hello, everyone. i m katy tur. good to be with you. we re going to department of justice where attorney general merrick garland is addressing bad actor, foreign meddling in this country. in china, alleged fugitives fled to foreign countries, including the united states. the prc has a history of targeting political dissidents and critics of the government who have sought relief and refer , refuge in other countries. the indictment alleges that the defendants working at the direction of the government of the prc engaged in a campaign of harassment, threats, surveillance, and intimidation, aimed at coercing the victim to return to china. we also allege that the defendants threatened and harassed the victim s family members, both in the u.s. and in china. the prc government forced the victim s nephew to travel from china to the united states to convey the prc s threats to the victim s son. the defendants threatened the victim, saying that quote, coming back and turning theirsel
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
Introduced helter-skelter into the family, he talked about it all the time. he had a star witness lined up, susan atkins, the woman who convinced the whole lured story in jail and repeated everything for a grand jury. how do you feel? but then, atkins recanted. said that she had made up of the whole thing. turned out to other family members, like barbara white who left the families when manson s behavior frightened her. i decide, do i want to live with myself when i get old, and that was the deciding factor. barber became a wary witness of the prosecution, she knew that she would take the stand in full view of her former family manson followers. what was it like to testify? seeing him out there? they were really kissing up to me when i was in the back of the courtroom. blowing me kisses and smiling at me and all that. of course that changed when i opening my mouth on the witness stand. day after day, members of the manson family demonstrated at the courthouse, performan
Either. that s a tricky business. it is tricky. and the trickiest part is to get the murder to stick to manson himself. it s a little more difficult because he did not physically participated in these murders. bugliosi had a two part problem, to show the control over his followers and the motive. that motive was helter-skelter of blacks and whites. he was he that introduced helter-skelter and talked about it all the time. he had a star witness lined up, susan atkins, the woman that confessed the whole story to a woman in jail. now that you have had a chance to get it off your chest, would you tell me how you feel? then atkins recanted and said she made up the whole thing.
Defendant like no prosecutor had ever encountered. he had to prove that charles manson, this weird little guy, could vhave some control over these other followers to commit murder, but to the extent the followers were mentally incompetent to be tried either. that s a tricky busy. very tricky. and the trickiest part would be making a charge of first-degree murder stick against manson himself. it s a little more difficult to convict him because he did not physically participate in the murders. prove the domination over the family and explain motive to the jury, but what motive. that motive was helter-skelter. to ignite a war between blacks and whites. it was he that introduced helter-skelter into the family. talked about it all the time. had a star witness lined up. susan add kins who confessed the