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=== Hinman murder ===
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| title = Gary Hinman murder
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| location = 964 Old Topanga Canyon Road, [[Topanga, California]]
| target = Gary Alan Hinman<ref name="cielodrive.com">{{cite web|url=http://cielodrive.com/gary-hinman.php|title=Gary Hinman – Charles Manson Family and Sharon Tate-Labianca Murders|website=Cielodrive.com|access-date=May 19, 2018|archive-date=June 5, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180605083705/http://www.cielodrive.com/gary-hinman.php|url-status=live}}</ref>
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| date = {{start date|1969|07|25}}–<br />{{end date|1969|07|27}}
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| type = Stabbing
| fatalities = 1
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| perpetrator = [[Bobby Beausoleil]]; accomplices – [[Susan Atkins]], [[Mary Brunner]], [[Charles Manson]], [[Bruce M. Davis]]
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Gary Alan Hinman (b. December 24, 1934 in Colorado) was [[Music education|a music teacher]] and [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD student]] at [[University of California, Los Angeles|UCLA]]. At some point in the late 1960s, he befriended members of the Manson Family, allowing some to occasionally stay at his home.<ref name="cielodrive.com" /> According to some people, including Family member [[Susan Atkins]], Manson believed Hinman was wealthy. He sent Family members Bobby Beausoleil, [[Mary Brunner]] and Atkins to Hinman's home on July 25, 1969, to convince him to join the Family and turn over the assets Manson thought Hinman had inherited.<ref name="bugliosi" />{{Rp|75–77}}<ref name="watson12" /><ref name="atkins">{{cite book|title=Child of Satan, Child of God|publisher=Plainfield, NJ: Logos International | year=1977 | isbn=0-88270-276-9 | pages=94–120 | author=Atkins, Susan, with Slosser, Bob}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date= |title=The People of the State of California vs. Charles Manson, Susan Atkins, Leslie Van Houten and Patricia Krenwinkel (page 7) |url=http://www.cielodrive.com/people-v-manson-atkins-vanhouten-krenwinkel/04-trial/Vol3081.pdf |website=cielodrive.com}}</ref> The three held Hinman hostage for two days, as he denied having any money. During this time, Manson arrived with a sword and slashed Hinman's face and ear. After that, Beausoleil stabbed Hinman to death, allegedly on Manson's instruction. Before leaving the Topanga Canyon residence, Beausoleil or one of the women used Hinman's blood to write "Political piggy"<!--"Piggy", not "Piggie"; photo is in Bugliosi 1994, between pages 142 and 143--> on the wall and to draw a panther paw, a Black Panther symbol.<ref name="bugliosi" />{{Rp|33, 91–96, 99–113}}<ref name="Sanders" />{{rp|184}}

According to Manson and Beausoleil in magazine interviews of 1981 and 1998–1999,<ref name="seconds">{{cite web|work=beausoleil.net|url=http://www.beausoleil.net/mminterview.html|title=Beausoleil ''Seconds'' interviews|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070607180026/http://www.beausoleil.net/mminterview.html|archive-date=June 7, 2007}}</ref> Beausoleil said he went to Hinman's to recover money paid to Hinman for [[mescaline]] provided to the Straight Satans that had supposedly been bad.<ref name="Waxman"/> Beausoleil added that Brunner and Atkins, unaware of his intent, went along to visit Hinman. Atkins, in her 1977 autobiography, wrote that Manson directed Beausoleil, Brunner, and her to go to Hinman's and get the supposed inheritance of $21,000. She said that two days earlier Manson had told her privately that, if she wanted to "do something important", she could kill Hinman and get his money.<ref name="atkins"/>

Beausoleil was arrested on August 6, 1969, after he was caught driving Hinman's car. Police found the murder weapon in the tire well.<ref name="bugliosi"/>{{Rp|28–38}}