on their knees and beg for forgiveness. because she was so necessary as a witness she was given full immunity. every prosecutor says you don t find witnesses to a crime in h, ll, in heaven. in hell, in heaven. manson leaped across the council table with a pencil in his hand and screamed someone should cut your head off old man. he hold up a newspaper manson guilty, nixon declares. greta: manson changed his x on his forehead into a swastika. when he shaved his head, the girls did too. the girls staged a bizarre call for freedom. manson family people were like creatures from out of space. way remember most is his eyes. he was staring at me s
she was left alone in the livingroom with atkins, begging, pleading crying for the life of her unborn child. susan atkins told sharon look bitch, i don t have any mercy on you, you are going to die. greta: tate was stabbed 16 times in her chest and back. following manson s order, atkins used tate s blood to scrawl the word pig on the house s front door then the killers fled. 8 a.m. the next morning the maid arrived. then 15-years-old jim was warming up the family car when the horrified maid came running down the street. she was horribly shaken, screaming when she first came down. i made a call to the west l.a. station. was more like a slaughter
suspects, nor motive the tate, labianca murders has the city paralyzed with fear. everybody felt they might be next. it was as if los angeles was having a nervous break didn t. deputies came looking for man some. but it had nothing to do with murder. property owners around the ranch were complaining about these hippie-type people driving on the other ranch s private property. 102 deputy sheriffs surrounded this ranch. greta: the raid netted firearms and stolen vehicles. i m sure they felt they were being arrested for mur. greta: more than 20 arrested. the family s leader nowhere to be found. manson was hiding under one of the buildings on the property and refused to come out and was forcefully remove.
took her in another room and told her to takeoff all her clothes and look in the mirror and see how beautiful she was. talk about telling people what they wanted to hear about themselves. she left her car there with her paycheck in the glove compartment and never came back. greta: the [ inaudible ] they arrived in los angeles for an extended stay in early 1968. manson began hanging out on the sunset strip. the strip was the hub of what was going on in the rock music business in the late 60s. i was the beginning of everything. it was where the various clubs that came to symbolize the era everybody was making it in the rock music business. manson got idea that he too could make it in the rock music business. he was serious about anything, he wanted to perform. he wanted to be in the music
greta: when the district attorney decided there wasn t enough evidence to prosecute, the group was released. manson decided that staying was getting too risky. charlie talked about about going to the desert. there is no society in death valley. getting to the ranch wasn t easy it was difficult. they showed up with this bus it was a miracle they got the bus up here. greta: the family moved to barker ranch built in the 30s located in an extremely rugged and desolate area of death valley. you are looking at the last footage of the ranch shot by fox news before it was gutted by a suspicious fire in may of 2009. the prospecting partner pictured with manson. was trying to talk religion