![]() Manson was convicted of seven counts of first-degree murder and one count of conspiracy to commit murder in the deaths of Tate, the La Biancas, and four other people at the Tate residence - coffee heiress Abigail Ann Folger, photographer Wojciech Frykowski, hairdresser Jay Sebring and Steven Earl Parent, who was shot in his car on his way to visit an acquaintance who lived in a separate rented guest house on the Tate property. The Manson clan also stabbed to death grocery magnate Leno La Bianca and his wife Rosemary La Bianca the night after the Tate murders. ![]() Prosecutors said Manson and his followers were trying to incite a race war he dubbed "Helter Skelter," taken from the Beatles song of the same name. Manson and members of his outcast "family" of followers were convicted of killing actress Sharon Tate - who was eight months pregnant - and six other people during a bloody rampage in the Los Angeles area in August 1969. ![]() Manson suffered from heart disease and other ailments before he died in November 2017 at age 83. "The court questions who else would feel compelled by the Ohio judgment to make the payments but Charles Manson Jr."Ĭlaassen's arguments were largely based on inadmissible hearsay, Garcia said.įreeman, acting as his own attorney, has filed court papers stating that probate of the Channels will should be denied because it was created "as a direct result of undue influence exercised by (Channels) over (Manson) and is not, and never was, the will of (Manson)." "Channels' attempt to undermine the evidentiary value of the child payment history by noting there is no explicit proof that Charles Jay White was the one paying the child support is not persuasive," the judge wrote. In his court papers, Channels said Manson's 2002 will, filed in Kern County in November 2017, named him as the executor of Manson's estate. Freeman once told Klein he would not voluntarily agree to DNA testing, but would obey a court order to do so.Ĭhannels had asked for the DNA test of Freeman. Klein signed an order in 2019 directing Freeman to take a DNA test, but his ruling was reversed by a three-justice panel of the 2nd District Court of Appeal in 2021. Lawyer Dilair Nafoosi, on behalf of Claassen, said the Ohio ruling dealt with child support and not whether Freeman was a Manson heir. He also said there was no evidence Manson Jr. is the son of Charles Manson, however, remains to be litigated."įreeman also addressed the court during the May hearing, saying he was a freshman in high school when his father died and the only reason he could continue playing high school sports was because of the child support payments his mother received of more than $600 a month.Īttorney Timothy Lyons, on behalf of Channels, said during the May arguments that Judge Clifford Klein, who previously presided over the case and has since retired, gave no weight to the Ohio court decision. Under the state's probate code, the "natural parentage of Freeman is established by the Ohio paternity judgment order. was determined to be the father of Freeman by the Ohio court, Garcia wrote. is the son of Charles Manson," Garcia wrote. ![]() heir of (Manson) assuming (he) died (without a will) and petitioner Kiken can prove Charles Manson Jr. "This court finds that Freeman is potentially an. Garcia took the case under submission after the May arguments and ruled Friday. PREVIOUS COVERAGE: Florida man claims to be Charles Manson's grandson in lawsuitĭavis said the Ohio order remained unchallenged for decades until the current challenges by former Manson pen pal Michael Channels and Nancy Claassen of Spokane, Washington, who alleges in her court papers that she and Manson had the same mother and that she therefore is his "sole heir-at-law."įreeman, Channels and Claassen all are vying to administer the late cult leader's estate.
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