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40 Years After the Manson Verdict, Visitors Take 'Helter Skelter Tour'
By Chris Epting - AOL NewsIt was 40 years ago -- Jan. 25, 1971 -- that a jury returned guilty verdicts against Charles Manson, Susan Atkins and Patricia Krenwinkel, three central figures in the infamous "Helter Skelter" murder spree. The three were found guilty on seven counts of first-degree murder and one count of conspiracy to commit murder for their roles in the ghoulish Tate-LaBianca murders in the Los Angeles area. Two other members of Manson's twisted "family" -- Leslie Van Houten and Charles "Tex" Watson" -- would be tried later and convicted for crimes related to the killing spree. AP A ...
Women Who Kill . . . or Rather, Women Who Don't
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyTwo "femme fatales" were in the news last week. Laurie Bembenek, accused killer turned folk hero ("Run, Bambi, Run") died of liver cancer at the age of 52 in Portland, Ore. A former Playboy bunny and a Milwaukee police officer, Bembenek was convicted of the 1981 murder of her husband's ex-wife. She escaped from prison in 1990 and fled to Canada. She was recaptured and, after a new trial, was sentenced to time served and set free. To the end, she proclaimed her innocence. On the other side of the world, in Italy, former Seattle college student Amanda Knox recently appealed her murder ...
Why Is Hollywood Shunning Mel Gibson but Embracing Roman Polanski?
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(July 14) -- In 2006, there was the boozy anti-Semitic rant. Now comes Mel Gibson's encore, as recorded in tapes of him yelling a racist slur at his ex-girlfriend. As a result, Gibson has been dropped by his agency, WME, and no other agency is lining up to take its place. And yet many in Hollywood have gone out of their way to defend Roman Polanski, who the United States has been trying to extradite to answer for allegedly raping a 13-year-old girl in 1977. The director pleaded guilty to a charge of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor but left the country before he could be sentenced. ...
Roman Polanski Case Calls for Lisbeth Salander-Style Justice
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyAnyone who remembers the young, fragile and insane Catherine Deneuve carrying a dead rabbit in her purse as she wandered crazily scared in her spooky apartment in Paris, anyone who remembers the image of that skinned rabbit, and the sexual innuendo it was meant to symbolize, in the film "Repulsion" (1965), has got to believe that in Roman Polanski we find one fetid mind. So when Polanski, already a celebrated genius terrible of film, who had endured the nightmarish 1969 killing of his pregnant wife, the actress Sharon Tate, by the notorious Charles Manson gang, was brought up on charges of ...
Roman Polanski: A Free Man, but How's His Conscience?
By Eleanor Clift - Politics DailyFilm director Roman Polanski finally beat the rap, after years of legal wrangling, for drugging a 13-year-old girl then raping her during a modeling shoot in 1977. He remains a fugitive from the United States, but in Switzerland, where he had been under house arrest since last year after receiving a lifetime achievement award at a film festival in Zurich, the government refused to extradite him to the United States so he could be sentenced for his crime. Polanski was probably already jetting his way back to Paris, where he makes his home, when Swiss Justice Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf ...
Roman Polanski's Life in Crime and Film [TIMELINE]
By Dana Chivvis - AOL News(July 12) -- The Swiss government announced today that film director and fugitive Roman Polanski would not be extradited to the United States for an unlawful sexual conduct charge stemming from an accusation that he raped 13-year-old Samantha Gailey Geimer in 1977. Polanski has been under house arrest at his home in Gstaad since the fall. Below, Surge Desk has compiled a timeline of the director's life and times as they have played out across multiplexes and courtrooms far and wide. 1959 -- Polanski graduates from the Lodz Film School in Poland. 1962 -- Polanski directs "Knife in the ...
Polanski Freed: Instant Reactions
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(July 12) -- The government of Switzerland today refused to extradite famed director Roman Polanski to the U.S., where authorities were seeking to prosecute him for fleeing the country over three decades ago, after pleading guilty to "unlawful sexual intercourse" with then 13-year-old Samantha Geimer. "The freedom-restricting measures against him have been revoked," said the Swiss Ministry of Justice, in a statement. Polanski had been under house arrest since December. He had been picked up by Swiss police (acting on American pressure) shortly after his arrival to the Zurich Film Festival ...
Swiss Deny US Request to Extradite Roman Polanski
By Marta Falconi - AOL NewsZURICH, Switzerland (July 12) -- Film director Roman Polanski will not be extradited to the United States to respond to accusations of unlawful sexual conduct with a teenager, the Swiss government said, making him a free man and ending months of uncertainty over his fate. Justice Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf announced the highly anticipated decision today at a packed news conference in Bern, Switzerland's capital. Widmer-Schlumpf said she had determined it was not possible to "exclude with a necessary certainty a fault" in the U.S. extradition request, and therefore rejected it. ...
Switzerland Won't Extradite Roman Polanski to US
By not in system - AOL NewsBERN, Switzerland (July 12) -- The Swiss government declared renowned film director Roman Polanski a free man on Monday after rejecting a U.S. request to extradite him on a charge of having sex in 1977 with a 13-year-old girl. The Swiss mostly blamed U.S. authorities for failing to provide confidential testimony about Polanski's sentencing procedure in 1977-1978. The Justice Ministry also said that national interests were taken into consideration in the stunning decision. "The 76-year-old French-Polish film director Roman Polanski will not be extradited to the USA," the ministry said in a ...
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