I said prayer for Manson’s soul
Victim’s sister has forgiven evil family but can’t forget
THE sister of Charles Manson’s victim Sharon Tate said a prayer for his “soul” after being told of the cult leader’s death at the age of 83.
Debra Tate – whose pregnant actress sister was among those killed by the Manson Family cult – got a call shortly after his death from the prison where he had been incarcerated.
Debra revealed she had “said a prayer for Manson’s soul and has forgiven the family but refuses to forget what they did”.
Newspapers in the US restarted the presses to update their front pages, with The New York Post’s reading: “Evil dead: Make room, Satan, Charles Manson is finally going to hell.”
“Burn in hell,” splashed the New York Daily News on the death of the “bloodthirsty cult leader”.
Anthony DiMaria, nephew of Manson victim Jay Sebring, told US magazine People: “We derive no joy or comfort from the passing of Mr Manson. Nor is there closure because nothing will bring back Jay, or any of the victims sent to their graves 48 years ago.”
Manson died, of natural causes, on Sunday in Kern County, California, after being behind bars for most of his life.
The failed musician was the leader of a murderous band of young drifters in California.
Convicted of nine murders, he was known in particular for seven brutal killings collectively called the TateLaBianca murders, committed by his followers on two consecutive nights in 1969.
Sharon, who was married to the film director Roman Polanski, was eight- and- a- half months pregnant when she was killed along with four other people at her home.