The beautiful and enchanting Marina Habe was staying with her mother in West Hollywood during her Christmas break from the University of Hawaii. Driving home alone from a date with a family friend, she pulled into her mother's driveway from where she is kidnapped, loaded into a car, and taken away, as her mother helplessly watches from the window. Her mother contacted the police. They waited for a ransom call. The call never came. Three days later, Marina was found in the brush along Mulholland Drive, stabbed to death. This is not only the story of Marina's grisly murder. But it is also the story of the public's reaction to the murder. Over the years, scores of writers and bloggers have tried to sensationalize the crime. They have tried to tie the crime to Charles Manson and his Family. They have gone, in many cases, out of their way to insinuate that her social contacts somehow contributed to her demise. The time has come to dispel the myths.
CHAPTER 6 Could Marina’s Killing Have Been Random?
CHAPTER 7 The Autopsy
CHAPTER 8 Charles Manson
CHAPTER 9 The Manson Family
CHAPTER 10 Theories
Nazi Writing of Marina’s Father
Random Crime
The Kirk “Spanky” Smyth Connection
The Charles Manson Connection
Maury Terry – The Satanic Cult Connection
CHAPTER 11 Unanswered Questions
CHAPTER 12 Takeaways
CHAPTER 13 Concluding Remarks
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“The first time I saw her I remember thinking that she was the most beautiful person I had ever seen. We were at a pool party at her mother’s house. She was enchanting. Yet she was totally cool about it. It was as if she didn’t know how beautiful she was.”
With my manuscript in hand, my editor, Russ Sullivan, said, “I presume that these are the first few lines from the article you are writing?”
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Russ started, “So I’ve seen the first few proposed lines. I don’t really approve. We don’t write romance novels here. You know that.”
“That is true, but this is different. I actually knew her, the victim, that is, I knew her in junior high school. I didn’t know her well, but I did have some minor amount of contact with her. I remember speaking to her on only one occasion, over 50 years ago.
