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...been the Sharon Tate murder case; it had become the Manson trial. Last week it was the fantastic story of Linda Kasabian, 21, whose former friends called her Yana the witch. At the end of the week, when she had finished telling her version of the murder of Miss Tate and six others a year ago, cross-examination led Linda into a description of the existence that brought her to a Los Angeles courtroom...
...Knife. This week Bugliosi plans to bring to the stand the only defector from Manson's apparently total control, Linda Kasabian, 21. Mrs. Kasabian is the mother of two; her second child was born recently while she was in jail. Like many of Manson's young women, she came from a broken home. When she left her second husband for the desert life, she took their child and a friend's $5,000 with her. She was indicted along with the three other women but has been granted immunity in return for her testimony.* According...
...said to have had a hypnotic effect on his followers, but none have said they were in fact clinically hypnotized when the murders occurred. The Manson tribe used hallucinogenic drugs frequently, but there has been no claim so far that they were tripping the fatal night. Mrs. Kasabian will testify, Bugliosi said, that Manson instructed her to get a knife, a change of clothes and her driver's license and accompany the other defendants to the Tate home in Benedict Canyon. There, the prosecution charges, five people were murdered only because they were unlucky enough...
...fifth of the defense challenges were used. As a result, the jury includes both a former deputy sheriff and a private security guard, as well as a juror who admits he believes Manson is guilty. But the defense is expected to attack the credibility and competence of Mrs. Kasabian with evidence that-though Bugliosi described her as a relative neophyte in the Manson family-she had taken 300 LSD trips...
...auther, who wishes to remain anonymous, thinks that Yana is Linda Kasabian, one of those arrested in the August slaying of Sharon Tate. He also believes that "The Man" Yana talks about is Charles Manson; several members of the commune he led have been charged in that murder...