Beach Boys member’s shocking murder revelations

FOUNDING Beach Boys member Mike Love makes a bizarre and startling claim about an incident in the band’s heyday in a new memoir.

FOUNDING member of the Beach Boys Mike Love makes some bizarre and startling claims about murderous cult leader Charles Manson in a new book.

Love, 75, details his experiences with Manson in the memoir Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy, released this month.

He says that bandmate Dennis Wilson claimed to have witnessed Manson commit a murder in 1969, People reported.

Manson and his followers committed a series of nine murders at four locations over a period of five weeks in the summer of 1969. In 1971 he was found guilty of conspiracy to commit the murders of seven people.

Cult leader Charles Manson is serving nine concurrent life sentences.

During the summer of ‘69, Manson and his followers enjoyed friendships with several of the Beach Boys.

Love’s claims raise new questions about Manson’s murderous spree — namely, that there could be a previously unknown murder victim.

In an excerpt published in People, Love details laying down tracks in the studio when bandmate and cousin Wilson arrived looking upset.

“Dennis was visibly shaken,” Love writes, “And I asked what was wrong?”

Love says that Wilson replied: “I just saw Charlie take his M16 and blow this black cat [guy] in half and stuff him down the well.”

Wilson was terrified by the experience and unsure of how to respond, writes Love.

“Dennis was too frightened to go to the police,” he writes. “I think he was just hoping that Manson and his family would disappear.”

Love, pictured here in 2012, makes the shocking claims in a new memoir. Picture: AP Photo/Michael Dwyer

Dennis Wilson died in 1983, drowning at sea after drinking heavily.

People quotes retired Los Angeles County prosecutor Stephen Kay, who helped convict Manson of nine homicides, as casting doubt on Love’s sensational claims.

“I’ve prosecuted four Tate-LaBianca murder trials and attended 60 parole hearings [of Manson family members] and I’ve never heard that story before,” Kay said. “If it was true, I would have heard it before.”

Now 81 years old, Manson is serving nine concurrent life sentences at Corcoran State Prison in California.

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