Manson: The Unholy Trail of Charlie and the Family by John Gilmore;Ron Kenner

Author:John Gilmore;Ron Kenner
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2010-02-09T17:29:00+00:00

A leader of the Straight Satans motorcycle club, Danny DeCarlo, first met Manson in March, 1969. "Charlie had a motorcycle, a threewheeler that had a blown engine on it, and he wanted me to fix it. He wanted me to rebuild the engine; on Harleys, I am an expert." DeCarlo fixed the motorcycle at the ranch and stayed on. "I spent seventy-five percent of my time at the ranch. My house was the bunkhouse," which he shared with Bobby Beausoleil. His reason for remaining: "there were a lot of pretty girls up there." DeCarlo was interested in one particular girl, but also he got to know the others. About Susan, he says, "We didn't get along too good." As for Katie: "We talked, that is about it, but I never did nothing, you know, snatched her up or anything." He got to know Tex. DeCarlo said he also met Beausoleil at that time. DeCarlo got to know two other girls - Linda Kasabian, "I know we got together once," and a young girl - Leslie, who'd been with Bobby Beausoleil. DeCarlo says he wasn't interested in her, though "she was interested in me some, but I wouldn't ... She chased me around a lot."

Leslie had arrived at the ranch with a couple of other girls, and with Bobby. The change in Leslie - the substitution of families - was almost instantaneous. One member of her new family - of Charlie's Family - says, "Leslie just drifted in one day along with some others, like they'd come up on a fluke, a joke. She went in the trailer with Charlie and after that she was part of us."

"But the thing was," Carl Foster says, "she didn't want to ball Charlie. She wanted to be with Bobby - not Charlie, physically, that is. She was more jittery than the others - something really determined about her, and like she didn't have any sense of what it was, so of course Charlie'd steer her straight. He had that over her, and she was going to fit in like she was being locked down."

DeCarlo had brought a child to the ranch, and says, "I took my little boy up there to the ranch because my wife had him but she wasn't taking care of him, so I went to Venice and brought my boy back up there." His boy was a year and a half old.

After DeCarlo rebuilt the three-wheeler for Charlie, he says, "Manson was on a motorcycle thing whereas he wanted to do this thing with motorcycles but he decided on dune buggies ... So, me being an expert motorcycle mechanic and plus I belong to a club, a powerful club that he knew - he wanted my club to come up there, but they didn't want nothing to do with him. His idea, what he wanted to do with my club, was to scare the public away, you know, and they didn't want nothing to do with him."

Joe Brockman had been split off from the Family for some time.

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