Read on to learn more! Watson was hooked, but not on drugs at least not at first. I hated Tex Watson for what he had done those nights in the summer of 1969 and for what he was still doing to the victims attending hearings like this one.. He had, after all, been a model inmate for more than four decades. I took a walk down Waverly Drive and Cielo Avenue on a beautiful spring day, and peered in through the gates at the houses where Tex and the girls had used their victims blood to write DEATH TO PIGS and HELTER SKELTER on the walls of the houses they had invaded. Even if you didn't get along with your mom, you don't befriend her killer. Watson is a rare male member of the family, and hes seen in control at the George Spahn movie ranch property where the Manson Family took up shop. Not much is known about them. Watson was born in Dallas, Texas, on December 2, 1945, and grew up in nearby Copeville.He was the youngest of three children. An inmate stabbed him in the back. In researching my book, Hunting Charles Manson, I traveled back as best I could to the summer of 1969, back to the places Watson and Manson and the infamous family lived and where Manson plotted Helter Skelter, to the sites where the crimes were committed and where the victims had their last dinners. He was the youngest of three children. WFAA Collection With Tex Watson still in jail, the public is becoming more aware and obsessed with the man whose case was several decades ago. This book has touched thousands of prisoners spiritually. And in that time hed found Jesus, or so he told the parole officers. I pray that there never walks on earth another Charles Manson or another Tex Watson, for that matter. Charles Manson family murderer Tex Watson demands that Wikipedia edit Suzan LaBerge, daughter of a Manson family victim Rosemary LaBianca, now corresponds with her killer, Tex Watson. According to Oxygen, Kristin Joan Svege met Watson by writing him in prison. Not that my parents and brother and sister hadnt loved me, but somehow, now, that didnt count. These murders were some of the most gruesome and shocking in American history. When Sebring tried to resist, Watson shot him. The couple divorced in 2003. No computers were allowed at Northern Californias Mule Creek maximum security prison, where three parole officers gathered on Oct. 27, 2016, to decide whether this killer, convicted of seven murders and sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole, would be set free. Tate was home at 10050 Cielo Drive with four other people: coffee heiress Abigail Folger, ex-boyfriend and Hollywood hair stylist Jay Sebring, Folgers boyfriend and Polanskis friend from Poland Wojciech Frykowski, and visitor Steven Parent. His salary was placed at 35 million U.S. dollars every year. !, With a mixture of disgust and despair, the officer responded, You are describing most of the teenagers in this country right now., And, then regaining his composure, and with a glance towards me, he added, You could have just joined a chess club.. Kay Martley, the cousin of Gary Hinman, who Manson and the family tortured and murdered before the Tate murders, said Garys death nearly destroyed her family and that his mother died of a broken heart. So I popped it in the vhs player (do I even still have one of these?) Watsonstabbed Leno LaBianca to death in the den, and carved war into his abdomen. The family store (above) was next door to the house. Nancy Pitman decides to go off on her own and open a Chuck E Manson franchise which is little more than a smaller scale version of Helter Skelter. Viral Rumor Alleges Rapper Is Dead After Being Run Over by Train, Find Out Which Radio Hosts Have Been Affected by Cox Media Group Layoffs. However, after 24 years later, Svege divorced Watson after meeting another man. Tex Watsons mugshot from prison in California, 1971. // -->,