Bobby Beausoleil

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Robert Kenneth "Bobby" Beausoleil (* 6. November 1947 in Santa Barbara , California ) is an American musician and convicted murderer by his connection to that of, Charles Manson cited Manson Family and its involvement in the murder of Gary Hinman known has been.

Early life

Bobby Beausoleil was born in 1947 and comes from a working class family . His father worked as a milkman for a dairy company for 20 years . His musical talent was already noticed in adolescence, but his rebellious nature brought him into conflict with the law at an early age. So at the age of 15 he spent some time in a reformatory . Soon after, he moved to Los Angeles.

Musicians and artists in California

As a teenager, Beausoleil made contact with the Californian hippie scene and played as a guitarist in the early band projects of some of the later influential musicians such as Arthur Lee ( Love ) and David LaFlamme ( It's a Beautiful Day ). He also worked as an actor in several underground and B-movie productions. Best known is his leading role in the first ( unreleased version) of the Kenneth Anger film Lucifer Rising . Most of his projects weren't particularly successful, in some cases his minority posed a problem for touring and publishing rights, in some cases there were personal differences with band and film colleagues.

Contact with Charles Manson and the murder of Gary Hinman

Beausoleil got to know Charles Manson and some of the girls from his family at a party in 1967 and met them more often to sing and play guitar together. He came into closer contact with the family in February 1968 when Manson lived with some followers for a few weeks in Beausoleil's house in Topanga . He was impressed by the philosophy, but above all by the sexual lifestyle of the Manson Commune. For a few months he wandered through California with his own “family” of young women, including Catherine “Gypsy” Share . The two met at a film production. "Gypsy" later belonged to the hard core of the "family", who continued to run it after Manson was arrested.

From the winter of 1968/69 Beausoleil's group lived permanently with Manson on the ranch. On July 25, 1969, Bruce Davis Beausoleil and Manson supporters Susan Atkins and Mary Brunner drove to the house of music teacher Gary Hinman, a mutual acquaintance, to collect from this money. To this day, it is not clear whether it was about Hinman's debts with the family or money from a drug deal that had failed. Allegedly, the Straight Satans , a motorcycle gang that Charles Manson tried to win over, demanded the delivery of real mescaline or immediate compensation for the previously received false one and put Beausoleil under pressure. He then went to Hinman, from whom he had received the alleged mescaline. Because Hinman refused to pay any money, he was beaten and handcuffed and held in his own home. After further torture, he finally agreed to give the family his two cars. Nevertheless, on the evening of July 27th, he was stabbed to death by Beausoleil on Manson's orders.

Sentencing and activities in prison

On August 6, 1969, Bobby Beausoleil was checked, arrested, and charged with murder in one of the Hinman-signed cars. In 1970 he was sentenced to death in Los Angeles , after changes in the law in California, the sentence - like those of Manson and his convicted supporters - was commuted to life imprisonment.

He played guitar again in prison; from 1976 to 1979 he received permission to make recordings, part of which was used as the soundtrack of the officially never finished film Lucifer Rising . In addition, two instrumental solo albums were created. Beausoleil then turned to the fine arts, and in 2005 a gallery in Los Angeles exhibited some of his paintings. He was married to the artist Barbara Ellen Baston from 1981 until her death in 2012. He has four children with his late wife. From 1994 to 2015 he was in the state prison in Salem in Oregon imprisoned, in which he had been transferred at his own request, because his wife was from Oregon. In 2015, he was transferred to a prison hospital in Vacaville, near Sacramento , California for disciplinary violations .

Beausoleil made 18 requests for parole , all of which were dismissed. At the 19th hearing in January 2019, the parole commission recommended parole for the first time. However, Governor Gavin Newsom rejected this. The next hearing is planned for July 2020.

literature

  • Ed Sanders: The Family: The Story of Charles Manson . German translation by Rowohlt, Reinbek 1995, ISBN 3-499-19644-1 .
  • Carol Greene: The Charles Manson Case. Murderer from the retort . EIR 2001, ISBN 3-925725-13-X .
  • Vincent Bugliosi , Curt Gentry: Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders . WW Norton & Company, 2001, ISBN 0-393-32223-8 . (English)
    • German translation: Helter Skelter - The murder frenzy of Charles Manson , Riva Verlag, Munich 2010 ISBN 978-3-86883-057-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sanders, p. 44
  2. ↑ Sanders, p. 48
  3. ^ Clair Obscur Gallery ( Memento from April 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Homepage of Bob and Barbara Beausoleil ( Memento from August 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Bobby Beausoleil, Manson Family Member, Parole Reversed by Governor , guardianlv.com, April 30, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Beausoleil, Bobby
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beausoleil, Robert Kenneth (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American musician and convicted murderer
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Santa Barbara , California , United States