By the time the verdicts were announced, Linda Kasabian was a well-known character who had garnered both favorable and unfavorable attention from the news media due to their coverage of the Manson trial.
Kasabian soon moved back to New Hampshire with her spouse and kids to shield her kids from the spotlight and raise them privately. She once resided in a hippie commune and subsequently became a cook.
After the initial trial, Kasabian was summoned back to Los Angeles County numerous times. She testified against Leslie Van Houten in her two retrials in 1977 and against Tex Watson in his separate prosecution in 1971.
Kasabian was arrested for several moving violations before being involved in an auto accident that left her partially disabled. The few surviving members of the Manson “family” mocked Kasabian.
The Secret Service kept her under surveillance after former Manson associate Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme tried to assassinate President Gerald Ford, even though she had severed all ties with the Manson “family.”
