Some news about Charles Manson
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'Graves discovered' at Charles Manson ranch
Charles Manson and his murderous sixties cult may have killed more people than was previously thought, burying the bodies on his former ranch, according to a new study by forensics experts.
Investigators have discovered what they believe are two likely clandestine grave sites and another that merits further analysis at the remote Barker Ranch in Death Valley, California.
Until their arrest, Manson and some of his followers holed up at the ranch after they murdered Sharon Tate, the actress wife of Roman Polanski, and seven others in 1969.
Police have long suspected that the group, which Manson called his "family", might have killed more people. There were rumours of young people who hitchhiked into the desert, stopped at the ranch and were never seen again.
Susan Atkins, a family member, reportedly told a prison cellmate while awaiting trial that there were "three people out in the desert that they done in".
The discoveries were made by a team that included two researchers from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee using equipment to detect chemical traces of human decomposition and a police detective with a dog trained to find corpses.
They were assisted by Emmett Harder, a retired gold prospector who was once Manson's neighbour on the ranch.
Marc Wise, a senior Oak Ridge researcher, said: "There's definitely something down there."
The team have called for three large areas of interest to be excavated.
Manson, now 73 and serving a life sentence for directing his group to commit the murders, was denied parole for the eleventh time last year.
Steve Kay, a former deputy district attorney, said: "We prosecuted Manson and 'the family' for all the murders we could prove. But you know, could he have killed someone else? Possibly. Could another member of the family have killed someone? Sure."
telegraph.co.uk
Funny thing is, being Playboy was red hot at the time, he had on a lot of great guests and the DVDs of the show are classics now- it really is a piece of history... Hefner was good friends with Roman and it is so sad to see them so happy, not knowing the horrors to come...
. It took me a long time to read but reading along Sharon's story definetly hit me the most.
