Helter Skelter: Charles Manson and the Nights on Cielo Drive
August 1969. A house in the Los Angeles hills. A pregnant actress. The word pig on the door. The man the cameras want is not in the living room — and the murders still belong to him.
Charles Manson turned a ranch full of lost young people into a weapon. Over two nights the Family killed Sharon Tate, Jay Sebring, Abigail Folger, Wojciech Frykowski, Steven Parent, Leno LaBianca and Rosemary LaBianca. Manson talked Beatles, race war, and Helter Skelter. The court called it murder. He died in prison in 2017. The victims never got to be older than that summer.
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