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Leslie Van Houten has been in prison for more than 40 years for two brutal murders she helped commit 48 years ago.

Charles Manson is back in a California prison after a hospital stay for an unspecified medical problem.

Cult leader and murderer Charles Manson has been taken to a California hospital, according to reports.

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After 43 years in prison and 30 parole hearings, US parole officials have again decided it is safe to free Charles Manson follower Bruce Davis.

Vincent Bugliosi — the prosecutor in the Charles Manson trial who went on to write best-selling true-crime book Helter Skelter — has died at the age of 80.

A 26-year-old woman with the nickname Star who says she is going to marry 80-year-old mass murderer Charles Manson will have to wait a while longer.

The revelation that serial killer Charles Manson is to wed has raised questions about prison marriages, conjugal visits, and the weird world of love behind bars, writes Connor Adams Sheets

Mass murderer Charles Manson plans to marry a 26-year-old woman who left her home and has spent the past nine years trying to help exonerate him.

Mass-murderer Charles Manson has obtained a licence to marry a 26-year-old woman who visits him in prison.

THREE hundred Irish women will develop ovarian cancer this year.

A former Charles Manson follower imprisoned for 40 years is hoping that his 27th parole hearing will provide his key to freedom.

Prison letters written by London gangster Reggie Kray and US death cult leader Charles Manson are to go under the hammer.

They both died in August.

A California prison panel today denied parole to mass murderer Charles Manson in his 12th bid for freedom.

Patricia Danaher found Roman Polanski, the controversial director of Carnage, in ebullient form when she met him in Paris

Lindsay Lohan is set to play the daughter of a mobster in a new movie.

A follower of cult leader Charles Manson is facing a parole hearing after serving 40 years in a California jail for her part in the Sharon Tate killings.

Bruce Davis, a member of Charles Manson’s murderous cult who participated in two killings, was recommended for parole.

A nude photo of film-maker Roman Polanski and his wife Sharon Tate just months before her murder will be sold at auction next month.

As it is, though, Hollywood apart, most Americans seem to think that Polanski must have what is coming to him and that those who call for bygones to be bygones fail to understand that the law is bigger than any of thosewho break it.

Film director Roman Polanski was arrested on a 1978 US arrest warrant for having sex with a 13-year-old girl, Swiss police confirmed today.

SUSAN ATKINS, a follower of cult leader Charles Manson whose remorseless witness stand confession to killing pregnant actress Sharon Tate in 1969 shocked the world, has died. She was 61 and had been suffering from brain cancer.

Charles Manson cult follower Susan Atkins has died in prison, the first of the remorseless killer’s gang to join their helpless victims.

SUSAN ATKINS, the terminally ill Charles Manson follower who admitted stabbing actress Sharon Tate 40 years ago, has lost what was likely to be her last bid for freedom.

A Charles Manson follower who tried to assassinate US President Gerald Ford was freed from prison today after 34 years behind bars.

A California desert cabin that became cult leader Charles Manson’s last hideout has been gutted by fire.

CALIFORNIA prison chiefs released a new photograph yesterday of mass murderer Charles Manson, who is now 74, bald with thick grey beard.

Nearly 40 years ago, Susan Atkins was a leading character in one of the most horrific chapters in Californian history.

The California parole board was urged today to deny a request by Charles Manson follower Susan Atkins to be released from jail on compassionate grounds.

A ranch where notorious US mass murderer Charles Manson hid after a 1969 killing spree is being revisited by scientists to hunt for undiscovered graves, decades after law enforcement officers raided the site.

The police chief in the remote region where Charles Manson hid after a killing spree in the summer of 1969 said tonight he will allow researchers to begin digging in search of possible human remains.

Director Roman Polanski is to have his life documented in a new Hollywood biopic.

Valley of the Dolls (Fox Cinema Reserve, €24.99) exposed a side of Hollywood most were unaware of in the early ‘60s, drugs and exploitation.

Charles Manson's followers should never be freed from prison for the string of brutal murders they committed in 1969, the sister of murdered actress Sharon Tate said.

DIRECTOR Roman Polanski won £50,000 (€72,000) damages yesterday in a historic libel action which forced him to relive the horrific murder of wife Sharon Tate 36 years ago.

Film director Roman Polanski won £50,000 (€71,875) libel damages today over a claim that he made sexual advances to a Scandinavian woman just after wife Sharon Tate’s brutal murder.

ROMAN POLANSKI’S libel action against the publishers of Vanity Fair magazine neared its conclusion yesterday, with both sides in the case putting final arguments to the jury.

A RETIRED financier told a British court yesterday how Roman Polanski made a pass at his beautiful blonde girlfriend just weeks after the murder of the film director’s actress wife.

A retired financier told the High Court today how Roman Polanski made a pass at his beautiful blonde girlfriend just weeks after the murder of the film director's actress wife.

A New York editor told the British High Court today of Roman Polanski’s “tasteless and vulgar” romancing of a beautiful Scandinavian model just after his wife’s brutal murder.