Linda Kasabian, Manson Family Cult Member and Murder Trial Witness, Dead at 73
etonline.comKasabian had been living in Washington State at the time of her death and had changed her last name to «Chiochios» to protect her identity.Kasabian served as the Manson family's lookout during the cult's infamous murder spree.
She was also the key witness in the Manson family trials in 1970, which lead to the conviction of cult leader Charles Manson and several of his accomplices.
Seven people were killed across two nights in the summer of 1969, and while Kasabian did act as the family's lookout, she did not take part in the actual murders.As for a cause of death for Kasabian, the obtained a copy of her death certificate, but no cause was cited.Kasabian was just 20 years old when she moved to Spahn Ranch in July 1969, an old movie set in Los Angeles where Manson and his followers were living in a commune.
That same year, Manson order a group of his followers to carry out a series of murders, in what criminal prosecutors said was a plan to incite a race war, which he had dubbed «Helter Skelter.»Manson told his followers — mainly young women — of the race war and his plan to speed up the start of the violence with the grizzly murdering spree.Just a month after Kasabian moved to the ranch, she was acting as the lookout in a getaway car outside the L.A.
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