Editing Manson Family (section)

==== Copycat ====
According to Family members [[Susan Atkins]], [[Patricia Krenwinkel]], [[Leslie Van Houten]],<ref name="bugliosi"/>{{rp|426–435}} [[Bobby Beausoleil]], and others, the arrest of Beausoleil for the torture and murder of Gary Hinman was the catalyst for the Family's ensuing murder spree. They wanted to convince police that the killer(s) of Hinman were still at large. [[Truman Capote]]'s interviews of Beausoleil, and that by  [[Ann Louise Bardach]] in November 1981, affirmed this account.<ref name="Capote">{{cite book|last=Capote|first=Truman|title=A Capote Reader|publisher=[[Random House]]|year=1987|pages=455–462|isbn=978-0-394-55647-5|url=https://archive.org/details/capotereader00trum}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Bardach|first=Ann Louise|url=http://www.bardachreports.com/articles/oa_19811100.htm|title=Jailhouse Interview: Bobby Beausoleil|date=November 1981|access-date=July 19, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181119004534/http://www.bardachreports.com/articles/oa_19811100.htm|archive-date=November 19, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>

Charlie Guenther, a police detective who investigated the murders, said of Beausoleil, "He called the [Spahn] Ranch after he was arrested. The sole motive for those murders was to get Bobby out of jail."<ref name="O'Neill"/>{{rp|149}} Bugliosi's co-prosecutor Aaron Stovitz said he believed the motive for the Tate–LaBianca murders was as copycat murders after Hinman.<ref name="O'Neill"/>{{rp|151–152}}