that week in the summer of 69, too many. one for the beautiful sharon tate. many of hollywood s elite turned out for the funeral despite the fact it was billed as a private family affair. families watched the shocking news on tv, including the manson family. and follower barbara hoyt. i remember being scared by that. how did they react to the news? they laughed. it didn t bother them at all. charlie manson thought they had hoodwinked people before that they to the the people that killed the ones before and would free bobby beausoleil. even though there was talk that they might be connected to each other police today could but speculate whether these two crimes had been done by the same person. no one connected them to the hinman case.
to him, the whole idea of control is not just having people worshipping you, but having people follow your orders in ways that contradict common sense. that is, fleeing an apocalyptic race war, helter skelter. he moved them out to an old homestead called barker ranch. over 200 miles from los angeles, now a part of death valley national park. yes, death valley. during this war, he will lead his family into death valley where there is a bottomless pit in a city underneath the surface. they will go down there and be safe. he seriously thought there was something beneath the earth where all of you go and hide. mm-hmm. and escape the world. mm-hmm. rivers of honey and trees with fruit. she said she overheard susan atkins gleefully describing the murder of sharon tate and suddenly feared for her own life. i knew i had to get out of there. so early one morning, barbara
each story completely separate. manson was on edge after he found a ranch hand was trying to get the family kicked out of spahn ranch. barbara hoyt remembers what happened next. i heard a scream. i bolted up. is there anything to describe what that sounded like? pure horror. you knew who it was? i knew it was shorty. i recognized the voice. this was the one that manson was involved in. shea was sort of hacked to pieces. manson decide it was time to get out of l.a. maybe he was feeling the heat or wanted a more remote place to keep his family under his control.
and a friend took a huge risk. we walked out. you walked out in. yes, we walked out. into the heat of death valley. they walked for miles to the nearest ranch, said barbara, she eventually reunited with her real family. but the rest of the manson family stayed busy in the desert. the family is up to its old tricks. there s cars stolen, different desecration of national monument areas. all of which, once again, drew the notice of law enforcement. during two raids in october, they rounded up most of the family, the last to be captured was manson, himself, hiding under the bathroom sink. he told authorities she was manson aka jesus christ, god. the charges were auto theft and arson. they d faced similar charges before, had beaten the rap before. this time, something unexpected,
police began to interview these women. one was 18-year-old barbara hoyt, who spoke about life inside the family and what attracted her to charles manson. he was very loving. he was very much a father figure. how did it make you feel when he was nice to you like that? made me feel special. felt like we were all fingers on one hand, like we were the digits and charlie was the hand. police spoke with other manson women, too. and learned that in the fall of 67, manson moved to los angeles, where he sent his girls out to find someone, anyone who could make him a rock star. they encountered dennis wilson, of the beach boys who took manson to the beach boys studio, where he recorded this. restless as the wind