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...First Path. When she joined the Manson "family" shortly before the murders, she said, "I felt like I was a blind little girl in a forest. I took the first path." It was a path that must have looked like many others she had walked, though it ended differently. She left her broken home as a teenager, and by the time she was 20 she had had two husbands and two children. In the past five years she has lived in at least eleven communes, all of them drug-oriented. But Manson was different to the child-woman...
...presentation of her testimony carefully emphasized that she did not know the mission when she served as lookout the night Miss Tate and four houseguests were slain: 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...
...courtroom, a young woman spectator in the back row cried softly. There was, audibly, the release of withheld breathing after the most vivid passages. The jurors leaned back, remembering suddenly to use their notebooks. Manson's co-defendants-Miss Krenwinkel, Susan Atkins and Leslie Van Houten-sat still and attentive, their foreheads now scratched with the outcast's X that he had cut into himself earlier in the trial...
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...
Seeking Victims. The recitation also provided parenthetical glimpses into the existence of Manson and his tribe. They often ate what they could filch from restaurant garbage cans. They stood guard duty against the attack by blacks that Manson had prophesied. Manson directed an orgy where "everybody made love to everybody else. We all shed our clothes and we were lying on the floor, and it was like it didn't make any difference who was next...