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Charles Manson scheduled for 12th parole hearing, new photo released

APThis combo of photographs shows how Charles Manson has looked over the years from 1969 up to the most recently released photo in 2011.

The man in the image has long gray hair and beard crowding in on his face, but the eyes and the swastika-tattooed forehead are unmistakable: Charles Manson, mastermind of a notorious killing spree that gripped America in the summer of 1969.

The California Department of Corrections released two new photos of the convicted murderer on Thursday in advance of his latest parole hearing.

"He looks a lot different," department of corrections spokeswoman Terry Thornton told CNN, which had requested the images. The last images of Manson showed him with a buzz cut.

Manson is trying for parole for the 12th time, the Orange County Register reported. An appearance at the hearing on Wednesday isn’t expected, the newspaper said – Manson last showed up for one 15 years ago.

On two nights in 1969, Manson and members of his notorious “family” murdered seven people at random. He and four followers are serving prison sentences in the case.

On August 9, 1969, Charles "Tex" Watson and three female accomplices, acting at Manson’s direction, murdered actress Sharon Tate, the pregnant wife of director Roman Polanski, and four guests at Tate's house.

Polanski was not home. The following night, Manson, Watson and their accomplices killed Leno and Rosemary LaBianca at their Los Angeles home.

Watson remains in prison , as do accomplices Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten. Susan Atkins died in prison in 2009.

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Charles Manson, now 77, gets new chance at parole

By Shelby Grad and Andrew Blankstein
updated 1 hour 20 minutes ago

After 11 failed bids for freedom, notorious serial killer Charles Manson, now 77, is up for parole later this month.

The parole board rejected his bid in 2007, saying Manson "continues to pose an unreasonable danger to others and may still bring harm to anyone he would come in contact with."

Manson refused to participate in that hearing, describing himself as a "prisoner of the political system." He also declined to participate in any psychological evaluations in 2007.

"He refused to cooperate, so the conclusion they drew from the reports is he still remains a danger to the public," Los Angeles County Deputy Dist. Atty. Patrick Sequeira said at the time. "He was convicted of nine horrible murders. He has expressed no remorse or empathy for any of the victims."

A new photo released by state prison system shows Manson with long, gray hair and a beard. It was released at the request of CNN in advance of next Wednesday's parole hearing.

Manson and other members of his so-called family were convicted of killing actress Sharon Tate and six other people during a bloody rampage in the Los Angeles area during two August nights in 1969. Prosecutors said that Manson and his followers were trying to incite a race war that he believed was prophesized in the Beatles' song "Helter Skelter."

Tate, the wife of director Roman Polanski, was 8 1/2 months pregnant when she was killed at her hilltop home in Benedict Canyon on Aug. 9, 1969. Besides Tate, four others were stabbed and shot to death including Jay Sebring, 35; Voytek Frykowski, 32; Abigail Folger, 25, a coffee heiress; and Steven Parent, 18, a friend of Tate's caretaker. The word "Pig" was written on the front door in blood.

The next night, Manson rode along with his cohorts to the Los Feliz home of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, then left three of them to commit the murders. "Death to pigs" was written on a wall, and "Healter Skelter," which was misspelled, on the refrigerator door.

Manson was also convicted of the earlier murder of musician Gary Hinman in his Topanga Canyon home, and the slaying of former stuntman Donald "Shorty" Shea at the Spahn movie ranch in Chatsworth, where Manson had his commune.

Manson initially was sentenced to death. A 1972 ruling by the California Supreme Court found the state's death penalty law at the time unconstitutional and his death sentence was changed in 1977 to life in prison with the possibility of parole.

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I say wait for another 10 years and give him parole. Then he will be in a old folk's home and gets abused by filipina caregivers.