Who is emma based on
Leslie van houten or linda kasabian?
shareI think a cross between both since neither are on the show. In the flash forward Emma has blood on her hands like she killed someone like Leslie did but of course Linda didn't since she didn't go in the house but Emma is also upset about it like Linda was supposedly.
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I think a cross between both since neither are on the show.
I think Emma is just supposed to be a composite of the typical Manson girl- young, runaway, impressionable.
But Linda was briefly shown last night. When they were sitting in Dennis Wilson's pad & watching the announcement of MLK's assassination. She was sitting next to Charlie on the floor & Charlie says something to her- & calls her Linda. share
Her being named Linda is just a coincidence I believe, since the timing isn't right for her to be Linda Kasabian. Linda came only a month before the murders in July of 1969, King was murdered in April of 1968.
"I'd rather lose for what I am than win for what I ain't"
Kacey Musgraves "Pageant Material"
I think Emma is just supposed to be a composite of the typical Manson girl- young, runaway, impressionable.
Yeah I think that is correct. They created the fictional Emma character so they had carte blanche to develop her character.
While the show is based on the true events surrounding Charlie Manson, the writers necessarily had to use creative license to describe the back story leading up to the horrid events of 1969.
Emma allows them to create a narrative connecting Det. Hodiak with the Manson gang. That is the one of the main plot lines of the show. Emma is a plot device for giving the Manson family context. That back story has to be fictional; there just isn't enough detailed history of the Manson family to make a purely representation of that part of the show.
Showing Emma at the Tate home is fictional, a creative departure from the factual historical account. After all, Charlie Manson was not there either, but in the show we see him there.
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Actually he did go to the house after the murders to clean up a bit. (In her court testimony Linda says something about this and that he said the murders were too messy which is why he went to LaBianca house with them) That's what we saw in the fast forward. I'm guessing on the show Emma goes to help with it.
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Thanks. didn't know that
shareHe did not.
shareYes he did. It doesn't matter if you believe it or not but it did happen
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Show me court room transcript that says that. He was there months before killings
shareYeah like I have access to courtroom transcripts but there are several documentaries on the case and some say that. Yes he was there months before the killings when it was Melcher's house and went there again to find out that Roman and Sharon were living there at the time but he went back and cleaned up some after the killings.
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