Charles Manson is escorted to court for a preliminary hearing on December 3, 1969 in Los Angeles, California ; Members of the Manson "family" attend pre-trial hearings in 1970 in Los Angeles. For ...

Defense attorneys Ronald Hughes, left, and Paul Fitzgerald were among the lawyers representing Charles Manson and his co-defendants at the 1970 trial. (Bettmann Archive) When Charles Manson announced ...

LOS ANGELES — Linda Deutsch, a special correspondent for The Associated Press who for nearly 50 years wrote glittering first drafts of history from many of the nation’s most significant criminal and ...

Linda Deutsch, a longtime Associated Press writer who covered the trials of Charles Manson, O.J. Simpson and Michael Jackson, among others, has died at 80, according to the AP. In the middle of it all ...

When Charles Manson announced that he wanted Ronald Hughes to represent him at his murder trial, even Hughes seemed surprised. He was no one’s idea of a skilled defense attorney. He had passed the bar ...