Ashbury and soon became the leader of followers who became known as the Family.

Here is a picture gallery of many of the Manson Family members with brief descriptions of their roles as Manson followers.

Manson wanted to get into the music business, but when that failed his criminal personality emerged and he and some of his followers became involved in torture and murder.

Most notably were the murders of actress Sharon Tate who was eight months pregnant and four others at her home, along with the murders of Leon and Rosemary LaBianca.

On October 10, 1969,Barker Ranch was raided after investigators spotted stolen cars on the property and traced evidence of an arson back to Manson.

Manson was not around during the first Family roundup, but returned on October 12 and was arrested with seven other family members.

When police arrived Manson hid under a small bathroom cabinet, but was quickly discovered.

On August 16, 1969, Manson and the Family were rounded up by police and taken in on suspicion of auto theft (not an unfamiliar charge for Manson).

The search warrant ended up being invalid because of a date error and the group was released.

Manson was originally sent to San Quentin State Prison, but was transferred to Vacaville then to Folsom and then back to San Quentin because of his constant conflicts with prison officials and other inmates.

In 1989 he was sent to California's Corcoran State Prison where he currently resides.

Because of various infractions in prison, Manson has spent a considerable amount of time under disciplinary custody (or as prisoners call it, "the hole"), where he was kept in isolation for 23 hours a day and kept handcuffed when moving within the general prison areas.

Manson was denied parole 10 times, and died in November 2017.

Bobby Beausoleil received the death sentence for the August 7, 1969 murder of Gary Hinman.

His sentence was later commuted to life in prison in 1972, when California outlawed the death penalty.

He is currently at the Oregon State Penitentiary.

Davis was convicted of murder for his participation in the murder of Gary Hinman and Spahn's Ranch hand, Donald "Shorty" Shea.

He is currently at the California Men's Colony in San Luis Obispo, California and has been a born-again Christian for several years.

Joined the Manson Family in 1968 Catherine Share aka Gypsy.

Catherine Share was born in Paris, France on December 10, 1942.

Her parents were part of an anti-Nazi underground movement during World War II.

Catherine was sent to an orphanage after her natural parents killed themselves in act of defiance against the Nazi regime.

She was adopted at the age of eight by an American couple.

For the following years Share's life was fairly normal until her mother, inflicted with cancer, killed herself, leaving Share to care for her blind father.

She met her obligations until he remarried then left home, dropped out of college, married, divorced and began to wander around California.

Catherine "Gypsy" Share was an accomplished violinist who dropped out of college just short of earning a music degree.

She met Manson through Bobby Beausoleil and joined the Family in the summer of 1968.

Her devotion to Manson was immediate and her role was as a recruiter to others to join the Family.

During the Tate murder trial, Gypsy testified that Linda Kasabian was the mastermind to the murders and not Charles Manson.

In 1994 she recounted her statements, saying she was forced into perjuring herself after Family members dragged her behind a truck, threatening her if she did not testify as they directed.

In 1971, eight months after giving birth to her and Steven Grogan's son, she and other Family members were arrested after participating in a shoot out with police during a botched robbery at a gun store.

Share was convicted and spent five years at the California Institute for Women in Corona.

She is now living in Texas with her third husband and is said to be a born-again Christian.

Sherry Cooper and Barbara Hoyt fled from Manson and the family after Hoyt overheard Susan Atkins talking about the Tate murder to Ruth Ann Morehouse.

When Manson found out the two girls had run away he was described as being furious and took off after them.

He found them having breakfast in a diner and gave them $20 after the girls told Manson they wanted to leave.

It is rumored that he later ordered select family members to go get them and bring them back or kill them.

On November 16, 1969 an unidentified body was found which was later identified as possibly being family member, Sherry Cooper.

aka Little Patty and Linda Baldwin Madaline Joan Cottage.

Madaline Joan Cottage, aka Little Patty and Linda Baldwin, joined the Manson Family when she was 23 years old.

Not much is written to indicate she was part of the closer Manson web like Kasabian, Fromme and others, however on November 5, 1969 she was with "Zero" when he supposedly shot himself in a game of Russian roulette.

She gained some notoriety in the Family when others who entered the room after the gunshot, reported her response to Zero's death was, "Zero shot himself, just like in the movies!"

Cottage left the family not long after the shooting incident.

Dianne Lake was one of the tragedies of the early 1960s.

She was born in the early 50s and lived much of her childhood at the Wavy Gravy Hog Farm commune with her hippie parents.

Before turning 13, she had participated in group sex and drug use including LSD.

