Sassy Bottoms, or Sassy Deputy District Attorney?

The post that I brought you a few days ago concerning Bobby Beausoleil, and child porn has been bothering me ever since. First of all, I wanted to know why nobody had ever heard of these allegations, and why nothing, apparently ever came out of it. I was ONLY reporting what I read in Bobby's 2008 parole hearing transcripts. Let me reiterate that I am NOT the one who pulled this story out of the clear, blue sky. I read it, found interest in it, and decided to post it. Was Deputy District Attorney Patrick Sequeira being a naughty boy by grasping at straws, or was Beausoleil truly caught being a perv-creep? I have been wondering about this ever since reading the transcript. I am sure everyone else has too. Do you think the D.A. went a little bit overboard on bringing up his art, and the gallery? I do think the D.A. had a job to do, and that was to bring up as much dirt as he could on Mr. Beausoleil, so the board would find him unsuitable, but gee, bringing up his art? LAME! Of course, if the art had anything to do with kids, then that issue, in/and of itself is enough to make any board member want to beat the snot out of him, and send him back to his cell without supper, for the rest of his life.  At any rate, I found an old newspaper article from the San Luis Opisbo newspaper that mentioned it briefly. I really do not know what to think. Hey, I love to give people the benefit of the doubt, but........Well, read on, and let us know what you think:

Bobby Beausoleil arrested on Cuesta Grade

August 6, 1969

Routine police work sometimes leads to the capture of a fugitive. This was recorded in a small story two days later. It was early August 1969, a brutal heat wave was sweeping the region with Avila Beach baking at 110 degrees on Tuesday. The next morning CHP patrolman Joe Humphrey rolled up on a car parked on the shoulder of Highway 101, south of the Cuesta summit. A 21-year-old man was sleeping in the front seat of a Fiat station wagon. The occupant was described as a transient, and a check of the plates revealed the car had been stolen. The car’s owner, Gary Hinman, 34, had been murdered. The music teacher’s body had been found a week earlier on July 31, 1969, at his Topanga Canyon home. Officers said a blood stained knife was found in the victim’s station wagon and Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies came to San Luis Obispo to collect the suspect, Robert Kenneth Beausoleil.The story would have likely ended here for the then Telegram-Tribune and most other news outlets.It was, after all, 1969 and drug deals sometimes went bad. They were only musicians on the fringe. No doubt sad for those involved, but not destined to be a huge story. Details would gradually emerge. Accounts vary and sometimes the same sources had multiple accounts.Suspect, Beausoleil had another musician friend, sometimes called Chuck Summers. Later there would be up to 17 documented names listed as Summers’ aliases. Chuck had been present for a time during the three-day period the victim Hinman was held captive.Beausoleil would later insist that the murder was the result of a drug deal gone bad. His story was that Hinman, the car’s owner, had sold Beausoleil 1,000 hits of mescaline that he in turn resold to a motorcycle gang. When the gang complained that the drug was bad, he went to get his money back. Hinman’s ear was cut in a fight and when the victim threatened to go to the police, Beausoleil stabbed Hinman twice in the chest.

Another version of the story, told at trial and in interviews with witnesses, said Chuck Summers had ordered Beausoleil and two women, Mary Brunner and Susan Atkins. to take a rumored $20,000 inheritance from Hinman. When the extortion attempt stalled, Chuck showed up with Bruce Davis in tow. Chuck and Hinman argued, Chuck pulled out a sword or bayonet and sliced Hinman’s ear off. He then left with Davis in one of Hinman’s cars. Chuck instructed the others not to let Hinman go until they had the money. What is not disputed is Beausoleil stabbed Hinman. After the stabbing, Beausoleil, Brunner and Atkins took turns holding a pillow over the victim’s face until he died.

In an attempt to throw police onto a false trail, “Political Piggy” was written in Hinman’s blood and the wall marked with a bloody paw print. They were trying to link the Black Panthers to the crime.

Chuck Summers increasingly espoused a philosophy of racial hatred and he had a loose collection of followers, sometimes called family. The family took their name from Chuck’s given surname, Manson.

When word got out that Beausoleil had been arrested, Charles Manson assembled his trusted followers. The plan was to free Beausoleil through a series of gruesome copycat murders. This would convince authorities the wrong man was in prison and could also incite a race war they called Helter Skelter.

On Aug. 8, 1969 the murder spree that would forever define the Manson Family began, with others to follow. Some remain unsolved to this day. The murders would be the focus of intense coverage.

Later Atkins would brag about the Tate-LaBianca murders while in jail for another charge, giving investigators an early window into the workings of the Family.

