Taming the Beast: Charles Manson's Life Behind Bars (53 page)

No. 3, a longer period of time is required to evaluate his suitability. In view of the prisoner’s long history of criminality and misconduct, these include 60 serious 115s, nine since his last hearing, and three serious within the last year.

No. 4, a recent psychiatric report dated January of 1992, authored by Christopherson, indicates a need for a longer period of observation and evaluation.

And No. 5, the prisoner has not completed the necessary programming, which is essential to his adjustment, and needs additional time to gain such programming.

Recommendations to you, Mr. Manson, that you become disciplinary free, that you work to reduce your custody level so that the program opportunities will become more available, that you upgrade when—and that’s when you can, upgrade vocationally and educationally and you participate in self-help and therapy programming.

This concludes the panel hearing. The time is now 1552 hours. The prisoner may leave. Good luck to you, Mr. Manson.

INMATE MANSON: Good-bye.

PRESIDING BOARD COMMISSIONER KOENIG: Here’s a copy [inaudible].

Parole denied five years.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thanks to my wife, Beth, and our six children for enduring my years of struggle collecting information and writing this book. Thanks to them for forgiving my dark moods and moments of rage. Thanks for support from friends like Robi and Bob Andersen, and Bev and Gary McGuire, who have long put up with my Charlie stories. Thanks to my many other friends and relatives who encouraged me to write, and particularly to my perennial convict friend, Roger Dale “Pin Cushion” Smith, the most stabbed inmate in the California prison system, who taught me more about prison life than anyone else.

Thanks to my many bosses, peers, and subordinates who worked with me throughout my thirty-two-year law-enforcement and prison career, especially Warden Bob Rees, Parole Administrator Ron Chun, Prison Chaplain Nick Ristad, and Doctors Larry Clanon, Joyce Sutton, and Al Rotella.

Thanks to Lisa Kaiser, my first literary agent contact, who referred my manuscript to Dary Matera, who proposed changes in the manuscript leading to its sale, and who then rewrote the book into its finished form. Thanks to Steve Huddleston, Assistant Publisher of the Vacaville Reporter, for research assistance.

Thanks to authors Leonard Bishop and Donna Levin, whose writing workshops and advice helped me get started. Thanks to Nuel Emmons, Manson book author, for photos, friendship, and advice. Thanks to those many Sulpician and Jesuit priests and teachers who taught me the skills and virtues of sanity which sustained me throughout the many years of prison madness. And thanks to my mother, who was always there.

Last and the least thanks to Charles Manson, whose demonic behavior shocked the world’s conscience, motivating me to search his life and chronicle his long prison odyssey.

—E.G.

Special thanks to Fran Matera, Ph.D., of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Telecommunications, Arizona State University, for all her assistance and support. And to Will Hart, Lonnie Haney, Ernestina Zamora; Jim Fitzgerald, Dana Albarella, and Charles Spicer at St. Martin’s Press; and to my agents Stedman Mays and Lisa Kaiser of Connie Clausen Associates.

In memoriam to my agent Connie Clausen.

—D. M.

INDEX

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A

Abbey, Edward

Affirmative action

Alderson Federal Prison

Squeaky’s escape from

Alonzo, Maria “Crystal,”

Aryan Brotherhood

Atascadero State Hospital

Atkins, Susan “Sadie,”

joins Manson Family

Tate murders and

testimony at Manson trial

Atkinson, Stan

ATWA (Air, Trees, Water, Animals)

B

Barabas, Edward

Barker, Rafe

Barns (convict)

Bartell, Sue

BBC

Beach Boys

Beatles’
White Album,

Beausoleil, Bobby

Hinman murder and

joins Manson Family

“Be-in” at Gold Gate Park

Bergen, Candice

Black Guerrilla Family

Black Panthers

Brown, Jerry

Brunner, Mary

Buendorf, Larry

Bugliosi, Vincent

Helter Skelter,

Burke, Tommy

Burton, Richard

Busic, Julienne

C

California Institution for Women

California Medical Facility (CMF), Manson at

see also
Correctional Medical Facility (CMF), California

Capital punishment, overturning by Supreme Court of

Carter, Billy

Carter, Gloria

Carter, Jimmy

Carter, Miss Lillian

Carter, Rosalyn

Cascade Council Camp Fire Girls

CBS

“Cease to Exist,”

Chowchilla, California, hijacking of school bus in

Clanon, Dr. Larry

Cominsky, Paul

Como, Kenneth

Cooper, Priscilla

Corcoran State Prison, Manson at

Corona, Juan

Correctional Medical Facility (CMF), California:

formerly California Medical Facility

Manson at

mainline privileges and

notorious criminals at

Willis Unit for maximum-security inmates

Craig, James “Spider,”

Crazy John (San Quentin convict)

D

Dass, Ram

Davis, Bobby

Davis, Bruce

joins Manson Family

Davis, Richard Allen

Day They Murdered Christ, The,

Dean, Lee

Death penalty, Supreme Court decision affecting

deGiere, Greg

Desert Solitaire
(Abbey)

Domino Principle, The,

Duel Correctional Facility

E

Emerson, A. A

Emmons, Nuel

Esquire,

F

FBI

Felix, Dr. Morton

Folger, Abigail

Folsom State Prison

Manson at

Ford, Gerald:

