Did Charles Manson kill anyone personally? In the late 1960s he was the leader of a cult whose members murdered several people. Was he directly involved?
Bernard Crowe is a major figure in the Manson Family case, and here is who he is, how he connects to Charles Manson, and why Manson shot him.
History remembers Gary Hinman as the first official Manson family victim — killed in July 1969 by a few of Charles Manson's ... three days before he was found dead on July 31, 1969.