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JIM D Historia: Kulttien vallassa - Osa 2. Dokumenttiohjelma käsittelee kultteja ja niiden toimintaa. Toisessa osassa tarkastellaan muun muassa Charles Mansonin Perhettä sekä Warren Jeffsin johtamaa moniavioista Fundamentalistista myöhempien aikojen pyhien Jeesuksen Kristuksen kirkkoa.

BALD and bearded – this is the face of notorious mass murderer Charles Manson now.

Prison officials in California have released a new snap of the callous killer – complete with a swastika carved into his forehead – as part of a routine update of files on inmates.

The 74-year-old is being held at Corcoran State Prison, Los Angeles, where he is serving a life sentence for conspiring to murder seven people.

The cult leader was first sentenced to death in 1969 for the murders of movie star Sharon Tate, coffee heiress Abigail Folger and three others stabbed and shot to death at Tate’s LA home.

The next night, two others were stabbed to death at their homes.

Manson’s co-defendants, members of his 'Manson Family' who he persuaded to carry out the murders – Susan Atkins, Leslie Van Houten, Patricia Krenwinkel and Charles “Tex" Watson – were convicted with him.

Their death sentences were commuted to life when the death penalty was briefly outlawed in the US in 1972.

LOS ANGELES - California corrections officials have released a new photograph of convicted mass murderer Charles Manson, who is now bald with a thick gray beard.

The photo of the 74-year-old Manson was taken Wednesday as part of a routine update of files on inmates at Corcoran State Prison, where he is serving a life sentence for conspiring to murder seven people, said Seth Unger, spokesman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

The cult leader was first sentenced to death for the 1969 murders of movie star Sharon Tate, coffee heiress Abigail Folger and three others stabbed and shot to death at Tate's home in Los Angeles. The next night, two others were stabbed to death at their homes.

The image — complete with a swastika carved into Manson's forehead — was released to the Los Angeles Times because the newspaper requested a copy the next time it was taken.

Manson's co-defendants — Susan Atkins, Leslie Van Houten, Patricia Krenwinkel and Charles "Tex" Watson — were convicted with him. Their death sentences were commuted to life when the death penalty was briefly outlawed in America in 1972.

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Updated 12:30 PM PDT, Fri, Aug 14, 2009

Charles Manson follower Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme was released Friday morning from a Texas prison, according to officials at the facility.

The 60-year-old Fromme left the Federal Medical Center Carswell in Fort Worth at about 8 a.m. Friday, according to a statement from Carswell spokeswoman Dr. Maria Douglas.

Fromme was convicted of trying to assassinate former President Gerald Ford. She spent more than three decades in prison.

She had already completed her sentence for the assassination attempt, but was serving additional time for a 1987 escape attempt.

Strange Trip: Squeaky Fromme's Path to Prison

Fromme was 26 in September 1975 when she pointed a pistol at Ford in Sacramento. Ford was not injured.

Secret Service agents intervened when Fromme brandished the weapon, which was later found to have a clip of ammunition but no bullet in the chamber.

In a 1987 interview, Fromme described Ford as looking "like cardboard" as he walked from the California State Capitol to his hotel.

"He had his hands out and was waving... and he looked like cardboard to me," she told television station WCHS in Charleston, S.C. "But at the same time, I had ejected the bullet in my apartment and I used the gun as it was."

Fromme, who received a life term, became the first person sentenced under a special federal law covering assaults on U.S. presidents, a statute enacted after the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Fromme was granted parole in July 2008 and released "via good conduct time" after completing a 15-month sentence for unlawful escape from a federal correctional institution, according to the prison's statement. That sentence was being served consecutively after a life sentence for threats against the president.

She escaped from a female prison in Alderson, W.Va., on Dec. 23, 1987, and was recaptured about two miles away on Christmas Day after a massive search. She was sentenced to an additional 15 months in prison for the escape.

Fromme had said she escaped from prison to be closer to Manson.

It was unclear why Fromme was at Carswell, a facility that specializes in providing medical and mental health services to female offenders. A spokeswoman for the bureau of prisons did not immediately return a phone call Wednesday seeking comment, according to The Associated Press.

"I knew someday she would be released," said John Virga, the Sacramento attorney who handled her trial.

Fromme served time in at least two other facilities before Carswell.

Manson is serving a life term in Corcoran State Prison in California for the 1969 murders of actress Sharon Tate and eight others. Fromme, one of his "family" of followers, was not implicated in those attacks.

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Charles Mansonin kuolemansairas rikostoveri ei edelleenkään pääse vankilasta

3.9.2009 8:17
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LOS ANGELES. Charles Mansonin "Perheeseen" kuulunutta Susan Atkinsia ei edelleenkään päästetä vankilasta. Kalifornialainen tuomioistuin hylkäsi keskiviikkona vetoomuksen syöpää sairastavan Atkinsin vapauttamiseksi.

Aivokasvaimesta kärsivä Atkins nukkui oikeudessa lähes koko istunnon ajan. Atkinsille haettiin vapautusta viimeksi viime vuoden heinäkuussa myötätuntosyihin vedoten. Pian tämän jälkeen Atkinsilla todettiin aivokasvain, ja hänelle annettiin vain muutama kuukausi elinaikaa.

Nyt 61-vuotias Atkins tuomittiin seitsemästä murhasta niin sanotussa Tate–LaBianca-tapauksessa vuonna 1971. Atkins sai kuolemantuomion, joka muutettiin elinkautiseksi Kalifornian kiellettyä kuolemantuomiot vuonna 1972.

Murhista tuomittiin Mansonin ja Atkinsin lisäksi kolme muuta ihmistä. Kaikki ovat edelleen vankilassa.

Kahdessa verityössä kuoli yhteensä seitsemän ihmistä. Yksi heistä oli elokuvaohjaaja Roman Polanskin viimeisillään raskaana ollut vaimo, näyttelijä Sharon Tate.

Sadie_Manson kirjoitti: - Ja kuten kaikki tietää Polanski tahtoisi palata yhdysvaltoihin, mutta tuomari ei kumoa tuomiota eikä mitään muutakaan, joten Polanskin "lapsi-seksi-huume-syyte" pitää. Polanski ei siis aio palata valtoihin.

Vuosikymmenien takainen pidätysmääräys tavoitti elokuvaohjaaja Roman Polanskin lauantaina, kun Sveitsin poliisi pidätti hänet Zurichin lentokentällä.

Pidätyksestä kertoivat Zürichin elokuvajuhlien järjestäjät sunnuntaina. 76-vuotias veteraaniohjaaja oli saapunut Sveitsiin ottaakseen festivaaleilla vastaan palkinnon elämäntyöstään.

Pidätyksen taustalla on Yhdysvaltain Polanskista jo vuonna 1978 antama pysyvä pidätysmääräys. Polanskin Hollywood-ura katkesi tuolloin, kun hän myönsi syyllistyneensä seksuaaliseen kanssakäymiseen alaikäisen kanssa 1978.