The home had recently been visited by cult leader Charles Manson before Tate and her director husband Roman Polanski moved in. The circus extended to the halls of the Hall Of Justice in Downtown Los Angeles, with Manson family followers singing and smiling as they were escorted by sheriff’s deputies. In 1971, the judge sentenced Manson to die in the gas chamber. In November of 2017, Charles Manson, the mastermind of a murderous cult died of a heart attack and complications from colon cancer. The Manson Family murders, a legacy of evil, is another story from our KTTV-TV archives.