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Barbara Hoyt (December 27, 1951 – December 3, 2017) was an American nurse and a member of the "Manson Family", led by Charles Manson. Hoyt was a witness in District Attorney Vincent Bugliosi's prosecution of Manson and his followers for the Tate-LaBianca murders.
Aug 20, 2022 · Update. How Did Ex-Manson Family Member Barbara Hoyt Die? Viswa Vanapalli. August 20, 2022. Image Credit: NBC News. The Manson Family, led by Charles Manson, wreaked havoc in California in the months of July and August in 1969. They committed multiple heinous murders, with Charles talking about an impending race war.
Feb 29, 2024 · Barbara Hoyt was once a devoted follower of Charles Manson, but after fleeing the group in terror she'd later testify against Manson and other group members linked to the brutal murders of actress Sharon Tate and her friends. By Jill Sederstrom Feb 28, 2024, 8:00 PM ET.
- Jill Sederstrom
- Confirmed Members and Associates
- Formation
- Encounter with Tate
- Crimes
- Investigation and Trial
- Aftermath
The following is a comprehensive list of individuals associated with the Manson Family cult: 1. Susan Atkins(died 2009) 2. Ella Jo Bailey (died 2015) 3. Bobby Beausoleil 4. Mary Brunner 5. Sherry Cooper 6. Bruce M. Davis 7. Danny DeCarlo 8. Lynette Alice "Squeaky" Fromme 9. Catherine Gillies (died 2018) 10. Sandra Good 11. Clem Grogan 12. Barbara H...
San Francisco followers
Following his release from prison on March 22, 1967, Charles Manson moved to San Francisco, where, with the help of a prison acquaintance, he moved into an apartment in Berkeley. In prison, bank robber Alvin Karpis had taught Manson to play the steel guitar.: 137–146 Living mostly by begging, Manson soon became acquainted with Mary Brunner, a 23-year-old graduate of University of Wisconsin–Madison. Brunner was working as a library assistant at the University of California, Berkeley, and Manso...
Manson's self-presentation
Actor Al Lewis had Manson babysit his children on a couple of occasions and described him as "a nice guy when I knew him". Music producer Phil Kaufman introduced Manson to Universal Studios producer Gary Stromberg, then working on a film adaptation of the life of Jesus set in modern America. It featured a Black Jesus and southern "redneck Romans". Stromberg thought that Manson made interesting suggestions about what Jesus might do in a situation, seeming to be attuned to the role. He had one...
Involvement with Wilson, Melcher, and others
Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys picked up Patricia Krenwinkel and Ella Jo Bailey when they were hitchhiking in late spring 1968, while under the influence of alcohol and LSD. He took them to his Pacific Palisades house for a few hours. The following morning, when Wilson returned home from a night recording session, he was greeted by Manson in the driveway, who emerged from his house. Wilson asked the stranger whether he intended to hurt him. Manson assured him that he had no such intent and b...
On March 23, 1969,: 228–233 Manson entered the grounds of 10050 Cielo Drive, which he had known as Melcher's residence. He was not invited.: 155–161 As he approached the main house, Manson was met by Shahrokh Hatami, an Iranian photographer who had befriended Polanski and Tate during the making of the documentary Mia and Roman. He was there to phot...
Crowe shooting
Tex Watson became involved in drug dealing and robbed a drug dealer named Bernard "Lotsapoppa" Crowe. Crowe allegedly responded with a threat to kill everyone at Spahn Ranch. In response, Charles Manson shot Crowe on July 1, 1969, at Manson's Hollywood apartment.: 91–96, 99–113 : 147–149 Manson's belief that he had killed Crowe was seemingly confirmed by a news report of the discovery of the dumped body of a Black Panther in Los Angeles. Although Crowe was not a member of the Black Panthers,...
Hinman murder
Gary Allen Hinman (b. December 24, 1934 in Colorado) was a music teacher and PhD student at UCLA. At some point in the late 1960s, he befriended members of the Manson Family, allowing some to occasionally stay at his home. According to some people, including Family member Susan Atkins, Manson believed Hinman was wealthy. He sent Family members Bobby Beausoleil, Mary Brunner and Atkins to Hinman's home on July 25, 1969, to convince him to join the Family and turn over the assets Manson thought...
Murders of Tate, Sebring, Folger, Frykowski, and Parent
On the night of August 8, 1969, Manson directed Tex Watson to take Susan Atkins, Linda Kasabian, and Patricia Krenwinkel to Melcher's former home at 10050 Cielo Drive in Los Angeles. According to Watson, Manson told them to kill everyone there. The home had recently been rented to actress Sharon Tate and her husband, director Roman Polanski. (Polanski was away in Europe working on The Day of the Dolphin). Manson told the three women to do as Watson told them. The Family members killed the fiv...
Investigation
The Tate murders became national news on August 9, 1969. The Polanskis' housekeeper, Winifred Chapman, had discovered the murder scene when she arrived for work that morning.: 5–6, 11–15 On August 10, detectives of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, which had jurisdiction in the Hinman case, informed Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) detectives assigned to the Tate case of the bloody writing at the Hinman house. According to Vincent Bugliosi, because detectives believed the Tate...
Trial
The trial began June 15, 1970.: 297–300 The prosecution's main witness was Kasabian, who along with Manson, Atkins, and Krenwinkel had been charged with seven counts of murder and one of conspiracy.: 185–188 Since Kasabian, by all accounts, had not participated in the killings, she was granted immunity in exchange for testimony that detailed the nights of the crimes.: 214–219, 250–253, 330–332 Originally, a deal had been made with Atkins in which the prosecution agreed not to seek the death p...
1970s–1980s
Watson returned to McKinney, Texas after the Tate–LaBianca murders. He was arrested in Texas on November 30, 1969, after local police were notified by California investigators that his fingerprints were found to match a print found on the front door of the Tate home. Watson fought extradition to California long enough that he was not included among the three defendants tried with Manson.[citation needed] The trial commenced in August 1971; by October, he, too, had been found guilty on seven c...
1980–present
In a 1994 conversation with Manson prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi, Catherine Share, a one-time Manson follower, stated that her testimony in the penalty phase of Manson's trial had been a fabrication intended to save Manson from the gas chamber and that it had been given under Manson's explicit direction.: 502–511 Share's testimony had introduced the copycat-motive story, which the testimony of the three female defendants echoed and according to which the Tate–LaBianca murders had been Linda Kas...
Jul 16, 2023 · How Did Barbara Hoyt Die? Image Credit: Cielo Drive. Barbara was actually the Family member Ruth plus a few others had plotted to kill in 1970 since she’d decided to turn on those arrested following the 1969 murder spree in the hopes of starting afresh.
Oct 29, 2007 · Barbara Hoyt. Hoyt, along with a girl named Sherry Cooper, fled the family. Manson eventually caught up with the pair, at a diner in the town of Ballarat.
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