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Post by elantric on Sept 9, 2020 16:11:46 GMT -6
 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tex_WatsonCharles Denton "Tex" Watson Jr. (born December 2, 1945) is an American murderer who was a central member of the "Manson Family" led by Charles Manson.[2] On August 9, 1969, Watson and other Manson followers murdered pregnant actress Sharon Tate and four other people at 10050 Cielo Drive in Benedict Canyon, Los Angeles. The next night, Watson traveled to Los Feliz, Los Angeles, and participated in the murders of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca. Watson was found guilty of murder and imprisoned in 1971.
Early life
Watson was born in Farmersville, Texas, on December 2, 1945, and grew up in nearby Copeville. He was the youngest of three children.[3] Tex grew up attending the Copeville Methodist Church. In high school he was an honor student and athlete, and worked as the editor on the school paper.[3] In September 1964, Watson moved to Denton, Texas, to attend the University of North Texas, where he became a member of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity.[3]
Tate-Labianca murders
See also: Tate–LaBianca murders
Tate murders
In January 1967, Watson began working at Braniff International as a baggage handler. Using free airline tickets to travel, (And import / export Drugs) he visited a fraternity brother in Los Angeles; there he became interested in the psychedelic and music lifestyle of the late 1960s. Soon Watson met some women who were in the Manson Family and then met Charles Manson. Watson decided to join the Manson Family shortly afterward.[citation needed]
On August 9, 1969, as a member of the Manson Family, Watson accompanied Susan Atkins, Linda Kasabian, and Patricia Krenwinkel to the large estate on Cielo Drive in Hollywood leased by movie director Roman Polanski and his wife, actress Sharon Tate, who was eight months pregnant. Polanski was in London working on a film. Present in the house were Tate and her friends: hairdresser Jay Sebring, writer Wojciech Frykowski, and Folger's coffee heiress Abigail Folger.[citation needed]
Watson, who had been to the 10050 Cielo Drive address on at least one previous occasion, climbed a telephone pole near the security gate and cut the house phone line. The entire Manson group then climbed over the fence. When a car from the guest house approached, driven by an 18‑year‑old named Steven Parent, Watson ignored his pleas for mercy and shot Parent four times in the chest and abdomen at point-blank range.[4][5]
After pushing Parent's car further up the driveway and traversing the front lawn, Watson cut the screen of a window and let Atkins and Krenwinkel in through the front door.[5] At Watson's direction, Atkins found the house's three other occupants and with Krenwinkel brought them to the living room. Watson tied Tate and Sebring together at the neck with rope and slung it up over a beam. Sebring started to resist and Watson shot him. After Watson shot Sebring and took $72 from Folger's purse,[6] Folger and Frykowski bolted from the house, but they were chased outside, and after being stabbed further, died on the front lawn. Watson and his crime partners inflicted 28 stab wounds to Folger alone.[4] Tate, Sebring, and Frykowski all suffered numerous stab wounds. Sebring and Frykowski were also shot.[citation needed] The murders were preceded by telling the victims they were going to die, which prompted the escape attempts by Frykowski and Folger and caused Watson to start to lose control over the situation.
LaBianca murders
The next night, Charles Manson (who was displeased by their performance and pledged to show them "how to do it") drove six "Manson Family" members, Leslie Van Houten, Steve "Clem" Grogan, and the four from the previous night into Los Angeles.
