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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:02,105 --> 00:00:03,589 Thanks for downloading this Fox show. 2 00:00:03,624 --> 00:00:06,075 And don't miss all-new episodes only on Fox. 3 00:00:08,422 --> 00:00:09,837 - Yeah, every girl ought to have a daddy like Charlie. 4 00:00:09,871 --> 00:00:12,633 Should--deserves to have a daddy like Charlie. 5 00:00:13,668 --> 00:00:15,808 male narrator: Charles Manson: 6 00:00:15,843 --> 00:00:17,120 Hippie guru, 7 00:00:17,155 --> 00:00:18,811 would-be rock star, 8 00:00:18,846 --> 00:00:22,298 and, until his death in 2017, 9 00:00:22,332 --> 00:00:26,060 the most notorious prison inmate in America. 10 00:00:26,095 --> 00:00:28,925 - You can't prove anything. 11 00:00:28,959 --> 00:00:31,031 Now is the only thing that's real. 12 00:00:32,308 --> 00:00:34,275 narrator: Manson was the leader of a cult 13 00:00:34,310 --> 00:00:36,001 called The Family. 14 00:00:41,213 --> 00:00:42,697 narrator: They murdered nine people, 15 00:00:42,732 --> 00:00:45,183 including movie actress Sharon Tate 16 00:00:45,217 --> 00:00:48,255 in the summer of 1969. 17 00:00:48,289 --> 00:00:50,705 - It was one of the worst things I've ever seen. 18 00:00:50,740 --> 00:00:54,640 There was blood all over her. 19 00:00:54,675 --> 00:00:58,127 The murders sent shockwaves through Hollywood. 20 00:00:58,161 --> 00:01:00,577 - No one was safe. 21 00:01:00,612 --> 00:01:02,959 - Entertainers out there are hiring bodyguards. 22 00:01:02,993 --> 00:01:04,650 It put the fear of God in them. 23 00:01:04,685 --> 00:01:06,031 The court argued 24 00:01:06,066 --> 00:01:09,276 that Manson had brainwashed his followers 25 00:01:09,310 --> 00:01:12,210 and programmed them to kill. 26 00:01:12,244 --> 00:01:15,523 - They had no idea that where Manson was leading them 27 00:01:15,558 --> 00:01:16,766 was mayhem and murder. 28 00:01:19,009 --> 00:01:22,530 But could one man have this much power? 29 00:01:22,565 --> 00:01:25,809 And if so, how? 30 00:01:25,844 --> 00:01:28,433 For the first time, we can see how. 31 00:01:31,298 --> 00:01:33,127 Shortly after his arrest, 32 00:01:33,162 --> 00:01:35,612 Manson gave a group of young filmmakers 33 00:01:35,647 --> 00:01:37,269 led by Robert Hendrickson 34 00:01:37,304 --> 00:01:41,687 exclusive access inside his cult. 35 00:01:41,722 --> 00:01:44,069 - Scene one, take two, roll 53. 36 00:01:44,104 --> 00:01:46,520 Hidden away for decades, 37 00:01:46,554 --> 00:01:50,765 the original footage has now been found: 38 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:53,906 More than 100 hours of film, and with it 39 00:01:53,941 --> 00:01:56,323 reels of unheard audio... 40 00:01:56,357 --> 00:01:58,980 - We've seen Charlie do things that no human being 41 00:01:59,015 --> 00:02:00,982 has ever done. Or no human being has... 42 00:02:01,017 --> 00:02:03,916 And dozens of unseen photographs. 43 00:02:03,951 --> 00:02:06,298 - No, we've seen miracles. 44 00:02:06,333 --> 00:02:10,440 - This is dynamite information to have. 45 00:02:10,475 --> 00:02:12,615 Where's it been all these years, all this stuff? 46 00:02:14,444 --> 00:02:15,997 - Some people are making a movie. 47 00:02:16,032 --> 00:02:19,553 Today, former cult members can see themselves 48 00:02:19,587 --> 00:02:21,141 as they once were. 49 00:02:21,175 --> 00:02:23,798 - Did you ever think of Sharon Tate's baby? 50 00:02:23,833 --> 00:02:24,799 -I didn't know her. 51 00:02:24,834 --> 00:02:26,456 I never met her. 52 00:02:26,491 --> 00:02:29,459 Anybody watching this would think I was a monster. 53 00:02:29,494 --> 00:02:31,979 Never-before-seen interviews 54 00:02:32,013 --> 00:02:35,741 give us a firsthand view of the programming process. 55 00:02:35,776 --> 00:02:37,605 - I am Charlie. 56 00:02:37,640 --> 00:02:39,228 And if he dies, I die. 57 00:02:40,298 --> 00:02:41,782 And long-forgotten film 58 00:02:41,816 --> 00:02:44,819 provides shocking revelations 59 00:02:44,854 --> 00:02:47,788 about how Manson's followers lived, 60 00:02:47,822 --> 00:02:49,203 loved... 61 00:02:50,239 --> 00:02:51,757 And ultimately, 62 00:02:51,792 --> 00:02:55,036 how they were turned from regular, peace-loving kids 63 00:02:55,071 --> 00:02:59,386 into brutal and brainwashed killers. 