Lt. Deemer's list of Family members and associates describes Haught as being 5'8" tall, weighing 130 pounds with brown hair and hazel eyes and a birth date of April 20, 1949. The California Death Index has his birth year as 1947 which is probably correct as the info for the death certificate was supplied by his family. Haught was born in Missouri and raised in Ohio, where he is buried.
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The other picture thought to be him is this one which is the header for John Philip Haught's webpage at cielodrive.com .
I found a mug shot of the same picture and it is identified as being Robert Earl Murray.
I know the mug shot with the Robert Earl Murray identifier has been around for quite some time. I think what people might believe is that John Philip Haught was arrested with the Family at some point and used the name Robert Earl Murray as an alias. The fact is Robert Earl Murray was arrested with other Family members May 2, 1968 in Malibu, months before John Philip Haught was known to associate with the Family.
The arrest report is available for reading at mansonsbackporch.com It's about 3/4 of the way down the page titled LASD Arrest Report May 2, 1968.
The info that accompanies the arrest report says that Robert Earl Murray was 6'6" in height, weighed 205 pounds. He had brown hair and blue eyes. His date of birth was Aug. 8, 1945. His address was 8 Woodstock Lane Pittsford, NY.
Due to recent interest in Robert Earl Murray I was moved to hunt down his high school senior picture and it pretty well confirms that he is an actual person, in fact the one who was arrested in the 1968 Malibu drug bust. He is not John Philip Haught.
This photo is Robert Earl Murray's senior picture from Pittsford Central High School, class of 1965, in Pittsford NY. Most high school seniors are 17 or 18 years old when they graduate. Unless Murray was held back a couple of grades it appears that he lied about his birth year when he was arrested because he would have been 19 or 20 years old when he graduated. I have no idea whether or not the month and year of the birthdate he gave to the sheriff's department is correct. It is a little spooky that the date he gave was August 8th, if it's not his true birthdate, because it was on the same date in 1969 that Family members left Spahn Ranch to commit the Cielo Drive murders.
I have tried to locate Robert Earl Murray but have had no luck to date. We, here at the blog, did contact Cielodrive and send him Murray's high school picture prior to this post. He was aware that the picture in his header for John Philip Haught was Murray and has been meaning to fix that but hadn't gotten around to it yet. He said he will soon though!
