26 Facts About Bobby Beausoleil

Robert Kenneth Beausoleil was born on November 6,1947 and is an American murderer and associate of Charles Manson and members of his communal Manson Family.

Bobby Beausoleil was convicted and sentenced to death for the July 27,1969, fatal stabbing of Gary Hinman, who had befriended him and other Manson associates.

Bobby Beausoleil was later granted commutation to a lesser sentence of life imprisonment, after the Supreme Court of California issued a ruling that invalidated all death sentences issued in California prior to 1972.

Bobby Beausoleil has worked on visual art, instrument design, and media technology.

Bobby Beausoleil was born on November 6,1947, in Santa Barbara, California, to working-class parents Charles Kenneth Bobby Beausoleil and Helen Arlene Mattox.

Bobby Beausoleil was the first-born child in a Catholic family and has four siblings.

When he was 15, Bobby Beausoleil was sent to Los Prietos Boys Camp for ten months for running away from home and a series of juvenile pranks.

Bobby Beausoleil became a member of several rock bands beginning about 1965, including The Orkustra, The Milky Way, and The Grass Roots.

In 1968, Bobby Beausoleil was living with Gary Hinman in Topanga Canyon when he met Charles Manson.

Bobby Beausoleil became associated with Manson and the communal group known as the "Manson Family".

Bobby Beausoleil went with Atkins and Brunner to Hinman's house in Topanga Canyon, where Bobby Beausoleil had lived briefly.

Bobby Beausoleil called Manson at Spahn Ranch and said there was no money.

Bobby Beausoleil said he stitched up Hinman's ear with dental floss; other reports say the stitching was done by Atkins and Brunner.

Manson told Bobby Beausoleil to kill Hinman and to make it look as if the crime had been committed by black revolutionaries, as part of his ideology that a race war was imminent and part of what he called "Helter Skelter".

Bobby Beausoleil stabbed Hinman to death while Hinman, a devotee of Buddhism, repeated a Buddhist chant.

Bobby Beausoleil dipped his hand in Hinman's blood and left a paw print, attempting to symbolize The Black Panthers as another way to mislead investigators about Hinman's murder.

Bobby Beausoleil was arrested on August 6,1969, after falling asleep in the car, having pulled off the highway at Cuesta Grade, a steep segment of US Route 101 between San Luis Obispo and Atascadero.

Bobby Beausoleil said that he had cut Hinman's face himself with a knife during a struggle over a gun.

Conspirator Susan Atkins stated before her death that she never heard Bobby Beausoleil indicate that a drug transaction was related at all to why they went to Hinman's house seeking money from him.

Bobby Beausoleil ceased to justify their actions and expressed more regret about what they had done.

On January 3,2019, a panel of commissioners of the California Board of Parole recommended that Bobby Beausoleil be freed on parole.

Six years later, a state parole board panel again recommended on January 7,2025 that Bobby Beausoleil was suitable for a thorough and comprehensive parole review by the Board of Parole Hearings and Gov.

Bobby Beausoleil was to star in Kenneth Anger's 1967 version of the film Lucifer Rising, but little footage was shot before the two had a falling out, and the project was abandoned.

In 1965, Bobby Beausoleil was a member of Arthur Lee's band the Grass Roots.

In early 1966, Bobby Beausoleil formed a band called The Orkustra.

The official Bobby Beausoleil soundtrack was originally released on LP by Lethal Records in 1980.