At the age of 14, she met members of the Manson Family while visiting the house they were living in at Topanga Canyon.

With her parent's approval, she left the Hog Farm and joined the Manson group.

Manson named her Snake and using the excuse that she sought a father figure, subjected her to several beatings in front of the other family members.

Her experience with the Family included her regular participation in group sex, drug use and listening to Manson's constant pontifications about Helter Skelter and the "Revolution."

During the Spahn Ranch raid on August 16, 1969, Lake and Tex Watson avoided arrest having left days before to Olancha.

While there, Watson told Lake he had killed Sharon Tate, under the orders of Manson, and described the killing as "fun."

Lake kept silent about Watson's confession even after being strongly interrogated after her arrest at the Barker Ranch raid in October 1969.

She continued her silence until Jack Gardiner, an Inyo County police officer, and his wife entered her life and offered her friendship and parental guidance.

In late December, Lake disclosed to the DA what she knew about the Family's involvement in the Tate and LaBianca murders.

The information proved to be invaluable to the prosecution because Watson, Krenwinkel and Van Houten had confided their participation in the murders to Lake.

At the age of 16, Lake suffered from LSD flashbacks and she was sent to Patton State Hospital to undergo treatment for behavioral enhanced schizophrenia.

She was released after six months and went to live with Jack Gardiner and his wife, who had become her foster parents.

With the professional help she received and the fostering of the Gardiners, Lake graduated from high school then college and is said to be living a normal happy life as a wife and mother.

aka Yellerstone Ella Jo Bailey aka Yellerstone.

In 1967 Ella Jo Bailey and Susan Atkins were living in a commune in San Francisco.

It was there that they met Manson and decided to leave the commune and join the Manson Family.

During that year she travelled around the southwest with Manson, Mary Brunner, Patricia Krenwinkel and Lynne Fromme, until they moved to the Spahn Ranch in 1968.

Not much has been written about Bailey, other than it was Bailey along with Patricia Krenwinkel who were hitchhiking in Malibu, California when picked up by Beach Boys' Dennis Wilson.

This meeting was the jumpstart in the Family's relationship with the famous musician.

Bailey stayed with the Family up until murder became part Manson's agenda.

After the murder of Donald "Shorty" Shea Bailey left the group and later testified for the people during the Hinman murder trial.

"He (Charles Manson) stated that he had words with Mr. Hinman, and they had a heated argument, and then it became necessary for him to quiet Gary Hinman down, and he stated that he used a sword and cut Gary Hinman from his left ear down to his chin.

"He also said that he had quieted Gary down, and the girls put Gary in bed, and that Mr. Hinman asked for his prayer beads and after that he said that he had left Bobby to finish up.

"He said that two or three shots had been fired at the house.

He also said that Bobby was foolish to ever let Sadie hold the gun on Mr. Hinman."He said that all they had gained from going to Gary's house were the two vehicles and around $27."

Steve Grogan was convicted and sentenced to death in 1971 for his participation in the murder of Spahn ranch hand, Donald "Shorty" Shea.

His death sentence was commuted to life when judge James Kolts decided Grogan was "too stupid and too hopped up on drugs to decide anything on his own."

Grogan, who joined the family at the age of 22, was a high school drop out and viewed by some family members as having been borderline retarded.

He was a good musician however, and easy to manipulate, two characteristics which made him of value to Charles Manson.

In prison Grogan eventually renounced Manson and voiced his regret for his actions while in the Manson family.

In 1977 he provided authorities with a map to the location to where Shea's body was buried.

His remorse and his excellent prison record won him parole in November 1985 and he was released from prison.

To this day, Grogan is the only Manson family member convicted of murder who has been released from prison.

Since his release he has kept away from media and it is rumored he is a law abiding house painter in the San Francisco area.

Catherine Gillies, aka Cappy, was born August 1, 1950 and joined the Manson Family in 1968.

It was not long after she joined the group that they all moved to her grandmother's ranch in Death Valley which sat next to the Barker Ranch.

Eventually the family took over both ranches which became infamous after the Barker Ranch police raid in October 1969.

It is alleged that Manson sent Gillies and other family members to kill her grandmother in order for her to get an early inheritance, but the mission failed when they got flat tire.

During the sentencing phase of the Tate and LaBianca murders, Gillies testified that Manson had nothing to do with the murders.

She said the real motivation behind the murders was to get Bobby Beausoleil out of jail by making it appear that the Hinman murders and the Tate and LaBianca murders were racially motivated by a group of black revolutionist.

She also said the murders did not upset her and that she had volunteered to go, but was told she was not needed.