The Gary Hinman case would be the first known murder linked to the the Manson Family. Beausoleil’s first trial ended in a hung jury, but the second trial returned a conviction on April 21, 1970, and Beausoleil was given a death sentence. He was interviewed by Truman Capote while on Death Row at San Quentin.

Under a 1972 court ruling, the death penalty was overturned. Along with many other convicts, his sentence was changed to life in prison.

Beausoleil was stabbed by other prisoners April 15, 1982, and this was cited in reports as a turning point in his life. Bobby Beausoleil would later distance himself from Manson.

Parole hearings were a regular story in the Telegram-Tribune when Beausoleil became an inmate at CMC, within a few miles of where he was arrested. While in prison, he would get married and become involved in movie and music recording projects, including music for a film called “Lucifer Rising.”“I would give anything to someday be known as something other than a murderer, ” he said in the Dec. 13, 1984, story.

A year later, allegations of child pornography surfaced after CMC officials discovered drawings and stories Beausoleil had written about spanking and had planned to mail to his wife Barbara. She then lived in Arroyo Grande and published newsletters “Sassy Bottoms” and “Domestic Discipline Digest” according to a Dec. 3, 1986, story. A postal inspector later said the material was not categorized as child pornography.

Prison reports from the 1980s described the convict as intelligent and having a good prison record, but the specter of Charles Manson is in the room at every parole hearing. In a Dec. 10, 1987, story, he said, “I feel like every time I come to one of these hearings, I have Mr. Manson sitting next to me,” he said.“I despise what the man represents … If I had known about what the man was about then, I wouldn’t have associated with him.”Psychiatric reports at this hearing were mixed, giving both above and below average violence potential.When victim advocates protested that three Manson family members were in the same prison, transfers were made. Bruce Davis remains at CMC, while Charles “Tex” Watson and Bobby Beausoleil were transferred.

Here is the link I got this from:

http://sloblogs.thetribunenews.com/slovault/2010/04/bobby-beausoleil-arrested-on-cuesta-grade/

Bus Exodus Made Stops For Murder

  San Jose Mercury News December 3, 1969   From The Los Angeles Times

 

Manson's arrest record from the Barker raid

INDEPENDENCE (Inyo County) — The trip began in a bus. It ended in a bus. On the way eight people — and possibly 11 — were murdered.

In Death Valley 125 miles southeast of here, a green-and-white former school bus marks where the nomadic hippie clan led by Charles Manson finally ended its journey.

From there, 26 members of the Manson "family" were brought under arrest to Independence, a small town in the shadow of the Sierra Nevada.

Sheriff's officers here thought the hippie band was guilty of car theft. And, noting that even the women among them wore sheath knives, possibly worse, they put out the names of the 26 in inter-city teletypes.

When detectives from Los Angeles arrived to question members of the family, and took nine of them away, local officers found out why they were wanted.

The officers heard the name "Tate." They saw the penal code section for which they were wanted: 187. Murder.

Manson, 34, who has a five-page criminal record, including assault with a deadly weapon, theft, arson and car theft, is in the Inyo County jail here. No charges have been filed against him in the Tate case.
But authorities say he was the ringleader of the band of wanderers whose members included at least a half-dozen who specialized in murder. Investigators said followers sometimes spoke of him as "Jesus."

In a dimly lit Independence motel room, where paint peeled off the ceiling over the bed where an infant sucked a pacifier, two of the young women who deserted comfortable, middle-class homes to follow Manson described him Monday night:

"He was magnetic," said Sandra Good Pugh, 26. "His motions were like magic, it seemed like. The first time I saw him he was petting a cat. I don't know why that struck me, but he seemed so kind."

"He gave off a lot of magic," said Lynn Fromme, 21. "Everyone was always so happy around him. But he was a sort of changeling. He seemed to change every time I saw him. He seemed ageless..."

Manson is a short man, with brown hair and eyes, who is a musician, the women said.

"The first time I heard him sing," said Mrs. Pugh, "it was like an angel. He wrote songs. Made them up as he went along. Some were beautiful, happy songs. Others would be sad and moving."

The Manson family started from the Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco on April 12, 1968, in an old school bus converted into living quarters for 14 young men and women.

Mrs. Pugh and Miss Fromme weren't with him, then. The family's membership shifted slightly almost daily, as some left, others joined. On the way south from San Francisco the newest member arrived: a baby born in the bus "somewhere along the line."

They were financing their trip on a credit card brought with her by Patricia Krenwinkel when she defected from the middle class one day in September 1967. She had apparently met Manson, and had left town with him immediately.

