{"id":5281,"date":"2014-11-20T07:00:45","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T13:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=5281"},"modified":"2023-11-11T22:29:59","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T04:29:59","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-november-20-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=5281","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour for November 20, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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So Charlie Manson is getting married\u2026\u00a0 which leads me to this embarrassing realization:<\/p>\n

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And it also leads me to reflect on the crimes that got Charlie locked up in the first place.\u00a0 So let\u2019s look back on the first of those crimes, the murder of Gary Hinman, with\u2026<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Today’s Blood-Stained\u00a0Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/h3>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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On July 27, 1969, Gary Hinman, a 34-year-old music teacher, became the first victim of the Mansion Family.\u00a0 Three Family members, Bobby Beusoleil, Mary Brunner and Sadie Mae Glutz, had been sent round to his house to collect some money that was owed.\u00a0 They knew he had it \u2013 he ran a very profitable illegal drugs operation and the rumor was that he had just inherited $20,000 and had hidden it in his house on the Old Topanga Canyon Road, Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

The three visitors argued with Hinman for two hours. Finally, Bobby Beausoleil lost patience, and pulled a gun \u2013 a 9mm Radom pistol. He handed it over to Sadie while he went to search the house. At that moment, Gary tried to escape and began struggling with Sadie. The gun went off, and the bullet ricocheted through the kitchen, embedding itself under the sink. Bobby ran back into the room, grabbed the gun, and hit Gary around the head with it.<\/p>\n

They telephoned Charles Manson who came to the house himself, with Bruce Davis. Manson took a sword, which he used to cut Hinman\u2019s ear, leaving a 5 in wound. \u00a0[5 inches? I think Charlie assaulted Dumbo! – DeSpair<\/em>]\u00a0He told Beausoleil to find out where the money was and then bring Hinman out to the ranch. He instructed the two girls to clean up his wounds.<\/p>\n

Bobby, Mary and Sadie Mae tied Gary up and left him on the hearth rug while they ransacked the house. Mary Brunner then stitched up Hinman\u2019s cuts with dental floss, wrapped his wounds in bandages and gave him something to drink. All they got out of him were the pink slips signing his two cars over to them.<\/p>\n

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At dawn, Gary Hinman ran for the window and began to scream for help., Bobby Beausoleil panicked and, seizing a knife, stabbed Hinman twice through the chest, leaving him to bleed to death. The three wiped away all their fingerprints (except one) and bundled up incriminating blood-stained clothes and bandages. Somebody stuck a finger in Gary Hinman\u2019s blood and scrawled the words \u201cPolitical Piggy\u201d on the wall above his head, another daubed a crude version of a cat\u2019s paw, the sign of the militant Black Panthers.<\/p>\n

They had locked all the doors and were on their way out via the side window when they decided to climb back in and smother Hinman.<\/p>\n

Hot-wiring Hinman\u2019s VW minibus, they all drove home to Spahn Ranch, stopping off on the way at the Topanga Kitchen for coffee and cherry cake.<\/p>\n

Culled from: Crimes and Punishment: The Illustrated Crime Encyclopedia, Volume 3<\/em><\/p>\n

“Coffee and Cherry Cake.” Working title of “Helter Skelter”. \u00a0\ud83d\ude09<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Morbid Trinket Du Jour!<\/h3>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Well, it sold before I could get my hands on it… \u00a0but I couldn’t afford it anyway, so it’s not like it matters. \u00a0But still… \u00a0wouldn’t it be nifty to own an\u00a0Original Victorian Era Cased Vampire Defense Set of Dr. W.M. Ramsey, St. John\u2019s College Oxford – Circa 1886? \u00a0 I think so too! \u00a0(Thanks to Woods Monkey<\/strong> for the link.)<\/p>\n

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Morbid Art!<\/h3>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Let’s reflect on the genius of Joel-Peter Witkin for a moment.<\/p>\n

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\n“The Kiss” – 1982<\/p>\n

Who else would take a severed head, cut it in half, turn it so that it appeared to be kissing itself, photograph it and call it art? Well, I probably would, if I had a severed head handy. But those things aren’t readily available. At least not without getting in “trouble”. And come to think of it… he ruined a perfectly good severed head for art! \u00a0And a really creepy one at that. This is a morbid dilemma. \u00a0But… hey, cool pic, huh?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So Charlie Manson is getting married\u2026\u00a0 which leads me to this embarrassing realization: And it also leads me to reflect on the crimes that got Charlie locked up in the first place.\u00a0 So let\u2019s look back on the first of those crimes, the murder of Gary Hinman, with\u2026 Today’s Blood-Stained\u00a0Yet Truly Morbid Fact! On July […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-facts","category-trinkets"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5281"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9314,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5281\/revisions\/9314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}