Impressionable young people, many from good families who he manipulates with mindcontrol techniques, turning his group of peaceful hippies into a devoted death squad. Police have yet to make the connection between the carnage at two of mansons bloody crime scenes, and charlie is way ahead of them. He wants more death, and he wants it the very next night. How will investigators ultimately piece it all together . Heres part two of the devils work. [ ominous Chord Strikes ] i spent the best part of my life in boys schools, prisons, and reform schools. Roberts you cant understand Charlie Manson without understanding his criminal past and his time in jail. Rick in order for him to survive, he developed skills to manipulate people. Prison is where manson perfected the art of the con. Hes inspired by a very unlikely source. His personal guru is none other than dale carnegie. Dr. Jordan how to win friends and influence people. And then he used those techniques, that ability to manipulate, and
were ready for the cameras. it was the first televiseda courtroom drama that captivated the united states. it was a huge deal. spoke erik and lyle menendez convicted of murdering their own parents. i shut my mom. it wasn t real. it just wasn t real. they are sociopaths. and big ones. chilling details. a letter ending in secrets, too dark to imagine. this is so out of the norm. did they kill in cold blood? or in crippling fear? it was gut wrenching. they spoke the truth about what happened. here from the brothers themselves. let s go through this bit by bit. there was no way he was going to let this secret get out. silence destroyed our s whole family. . symbol of their success. here ait was, the shining symbol of their success. here finally an address for the of their long struggle, their amazing rise, beverly hills, california. careful what you wish for. all these years later, it s still the case that has the power to shock. it s beverly hills, th
on a wild goose chase, but so are the labianca detectives. they re looking into leno and his horses and his gambling. and they find that he may have some gambling that has gone bad. the idea that the police have is some kind of mafia connection. again, they re looking in the wrong track. [ whooshes ] a week after the tate murders, charles manson and his followers wake to the sound of unwanted visitors. the sheriff s department had a big raid on spahn ranch. they arrested manson. they arrested other members of the family. .for stealing cars. and the police couldn t understand when charlie asked what the charges were and they said, car theft, that manson started laughing.
menendez murders one name, one whispered suspicion, noel bloom. i got a call from beverly hills police department. they wanted to meet with me and ask me a few questions. and i said, i ve been waiting. that meeting, it turned out, was about all it took. he was very cooperative. we couldn t determine that he had a motive at all. so noel bloom was no longer a suspect. and the rumored mafia connection to the crime? not a chance , said prosecutor pam bozanich. the number of shots would tell you that it wasn t a organized crime hit. why do you say that? because they were torn apart. if if you think about what the media portrays or or hollywood portrays as a mob hit, it would be. it s just a little hole in the back of the head? like, a.22 or a.38 to the back of the head. but the kneecappings, the missing shell casings to investigators those were signs it was staged to look like a
noel bloom. i got a call from beverly hills police department. they wanted to meet with me and ask me a few questions. and i said, i ve been waiting. reporter: that meeting, it turned out, was about all it took. he was very cooperative. we couldn t determine that he had a motive at all. reporter: so noel bloom was no longer a suspect. and the rumored mafia connection to the crime? not a chance , said prosecutor pam bozanich. the number of shots would tell you that it wasn t a organized crime hit. reporter: why do you say that? because they were torn apart. if if you think about what the media portrays or or hollywood portrays as a mob hit, it would be. reporter: it s just a little hole in the back of the head? like, a .22 or a .38 to the back of the head. reporter: but the kneecappings, the missing shell casings to investigators those were signs it was staged to look like a mob hit. hours after the murders, detective zoeller looked at the scene, puzzled.