. he was almost in a frantic state, i would say. he was very worried. reporter: so was hoyt. she knew something was very wrong, but she didn t know what and neither did police. it would be months of false leads and missed opportunities for them to unravel the mystery of the seven savage murders. just amazing. sara sidner is live here now. 45 years later and the most inspected case arguably of all time that we re still learning new information. after talking to some different people, i didn t realize it. there was a reporter regularly visiting manson in prison during the trial. is he was sending her letters and talking to her, trying to manipulate her the way he manipulated these young women. said said something about him that struck me and that was when you here in the room with charles manson, it s like no one else is in the room with you. he never stopped staring into your eyes. and this gaze is what a lot of people talked about in the
robert mueller, and the list goes on and on. it s called st. paul s and attorneys say they are about to expose a secret culture where graduating boys compete to sleep with as many younger students as possible. according to the associated press, labrie told police he wanted to be number one in that contest. he s now charged with sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl on the roof of a campus building last year. and get this? his attorney is the same person who defended mobster whitey bulger. boris sanchez looks at the case of the scandal that has rocked this prestigious school. reporter: six congressmen, 13 u.s. ambassadors and our current secretary of state, john kerry, have all called this prestigious prep school home. but today the steep traditions of st. paul s school in concord, new hampshire, are getting a closer look as allegations of rape put the school under a spotlight.
reporter: court documents obtained by blackman show labrie s encounter went well beyond kissing. according to his account, she was acting very aggressively towards him and that he in fact had a condom in his pocket that she pulled out, according to his account, and that he put it on but both divine intervention and that it went no further than that. reporter: according to the monitor however, a medical examination shows the female student had a laceration that would be consistent with penetration having occurred. labrie has pled not guilty to all charges. a spokesperson for st. paul s tells cnn current allegations about our culture are not emblematic of our school or our values, our rule, or the people who represent our student body, alumni, faculty, and staff. thanks to boris sanchez for that report. i want to get into the legal view on this case with cnn legal analyst paul callan and criminal
no suggestion of murder. no suggestion of motive. it sent this wave of panic through los angeles and the hollywood community. if they can get to a movie star, if they can get to a coffee heiress they can get to anybody. i was just sitting there watching tv. then 17 years old, barbara hoyt remembers the news reports about the murders. she was living on a ranch outside of l.a. with a group of friends. they all came in and watched the news and the first story was on about the sharon tate murders. somebody said something at the time and they all laughed. i didn t see anything funny in it at all. reporter: they lived on this abandoned movie set where a charismatic self-styled guru named charles manson led a group of impressionable young followers. they worshiped charlie like a god. reporter: but in the days after the murder, charlie seemed dangerous and unhinged.
19-year-old owen labrie has been charged with the sexual assault of a 15-year-old student on campus last year, just two days before his graduation. citing a police interview with labrie, the associated press reports the alleged rape may have been part of a tradition called the senior salute. the concord monitor s jeremy blackman says labrie was not in the contest alone. this case raised an issue that a number of students are taking part in a annual tradition of competing with one another to have sexual encounters with underclassmen. reporter: according to the a.p., senior boys kept a running tally of sexual encounters with marker on a laundry room wall and later the teen told detectives he was trying to be number one. owen labrie claims that there were a couple of different kinds of senior salute, some them were not sexual at all, some that were just going for a walk with a student or kissing someone.