She also admitted that she would murder in order to get a "brother" out of prison.

On November 5, 1969, Gillies was in a Venice house when Manson follower John Haught "Zero" allegedly killed himself during a game of Russian roulette.

She is said to have never completely denounced Manson and after the Family broke up, she joined a motorcycle gang, married, divorced and had four children.

Juan Flynn was Panamanian, working as a ranch hand at Spahn Ranch during the time the Manson family lived there.

Although not a family member, he spent a lot of time with the group and participated in turning stolen cars into dune buggies, which became a regular source of income for the family.

In return, Manson would often allow Flynn to have sex with some of the female family members.

During the Tate and LaBianca murder trial, Flynn testified that Charles Manson had confided in him and admitted he was "doing all the killings."

The Oldest Female Manson Follower Catherine Share aka Gypsy.

Share began doing small roles in low-budget movies, mostly porn movies.

During the filming of the porn movie, Ramrodder, she met Bobby Beausoleil and Share moved in with Bobby and his wife.

It was during this time that she met Manson and became an instant follower and family member.

aka Katie Patricia Krenwinkel aka Katie.

In the late 1960s, Patricia "Katie" Krenwinkel became a member of the infamous Manson family and participated in Tate-LaBianca murders in 1969.

Krenwinkel and co-defendants, Charles Manson, Susan Atkins, and Leslie Van Houten were found guilty and sentenced to death on March 29, 1971 and later automatically commuted to life in prison.

The Murders Patricia Krenwinkel aka Katie.

Manson selected specific family members to go to the Tate and the LaBianca homes to commit murder.

According to testimony later given during the murder trial, his instinct about Krenwinkel (Katie) being able to handle murdering innocent people was correct.

When the butchering began at the Tate residence, Krenwinkel fought with houseguest, Abigail Folger, who managed to escape out onto the lawn, but was chased down and stabbed numerous times by Katie.

Krenwinkel said Folger pleaded with her to stop by saying "I'm already dead."

During the murders of the LaBiancas, Krenwinkel attacked Mrs. LaBianca and stabbed her repeatedly.

She then stuck a carving fork into the stomach of Mr. LaBianca and pinged it so she could watch it wobble back and forth.

This picture was taken after Krenwinkel spent several years in prison and had long denounced Manson.

Some believe, however, that in this picture she is giving a subtle hand gesture similar to those Manson's followers outside the courtroom used to show solidarity and honor to their fallen leader, Charles Manson.

Patricia Krenwinkel separated herself from Manson fairly quickly once in prison.

Of the entire group, she seems the most remorseful about her participation in the murders.

In an interview conducted by Diane Sawyer in 1994, Krenwinkel told her, "I wake up everyday knowing that I'm a destroyer of the most precious thing, which is life; and I do that because that's what I deserve, is to wake up every morning and know that."

She has been denied parole 11 times and her next hearing is around July, 2007.

Larry Bailey (aka Larry Jones) hung around Spahn's Ranch but was never fully accepted by Manson because of his black facial features.

According to reports, he was the person who gave Linda Kasabian a knife on the evening of the Tate murders.

He was also present when Manson told Kasabian to go with Tex Watson to the Tate home and do whatever he told her to do.

After the trails were over, Bailey stayed involved with some of the lingering family members and allegedly participated in conspiring ways to get family members out of prison.

In October 1969, the Manson family was arrested for auto theft and Squeaky was rounded up with the rest of the gang.

By this time, some of the group members had participated in the infamous murders at the home of actress Sharon Tate and the murders of the LaBianca couple.

Squeaky had no direct involement in the murders and was released from prison.

With Manson in jail, Squeaky became the head of the family.

She remained dedicated to Manson, branding her forehead with the infamous "X".

aka Mother Mary, Mary Manson Mary Brunner.

Mary Brunner had a Bachelors degree in History from the University of Wisconsin and was working as a librarian at UC Berkeley when she met Manson in 1967.

Brunner's life changed drastically once Manson became part of it.

She accepted his desire to sleep with other women, started doing drugs and soon left her job and began traveling with him around California.

She was instrumental in helping entice people they met to join the Manson Family.

On April 1, 1968, Brunner (age 24) gave birth to Manson's third son, Valentine Michael Manson who he named after a character in Robert Heinlein's book "Stranger in a Strange Land."

Brunner, now mother to Manson's child, grew even more loyal to Manson's ideas and to the growing Manson Family.

On July 27, 1969, Brunner was present when Bobby Beausoleil stabbed and killed Gary Hinman.

