Mary Theresa Brunner (born December 17, 1943) is a former member of the "Manson Family" who was present during the 1969 murder of Gary Allen Hinman, a California musician and UCLA Ph.D. candidate in sociology. Brunner was subsequently arrested for numerous offenses, including credit card theft and armed robbery, and served a prison sentence at the California Institute for Women.
Born and raised in Eau Claire, Wisconsin to John and Evelyn Brunner,...
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Mary Theresa Brunner (born December 17, 1943) is a former member of the "Manson Family" who was present during the 1969 murder of Gary Allen Hinman, a California musician and UCLA Ph.D. candidate in sociology. Brunner was subsequently arrested for numerous offenses, including credit card theft and armed robbery, and served a prison sentence at the California Institute for Women.
Born and raised in Eau Claire, Wisconsin to John and Evelyn Brunner, she moved to California upon graduating from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1965 after receiving a job offer as a library assistant at UC Berkeley. There, she met 33-year-old career criminal Charles Manson, who had been released from Terminal Island prison for a parole violation several weeks prior to their meeting. She let Manson stay at her apartment and, after a period of weeks, the two began sleeping together. Not long after the relationship began, Manson traded a newly acquired friend's piano for a cheap Volkswagen van, Brunner...
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