Former member of the Manson family cult Linda Kasabian passed away last month in a Tacoma, Washington, hospital. She was 73 years old.
On January 21, the Tacoma News Tribune published a death notice for Linda Chiochios (one of the aliases she used during the Manson murder trials) Kasabian, revealing that she had died on January 21. There is no declared cause of death on her death certificate, which has been obtained by numerous media sites.
Kasabian, real name Linda Drouin, was born in 1949 in Maine but traveled to Los Angeles when she was 20 and became involved in the Charles Manson cult’s violent murder spree, known as the “two nights of mayhem,” in which seven people, including actress Sharon Tate, were killed.
Tate was eight months along in her pregnancy when her husband, the director Roman Polanski, had her murdered. It is believed that Kasabian did not take part in the actual killings of Tate, Leno, or Rosemary Labianca, but instead served as a “lookout” for the cult’s members as they committed the atrocities.
After testifying against Charles Manson and four other cult members in their landmark 1970 trial in Los Angeles, Kasabian was eventually given immunity by prosecutors. As a result of their convictions, all five of them received mandatory life sentences. In 2017, Manson passed away in prison.
Speaking about Kasabian with The Observer newspaper in 2009, Vincent Bugliosi, the Los Angeles prosecutor who convicted Manson, said: “I doubt we would have convicted Manson without her.”
He added: “She stood in the witness box for 17 or 18 days and never broke down, despite the incredible pressure she was under.”
It is believed that Kasabian and her daughter had lived in Tacoma since the late 1980s. They originally fled New Hampshire because of the constant media attention surrounding Kasabian’s mother. Kasabian was described as living in “near poverty” in a trailer park by Rolling Stone in a 2016 profile.
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Kasabian was a guest of Larry King on CNN in 2009. She told the reporter that she had been on a “road of recovery and rehabilitation” ever since the murders and that she had been wearing a disguise.
The Manson family murders were a watershed moment in Los Angeles’s history. So many series and movies have been influenced by the Manson family saga; the most recent is Once Once a Time in Hollywood, directed by Quentin Tarantino.
Maya Hawke, known for her role as Eleven in the Netflix series Stranger Things, plays a character dubbed Flower Child, who is a parody of Kasabian.
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