Manson Case File

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Dianne Elizabeth Lake

Dianne Lake

 

An unstable yet crucial witness. Read the articles first, then my comments below.

The prosecution desperately needed Lake's testimony because she was the only witness who could place Leslie Van Houten inside the LaBianca residence (through her admission to Lake that she stabbed someone at Griffith Park). Linda Kasabian could only testify seeing Van Houten in front of the LaBianca residence, but never saw her actually enter. Without Lake's testimony there would be no case against Van Houten and they knew it. Dianne Lake could hardly remember things and she was put into a state mental hospital for two months after which her memory improved significantly. At the time of her admission she was diagnosed as suffering from a drug-induced psychosis and schizophrenia. At the time of her testimony during the trial the doctors said she was sane (naturally). Mental hospitals, and particlarly Kirkbride Plan mental hospitals - of which Patton State Hospital in which Lake stayed was one - have been the scene of many MK-ULTRA activities, which you can read about on this page.

As some of the news articles above show, a technician at the hospital had given her a book to read: The Killing of Sharon Tate. The book was based on Susan Atkins' confession which was tape recorded at her lawyer's office and sold for publication in European newspapers but which ended up being published in the LA Times as well as the afore-mentioned book. No doubt this "refreshed" her memory considerably. It also makes her testimony prejudiced and inadmissable. The judge ruled otherwise, which is of course totally ridiculous.

Based on this information, Lake's testimony should have been discarded. This would have probably meant no conviction for Van Houten. The other two witnesses who testified against her, Danny DeCarlo and Linda Kasabian, is also not too trustworthy. I have documentary evidence which I will soon publish on this site that shows that Danny DeCarlo perjured himself. He claimed under oath that he was recently divorced at the time he started living at Spahn Ranch. I have found a marriage record indicating he married in 1969. He did divorce: in 1975, years after the trials were over.

There is also indirect evidence that Linda Kasabian perjured herself. Linda Kasabian testified that she and her husband had been living at a commune in Taos, New Mexico, until July 1969,when she left her husband behind and went to California where she joined the Manson Family. However, a witness living in with Dennis Wilson (but no ties to the Manson Family) claims she had seen Kasabian hang out with Manson and the group at Wilson's house (which would be in the summer of '68). Furthermore, there's information that Linda and Robert Kasabian attended a peyote party at Harold True's house (which was right nextdoor to the LaBianca's) in June 1968 (see the timeline on CharlieManson.com). If these two facts are true, Linda lied about these things - and God knows what else. (I'm not even considering the rumors she was a drug dealer before joining the Family and that this was the true source of the $5000 she donated)

So Leslie Van Houten was convicted based on the testimony of three lying witnesses. Not very convincing. Who know where she truly was on the night of August 9, 1969. She has indicated over the years in parole hearings that she cannot remember much of the car trip to Waverly Drive. She said she 'must have slept' most of the way. Susan Atkins, in her Grand Jury testimony, said the same thing (Source: Helter Skelter by VIncent Bulgiosi and Curt Gentry, first edition 1974, p. 182). Only she added later: "It was like I was drugged [though] I was not on drugs at the time" (Source: id., p. 183). Atkins also made the interesting comment "I was - we'd get programmed to do things." [by Manson], even though "The words that would come from Charlie's mouth would not come from inside him, (they) would come from what I call the Infinite." (id., p. 175) Is this a reference to some form of mind control?

Maybe they experienced a phenomenon called 'missing time'? This is experienced by people with multiple personalities or people who have been hypnotised. For example, Sirhan Sirhan appeared to have been hypnotised or in a hypnotic trance when he shot at Senator Kennedy - he can't remember anything about it, has an actual hole in his memory. Now these people do remember the crime but not how they ended up being at the crime scene (basically the reverse of the Sirhan case). Something strange is going on with their memories in general too because they only appear to be remembering the "official version" of events the prosecution has been laying out for all these years - nothing beyond it. The troublesome thing is that the DA Office's version of events is incomplete and also factually wrong in several places (I'll give the details on this later on).

So just how certain can we be that the right people are behind bars for these crimes with all these lying witnesses and strange phenomena? There is a chance not all people responsible for these murders are behind bars, since there are 49 unidentified fingerprints which have been collected from both crime scenes (39 at Cielo Drive - of which 2 were identified - and 12 at Waverly Drive - I will add a link to the news article and discussion of this this later on). Did one or more persons unknown get away with murder? And if so, who? The fact these fingerprints couldn't be matched indicates that these fingerprints don't belong to any known Manson Family member (they've all been booked numerous times so all their fingerprints were already taken and no doubt compared to the ones found at the crime scene).

It seems this story is far from over...