It was at an abandoned movie ranch near Los Angeles, where the hippies had established a commune last August, that Mrs. Pugh and Miss Fromme joined the family. There, police say, they converted stolen Volkswagens into dune buggies.

Then Manson moved again. It was a different bus, but a similar exodus; everyone climbed aboard. They moved quickly.

This time it was to Death Valley.

Investigators said the men again opened a Volkswagen theft ring. It was for this — and chasing miners off with knives — that National Park Service rangers, California Highway Patrolmen and sheriff's officers arrested the 26 members of the family.

The two young women said that they noticed the men leaving on "four-day hikes on the desert." But, they said, they knew of no car thievery or murder.

After the mass arrest, they were taken into custody by Los Angeles detectives, questioned and released. Mrs. Pugh was charged by authorities here with possession of a stolen pistol, and the girls are waiting at Independence for her court date there Dec. 15.

Bugliosi: The Milkman and the Mistress

THE VINCE BUGLIOSI STORY - George Denny

Eviliz now makes available for you "The Vince Bugliosi Story", a 1973 expose by George Denny. This chronicles The Bug's harassment of his former milkman and his family as VB felt that said milkman might have been the father of his child. It goes on to document his alleged assault and battery on his mistress - supposedly because she refused to get an abortion.

or DOWNLOAD 147pg PDF HERE (about 23 mb)

Disclaimer: I parked this file on a free FTP server. It allows 1GB free downloads per month, so it will cut us off after that bandwidth has been used up. If it runs out you'll have to wait until next month. If your email allows files that large I can email it to you on request.

Q&A Witches of Mendocino

From Miss Tone,

Witches of Mendocino-Which girls were called this and why?

"Female Bunch" Trailer

We previously mentioned this film in these two posts last year:

http://www.eviliz.com/2011/07/movies-filmed-at-spahn-movie-ranch.html

http://www.eviliz.com/2011/07/addendum-to-female-bunch.html

Did Charlie get the forehead X idea from this movie?

Darwin Scott

These are articles that I was able to find on Darwin Scott.  The man was no choir boy having been arrested and convicted of crimes from at least 1933 onward.  He spent a lot of time in prison, both federal and state.  It seems like there was opportunity for him to have garnered a few enemies along the way.  If, as has been suggested, Charlie wanted Darwin killed what would have been his motive?  Was Darwin a victim of the Family or a victim of his chosen lifestyle?

Bobby Beausoleil = Herbert the Pervert?

o.getglue.com

Ok, just got finished reading Bobby Beausoleil's 2008 parole hearing, and almost fell out of the chair. It seems, Mr. Cupid was something of an entrepreneur back in 1984. He was apparently running a business out of his prison cell called "B & B Enterprises." The company consisted of himself, of course, and his wife, according to prison officials. An actual lieutenant from the prison security team at CMC wrote Beausoleil up, and filled out a report, which is summarized here:

"Approximately mid-December of 1984 Inmate Beausoleil received in the institution mail a large manila envelope containing Xerox copies of the following. Number one, letters of correspondence with people from various states. These letters pertained to purchase orders of child pornography, ages between four and 12 years old. The types of orders were photographs, movies, tape cassettes and magazines. They were all specific as to what they preferred, age, sex and nationality. Two, photocopies of order forms with names and addresses of purchasers with their money order or check made out to B&B Enterprise. A few money orders were made out to R. Beausoleil in care of B&B Enterprises. Three, one letter pertained to a person offering his services to B&B Enterprise by making movies or magazines for him, meaning Beausoleil. In this letter the man stated that he and an accomplice kidnapped children between the ages of four and eight years old. They moved from one state to another every three months to stay ahead of the law. Some states he mentioned were Florida, Washington DC, Colorado, and the last state in which they had just left was Arizona. He mentioned after their stay in California they were heading to Washington. Four, photocopies of bank records showing deposits to B&B Enterprise and R. Beausoleil. All of this information came with a return address of B&B Enterprise, P.O. Box 1033 in Grover City." Which I believe is where Mr. Beausoleil's wife was living at the time. "In the second week of February, Inmate Beausoleil received another manila envelope from B&B Enterprise in Grover City. This envelope contained purchase orders for magazines containing -- which contained nothing but child spanking and beatings. Each one asked for a certain age, sex and nationality. The order forms were addressed to Sassy Bottoms, B&B Enterprises, P.O. Box 1033, Grover City, California 93433."

