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Mary Theresa Brunner (born December 17, 1943) is an American criminal and former member of the "Manson Family" who was present during the 1969 murder of Gary Hinman, a California musician and Ph.D. candidate.
May 24, 2024 · Mary Brunner was the first recruit of Charles Manson, the cult leader and murderer. She bore his son, witnessed a killing, and tried to free him from prison in a hijack plot.
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- Leslie Van Houten. Leslie Van Houten, one of the youngest of the family, didn't meet Charles Manson until September 1968, less than a year before the murders took place.
- Bobby Beausoleil. Handsome and magnetic, Bobby Beausoleil had been drifting through California as a musician and actor when, in 1968, he appeared in a soft-core porn called The Ramrodder with Catherine "Gypsy" Share, a Manson follower, and soon met the cult leader himself.
- Paul Watkins. Paul Watkins was a high school dropout when he met Charles Manson in the spring of 1968, and quickly became an integral part of the group – as a cute, young man, it was his job to find the teenage girls that Manson, then in his 30s, was too old to attract.
- Mary Brunner. Mary Brunner was Manson's first follower, a relatively age-appropriate Wisconsin native who had moved west for a job at the UC Berkeley library.
Speaking to the media for the first time in 26 years, Michael Brunner, the son of the late convicted murderer Charles Manson and his first follower, Mary Brunner, discusses his upbringing,...
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Mary Brunner was one of the earliest members of the notorious "Manson Family," a cult led by Charles Manson. She was involved in the murder of Gary Hinman and was arrested for a gun assault at a store.
Mar 17, 2022 · With Valentine Manson’s father violently shocking the nation out of its 1960s trance with a series of orchestrated murders on Hollywood and California’s elite, Mary Brunner’s parents petitioned to take full custody of his son. They were successful and renamed the 18-month boy Michael Brunner in a bid to rewrite his fate.
Mary Brunner, born on December 17, 1943 in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, is a former member of the Charles Manson Family. Brunner (like most members of the family) acquired a number of aliases such as Marioche, Och, Mother Mary, Mary Manson, Linda Dee Manson, and Christine Marie Euchts.
