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Closing Argument... MR. BUGLIOSI: Thank you, Your Honor. I will go on.
We had a slight little interruption, as you saw. I asked Hoyt, "Did you ever,
at any time during your living with the Family, ever hear Tex Watson tell Charles
Manson to do anything?" And she answered, "No." How complete
was Manson's control over this Family? Tex Watson can't even go to sleep at night
before Charlie. He couldn't even go to sleep and lie down on the good earth without
Charlie complaining and telling him to get up. Barbara also testified that
in September of '69, while at Meyer's Ranch, she heard Sadie tell Ruth Morehouse
that "Sharon Tate came out and she said, 'What is going on here,' or something
like that, and Sadie said, 'Shut up, woman.' " She said Sadie also told Ruth
Morehouse that Sharon Tate was the last to die because she had to see everybody
else go first. If there ever was a little sweetheart on the face of this earth,
it was Susan Atkins. This statement by Susan Atkins, standing alone, without anything
else, is enough to convict her of all five counts of murder, ladies and gentlemen.
Virginia Castro. Mrs. Castro also goes by the name of Virginia Graham,
and I will be referring to her as Virginia Graham. She testified that in October
and November of '69, she was incarcerated at Sybil Brand Institute for Women in
East Los Angeles, and while there she met Susan Atkins, whom she knew as Sadie
Glutz. She said that the other girls used to make fun of Sadie because Sadie would
do exercises without any underclothing underneath, and she would sing and dance
to go-go all the time, and this type of behavior just simply didn't seem to fit
the environment out at Sybil Brand. After all, that is a jail out there. She
said the other girls used to laugh at Sadie and every time Sadie would come by,
or frequently, they would say, "There goes Sadie Glutz." She said, by
and large, other girls used to ignore Sadie. This caused Virginia Graham to feel
somewhat sorry for Sadie, and she tried to befriend her and become friendly with
her. She testified that on or about November the sixth, 1969, she had a conversation
with Sadie about the Tate murders. The conversation took place around 4:45 P.M.,
on Virginia Graham's bed. "What were the circumstances leading up
to the conversation about the Tate murders?" "Well, we started
talking, we were talking about many things, and then the conversation drifted
on to LSD, which I, myself, had taken one time, and we discussed LSD for a while.
And then I warned Sadie that she talked entirely too much. I told her that I didn't
care particularly what she had done, but I didn't think it was advisable for her
to talk so much. She told me that she wasn't really worried about it. And she
also told me that she could tell by l.ooking at me, my eyes, that I was a kind
person; and that she wasn't worried about it anyway. And that the police were
on the wrong track about some murders. And I said, 'What do you mean?' And she
said to me, 'The murders at Benedict Canyon.' And just for a moment I didn't quite
snap to what she meant, and I said, 'Benedict Canyon?' And she said, 'Yes. The
Tate murders.' And she said, 'You know who did it, don't you?' And I said, 'No,
I don't.' And she said, 'Well, you are looking at her.' "
"When
she told you this, I take it you were probably somewhat shocked, is that correct?"
"Yes."
"Well, what did Susan Atkins tell you with respect
to the Tate murders, taking it trom the very beginning?"
"She said
that after she entered the house, the Tate house, she proceeded toward the bedroom.
She noticed a girl sitting in a chair reading a book; the girl didn't look up
and notice her. She continued toward the bedroom and she reached the bedroom door.
Sharon Tate was sitting in bed with a pillow propped up behind her and Jay Sebring
was sitting at the side of the bed and they were engrossed in conversation, and
at first she wasn't noticed." more
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