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
His hands tied with a leather code. in his face covered with a pillow case rosemary had a lab coat around her neck. venal had been stabbed 26 times. rosemary, 41. overkill would be an understatement. and again, just as it was that sharon tate s house. the murder scene seemed, almost, art directed. to illicit fear! a fork was jammed into lena s abdomen and left sticking there. painted in blood on one wall, was the word rise. on another, death to pigs. and on the refrigerator, helter-skelter. like the song from the beatles white album. on her body, the word roar had been called in the chest. these were brutal killings. elena has written about the case for people magazine. in the middle of the night, showing up with knives. stabbing people multiple times.