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IVew Motive in Tate Massacre to Be Told(Continued From Page A*l)dow and then the front to let us in,” the girlt Elghteen-year-old Steven Parent apparently came on the scene, got into his fcar and attempted to drive away. He was stopped With five bullets to the head and chest by one of Hie male members of the female-oriented cult.! It was then, with the precision of paid killers but “Sloppier” than their leader wished them to be, the clan members system-atically killed all inside the house.| Manson, the girl told herattorney, was “upset”with the haphazard way the job had been performed and returned with them the next night to the LaBlanca home “to Show how it should .he done.”! Motive fur the killing at the Tate home, the girl said, was the fact that the previous owner of the home, Terry Melcher, son of entertainer Doris Day, had promised the guitar-playing hippie leader arecord date and had reneged.; Mansan wanted his “kinsmen” to kill anyone and everyone in the house, the girl related, because it was his “symbol of rejection”.^TJp to this point, the ^girl’s story of a “motive” « tyis been the only one re-l leased.- Monday, beginning at ■ 9:31) a.m., the seven-man,MANSON’S ‘FAMILY’ LIVED HEREThis is a view of the abandoned Barker ranch, taken from a ridge above the home of the hippie cult involved in the Sharon Tate slaying case. The ranch house, where Charles Manson and his self-styled “family” lived for almost two years, is located some 25 milesnorth of Trona. This picture and two others on the front page were by Reggie Sellas, chief photographer of the San Bernardino Sun-Telegram, who hiked 12 miles to the area and back.-AP WlPfPtiot#14-woman Jury is expected to hear another possible motive.Key witness Monday will be Danny DeCarlo, the leatlierjacketed motorcycle club member and former cult member whose information led to the arrest of Miss Atkins in the murder of* the Topanga Canyon musician.AIsd scheduled to testifyat. the Los Angeles Hall ofRecords is the father of Linda Kasabian, one of the cult members arrested thus far in the murders, and Greg Jakobson; a friend of Melcher. At least12 police officers, including fingerprint, firearm and scientific investigation experts, also will appear before the jury.Wallersth« fflindlyfourth and pin* h* 2-7451 park fro* victoria lot*
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Independent Press Telegram
Long Beach, California, US
Sun, Dec 07, 1969
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