She was later arrested for her involvement in the murder, however received immunity after agreeing to testify for the prosecution.

Her dedication to Manson remained after his incarceration for the Tate-LaBianca murders.

On August 21, 1971, not long after Manson was sentenced, Mary along with five other Manson family members, participated in a robbery at a Western Surplus store.

The police apprehended them in the act after an exchange of gunfire.

The plan for the robbery was to obtain weapons, which could be used to hijack a jet and kill passengers by the hour until authorities released Manson from prison.

Bruner was convicted and sent to the California Institute for Women for a little over six years.

It is said that after her release she cut communication with Manson, changed her name, regained custody of her son and is living somewhere in the Midwest.

Susan Bartrell joined the Manson family after the Tate-LaBianca murders, but before arrests in the case were made.

She was arrested during the October 10, 1969 Barker Ranch raid and released.

She was present when Family member John Philip Haught (aka Zero) supposedly committed suicide while playing Russian roulette with a fully loaded pistol.

Bartrell stayed with the family until the early 1970s.

Watson went from being an "A" student in his Texas high school to being Charles Manson's right-hand man and a cold-blooded murderer.

He led the killing spree at both the Tate and LaBianca residences and participated in killing each member of both households.

Found guilty of killing seven people, Watson is now living his life out in prison, he is an ordained minister, married and father of three, and claims he feels remorse for those he murdered.

At age 22, self-proclaimed Manson family member, Leslie Van Houten, took part in the 1969 brutal murders of Leon and Rosemary LaBianca.

She was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder and one count of conspiracy to commit murder and sentenced to death.

Because of an error in her first trial she was granted a second which deadlocked.

After spending six months free on bond, she returned to the courtroom a third time and was convicted and sentenced to life.

aka Linda Christian, Yana the Witch, Linda Chiochios Linda Kasabian.

A one time Manson follower, Kasabian was present during the Tate and LaBianca murders and gave eye-witness testimony for the prosecution during the murder trials.

Her testimony was instrumental in the conviction of Charles Manson, Charles "Tex" Watson, Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten.

Manson, 74, is currently at Corcoran State Prison in Corcoran, about 150 miles from Los Angeles.

This is his most recent mug shot taken in March 2009.

The night of August 10, 1969 he rode with members of the Manson family. Tex Watson, Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten were dropped off at the house of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, but Grogan, Manson, Susan Atkins and Linda Kasabian continued to Venice Beach where Manson sent Grogan, Atkins and Kasabian to kill actor Saladin Nader, but Kasabian led them to the wrong apartment and the plan was aborted.
 Grogan later helped Manson, Watson and Bruce M. Davis kill Spahn ranch hand Donald "Shorty" Shea. The jury returned verdicts of life imprisonment for Manson and Davis, but death for Grogan. However, on December 23, 1971, Judge James Kolts stated that "Grogan was too stupid and too hopped on drugs to decide anything on his own" and that it was really Manson "who decided who lived or died" and reduced Grogan's sentence to life imprisonment.
 Grogan later assisted the authorities and drew a map to where Shea's body was buried. In prison he was head of the prison's program to deter juveniles from a life of crime and kept away from fellow inmate Manson. Grogan was released on parole from prison in 1985. Catherine "Gypsy" Share is a fellow Manson Family member. On January 5, 1971, Catherine "Gypsy" Share gave birth to a son while in jail awaiting trial.


Wingfield was a recipient of the Christiaan Hendrik Persoon medal.

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Vice President of the Academy of Science of South Africa and DST-NRF SARChI chair in Fungal Genomics, Professor in Genetics, University of Pretoria, University of Pretoria

Brenda Wingfield holds the DST-NRF SARChI chair in Fungal Genomics and is a Professor in the Dept. of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology at the University of Pretoria.

She served as Deputy Dean in the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences at UP for seven years and was acting dean for seven months during that time.

Her research over the past 20 years focused on the global movement and evolution of fungal pathogens and recently she expanded her research focus to study fungi at the population level.

She has supervised and continues to advise a large number of postgraduate students working on plant pathogens.

As programme leader at the Centre for Tree Health Biotechnology (one of South Africa's first six centres of excellence identified by the Department of Science and Technology and the National Research Foundation) during the first five years of its existence she played a leading role in the centre's development.

She is also one of the founding members of the Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI) and has played an active role in building the reputation and global footprint of this institute since its establishment.

She received the Achiever award for Excellence of the University of Pretoria for ten consecutive years.

She has received numerous other significant awards, the most recent being the Harry Oppenheimer Memorial Fellowship and the South African Society of Microbiology Gold Medal 2018 (first female recipient).

