The defense attorney who represented Charles Manson in the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders and continued to maintain Manson’s innocence after his conviction reportedly died last week at age 100. Manson Prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi said in his book, “Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders,” that reporters focused too much on Kanarek’s “bombast and missed his effectiveness,” though Bugliosi was largely critical of the lawyer. Kanarek, born in Seattle in 1920, worked in the aerospace industry before becoming an attorney in California in 1957. Of Manson, Kanarek said he was “personable” and continued to claim his client had “nothing” to do with the murders of actress Sharon Tate, supermarket executive Leno LaBianca and his wife Rosemary, and others. He told his followers to kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, who were sitting on their couch in their home.

Source: Fox News September 11, 2020 06:40 UTC