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How many more did Manson family kill? LAPD investigating 12 unsolved murders

LOS ANGELES - The Manson murders mostly are remembered as two events that occurred 50 years ago this month: the killing of actress Sharon Tate and four others in Bel-Air and then the butchering of Leon and Rosemary LaBianca in Los Feliz.

But cold-case investigators and others long have believed that Charles Manson and his cult followers were responsible for many more deaths.

The Los Angeles Police Department officially has a dozen unsolved homicide cases linked to Manson. And there are additional slayings outside the jurisdiction that some believe to be the work of his "family." Some of those ties seem more plausible than others, but all have been extensively examined and theorized - as are all things involving Manson.

The supposed suicide of one Manson follower's boyfriend in England. The drowning of an attorney whom Manson declared during the middle of his trial he never wanted to see again. A young man killed during a game of Russian roulette with family members present. Two young women stabbed to death off Mulholland

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