Member of the Academy of Science of South Africa and Professor of Genetics


The medal was for her scientific achievements.

Wingfield was a recipient of the Christiaan Hendrik Persoon medal.


The medal was from the Southern African Society for Plant Pathology.

Wingfield was a recipient of the Christiaan Hendrik Persoon medal. The medal was for her scientific achievements.


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Janklow, right, in 1978 during his first run for governor.

He is shown with his running mate, Lowell Hansen.

Bill Janklow grew up in the 1950s in Chicago, and came to love the rock and roll revolution that was breaking all the traditional rules of music and dance.

To this day he's a whiz at early rock trivia.

The family spent time in Germany, where his father prosecuted Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg trials.

Soon after, his mother moved the family to her hometown of Flandreau, South Dakota.

Janklow only lived there a short time, but is linked to the town forever.

As he admitted during a press conference a few years ago, he soon developed a reputation.

"I was a kid from the streets of Chicago who moved to Flandreau.

And in those days, they hadn't made all the modern advances in chemistry, so the chemistry was a little rugged.

I ended up getting in my share of trouble," Janklow recalled.

Janklow was accused of assaulting a 17-year-old Flandreau girl.

Many years later, during his first political campaign, Janklow said it wasn't rape.

Janklow said charges were dropped and he didn't appear in court.

It was the first of several brushes with the law in his hometown.

While still in high school, Janklow was caught shooting a gun at a water tower.

A judge gave him two options -- reform school or the military.

"I grew up in the Marine Corps," Janklow said.

"I learned that I wasn't as smart as I thought I was, or as tough as I thought I was, or a lot of things as I thought I was.

I learned that ... if you're going to win, you've got to do it as a team.

I think it was an important juncture in my life."

Janklow didn't stay humble for long, though.

After the Marines, it was clear Janklow was more the hard-driving drill sergeant than the order-taking grunt.

Without a high school diploma, he talked his way into the University of South Dakota, and then went to law school.

His first job was as a legal aid attorney on the Rosebud Indian Reservation.

Janklow said he defended 30 indians charged with murder or manslaughter.

All were either acquitted, or convicted of a lesser charge.

Janklow liked working for the little guy -- he said it gave him purpose.

Sioux Falls lawyer Jeremiah Murphy first met Bill Janklow while testifying at a legislative hearing.

"He looked like he was driving a road grader, because he had on this flannel shirt and jeans -- and he gave wonderful testimony.

But soon everyone in the state would know who he was.

Janklow, the defense lawyer, switched sides and became a prosecutor.

Running on a "get tough on crime" platform, he was elected South Dakota's attorney general in 1974.

In 1978 he won his first term as governor.

After two terms, Janklow left politics to practice law.

In 1994, after then-Gov. Mikkelson died in a plane crash, he announced he had decided to run for governor again -- because South Dakota needed him.

The voters agreed, and gave him two more terms.

I think most people that go to prison are losers.

Like I tell them, 'You can't even succeed at crime.

Even at crime you're a failure -- you got caught and you got convicted.'- Bill Janklow in 1998

During his years as governor, he pushed for tougher criminal penalities.

In 1998, he said he had no respect for lawbreakers.

"I think most people that go to prison are losers.

Even at crime you're a failure -- you got caught and you got convicted,'" Janklow said.

After he left the governor's office, Janklow was elected to the U.S. House in 2002.

That term has been cut short by his car crash and resignation.

Janklow ran as a Republican, but often questioned the party line.

He trusted his own judgment over anyone else's.

Roger Damgaard, a former law partner, says in some ways, Janklow had his own political party, and he was the only member.

"I think Bill Janklow defies categorization or definition when it comes to politics, or a whole lot of other things," says Damgaard.

"People like him only come along maybe once every 500 years.

Bill Janklow is Bill Janklow is Bill Janklow.

Damgaard says that's his way of learning about an issue.

But once Janklow makes up his mind about what he wants, he's a driven man.

Support him and ride an unstoppable steamroller.

Oppose him and he will roll right over you.

Roger Damgaard says Janklow doesn't care what people think, he just wants to win.

"That kind of attitude wins things and gets things done, but it also bruises people along the way," says Damgaard.

"If Bill Janklow thinks you're a bad guy or you're doing something wrong, he's going to say what he thinks."

Indian activist Russell Means has felt Janklow's heat.

Means was a leader of the American Indian Movement, known as AIM.

AIM is best known for its 1973 armed takeover of the tiny village of Wounded Knee.

