Editing Charles Manson (section)

=== LaBianca murders ===
The four murderers plus Manson, Leslie Van Houten and [[Clem Grogan]] went for a drive the following night. Manson was allegedly displeased with the previous night's murders, so he told Kasabian to drive to a house at 3301 Waverly Drive in the [[Los Feliz, Los Angeles|Los Feliz]] section of Los Angeles. Located next door to a home where Manson and Family members had attended a party the previous year,<ref name="bugliosi" />{{Rp|176–184, 204–210}} it belonged to 44-year-old supermarket executive Leno LaBianca and his 43-year-old wife, Rosemary LaBianca, co-owner of a dress shop.<ref name="bugliosi" />{{Rp|22–25, 42–48}}

According to Atkins and Kasabian, Manson disappeared up the driveway and returned to say that he had tied up the house's occupants. Watson, Krenwinkel and Van Houten entered the property.<ref name="bugliosi" />{{Rp|176–184, 258–269}} Watson claims in his autobiography that Manson went up alone, then returned to take him up to the house with him. Manson pointed out a sleeping man through a window, and the two entered through the unlocked back door.<ref name="watson19">{{cite web|url=http://www.aboundinglove.org/main/books/will-you-die-for-me|title=Will You Die For Me?, Ch. 19|last=Watson|first=Charles|website=Abounding Love Ministries|access-date=July 13, 2019|archive-date=April 5, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070405004745/http://www.aboundinglove.org/main/books/will-you-die-for-me|url-status=dead}}</ref> Watson claims Manson roused the sleeping Leno LaBianca from the couch at gunpoint and had Watson bind his hands with a leather thong. Rosemary was brought into the living room from the bedroom, and Watson covered the couple's heads with pillowcases which he bound in place with lamp cords. Manson left, and Krenwinkel and Van Houten entered the house.<ref name="bugliosi" />{{Rp|176–184, 258–269}}

Watson had complained to Manson earlier of the inadequacy of the previous night's weapons.<ref name="bugliosi" />{{Rp|258–269}} Watson sent the women from the kitchen to the bedroom, where Rosemary LaBianca had been returned, while he went to the living room and began stabbing Leno LaBianca with a chrome-plated bayonet. The first thrust went into his throat. Watson heard a scuffle in the bedroom and went in there to discover Rosemary LaBianca keeping the women at bay by swinging the lamp tied to her neck. He stabbed her several times with the bayonet, then returned to the living room and resumed attacking Leno, whom he stabbed a total of twelve times. He then carved the word "WAR" into his abdomen.

Watson returned to the bedroom and found Krenwinkel stabbing Rosemary with a knife from the kitchen. Van Houten stabbed her approximately sixteen times in the back and the exposed buttocks.<ref name="bugliosi" />{{Rp|204–210, 297–300, 341–344}} Van Houten claimed at trial<ref name="bugliosi" />{{Rp|433}} that Rosemary LaBianca was already dead during the stabbing. Evidence showed that many of the forty-one stab wounds had, in fact, been inflicted post-mortem.<ref name="bugliosi" />{{Rp|44, 206, 297, 341–42, 380, 404, 406–07, 433}} Watson then cleaned off the bayonet and showered, while Krenwinkel wrote "Rise" and "Death to pigs" on the walls and "[[Helter Skelter (scenario)|Healter [sic] Skelter]]" on the refrigerator door, all in LaBianca's blood. She gave Leno LaBianca fourteen puncture wounds with an ivory-handled, two-tined carving fork, which she left jutting out of his stomach. She also planted a steak knife in his throat.<ref name="bugliosi" />{{Rp|176–184, 258–269}}

Meanwhile, Manson drove the other three Family members who had departed Spahn with him that evening to the [[Venice, Los Angeles|Venice]] home of the Lebanese actor Saladin Nader. Manson left them there and drove back to Spahn Ranch, leaving them and the LaBianca killers to hitchhike home.<ref name="bugliosi" />{{Rp|176–184, 258–269}} According to Kasabian, Manson wanted his followers to murder Nader in his apartment, but Kasabian claims she thwarted this murder by deliberately knocking on the wrong apartment door and waking a stranger. The group abandoned the murder plan and left, but Atkins defecated in the stairwell on the way out.<ref name="bugliosi" />{{Rp|270–273}}