LITTLE House on the Prairie star Jack Lilley opened up about his surprising brush with cult killer Charles Manson years before his death.
Lilley, who played several roles in the hit TV drama, died at 91 years old.
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His death was announced in a heartwrenching Instagram post written by his co-star Melissa Gilbert, who played Laura Ingalls Wilder on the NBC show.
Gilbert said, “The little house family has lost one of our own. Jack Lilly has passed away.
“He was 91 years old. He also happened to be one of my favorite people on the planet.
“He taught me how to ride a horse when I was just a wee little thing. He was so patient with me.”
In 2017, Lilley gave one of his last on-camera interviews and opened up about how his work as a teenager led him to Manson.
He said that he would help “haul horses” for Spahn Ranch in Los Angeles, California, which would later be the headquarters for Manson’s murderous cult.
“I didn’t know what of a jerk he was back then,” Lilley told local public TV channel SCV.
While working for George Spahn, Lilley remembers meeting some of the so-called Manson girls after Donald Shea had been killed by the cult leader and some of his cronies.
Shea was working for Spahn to try and drive the cult off the ranch when he disappeared. Eight years after his murder, his body was finally found on a hillside.
Lilley said when he approached the women, one of them brazenly outed Manson and said, “Yeah he killed him.”
But at the time, Lilley thought they were just playing a sick joke.
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