Linda Kasabian: Manson family member dies at 73

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Linda Kasabian, a member of Charles Manson’s notorious “Manson Family” criminal gang, has died at the age of 73.

Kasabian passed away on 21 January at a hospital in Tacoma, Washington. Her body has reportedly since been cremated but her precise cause of death has not been revealed.

A death certificate, obtained by TMZ, recorded that Kasabian had changed her surname in later life to “Chiochios” in order to protect her identity after she ended her association with the cult.

After participating in the “two nights of mayhem” in which the gang killed seven people in Los Angeles, California, in August 1969, Kasabian agreed to serve as a key prosecution witness at Manson’s trial in 1970-71 in exchange for immunity.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/manson-family-member-linda-kasabian-122739673.html

[BlueVoter24]

1. Memories

And not good ones.

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. Sad,,,,someone who was influenced by an insane person.

That behaviour is is normalized today in our politics.

[Raine]

3. I definitely remember her and the whole Manson thing

it was really covered here in Los Angeles.

[lastlib]

6. "We haven't had that spirit here since 1969...."

"And still those voices are calling from far away.....
They stabbed it with their steely knives, but they just can't kill the Beast..."

[Raine]

7. Yup, Hotel California. nt

[Seeking Serenity]

4. I was only a preschooler when those events took place

I have no contemporaneous memory. Don't know who the deceased was.

[lastlib]

8. Closer to World War I than to today.......

Feels awesomely weird to say that......

[montanacowboy]

5. She cut a deal with

Vincent Bugliosi and turned state's evidence. She never killed anyone. I didn't realize she lived in Tacoma.

[allegorical oracle]

9. My recollection may be faulty, but it seemed to me that she was one follower who testified against

Manson and the other followers. She impressed me as being very regretful. Looking back on that hideous event, it was amazing how many lives this one deviant man ruined...and how easily needy young people can be influenced.