things like the police had never seen before. shannon tate begged, please don t kill me, please don t kill me. average kids from average american homes turned out to be the killers. he would doze them with lsd. what are you s sane people? charles manson stole lives. grief like you could not imagine. so innocence. he looks beautiful, happy and it draws a lot of people. and left the city living in fear. gun stores sell out. guard dogs are selling for $5,000. you may think you know the manchin story, but not like this. he s a very evil, sophisticated con man. he knows exactly what he is doing. it was all a play. isn t it? hello and welcome to dateline! he was a charismatic ex con who dreamed of becoming a rock star. then he found a ragtag group of hippies in search of direction and purpose to follow him. in the end, their toxic union would result in a frenzy of brutality. how is charles manson able to insert his influence to engineer a murderous ram
you can almost recreate the crime. right there on the wall, a mystery scrawled in blood. three cryptic letters. what would you make of this? is that a word? is that a person? the clues pointed to so many directions that it was a total mystery. the case, the murder of a former model and flight attendant. when she got dolled up, oh my god, gorgeous. did she write these letters? was this a hint to who killed her? this is a message saying this is my killer. like you would see in a movie. and the ending, that was just like a movie, too. i can t believe what people do to each other. hello, and welcome to dateline. roc, in this case, those three letters would tell a story all their own. when karen pannell was found murdered in her south florida home, the letters scrawled in blood above her body seemed like a beacon that could lead detectives to her killer. but what exactly did they mean? what other crucial clues were in sight? it would take dogged specialis
hanging from a banister. from first look it would appear as though it was a suicide. but then they looked closer. it appeared that there was a struggle. my gut was telling me there s something wrong here. did someone want michele dead? was someone else willing to help? at that point we re shell-shocked. a bond forged in blood. we called it the lie and cry conversation. betrayed by blood. what are you hoping for? some conversation between the two of them about the death. we have an investigator look at the video surveillance and he goes, i don t like what i m seeing. you re theorizing the darkest scenario? yes, we are. evil. hello and welcome to dateline. michele and lloyd neurauter were high school sweethearts who tied the knot two years later, then had three daughters. their marriage didn t last, but michele and lloyd remained devoted to their girls. then michele was found dead in her home. at first police suspected suicide. but soon the case to
Windows, and lock their doors. gun store sell out. car dogs who are going for over $200 apiece, are now selling for $5,000. everybody in los angeles is petrefied. where are they gonna strike next? hollywood was even scared. and from my understanding roman polanski started getting paranoid. thinking it was someone among his peers. it was like a small nuclear device had gone off in hollywood. and people were really scared. and they need to make sense, and make sure that they were not involved in this. people all over the town knew it in their gut. the murders had to be related. i felt that there was an immediate connection. so did everyone in my family. why did you think it was a connection? because of the writing on the wall. that was the main thing. officer gerry derosa who was working the crime scene thought so too. i heard about some of the conditions that were at the location at the house. i thought to myself, i wonder if this is connected in some way? writing