This is from a psychiatric interview with Tex Watson, in 1971. The murders happened in August, 1969.
http://www.lsb3.com/2014/09/tex-watsons-1971-psychiatric-interview.html
A. No, I’ve never been in jail before except overnight in jail in Van Nuys with this Belladonna thing.
Q. When was that?
A. March 1969.
Q. You got over that?
A. Well, I kept eating.
Q. Was that because they kept cooking it?
A. That’s right….and sometimes I ate it raw…probably five to eight times.
Q. Did the others eat it too?
A. I don’t know what the others always did. I suppose they were eating it too. I know we took acid and mescaline and cannabis and what sounded like sillasalmo (Psilocybin?), together and more drugs too.
Q. Did the others have symptoms from the Belladonna?
A. Most of the girls didn’t take it, but Charlie took it a few times. It would just stay in our body…It would last for a week to ten days. [….]
A. No, Charlie never wanted us to leave the ranch. Then it was drugs, drugs, drugs…bags of acid and speed…we took a lot of speed. Especially me and Sadie. She was a speed freak and we were flying high the night of the Tate murders. It was a private stash and Charlie didn’t know about it. He wouldn’t have liked it.
Every morning he’d tell us what he wanted us to do that day. The last three weeks he’d give us Bennies (Benzedrine) to keep us awake; and I never did work on things anymore…before the murders happened. [….]
Q. Was he with you both times…that is, at the Tate murders and at the Labianca murders?
A. No, the first time he just told us what to do…and we did it. The second time, he was with us, he went in and tied up the people and came back out and left in the car. When we got back to the ranch, his car was there. For about ten days when I took some Belladonna, I’d black in and out.
Q. Did the rest of them do that?
A. I don’t know. I wasn’t with them until the time I got in the car. When I woke up, my whole body had a reddish tint and felt sucked in. I haven’t been able to eat right since. I’m still dry in the mouth. [….]
Q. What time to the Labianca place?
A. Night time too. Charlie drove and drove. My mind was phasing really fast. Me and Sadie had been sneaking some speed for almost a week. [….]
(la bianca)
Q. Do you remember whether you and Leslie were told to hitch-hike back to the ranch and that Katie was to go to the waterfall?
A. He would always tell the girls things out of my presence. The waterfall, that’s where I got the Belladonna, I was over there before sunrise.
Q. Why?
A. Just messing around. I was always high and I couldn’t sleep. There is no “Why”. I was on speed and I couldn’t sleep.
-------------------- The Day of the Lord has come like a thief in the night. -- It is there but no one knows it.
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