IThe perpetrators had scratched the word “War” (“War”) into the abdomen of the male corpse, and a carving fork was stuck next to it. The slogans “Death to pigs” and “Rise” were found on the walls of the house, and “Helter Skelter”, the title of a Beatles song, was emblazoned on the refrigerator door. Thus, on August 10, 1969, the investigators of the Los Angeles police department had no choice but to realize that this was a crime that routine alone would not bring them any breakthroughs in solving.
However, the police could not have been aware of the extent of the madness behind the double murder of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca. He was a supermarket owner, she ran a high-end fashion boutique. So the assumption was not far off that an example should be made here for the rich who enjoyed their lives a little too much. But at least in retrospect, this notion appears naïve in the case of the client Charles Manson and his disciples.
August 10, 1969: Members of his “family” at the behest of Charles Manson (1934-2017) kill the couple Leno and Rosemary LaBianca (photo)
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The question of how the man got into a state of mind that made the series of murders in the summer of 1969 seem justified to him will never be answered for one simple reason: people who only have to deal with the usual everyday neuroses don’t have the words for it. And despite all the efforts of brilliant psychiatrists to deduce the actions of people like Manson from their biographies, there will always remain an inexplicable residue. Because no matter how bad it is what these criminals have experienced – there will always be people who had to go through harder things without becoming criminals.
Charles Manson was born on November 12, 1934 in Cincinnati as an illegitimate child to a 16-year-old woman. His father didn’t take care of the alimony, and in 1939 his mother and her brother committed a murder and robbery that earned her five years. Relatives took him in, but in 1947 Charles went to an Indiana home; he fled with a friend to live with his uncle. Along the way, the two committed two robberies – Manson’s next stop was juvenile detention in Plainsville.
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