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Frykowski, who was running out the front door. Kasabian said in her testimony, "There was a man just coming out of the door and he had blood all over his face and he was standing by a post, and we looked into each other's eyes for a minute, and I said, 'Oh, God, I am so sorry. Please make it stop.' But then he just fell to the ground into the bushes." Then Watson repeatedly stabbed Frykowski and hit him in the head with a gun butt. Kasabian tried to stop the murderers by claiming that she heard "people coming" onto the Tate property, but Atkins insisted that it was "too late". According to Watson and Atkins, Kasabian stood rooted to the front lawn, watching with a horrified expression as her companions committed murder. Kasabian testified that, while in a state of shock, she ran toward the car, started it up, and considered driving away to get help, but then became concerned for her daughter back at the
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Kasabian in an effort to prevent her from testifying. The actual defendants in the crime constantly disrupted her testimony with a blizzard of dramatic courtroom theatrics. Manson ran a finger across his throat, glaring at Kasabian as she testified, an act he repeated during the testimony of other prosecution witnesses.
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foreheads as a sign of their allegiance to Manson), testified that
Kasabian, rather than Manson, had masterminded the crimes. The trial jury completely rejected their testimony. Over the years, these accusations have been publicly repudiated by many of the former Family members who originally offered the tale, including Catherine Share (in 1997), Susan Atkins (in 1977), and particularly Tex Watson, who in 1978 described those allegations as "patently ridiculous."
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completely backfired and exonerated the state's primary witness. Composing herself enough to look up from the color photo of the dead, bloodied Sharon Tate, Kasabian shot a look across the courtroom to the defendants. "How could you do that?" she asked. The female defendants laughed. Manson's defense attorney
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been described as reluctant and extremely upset during the events of both nights, even challenging Manson ("Charlie, I am not you, I cannot kill anybody.") and she was the only member of the group to express remorse and sympathy for the victims. When taken back to the Tate residence to help reconstruct the crime there, Kasabian reportedly suffered an emotional breakdown.
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Krenwinkel's defense attorney Paul Fitzgerald later asserted that Kanarek's tactic—meant to discredit Kasabian—was a grave error that
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Kasabian testified that at one point she heard the "horrible screams" of the victims and left the car. "I started to run toward the house, I wanted them to stop. I knew what they had done to that man , that they were killing these people. I wanted them to stop." Approaching the house from the
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1996:Steve Grogan
1976:Mary Brunner
1966:Susan Atkins
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2206:Discography
2173:Spahn Ranch
2115:Gerald Ford
2072:Sharon Tate
2068:Jay Sebring
2059:Donald Shea
1991:Sandra Good
1981:Bruce Davis
1589:January 13,
715:Clem Grogan
704:Spahn Ranch
696:Sharon Tate
684:Jay Sebring
493:Spahn Ranch
328:Los Angeles
297:high school
261:key witness
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2514:Mindhunter
2474:Television
1835:The Family
1814:King, Greg
1165:August 19,
1142:References
1099:Larry King
1074:docu-drama
968:newspapers
809:March 2017
779:newspapers
664:Tex Watson
604:newspapers
538:Q: "Why?"
513:Tex Watson
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271:Early life
249:California
143:1949-06-21
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2300:The Girls
2261:By others
2199:By Manson
2161:Locations
2103:Attempted
2082:Suspected
1537:August 2,
1121:Greg King
1119:, author
1061:in 1988.
503:and soon
309:bartender
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2250:One Mind
1953:and the
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879:mistrial
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473:paradise
426:May 2022
213:Children
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2525:(2017)
2138:Beliefs
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