Word: labianca
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...crippled Alabama Governor George Wallace. She had been−and still was−an ardent follower of Charles Manson, the psychopathic killer who is now serving a sentence of life imprisonment for committing seven murders, including the vicious slaughters in 1969 of Film Actress Sharon Tate and Leno LaBianca, wealthy owner of a grocery chain. Because her voice was so tiny and high-pitched, Manson had nicknamed her "Squeaky" (see box page...
...Nixon, the man whom the clan has always blamed as the source of its troubles with the law. Declared the release: "If Nixson's [sic] reality wearing a new face [i.e., Ford] continues to run this country against the law, your homes will be bloodier than the Tate-LaBianca houses and My Lai put together...
Blood Scrawl. The gruesome similarities between the Tate and LaBianca killings were striking: "Pig" was printed in blood on the front door of the Tate house, "Death to Pigs" on a wall at the LaBiancas. Yet the separate teams of detectives assigned to the two cases chose to ignore each other. A day after the first murders, two members of the L.A. sheriffs office told a police department detective of a strange case in their territory: a murder and a message ("Political Piggy") scrawled in blood. Furthermore, the sheriff had a suspect in custody, a member of a roving group...
...used as "keys" to test the truth of possible confessions and accusations. Yet one bit of suppressed evidence would almost certainly have broken the case at once if it had been released. The words "Healter Skelter," a misspelling of a Beatles' song title, had been written on the LaBianca refrigerator, and there were scores of people in the L.A. area who could have assigned the phrase to Charles Manson...
Indeed, Bugliosi believes that family members have killed several times since. The horror of this possibility is exceeded by the fact that since California abolished the death penalty in 1971, the Tate-LaBianca murderers are now serving life terms and will be eligible for parole...