In March 1968, Manson and other Family members had attended a party at the rented home of Harold True in Los Feliz, located at 3267 Waverly Drive. Manson did not want to kill True because he thought it could be traced back to him, so he settled for the house next door where Leno and Rosemary LaBianca lived. After driving their car up and down the street, and waiting, Manson and Watson got out of the car, disappeared walking up the driveway and entered the home together. According to Watson's book Will You Die For Me?,[7] Manson held the occupants at gunpoint while Watson tied them up. Rather than revealing their fate, Manson assured them that it was just a robbery and that they wouldn't be harmed. He then returned to the car to say he had tied up the house's occupants and sent Krenwinkel and Van Houten into the house.[citation needed]
Krenwinkel and Van Houten took Rosemary LaBianca to her bedroom as Watson murdered Leno LaBianca in the den. Rosemary LaBianca was then murdered in her room, primarily by Krenwinkel and Watson, with additional (and possibly postmortem) wounds inflicted in her back by Van Houten. Both victims were stabbed numerous times and the word "WAR" was carved into Leno LaBianca's stomach; a fork was also left protruding from his stomach. Using blood from the victims, "Rise" and "Death to Pigs" were written on the walls, and a misspelled "Healter Skelter" was written on the refrigerator door.[citation needed]
Conviction
On October 2, 1969, Watson fled the Spahn Ranch and headed back to his native state of Texas. On November 30, 1969, Watson was arrested in Texas for the Tate–LaBianca murders. He and his lawyers fought extradition to California for nine months. Upon arriving in California, Watson stopped talking and eating, losing 55 pounds, and began regressing to a catatonic state. He was admitted to Atascadero State Hospital for a 90‑day evaluation period to determine if he was fit to stand trial. Watson stayed there until February 1971, when he was deemed able to stand trial.[1]:514–515
On October 12, 1971, Watson was convicted of seven counts of first-degree murder and one count of conspiracy to commit murder.[5] One week later, the same jury took only two and a half hours to determine that he was sane.[8] On October 21, 1971, Watson was sentenced to death. He arrived on California's death row on November 17, 1971. Watson escaped execution when the California Supreme Court's People v. Anderson decision resulted in the invalidation of all death sentences imposed in California prior to 1972.[1]:661–662 He was found guilty of the murders of seven people: Abigail Folger; Wojciech Frykowski; Steven Parent; Sharon Tate Polanski, who was eight months pregnant; Jay Sebring; Leno LaBianca; and Rosemary LaBianca. His seven counts were to be served concurrently.[citation needed]
Incarceration
According to his prisoner outreach web site, Watson converted to Christianity in 1975.[9] Will You Die for Me?, Watson's autobiography, as told to "Chaplain Ray" (Ray Hoekstra), was published in 1978.[10] In 1979, he married Kristin Joan Svege. Through conjugal visits they were able to have four children (three boys, one girl), but those visits for life prisoners were banned in October 1996. After 24 years of marriage, Svege divorced Watson after meeting another man in 2003. Svege and Watson remain friends. He had become an ordained minister in 1981, and received a B.S. in Business Management in 2009 from California Coast University, a distance-learning college.[11][12]
In August 1982, a Southern California‑based group, Citizens for Truth, submitted some 80,000 petition signatures and several thousand letters opposing Watson's parole. The group received support from Doris Tate, the mother of victim Sharon Tate. The group was asking the California Board of Prison Terms to deny parole for Watson. In later years the group, along with Doris Tate, and her daughters, Patricia and Debra, submitted petitions with more than two million signatures.[13][14]
In 2012, Watson disputed a request to release recordings of conversations with his attorney. The recordings became part of a bankruptcy proceeding involving the deceased attorney's law firm. Members of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) said they believed the recordings might contain clues about unsolved murder cases involving the Manson family. Watson asked the presiding judge to allow police to listen to the tapes but not take possession of them.[15][16] The LAPD did acquire the tapes, which allegedly contained Watson confessing to other murders,[17] but reported that they did not contain any new information. In September 2014, Richard Pfeiffer, an attorney for Leslie Van Houten, said that he was considering subpoenaing the tapes to look for information that might help Van Houten in her next parole hearing.[18]
Watson's own minimum eligible parole date was November 26, 1976; he has been denied parole 17 times since then, including two stipulations. He was most recently given a five-year denial of parole at a board hearing on October 27, 2016.[19] He remains incarcerated at Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego, California.[20]
Court Transcripts
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Post by elantric on Sept 9, 2020 16:43:07 GMT -6
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Post by elantric on Sept 30, 2020 2:42:43 GMT -6
