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
but he had a reason to laugh. he was relieved. no one had any idea that they had anything to do with tate and labianca. and they ve got the wrong date on the search warrant. so all of them are now released. sidner: what some of his followers don t realize is that charlie had groomed a violent hit squad within the family. lake: leslie and susan and patty were telling me how they participated. leslie said she stabbed somebody over and over again, even though they were already dead. when i found out that tex had murdered, it was like the rug had been pulled out from under me. i had no idea that i was sitting amongst the murderers. charlie was getting threatening, and he was quite he was mean.
manson, at dennis wilson s house, met terry melcher. he was a famous record producer at the time. he was living with his girlfriend, candice bergen, at 10050 cielo drive. lake: terry melcher came to the ranch, and we did, like, a little recording session. but it s met with a flat rejection. charlie was really upset about that. terry melcher had dashed his hope for a music contract. in my opinion, that rejection is what led to his desire to kill. kay: he started holding training classes for how to commit murder. then, on friday, august the 8th, he said, now is the time for helter skelter. roman polanski was a very famous director at that time; sharon tate, an up-and-coming young actress.
he was beating on some of the girls, specially dianne lake. and he broke a chair and then beat me with the chair leg. i was afraid that i would be killed. dr. jordan: manson now realizes that the heat is on with the police, that they re going to be caught unless they relocate, so he gathers the manson family and they move deep into death valley. sidner: 250 miles away, manson and his followers move to an extremely remote place in the desert, called barker ranch. wiehl: in death valley, all of a sudden, a huge piece of road equipment goes up in flames. i think it was charlie and tex and bruce that had started this fire because the road was blocked with this road grader and they were mad, and so they decided to burn it.