related books by Ed Sanders and Vincent Bugliosi. According to his 1981 interview published in Oui magazine, Beausoleil first said he had unknowingly supplied members of the Straight Satans motorcycle gang with a batch of bad mescaline, sold to him by Hinman, and the bikers had demanded their money back. In that interview, he denied that Manson had come to the Hinman residence. Beausoleil said that he had cut Hinman's face himself with a knife during a struggle over a gun. In 1998 he reversed himself about that element of the assault.{{failed verification|date=April 2019|reason=I see no mention of either Hinman or Manson in that article. I see that there is another article in 'Seconds magazine cited in 1999. Is this meant to be a reference to that one? Where is a link to that one?}} Conspirator Susan Atkins stated before her death that she never heard Beausoleil indicate that a drug transaction was related at all to why they went to Hinman's house seeking money from him. Conviction, life in prison, and parole hearings On April 18, 1970, a Superior Court jury in Los Angeles found the 22-year-old Beausoleil guilty of first-degree murder of Hinman and sentenced him to death. Beausoleil's 18-year-old girlfriend Kathryn "Kitty" Lutesinger had testified against him during the trial; she was then pregnant by him and later gave birth to their daughter. The daughter would be cared for by Lutesinger's parents. In 1972, following the Supreme Court of California ruling (in the case of People v. Anderson) that the prevailing death penalty statutes were unconstitutional, Beausoleil's sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. Called as a witness at a 1973 sanity hearing for four other Manson associates, Beausoleil said that he and they would not conform to society's standards of sane behavior. He said, "I'm at war with everybody in this courtroom. It's nothing personal but the world has been gattling at my brothers and sisters and as long as they are ripping off our world, our friends and our children, you better pray I never get out." Beausoleil's initial parole suitability hearing was held on August 15, 1978. Prior to 2019, he had a total of 18 suitability hearings; each time the parole board rejected his bid for parole. . December 22, 2008. Beausoleil attracted some women admirers while in prison. In 1980, he married a 21-year-old fan with whom he had corresponded. Within a year,