The South Dakota attorney general made Janklow a special prosecutor for AIM cases brought by the state.

Janklow, the former defense attorney who represented Indians, now went after certain AIM members.

Means says Janklow did it for political purposes.

"He's the consummate lawyer, dedicated to his client.

I saw that once he became a South Dakota politician, his constituency are the white people of South Dakota," says Means.

"He didn't come out so much anti-indian, as he used AIM to play on the prejudices, the ingrained racism of South Dakotans."

Janklow's team convicted Means and he spent a year in prison.

But as if to prove it was all about politics and nothing personal, Janklow pardoned Means just before he left the governor's office.

Janklow's aggressive style made many political enemies.

One of the most damaging incidents of his career took place in the small South Dakota town of Plankinton.

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Early life, education, and military service.

Janklow was born in Chicago, Illinois. When Janklow was 10 years old his father died of a heart attack while working as a prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials in Germany.


In 1954, when Janklow was 15, they settled in her home town of Flandreau, South Dakota.

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Janklow, right, in 1978 during his first run for governor.

He is shown with his running mate, Lowell Hansen.

Bill Janklow grew up in the 1950s in Chicago, and came to love the rock and roll revolution that was breaking all the traditional rules of music and dance.

To this day he's a whiz at early rock trivia.

The family spent time in Germany, where his father prosecuted Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg trials.

Soon after, his mother moved the family to her hometown of Flandreau, South Dakota.

Janklow only lived there a short time, but is linked to the town forever.

As he admitted during a press conference a few years ago, he soon developed a reputation.

"I was a kid from the streets of Chicago who moved to Flandreau.

And in those days, they hadn't made all the modern advances in chemistry, so the chemistry was a little rugged.

I ended up getting in my share of trouble," Janklow recalled.

Janklow was accused of assaulting a 17-year-old Flandreau girl.

Many years later, during his first political campaign, Janklow said it wasn't rape.

Janklow said charges were dropped and he didn't appear in court.

It was the first of several brushes with the law in his hometown.

While still in high school, Janklow was caught shooting a gun at a water tower.

A judge gave him two options -- reform school or the military.

"I grew up in the Marine Corps," Janklow said.

"I learned that I wasn't as smart as I thought I was, or as tough as I thought I was, or a lot of things as I thought I was.

I learned that ... if you're going to win, you've got to do it as a team.

I think it was an important juncture in my life."

Janklow didn't stay humble for long, though.

After the Marines, it was clear Janklow was more the hard-driving drill sergeant than the order-taking grunt.

Without a high school diploma, he talked his way into the University of South Dakota, and then went to law school.

His first job was as a legal aid attorney on the Rosebud Indian Reservation.

Janklow said he defended 30 indians charged with murder or manslaughter.

All were either acquitted, or convicted of a lesser charge.

Janklow liked working for the little guy -- he said it gave him purpose.

Sioux Falls lawyer Jeremiah Murphy first met Bill Janklow while testifying at a legislative hearing.

"He looked like he was driving a road grader, because he had on this flannel shirt and jeans -- and he gave wonderful testimony.

But soon everyone in the state would know who he was.

Janklow, the defense lawyer, switched sides and became a prosecutor.

Running on a "get tough on crime" platform, he was elected South Dakota's attorney general in 1974.

In 1978 he won his first term as governor.

After two terms, Janklow left politics to practice law.

In 1994, after then-Gov. Mikkelson died in a plane crash, he announced he had decided to run for governor again -- because South Dakota needed him.

The voters agreed, and gave him two more terms.

I think most people that go to prison are losers.

Like I tell them, 'You can't even succeed at crime.

Even at crime you're a failure -- you got caught and you got convicted.'- Bill Janklow in 1998

During his years as governor, he pushed for tougher criminal penalities.

In 1998, he said he had no respect for lawbreakers.

"I think most people that go to prison are losers.

Even at crime you're a failure -- you got caught and you got convicted,'" Janklow said.

After he left the governor's office, Janklow was elected to the U.S. House in 2002.

That term has been cut short by his car crash and resignation.

Janklow ran as a Republican, but often questioned the party line.

He trusted his own judgment over anyone else's.

Roger Damgaard, a former law partner, says in some ways, Janklow had his own political party, and he was the only member.

"I think Bill Janklow defies categorization or definition when it comes to politics, or a whole lot of other things," says Damgaard.

"People like him only come along maybe once every 500 years.

Bill Janklow is Bill Janklow is Bill Janklow.

Damgaard says that's his way of learning about an issue.