The Witches' Lair, Part 3

Deb wanted to be absolutely certain that we had the right place, so she placed a phonecall to Alice's widower, Clyde Price, who still lives in Mendocino County. He was very gracious to Deb, and for this we wish to thank him. Deb wrote Patty as follows:

"I spoke to Clyde Price.  He doesn't remember a lot about the girls.  The house they rented was Alice's and she was the one who did all the contact with them.  He agreed that they must have heard about the place for rent by word of mouth but he didn't know who would have told them.  He did remember meeting them and they seemed like nice girls.  He really didn't remember anything specific about them as they were only there for about a month before they were arrested.  The guy is 90+ years old and really hasn't thought much about the Manson girls in many years, understandably his memory on that has faded."

As Kimchi has surmised, the house was indeed on Gschwend Road, and the current address of the merged properties is 17926. Deb and Patty wanted to be sure we were on Gschwend because it's unmarked and hilly back there. We spotted a nice older lady coming home from a walk. Patty leaned out and said "Are we on Gush-wend road?" The lady replied, "Schwend. The G is silent, and yes, you are."

There are several buildings on the property: one has been built fairly recently, and the others appear to be old enough to have been there in 1967. Did they actually live in one of these shacks, or is the house they rented long gone? We don't know for sure yet, but we will keep trying to find out. Anyone?

Without further ado, here are some photos of The Witches' Lair for your viewing pleasure. Happy New Year!

Flagship statement from Susan Atkins' website

 From Alisa Statman:

The Susan Atkins website (susanatkins.org) was recently brought to my attention and I am absolutely outraged by their flagship statement on the opening page:

“[Susan] has all of these things she’s done, all these committees, all these organizations, all these degrees. And I am 60 years old and I don’t know of anybody who has done all these things.” (Jay Sebring’s Sister, 2005)

This is a complete and knowingly gross mis-representation of a victim’s impact statement. What Jay’s sister actually said is what we put in Restless Souls:

“She’s got all these things she’s done, all these committees, all these organizations, all these degrees, but the bottom line is, she’s just as much a murderer today as she was thirty-six years ago because my brother is just as dead as he was thirty-six years ago.”

I would not dare to judge someone’s religious beliefs or integrity of truthfulness, but when a born-again-Christian outright lies on their cover page by mis-quoting one of their victims next of kin—right next to sub-topics such as “Bible Studies” and “Restitution Project”—I felt the mis-quote needed to be addressed in an equally public forum.

I realize that Atkins is long gone and that this website is run by her “estate” i.e. James Whitehouse, but it serves as Atkins’ representation (much like Whitehouse representing her at parole hearings) and it’s done in her memory. And, if she were still alive and having parole hearings I think Jay Sebring’s family would be justified in bringing it up in their impact statement to question her remorse, and therefor rehabilitation.

New Charles Manson Book

image from scared monkeys video

There's a new book coming out about Charles Manson, "Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson" by Jeff Guinn.  This one has an enormous lead time as it's not due out until August 2013.  It has a couple of things going for it.  It promises new information on Charlie and it is being published by the major publishing house, Simon and Schuster.  Major publishers generally insist on sourcing and fact checking so hopefully this new book will not leave anyone wondering what is true and what is not.

If your a collector of Manson related books the pre-order price is reasonable and you'll be assured of getting a first edition.

Here's the blurb from Amazon-

"Release Date: August 6, 2013

Based on new interviews with previously undiscovered relatives and filled with revelations and unpublished photographs, this is the most authoritative account of the life of Charles Manson. After more than forty years, Charles Manson continues to mystify and fascinate us. One of the most notorious criminals in American history, Manson and members of his mostly female commune killed nine people, including pregnant actress Sharon Tate. Now, drawing on new information, bestselling author Jeff Guinn tells the definitive story of how this ordinary delinquent became a murderer. Manson helps us understand what obsessed him and, most terrifying of all, how he managed to persuade others to kill. Guinn interviewed Manson’s sister and cousin, neither of whom has ever previously cooperated with an author. Childhood friends, cellmates, and even some members of the Manson Family have provided new information about Manson’s life. Guinn has made discoveries about the night of the Tate murders, answering unresolved questions, such as why one person on the property was spared. There are even photographs of Manson’s childhood and youth that have never previously been seen outside private family albums. Putting Manson in the context of his times, the turbulent end of the Sixties, Guinn shows how Manson represented the dark side of a generation. He came to Los Angeles hoping to get a recording contract, and the murders were directly related to his musical ambitions, although he cloaked them in a bizarre race-war theory. He was, in the words of one person who knew him, just like many other rock star wannabes—except that he was a killer."

http://www.amazon.com/Manson-The-Life-Times-Charles/dp/1451645163