By Diana (General Category Editor)

Thirty-nine years following the Tate and LaBianca murders, Charles Manson and his notorious “Family” are once again making headlines.
Having served decades behind bars for murder and conspiracy, convicted Manson Family killers are awaiting the exhumation of their past misdeeds—literally.

Shortly following her captivity, Susan Atkins, alias Sadie Mae Glutz, had boasted to a cellmate that the Manson Family was responsible for three unsolved murders. Rumors of murdered hitchhikers and drifters passed with time, yet not until recently had the ghost of Atkins’ jail cell confession prompt a team of investigators and forensic experts to return to Barker Ranch in Death Valley, California, the central setting for the Manson Family’s havoc. In search of unmarked graves, investigators including Sharon Tate’s sister, Debra Tate, seek to uncover the Manson Family’s additional victims in what appears to be a never-ending saga. Their efforts may unearth lost chapters in the grim Manson Family history, but the question remains whether the team will find what they are looking for.

Ordered to life in prison in accordance to California’s abolishment of the death penalty, Charles Manson and company have been denied parole countless times—Manson’s latest parole denial occurring May 23, 2007. Imprisoned Manson Family members are by no means on the verge of release. The results of the current Barker Ranch investigation will make little difference in their condemnation; however, for grieving family member such as Debra Tate, justice is putting the past to rest.

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