(Ive read countless Manson blogs and just stumbled on this info only recently ) Detailed 1st hand account of how Tex Watson got involved in Hairpieces and Wigs (Contessa Creations) ESCAPE FROM CIELO DRIVE (A TALE OF THREE CHARLIES) By Paul Morantz www.paulmorantz.com/cult/escape-from-cielo-dr-a-tale-of-three-charlies/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Morantz-- I'm slightly older than Charles Denton Watson (born on August 16, l945 to his December 2, 1945) but I felt a lot wiser when we first met in June of l968 while we were both looking for a job at the same location. For me it was just a summer job before starting law school. Watson on the other hand after graduated high school from a small town in Texas and briefly attendig some college was trying his first time away from home and the controls of his middle class family.When I found him in Hollywood he was a babe in the woods, saying, “yes sir, yes ma’m,” wearing suits with Texas thin ties in the middle of the summer heat. He was shy and courteous.I had graduated USC and looking for something to do saw an ad in Los Angeles Times that said young men could make $50 an hour talking to women. So I arrived at the designated time on the designated morning where a lot of young men combing their hair stood in line hoping for this “dream” job. All there was to it was that we were supposed to go out in public and hand out cards to girls that said they could come to Contessa Creations on Melrose and La Cienega and get a free wiglet. In the 60’s it was part of the mod look for women to be able to change hair styles and wigs and other hairpieces were fashionable. We were supposed to put our initials on the card so if the girl came in and bought anything we got $5. Certainly each of us should be able to average handing out ten an hour with enough charm to commence them to come in.It was, of course, a horrible job. No one wants to be that person on the corner handing out cards to strangers and few men, if any, ever came back to Contessa to pick up more cards let alone find out if they have any money coming to them. But the ad, and the pitch (talking pretty girls into the store) brought new male prospects regularly and provided Contessa Creations with a free workforce eager to bring in the girls.Operating Contessa were 2 older late 30th something lifetime salesmen, Mike and Brian, believing themselves closers who could sell anything. For accounting there was the Major (recently militarily retired) and 2 young hotshots named Joe and Skip. Joe had the square cheekbone and chiseled look while Skip had the Beatle floppy hair and Paul McCartney eyes. Each thought there was no limit to their charm. But for the payola scheme to succeed more salesmen were needed so Skip and Joe could act as the closing managers.The four of them one morning looked up and down the line of prospective card givers looking for whom they thought might be able to sell young women inside. They selected Charles Watson, who had the looks of a former football hero, which he was, and me.Up until that time my working experience had been limited to being a noon duty aid at an elementary school near USC and to being sports editior of the Daily Trojan. I also had written freelance. So in essence I saw this eagerly as my first real job and didn’t pay much attention to the lack of morality of it.Inside Contessa were “huts”– small intimate boutiques where the salesmen snuggle up to the young girls coming in for their free wiglits. The girl was told she was being given a free wiglit so she would be a walking advertisement. When people would comment on how nice it looked she would recommend the store. In order to be eligible for this, she had to agree to a short dissertation on women hairpieces so she could answer questions in public. Seemed like a fair deal.Once inside the hut, the salesman displayed a machine made not very attractive wig made of artificial substances. In comparison, Contessa’s wigs were hand strung and made with real human hair. The girl was encouraged to stroke the two pieces and feel the difference, to model each in the hut mirror. Then she would be shown a fall and a cascade.When the salesman sensed interest on the part of the girl he changed directions and asked permission to get some personal information. Was the girl popular? Did she go out a lot? Was she fashionable?It was then explained that when a person walked out with a free wiglit often people who came in from seeing it were looking for wiglits. Occasionally, Contessa wanted women to model our wigs, falls and cascades so that women might come in looking for these more expensive items. Of course, they were too expensive to give away for free, but on rare situations, for the right and pretty, we might sell them “at cost.” And throw in the Brooklyn Bridge.The salesman would add up the retail total for all 4 pieces and then show the reduced to cost payment they could make for all four. If they hesitated, the salesman would say let’s not discuss this further because “I am not really supposed to make this offer, I don’t have authorization…Let’s see if we can get it before discussing its further.” The salesman would then exit the hut and snap his fingers for a “manager,” usually Skip or Joe.The manager, in front of the girl, would ball out the salesman for making the offer without preauthorization. Then, realizing that damage had been done, would ask the girl the same questions about her personal life to show that she would be a person likely to bring in business if she was given such a deal. Basically, the table had been turned, and the girl was selling herself, not us selling the hairpieces. Off the young girls happily went while each of us waited to take our commissions from her check.Better still, the rule was once you sold the girl you could ask her out. And as we were all so charming; we were invited to all those Hollywood parties on those Hollywood nights. What better summer job could a 22-year-old male dream of?One day a pretty UCLA 18 year old co-ed, Barbara Klein, came in to pick up her hairpieces she bought from Charles Watson. I asked Charles if it was Ok if I took a try and with his permission I helped Barbara carry her hairpieces to her car. When I called she accepted my date offer. We dated into the fall until she auditioned for Playboy after Dark and became the girl friend of Hugh Hefner, changing her name to Barbie Benton. I never believed her about Hefner alleged advances until I showed up one day to show her my just purchased Triumph GT-6 and she responded, “Want to see