It’s hard to believe that it has been almost fifty years since the infamous Tate-LaBianca murders of 1969.  Unfortunately, we are reminded of these murders on too regular a basis.  They were again in the news recently when Gov. Brown overruled the parole board’s recommendation to release Leslie Van Houten, one of several Manson Family members convicted of murder. Good call – she is where she belongs. If you lived in southern California at the time, you likely have strong memories of those events.  It was an unusually hot August that year, when the Tate murders hit the news.  Six people were killed in horrifically brutal fashion.  One of the victims, actress Sharon Tate, was eight and a half months pregnant; her baby was the sixth victim.  Tate was also the wife of director Roman Polanski, which magnified the crimes’ visibility. The next night, in upscale Los Feliz, two more people, Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, were...(Read Full Post)