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
are you going to ask me questions like, and he put his hand around my neck, is this where i hold the knife to women s throats? it was really creepy. these murders would never have taken place if it had not been for charles manson. but i also think you have to realize that these murders would probably have not taken place if the actual killers did not want to kill. and he was like the catalyst that brought that hostility to the surface. sidner: susan atkins died of brain cancer in prison in 2009. but five of his former followers are still behind bars in california charles tex watson, leslie van houten, patty krenwinkel, bruce davis, and bobby beausoleil. they are struggling to get out to be on parole, and that s the sad part of it. we re still all this time later, and we re now having to fight to keep them in prison.
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.
sees leno in the home. dr. jordan: manson and watson enter through the backdoor. the labiancas are tied up and pillowcases put over their heads. manson then left the house, returning to the car. manson came back, and he pointed at pat and i and told us to get out and go do what tex said, and then do whatever tex said? yeah. he said to tex to make sure that everybody did something. charlie left before the actual murders. he was not going to be there while murder was committed. man: you came in the house with tex, and decided to leave and go elsewhere. i walked with tex. what tex did was tex business. what you do is yours. i don t tell you what to do.
graham: supposing she had gotten out and then did the terrible things that she was saying. i just had to speak up. well, that broke the case. davis: information from the two separate investigations of the tate and labianca cases led detectives to the conclusion that the crimes in both cases were committed by the same group of people. shelley: susan atkins is now hauled before a grand jury. but when she took the stand, she actually denied that she stabbed sharon tate and said she held sharon tate while tex did the stabbing. nobody really knows which version is true. saying that i had killed sharon tate, i tried to take some of the blame and put it on myself because i thought that was my part. sidner: atkins also names fellow manson family members patricia krenwinkel, linda kasabian,