Sara Jane Moore’s assassination attempt on

Squeaky Fromme’s assassination attempt on

Fromme, Lynette “Squeaky,”

assassination attempt on President Ford

motivation for

Julienne Busic and

calls to prison officials

Gloria Carter and

communication with Manson

criminal record

described

devotion to Manson

escape from federal prison

father, relationship with her

gifts for Manson

letters exchanged with Edward George

Manson
and

meetings with prison officials

meets Manson for first time

Rolling Stone,
article for

Sacramento Bee
interview

visitation rights with Manson, desire for

Ford assassination attempt and

Frykowski, Wojiciech “Voytek,”

Fudge, Lou

G

Gallant, Gerald

Garretson, William

George, Beth

described

discussions about Manson

George, David

George, Diane

George, Edward (author):

affirmative action and

career choice

at Correctional Medical Facility

family life, effect of work on

father and

injured by prisoner

Manson and:

book in progress and

communications between Squeaky and Manson,
see
Fromme, Lynette “Squeaky,” communication with Manson

at Corcoran State Prison

at Correctional Medical Facility

discussions in George’s office

first meeting

media interviews and,
see
Manson, Charles, media and

parole hearings

at San Quentin

threats from Manson

Manson Family and,
see names of individuals, e.g.
Fromme, Lynette “Squeaky”; Good, Sandra

as navy fighter pilot trainee

as parole agent

at San Quentin

job in jeopardy

seminary training

at Sierra Conservation Center

as volunteer teacher at St. Mary’s Church

yoga prison program and

George, Susan

Gillies, Cathy

Ginsberg, Allen

Good, Sandra

after release from prison

appeal of federal conviction

Como escape attempt and

criminal record of

described

devotion to Manson

Internet Web site

joins Manson Family

letters exchanged with Edward George

Manson
documentary and

reunited in prison with Squeaky

Sacramento Bee
interview

threat to author from

visitation rights with Manson, desire for

Goucher, Sarah

Goucher, William “the Iceman,”

Grant, Cary

Grenades, prison-made

Grogan, Steve “Clem,”

H

Hackman, Gene

Haight-Ashbury

Haught, John “Zero,”

Hay, Herbert Darrell

Hay, Misty (aka Pat Gillum)

Hearst, Patty

Helter Skelter
(Bugliosi)

Hendrickson, Robert

Hinman, Gary:

joins Manson Family

murder of

Hitler, Adolf

Hoover, Joe

Hyberg, Dr. Gordon

I

Indiana School for Boys

International People’s Court of Retribution

Internet Web site devoted to Manson

Inyo County, California Sheriff’s Department

J

Jackson, George

Jan (Hare Krishna follower)

“Joker” (convict)

Jones, Chris

Jones, Tom

K

Kaczynski, Theodore

Kaiser Industries

Kasabian, Linda

Kay, Stephen

Keayes, William

Kemper, Ed

Kennedy, Susan

KGO radio, San Francisco

Klass, Polly

Kramer, Stanley

Krenwinkel, Patricia

joins Manson Family

Manson’s belief system and

Tate-LaBianca murders and

L

LaBianca, Leno and Rosemary, murder of

see also
Tate-LaBianca murders

“Lady in White,”

Lake, Diane

Langerman, Dave

Leary, Timothy

Lehman, Dr. Edwin

Livsey, Dr. Clara

Los Angeles Times,

Lutesinger, Kitty

M

McBride, Thomas J.

McNeil Prison

McVeigh, Timothy

Manson, Charles:

acting crazy or psychotic

animals and humane side of

artistic side

cause and effect, inability to understand

childhood of

at Corcoran State Prison

at Correctional Medical Facility,
see
Correctional Medical Facility (CMF), Manson at

criminal record:

as adult

as teenager

death sentence commuted to life in prison

as demonic

environmentalism and

escape plans

as father

father “Colonel Scott,”

denial knowing his father

followers of,
see
Manson Family and other followers

at Folsom State Prison

Fromme assassination attempt on Ford and

Edward George and,
see
George, Edward, Manson and

hit list sent to
Vacaville Reporter,

hunger strike

hypnotic influence

Internet Web site devoted to

keys to prison, returning of

lectures and sermons of

as manipulator

marriage

media and

interviews granted

parole hearings

policy on media interviews of notorious criminals

requests for interviews

Moore assassination attempt on Ford and

mother of

abandonment by

marriage to William Manson

in prison

relationship with Charles’s father

music and

parole hearings

1986 statement at

1992 transcript of

at Pelican Bay State Prison

physical appearance

in 1996

at sixty-one

possessions in prison

guitars

prison guards frightened by

as product of prison system

psychological evaluations of

as racist

at San Quentin,
see
San Quentin, Manson at

self-analysis

self-destructive side

Willie Spann and

Squeaky Fromme and:

communication with,
see
Fromme, Lynette “Squeaky,” communication with Manson

devotion of Squeaky to

first meeting

gifts from

Rolling Stone
article

see also
Fromme, Lynette “Squeaky”

Tate-LaBianca murders and

arrest for

conviction and sentencing for

death sentence commuted to life

responsibility for, question of

statement to California court

testimony

trial for

as teenager

raped by other boys

threats to his life from prison inmates

protection from

set on fire

trying to beat the system

voodoo dolls

weapons found in cell of

weapons turned in by

yoga prison program and

Manson, William

Manson
(documentary film)

Manson Family and other followers

continual attraction of new members

degree of control over, Manson’s

drifting away of original members

drugs and

freeing of Manson and

gifts for Manson

Hollywood movie and music set and

Internet Web site devoted to Manson

interviews with Manson

letters and calls from

see also names of individuals