But once Janklow makes up his mind about what he wants, he's a driven man.

Support him and ride an unstoppable steamroller.

Oppose him and he will roll right over you.

Roger Damgaard says Janklow doesn't care what people think, he just wants to win.

"That kind of attitude wins things and gets things done, but it also bruises people along the way," says Damgaard.

"If Bill Janklow thinks you're a bad guy or you're doing something wrong, he's going to say what he thinks."

Indian activist Russell Means has felt Janklow's heat.

Means was a leader of the American Indian Movement, known as AIM.

AIM is best known for its 1973 armed takeover of the tiny village of Wounded Knee.

The South Dakota attorney general made Janklow a special prosecutor for AIM cases brought by the state.

Janklow, the former defense attorney who represented Indians, now went after certain AIM members.

Means says Janklow did it for political purposes.

"He's the consummate lawyer, dedicated to his client.

I saw that once he became a South Dakota politician, his constituency are the white people of South Dakota," says Means.

"He didn't come out so much anti-indian, as he used AIM to play on the prejudices, the ingrained racism of South Dakotans."

Janklow's team convicted Means and he spent a year in prison.

But as if to prove it was all about politics and nothing personal, Janklow pardoned Means just before he left the governor's office.

Janklow's aggressive style made many political enemies.

One of the most damaging incidents of his career took place in the small South Dakota town of Plankinton.

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# How Michael Collins became the forgotten astronaut of Apollo 11

As Armstrong and Aldrin took their famous walk on the moon, a third member of the team sat alone in the mothership plagued by terrors of returning to Earth alone.

Michael Collins, command module pilot of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission.

It was the secret terror that gripped astronaut Michael Collins throughout the Apollo 11 project 40 years ago.

As his spacecraft, Columbia, swept over the lunar surface, Collins - the mission's third and largely forgotten crewman - waited for a call from fellow astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to say their lander craft had successfully blasted off from the Moon.

The message would banish Collins's deepest fear: that he would be the only survivor of an Apollo 11 disaster and that he was destined to return on his own to the United States as "a marked man".

The realisation that the normally icy-cool astronaut was so obsessed by such an outcome puts a fresh perspective on the celebrations that will, this weekend, absorb the United States as it commemorates the moment, on 21 July 1969, that an American first walked on another world.

Apollo 11 will be presented as a flawless technological triumph at jamborees across the nation, including a special reception at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, which all three Apollo 11 astronauts are scheduled to attend.

Yet at the time, worries that the mission would end in disaster consumed nearly all of those involved in the programme - despite their apparent calm.

And no one was more stressed than Collins, it appears.

In his case, the astronaut was obsessed with the reliability of the ascent engine of Armstrong and Aldrin's lander, Eagle.

It had never been fired on the Moon's surface before and many astronauts had serious doubts about its reliability.

Should the engine fail to ignite, Armstrong and Aldrin would be stranded on the Moon - where they would die when their oxygen ran out.

Or if it failed to burn for at least seven minutes, then the two astronauts would either crash back on to the Moon or be stranded in low orbit around it, beyond the reach of Collins in his mothership, Columbia.

All three astronauts believed there was a real chance such a disaster would occur.

Armstrong thought his prospects were only 50-50 of making it back to Earth.

And so did Collins, the pilot of Columbia and one of the world's most experienced aviators.

Richard Nixon, then US president, had even prepared a speech that he would deliver in the event of the Eagle's engine failing.

"Fate has ordained that the men who went to the Moon to explore in peace will stay on the Moon to rest in peace," it ran.

"These brave men, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, know that there is no hope for their recovery.

But they also know that there is hope for mankind in their sacrifice."

Thus Collins - alone in Columbia as the world focused on Armstrong and Aldrin walking on the lunar surface - fretted about his two companions below him on the Moon and revealed, in a note written at the time, that he was now "sweating like a nervous bride" as he waited to hear from the Eagle.

"My secret terror for the last six months has been leaving them on the Moon and returning to Earth alone; now I am within minutes of finding out the truth of the matter," he wrote.

"If they fail to rise from the surface, or crash back into it, I am not going to commit suicide; I am coming home, forthwith, but I will be a marked man for life and I know it."

Then Armstrong and Aldrin prepared their lander for its launch.

Armstrong pressed the engine's firing button and Eagle soared perfectly above the lunar surface towards the waiting Collins.

His worst fear had not materialised and he returned safely to Earth in the company of Armstrong and Aldrin, unmarked by the experience.

He would not suffer a fate of global notoriety.

