Calgary filmmaker Buddy Day was sitting at an Applebee's in Florida when he first received a phone call from convicted mass murderer Charles Manson.

Manson was serving a life sentence for orchestrating the 1969 killings of seven people in southern California, including pregnant actress Sharon Tate, who was married to director Roman Polanski at the time.

A two-member parole panel delayed making a decision Thursday on whether to release an accomplice of cult killer Charles Manson who is the longest-serving female inmate in California.