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More Manson Family Victims Buried At Barker Ranch?

By Rachel Plotnick

Although nearly 40 years have passed since Charles Manson and his "family" of followers terrorized Los Angeles with the gruesome Tate-LaBianca murders, the public still cannot seem to get enough about the case. Newspaper men and women live on headlines, and it is a fact of life that stories of murder and mayhem sell newspapers, magazines, and books?the more gruesome the crimes, the better the sales. And of course anytime old Charlie Manson makes it into the news, the public wants to read about it. According to CNN and the Associated Press, searchers at an old Manson compound at Barker Ranch, located in Death Valley and perhaps best known as Manson?s last hideout where he was found holed up inside the cupboard of a bathroom vanity at the time of his arrest, have found new evidence of two possible gravesites...continue to full post

Full post as published by Bizarre Crimes of the Week on March 18, 2008 (boomark / email).