Manson Family member Linda Kasabian dies aged 73
01.03.2023 - 11:27
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brutal murders of actress Sharon Tate and four others on August 9, 1969 - that helped convict Charles Manson and several of his cult members. News of her death was broken by American tabloid news organization TMZ, today (Tuesday, February 28). It claimed it had obtained a copy of Kasabian's death certificate.
It shows that she passed away at a hospital in Tacoma, near Seattle, in Washington State. According to the document, she died on Saturday, January 21. Her body was cremated, however, the cause of death was not recorded.
READ MORE: Killers, football thugs and people smugglers among those put behind bars in FebruaryTMZ reports that, according to the death certificate, she had changed her surname to Chiochios in a bid to protect her identity. She had shunned publicity for much of her life after turning her back on the Manson Family. However, her original name was adopted by Countesthorpe rockers Kasabian when the band was formed in 1997.
Linda Kasabian gave evidence in the trial of Charles Manson, Charles "Tex" Watson, Patricia Krenwinkel and Susan Atkins in 1970 and 1971. As a member of the cult, she had been tasked as the lookout, waiting outside film director Roman Polanski's residence at 10050 Cielo Drive, in Los Angeles. Kasabian testified that she had witnessed Watson, Krenwinkel and Atkins - under the orders of Manson - commit the murders.
However, she claimed that she did not participate in the killings. Tate, who was Polanski's heavily pregnant wife, died with the couple's unborn son from multiple stab wounds. Her friend and hairdresser to the stars, Jay Sebring, was shot and stabbed to death.