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...Prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi, Mrs. Kasabian represents the heart of his case...
...that she did know the mission but went fearfully the following night when, she said, a Manson angered by the "messiness" of the Tate killings went along himself to arrange the murder of a middle-aged couple, Mr. and Mrs. Leno LaBianca. Bugliosi is trying to establish that Mrs. Kasabian, who was originally indicted but has since been promised immunity in exchange for her testimony, is not legally an accomplice in the murders. It is a vital question that Judge Charles Older may eventually decide. If Bugliosi's characterization of Mrs. Kasabian is rejected, his case would be seriously...
...center of the courtroom stage, Mrs. Kasabian held her audience, particularly the seven men and five women in the jury. They leaned forward attentively, straining to hear her narrative. She approached the details of the Tate murders in a rush of words: "Then all of a sudden I heard people screaming, saying 'No, please, no.' " What kind of screams? "Loud, loud." How long did they last? "Oh, it seemed like forever, infinite. I don't know." At another point: "I saw Tex [Charles Watson, still fighting extradition from Texas] on top of him, hitting...
Even as she testified, Mrs. Kasabian felt the pressure of the Manson cult. At one point Manson placed a thin finger to his mouth, seeking her silence. Susan Atkins caught Mrs. Kasabian's eye and mouthed: "You are killing us." Mrs. Kasabian mouthed back: "I am not killing you. You killed yourselves." One girl member of Manson's entourage, Sandy Good, smuggled a note to the witness: "Are you trying to kill us, Linda? Tens of thousands of pretty young people. The X you see on Charlie's forehead is now being worn by hundreds of people...
Finally there was the horror implicit in Mrs. Kasabian's account of a random search for murder victims who still do not know how close they came to death. Before Manson finally settled on the LaBiancas, she said, he and his followers had taken a long, circuitous drive around Los Angeles seeking victims. At one small house the sight of chil dren's pictures made him turn away; a locked door on a church may have saved a clergyman...