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hello, welcome to dateline. charles manson was a man of small stature and monstrous delusions. the one-i m am sure musician believed he would be bigger than the beatles. after that dream was crushed, he was replaced with a nightmarish prophecy that put him on the throne of a post-armageddon world, a career criminal calls himself jesus convinced his young followers to slaughter innocent victims, delivering charles manson the fame he craved. here s keith morrison with the as i remember of manson. all the remains are ruins. the ram shackled barker ranch is long gone. only the fitful baking death valley wind left now to stir the faded bits, the rusted junk. ....
Faded bits, the rusted junk. the artifacts from another time when this was ground zero for one of the most infamous crimes in history. the hideout of a living personification of evil. you got it stuck in your brain that i murdered somebody. charles manson. one hot, dry weekend in los angeles, august, 1969, a pregnant movie star slaughtered, along with four others in her home, across town a couple butchered in theirs. these were brutal crime scenes. things that the police had never seen before. reporter: murder so bloody, so ugly, they rewrote history. they became a kind of bookpark as an optcism i michigan ended. the 60 came to a close, 1969, that was the curtain the final curtain. ....