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
Welcome back to dateline, i m andrea canning. two years after hippies rocked the sum revolve in san francisco, los angeles was a city paralyzed with fear. seven victims, plus actress sharon dates unborn baby had been massacred during a merciless today killing spree that had been over a month since the rampage and detectives were stymied. or the murders even connected? whoever was responsible for that bloody carnage remained a mystery, but soon a most unlikely source would liver a game changing jailhouse confession. here again is keith morrison with manson. autumn of 69, it was still hot in l. a.. with a police investigation for the grisly case of the labianca murders ice-cold, not a league, clue, or suspect. then, in october, a woman widely known on the hollywood
Was ice-cold. not a league, clue, or suspect insight. then, in october, a woman widely known on the hollywood party circle found herself in the l.a. county woman s jail. her name was virginia graham. she knew people, once even dated frank sinatra, this wasn t her first flame with the law. i was there for violation of probation. so, that is where fortuna was when happy, singing, doing cartwheels up and down the aisle. the woman s name was susan atkins. virginia was intrigued. i casually after one day, when she was there for, this is when she said murder. susan told virginia she had been accused of killing a guy out of the suburbs months