Donald Shea was born in Massachusetts on September 18,1933.
13 Facts About Donald Shea
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Donald Shea moved to California to pursue a career in acting, mostly finding work as a stuntman.
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Magdalene stayed at the ranch for only a few weeks before leaving Donald Shea and returning to Las Vegas.
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Family member Bruce Davis claimed that the decision to kill Donald Shea came from Manson because he considered him to be a "snitch".
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Donald Shea realized that Manson and Vance had been borrowing her truck to commit these robberies and decided to quit loaning it to them.
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When Donald Shea found out about Manson assaulting Bucklee, he went to the Gresham Street home and assaulted both Manson and Vance with threats to stay away from Spahn Ranch.
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Donald Shea didn't bleed when I cut him on the shoulder.
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Donald Shea said, 'Shorty died with a little help from us.
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Donald Shea was hard to kill, but we brought him to Now.
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Windy Bucklee agreed that Donald Shea was not the type of person who would scream and beg, and would have gone to his death fighting.
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In December 1977 Donald Shea's skeletal remains were discovered on a nondescript hillside near Santa Susana Road next to Spahn Ranch after Grogan, one of those convicted of the murder, agreed to aid authorities in the recovery of Donald Shea's body by drawing a map to its location.
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Bill Gleason, LASO Homicide; Deputy Coroner John Mossberger; and Deputy Sheriff Barry Jones, LASO Homicide, were on the site when Donald Shea was exhumed in 1977.
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Donald Shea is buried in a community plot in Angeles Abbey Memorial Park in Los Angeles, California.