Today most people still know the names of the two first men on the Moon and recall the words, delivered by Armstrong, about taking a giant leap for mankind.

But the name Michael Collins is rarely recalled, despite his critical role in the historic flight of Apollo 11.

In fact, he was - in many ways - the unsung hero of the Apollo 11 mission, a point that was underlined at the time by the great American aviator Charles Lindbergh.

He wrote to Collins, not long after his safe return, to tell him that his part of the mission was one of "greater profundity ... you have experienced an aloneness unknown to man before".

It is an intriguing remark and an apposite one, it turns out - a point that can be appreciated by looking at the very set-up of the mission.

Apollo 11 consisted of a spindly lunar lander, Eagle, and an orbiting mothership, Columbia, that were both blasted into space on a giant Saturn V rocket on 16 July 1969.

For three days, Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins cruised towards the Moon inside Columbia and spent their time gazing "out the window at the Earth getting smaller and smaller and checking the spacecraft", according to Aldrin.

Then, on 20 July, Armstrong and Aldrin crawled into Eagle and flew it down to the Moon's surface.

"Keep talking to me, guys," radioed an initially panicky Collins as the pair drifted away from his ship.

Minutes later, Columbia swept behind the Moon and Collins became Earth's most distant solo traveller, separated from the rest of humanity by 250,000 miles of space and by the bulk of the Moon, which blocked all radio transmissions to and from mission control.

He was out of sight and out of contact with his home planet.

"I am now truly alone and absolutely alone from any known life.

Lindbergh's remarks were certainly accurate.

Such solitude would have unnerved most people.

He says the emotion that he experienced most during his day alone in lunar orbit was that of exultation.

And certainly he appears to have relished his time as the loneliest member of his species.

He also emerged from the post-Apollo years relatively unscathed.

Aldrin lapsed into alcoholism and depression, while Armstrong became a virtual recluse.

By contrast, Collins - shaded from the glare of publicity - has avoided such personal traumas and is still with his wife, Patricia, whom he married in 1958.

The couple have three grown-up children.

Collins was born in Rome on 31 October 1930.

His father, Major-General James Lawton Collins, was then serving overseas with the US army.

Collins later graduated from West Point and joined the US air force.

An early assignment was to the 21st Fighter-Bomber Wing at George Air Force Base, where he learned how to drop nuclear weapons.

He joined the astronaut corps in 1962 and flew on one of America's two-man Gemini capsules with veteran astronaut John Young, who flew on a later Apollo mission.

After his return to Earth, Collins gave up space travel and pursued a career in bureaucracy and business.

He was director of the National Air and Space Museum until 1978, before being appointed vice-president of LTV Aerospace in Arlington, Virginia.

He resigned in 1985 to start his own business.

Today he remains cheerful about his role on Apollo 11, although he describes himself as becoming increasingly grumpy.

"At age 78, some things about current society irritate me, such as the adulation of celebrities and inflation of heroism," he said last week.

"Heroes abound, but don't count astronauts among them.

We worked very hard, we did our jobs to near perfection, but that is what we had been hired to do."

He describes himself today as moderately busy, "running, biking, swimming, fishing, painting, cooking, reading, worrying about the stock market and searching for a really good bottle of cabernet for under $10".

As to his claim to fame, that was simple fate, he added.

Buzz Aldrin was born in 1930, and Mike Collins, 1930.

We came along at exactly the right time.

We survived hazardous careers and were successful in them.

"But in my own case at least, it was 10% shrewd planning and 90% blind luck.

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Just before he reached the far side on the third orbit, Mission Control informed Collins that there was a problem with the temperature of the coolant. If it became too cold, parts of "Columbia" might freeze. Mission Control advised him to assume manual control and implement Environmental Control System Malfunction Procedure 17. Instead, Collins flicked the switch on the offending system from automatic to manual and back to automatic again, and carried on with normal housekeeping chores, while keeping an eye on the temperature. When "Columbia" came back around to the near side of the Moon again, he was able to report that the problem had been resolved. For the next couple of orbits, he described his time on the far side of the Moon as "relaxing". After Aldrin and Armstrong completed their EVA, Collins slept so he could be rested for the rendezvous. While the flight plan called for "Eagle" to meet up with "Columbia", Collins was prepared for certain contingencies in which he would fly "Columbia" down to meet "Eagle". After spending so much time with the CSM, Collins felt compelled to leave his mark on it, so during the second night following their return from the Moon, he went to the lower equipment bay of the CM and wrote:
 In a July 2009 interview with "The Guardian", Collins revealed that he was very worried about Armstrong and Aldrin's safety.