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Charles Denton "Tex" Watson (born December 2, 1945) is an American murderer who was a central member of the "Manson Family" led by Charles Manson. [3] On August 9, 1969, Watson, Patricia Krenwinkel, and Susan Atkins murdered pregnant actress Sharon Tate, Jay Sebring, Wojciech Frykowski, Abigail Folger, and Steven Parent at 10050 Cielo Drive in Benedict Canyon, Los Angeles.
A few Family-related incidents led up to the cult’s most infamous killings. In the summer of 1969, Family member Charles "Tex" Watson robbed a drug dealer named Bernard "Lotsapoppa" Crowe, who ...
After coercing the four occupants of the house into the living room, they ordered them to lie face down on the floor. Sebring protested and asked the intruders to consider Tate's advanced pregnancy. Watson then shot Sebring, and kicked him several times in the face as he lay dying, breaking his nose and eye socket.
On the night of August 8, 1969, Manson directed Tex Watson to take Susan Atkins, Linda Kasabian, and Patricia Krenwinkel to Melcher's former home at 10050 Cielo Drive in Los Angeles. According to Watson, Manson told them to kill everyone there. The home had recently been rented to actress Sharon Tate and her husband, director Roman Polanski.
— Charles “Tex” Watson was a college dropout from Texas when he arrived in California in 1967 seeking “satisfaction through drugs, sex and rock ‘n’ roll,” as he explains on his website.
Shortly after midnight on Aug. 9, 1969, Charles D. "Tex" Watson, Patricia Krenwinkel and Susan Atkins entered Tate and Polanski's Beverly Hills home while fellow Manson cult member Linda Kasabian ...
Kasabian was called back to Los Angeles County several times after the first trial: she was a witness against Tex Watson in his separate trial in 1971 and also against Leslie Van Houten in her two retrials in 1977. Kasabian was later detained for numerous traffic violations until an automobile accident left her partially disabled.
At 19 years old, she helped the Manson family brutally murder Los Angeles grocer Leno LaBianca and his wife, Rosemary, in August 1969. ... Charles "Tex" Watson (C) was a 24-year-old member of the ...