my Maseroti ?”Yes, it was fun for the seven of us, but it seemed only Charles and I questioned what we were doing. I remember our sitting in a hut and Charles and I made up a skit where we complained of the horrible hand sewn human hair and the perfection of machine quality alternate. In other words, we knew we could sell whatever we wanted. And it began to bother us.Still it was hard to turn down the fun. Finally one day after my hut pitch a girl looked through me and said how about giving her cash for the card. I leaned over and kissed her on the cheek and said thanks for restoring my belief in woman intelligence. That afternoon I quit and that was the last I ever saw of Charles Watson.Part of the fun had been what we called “bringing out” Charles. Suits were fine in Texas, but this was Hollywood. Look see…blue jeans…Hawaiian shirts.. Sandels. When at the parties remember this was the 60’s. Drink this, do that. Have fun.But as the summer concluded I never saw much of a change in Charles. He seemed forever conservative and as law school started he faded in memory. There was no way of foretelling my legal field would be one day cults and brainwashing, that I would become the subject of an infamous cult murder attempt while my friend Charles, and not knowing it for 20 years, arguably committed the most famous cult crime ever.If ever I could be a witness to a life story that could convince me of the power of brainwashing, Charles Watson was and is that story. And it strangely as well foretold my future–a clear and present danger only a decade away.…………………………………………*……………………………………………………….*During my first year at U.S.C law school I was still not through selling wigs. My Uncle who lived in Benedict Canyon was a wholesaler and he convinced me to go to the sorority houses making pitches to sale his wigs. I could even use it as an excuse to stop a pretty girl on campus. Finally, I felt somewhat embarrassed in front of my male friends and dropped it.Charles, too, tried to open his own wig business but it quickly failed. During this time, he finally caught on to Hollywood, further than we ever recommended, not only using, but dealing. One night Watson picked up Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys who was hitchhiking. Wilson invited him back to his home, where he met a Wilson friend who Dennis met as a result of picking up Susie Atkins (Sexy Katie) hitchhiking one day. And so Watson was introduced to the friend, a short bearded charismatic want-to-be musician named Charles Manson.--Mr Morantz was also involved in removing a clients son from the original "Hotel California" = the Synanon group en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synanonwww.oxygen.com/deadly-cults/crime-news/synanon-cult-attempts-murder-paul-morantz-rattlesnakeen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synanon |
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Post by elantric on Oct 19, 2020 12:30:14 GMT -6
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Post by Admin Horan on Oct 19, 2020 19:02:38 GMT -6
I wonder how he knew that would work. Some poles had rungs, some didn't. He must have known in advance that this one did. See what I mean? And I don't understand why he would even bother, IF their story has any truth to it.
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Post by elantric on Oct 19, 2020 21:13:15 GMT -6
I wonder how he knew that would work. Some poles had rungs, some didn't. He must have known in advance that this one did. See what I mean? And I don't understand why he would even bother, IF their story has any truth to it.  Terry Melcher was very attracted to Ruth Ann Moorehouse - attempted to hire her as a Full Time Maid (live in the guest room) at 10050 Cielo Drive ( so Terry could IRS Schedule C tax write off his relationship with Ruth as Business expense) - Candace Bergin would have none of that! While its confirmed Dean Moorehouse could NOT have lived at 10050 Cielo Drive GUEST HOUSE or MAIN HOUSE between the exit of Terry Melcher ( Dec 1968 and arrival of the Polanksi's Feb 1969), as Dean Moorehouse was sent to Prison Jan 1,1969) Anytime Candice Bergen was out of town on location filming a movie 1968, Terry Melcher extended an open invitation to Dean Moorehouse to crash in the Guest Room in the Main house, and Tex Watson would visit and supply Dean and Terry with Drugs Terry Melcher felt Dean Moorehouse was a spiritualist , but "don't forget to bring Ruth along too! In 1968 Tex would stop by 10050 Cielo Drive main house (without Charlie) to do drug deals and hang with Terry and Dean Moorehouse and bring Ruth and a few other girls -so Tex , Charles Manson and many Girls already had a very good "lay of the land" prior working knowledge of Flooplan, Door locks, Telephone cable entries, Main Gate operation, Garage inside / outside at 10050 Ceilo Drive in 1968 Mr Moorehouse spending several days living at the Cielo Drive Main house in 1968 is verified by Tom O'Neil" in Chaos Candice Bergen @ IMDB (see her 1968 filming schedule) www.imdb.com/name/nm0000298/www.mansonblog.com/2012/06/sharon-with-dean-martin.html
Tom O'Neil interviewed Dean Moorhouse
www.insideedition.com/sites/default/files/inline-files/Helter%20Skelter%20Holes%20Chaos_HCtext4P.pdf
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Post by james1983 on Oct 20, 2020 4:07:08 GMT -6
Tex was always the most interesting person of the whole story. An example would be the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity he was part of. The rituals of this fraternity were based on the rituals of the longfellows. Other members were people like Strom Thurmond, a member of the joint chiefs of staff, and other well knowns.kimda weird how a clean cut right wing boy from Texas ended up joining with Manson.
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Post by Admin Horan on Oct 20, 2020 8:35:47 GMT -6
"Go with Tex and do whatever he tells you."
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