Free Manson 'family' members haunted by horror

[XanaDUer]

http://www.rr.com/news/news/article/9009/8586853/Free_Manson_family_members_haunted_by_horror

LOS ANGELES -- Forty years ago, they were kids. Vulnerable, alienated, running away from a world wracked by war and rebellion. They turned to a cult leader for love and wound up tied to a web of unimaginable evil.

They were part of Charles Manson's "Family" and now, on the brink of old age, they are the haunted.

"I never have a day go by that I don't think about it, especially about the victims," says Barbara Hoyt who was 17 the summer of the Sharon Tate-LaBianca murders. "I've long ago accepted the fact it will never go away."

The ones who aren't in prison are scattered across the country. Some live under assumed names to hide their past from friends and business associates. Some have undergone surgery to remove the "X" that Manson ordered them to carve on their foreheads, showing they were "X"ed out of society. Some live with endless regret.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

1. From what I understand...

...there are still followers out there under the thrall of Charlie. Also, there are people still living in hiding terrified of being murdered by those people.