To aid in the investigation, the Coroner asked that a 'profile' of the killers be done:
News article dated September 20th, 1969
Los Angeles Coroner Thomas Noguchi asked for a psychiatric report
— customary in unusual unsolved murders and in some suicides — because
of grotesque aspects of the mass slaying, including the hooding and
tying of a nylon cord around two of the victims and scrawled
inscriptions in blood around the home. Members of the psychiatric team
are Drs. Frederick Hacker, a psychiatrist; Robert Littman, a
psychiatrist who heads the Los Angeles Suicide Prevention Center, and
Norman Farberow, a psychologist.
Noguchi was impressed with the results, though it doesn't seemed to have aided in the resolution of the crime:
Coroner, by Thomas Noguchi, c.1983 pg137of252
The word "PIG" at the Tate house might have been written by a black drug dealer, as the LAPD believed. But at the LaBiancas' the killers had also scrawled "RISE" and "HELTER SKELTER." What did those words have to do with drugs? Rather, they seemed to suggest the hand of a terrorist or revolutionary group.
For advice, I turned to Dr. Frederick Hacker, the psychiatrist who ... was one of the world's leading authority on terrorism, its roots and its rites. .... It occurred to me that an expert such as Dr. Hacker, from his vast experience with terrorist groups, might discover an insight into these strange and violent murders. ....
Ten days later he filed his report, and it was a stunner. Dr. Hacker, from his distinctive experience, saw a possible connection between the two crimes much more sinister than anyone could have imagined. These are some excerpts from his report:
"It must be assumed that the [actual perpetrator's] helpers ... were in a state of mind compatible with planning and at least a limited amount of anticipation of difficulties and premeditation (see cutting of wires, complicated rope arrangement.. keeping the victims controlled while the slaying went on, etc.) ....
"The bizarre features of the multiple crime certainly suggest severe psychopathology of the killers... (the possibility than an interested party might have hired impulsively sadistic killers cannot be excluded).
"It is conceivable that the personality of the actual killer was quite different from those of his helpers and that... one party.. carried out the preparations and precautionary measures while the other party or parties actually perpetrated the crimes..."
Thus, weeks before Charles Manson was found, Dr. Hacker predicted the existence of a man not even present at the scenes of the crimes, who had sent his "impulsively sadistic killers" to do his murdering. Hacker's report also went on to say that "the criminals might be looked for among fringe pseudo-religious groups"--a prophetic description of the cult of which Manson was the pseudogod.
Finally, in what I considered to be one of his most brilliant insights, Dr. Hacker said that the criminals might be a group of former associates of the victims who believed themselves "rejected, thwarted, cheated by one or more of the victims and who took revenge in this fashion."
The word "PIG" at the Tate house might have been written by a black drug dealer, as the LAPD believed. But at the LaBiancas' the killers had also scrawled "RISE" and "HELTER SKELTER." What did those words have to do with drugs? Rather, they seemed to suggest the hand of a terrorist or revolutionary group.
For advice, I turned to Dr. Frederick Hacker, the psychiatrist who ... was one of the world's leading authority on terrorism, its roots and its rites. .... It occurred to me that an expert such as Dr. Hacker, from his vast experience with terrorist groups, might discover an insight into these strange and violent murders. ....
Ten days later he filed his report, and it was a stunner. Dr. Hacker, from his distinctive experience, saw a possible connection between the two crimes much more sinister than anyone could have imagined. These are some excerpts from his report:
"It must be assumed that the [actual perpetrator's] helpers ... were in a state of mind compatible with planning and at least a limited amount of anticipation of difficulties and premeditation (see cutting of wires, complicated rope arrangement.. keeping the victims controlled while the slaying went on, etc.) ....
"The bizarre features of the multiple crime certainly suggest severe psychopathology of the killers... (the possibility than an interested party might have hired impulsively sadistic killers cannot be excluded).
"It is conceivable that the personality of the actual killer was quite different from those of his helpers and that... one party.. carried out the preparations and precautionary measures while the other party or parties actually perpetrated the crimes..."
Thus, weeks before Charles Manson was found, Dr. Hacker predicted the existence of a man not even present at the scenes of the crimes, who had sent his "impulsively sadistic killers" to do his murdering. Hacker's report also went on to say that "the criminals might be looked for among fringe pseudo-religious groups"--a prophetic description of the cult of which Manson was the pseudogod.
Finally, in what I considered to be one of his most brilliant insights, Dr. Hacker said that the criminals might be a group of former associates of the victims who believed themselves "rejected, thwarted, cheated by one or more of the victims and who took revenge in this fashion."
Dr. Hacker's theories and my own study of the case have led me to conclude that Manson had a different motive (other than Bugliosi's Helter Skelter motive).
Why did he choose Sharon Tate's residence for the orgy of murder? I
believe that the pseudogod chose that particular house for a very mortal
reason: symbolic revenge for a failed musical career. And after he
had turned his worshipping cultists loose on Sharon Tate and her
friends, the LaBianca murders were purely random, committed only to
throw police off the real "revenge" trial at 10050 Cielo Drive
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The afrorementioned Dr. Hacker was also quoted extensively in the Nov. 1969 issue of 'Pageant' magazine
Speed was found in Jay Sebring's black Porsche 911-S parked outside the house where he was murdered. ...
Doctors claim speed makes people behave as though they are crazy. "When somebody has taken speed, there is much more tolerance for inflicting and accepting violence," claims Frederick Hacker, head of the Hacker Clinic in Beverly Hills. "Last year I was talking at a conference about the national nightmare resulting from drug abuses, and this murder is the kind of thing I was talking about."
Doctors claim speed makes people behave as though they are crazy. "When somebody has taken speed, there is much more tolerance for inflicting and accepting violence," claims Frederick Hacker, head of the Hacker Clinic in Beverly Hills. "Last year I was talking at a conference about the national nightmare resulting from drug abuses, and this murder is the kind of thing I was talking about."
Also this interesting link:
https://mindcontrolblackassassins.com/tag/dr-frederick-hacker/
Dr. Hacker was CIA psychiatrist-in-residence, author and “expert” on provocateur violence.
...On November 21, 1968, Dr. Hacker was assigned as a psychiatrist to Donald Defreeze, (later) known as Cinque Mtume and “Field Marshal Cinque” of the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA). Dr. Hacker was also a close adviser to Randolph Hearst during the 1974 SLA “CIA Psyop” kidnapping of Patty Hearst.
http://www.maebrussell.com/Mae%20Brussell%20Articles/Why%20Was%20Hearst%20Kidnapped%204.html
Dr. Hacker was the psychiatrist assigned to Donald DeFreeze on November 21, 1968, while DeFreeze worked for the LAPD as an informer.
...On November 21, 1968, Dr. Hacker was assigned as a psychiatrist to Donald Defreeze, (later) known as Cinque Mtume and “Field Marshal Cinque” of the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA). Dr. Hacker was also a close adviser to Randolph Hearst during the 1974 SLA “CIA Psyop” kidnapping of Patty Hearst.
http://www.maebrussell.com/Mae%20Brussell%20Articles/Why%20Was%20Hearst%20Kidnapped%204.html
Dr. Hacker was the psychiatrist assigned to Donald DeFreeze on November 21, 1968, while DeFreeze worked for the LAPD as an informer.