A former Charles Manson s cult member has opened up how she escaped the group just months after the Family committed the horrible Tate-LaBianca murders in 1969.
Now an Oregon resident, Juanita Wildebush, revealed the time she spent with Charles Manson and his other followers at Spahn Ranch in Los Angeles County.
According to the now 77-year-old woman, Manson s hold was too powerful, and she was afraid she would have been involved in the murders if she was still there, Daily Mail reported.
The former cult member has already retired from her work as a social worker who worked with cult survivors. Juanita Wildebush said that part of Charles Manson s allure was that he was an incredible lover.
She Escaped Charles Manson’s Murderous Sex Cult
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Charlie, Juanita, Clem, and Sadie huddled together in the back of the Dodge van that had become Juanita’s traveling home in the summer of ’68. Clem and Sadie made no attempt to conceal their sexual desire for each other, and soon retreated to the upper loft. Now, alone with Juanita for the first time that day at the beach, Charlie knew he had her cornered.
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Now, what in the helter-skelter do Manson and his tawdry band of zoned-out sociopaths have to do with a comparison test of trucks? Or is this yet another excuse to escape from our own frozen ranch in Michigan, fly 2000 miles west to the steady heat of Death Valley, and bomb around in stolen dune buggies, which was said to be a top-rated lifestyle activity of Manson and his walleyed crew? Or was this just Spence looking for a place to spend his golden years?
The one-time amateur musician believed he would be bigger than the beatles. after that dream was crushed, he was replaced with a nightmarish prophecy that put him on the throne of a post-armageddon world. this is the story of how a career criminal calling himself jesus convinced his young followers to slaughter innocent victims, delivering charles manson the fame he craved. here s keith morrison with the as i remember of manson. all the remains are ruins. the ram shackled barker ranch is long gone. only the fitful baking death valley wind left now to stir the faded bits, the rusted junk. the artifacts from another time when this was ground zero for one of the most infamous crimes in history.
to him, the whole idea of control is not just having people worshipping you, but having people follow your orders in ways that contradict common sense. that is, fleeing an apocalyptic race war, helter skelter. he moved them out to an old homestead called barker ranch. over 200 miles from los angeles, now a part of death valley national park. yes, death valley. during this war, he will lead his family into death valley where there is a bottomless pit in a city underneath the surface. they will go down there and be safe. he seriously thought there was something beneath the earth where all of you go and hide. mm-hmm. and escape the world. mm-hmm. rivers of honey and trees with fruit. she said she overheard susan atkins gleefully describing the murder of sharon tate and suddenly feared for her own life. i knew i had to get out of there. so early one morning, barbara