64 00:02:59,420 --> 00:03:01,146 -I didn't want to believe the things I heard. 65 00:03:01,181 --> 00:03:02,527 - I'm ready to die. 66 00:03:02,561 --> 00:03:05,909 - I didn't want to believe the things I saw. 67 00:03:05,944 --> 00:03:07,394 - They're persecuting what they can't stand 68 00:03:07,428 --> 00:03:09,430 to look at in themselves: 69 00:03:09,465 --> 00:03:10,604 The truth. 70 00:03:10,638 --> 00:03:12,157 - When somebody needs to be killed... 71 00:03:13,296 --> 00:03:14,815 There's no wrong. You do it. 72 00:03:14,849 --> 00:03:15,954 - Bam. 73 00:03:15,988 --> 00:03:18,784 - And you kill whoever gets in your way. 74 00:03:18,819 --> 00:03:20,303 This is us. 75 00:03:28,863 --> 00:03:32,591 - ♪ Your home is where you're happy ♪ 76 00:03:32,626 --> 00:03:36,561 ♪ It's not where you're not free ♪ 77 00:03:36,595 --> 00:03:39,598 In the hills above Hollywood, California, 78 00:03:39,633 --> 00:03:41,980 lives a small band of young men and women 79 00:03:42,014 --> 00:03:43,671 about two dozen in all. 80 00:03:43,706 --> 00:03:47,813 They share a love of music and each other. 81 00:03:47,848 --> 00:03:51,058 They call themselves the Family. 82 00:03:51,092 --> 00:03:53,233 - Roll 136. 83 00:03:53,267 --> 00:03:56,132 - All we ever did amounted to 84 00:03:56,166 --> 00:03:57,685 smoking grass 85 00:03:57,720 --> 00:03:58,824 and taking acid 86 00:03:58,859 --> 00:04:00,895 and making love as much as we could. 87 00:04:00,930 --> 00:04:03,450 If we weren't doing that, we was leading up to it. 88 00:04:03,484 --> 00:04:07,350 If we weren't leading up to it, we was doing that. 89 00:04:07,385 --> 00:04:09,628 The group's leader is a career criminal 90 00:04:09,663 --> 00:04:12,735 with a rap sheet containing multiple offenses 91 00:04:12,769 --> 00:04:15,151 from forgery to armed robbery: 92 00:04:15,185 --> 00:04:20,467 32-year-old Charles Manson. 93 00:04:20,501 --> 00:04:23,780 Manson never knew his father. 94 00:04:23,815 --> 00:04:25,437 His mother was a petty thief 95 00:04:25,472 --> 00:04:28,751 who was in and out of jail. 96 00:04:28,785 --> 00:04:34,584 And Manson followed in her footsteps. 97 00:04:34,619 --> 00:04:37,449 His latest sentence: a seven-year stretch 98 00:04:37,484 --> 00:04:40,280 for forgery and breaking parole. 99 00:04:44,767 --> 00:04:49,806 He's released on March 21, 1967. 100 00:04:49,841 --> 00:04:52,740 He heads to California... 101 00:04:52,775 --> 00:04:56,261 and the Summer of Love. 102 00:04:56,296 --> 00:04:57,952 - My name's Peter Coyote. 103 00:04:57,987 --> 00:05:00,334 I'm the last ancient hippie, 104 00:05:00,369 --> 00:05:04,442 and I was a serious player in the counterculture. 105 00:05:04,476 --> 00:05:06,892 It was wonderful to wake up in the morning. 106 00:05:06,927 --> 00:05:09,412 You could get food, friendship, 107 00:05:09,447 --> 00:05:11,587 whatever you needed. 108 00:05:11,621 --> 00:05:13,485 People of like minds got together 109 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:16,419 and they formed extended families. 110 00:05:16,454 --> 00:05:19,422 - My name is Aesop Aquarian. 111 00:05:19,457 --> 00:05:24,427 There was a lot of talk about going to the Summer of Love 112 00:05:24,462 --> 00:05:27,879 and we did love each other in those days. 113 00:05:27,913 --> 00:05:30,260 We believed in peace and love 114 00:05:30,295 --> 00:05:34,610 and that things actually could get better. 115 00:05:37,613 --> 00:05:40,029 ♪ 116 00:05:40,063 --> 00:05:42,825 - Charlie saw the hippie movement 117 00:05:42,859 --> 00:05:46,069 and saw the power in it; 118 00:05:46,104 --> 00:05:49,107 saw the power behind the young people; 119 00:05:49,141 --> 00:05:52,731 could see a huge revolution starting. 120 00:05:52,766 --> 00:05:55,458 And there really is a revolution. 121 00:05:55,493 --> 00:05:57,909 And Charlie wanted to take this power 122 00:05:57,943 --> 00:05:59,876 and turn it into his own game. 123 00:06:02,672 --> 00:06:04,225 - When Charlie was released from prison, 124 00:06:04,260 --> 00:06:07,367 he had spent over half of his life in jail. 125 00:06:07,401 --> 00:06:09,438 So he had no family. 126 00:06:09,472 --> 00:06:11,716 For him, recruiting followers 127 00:06:11,750 --> 00:06:14,201 was creating the family that he never had. 128 00:06:14,235 --> 00:06:17,100 ♪ 129 00:06:17,135 --> 00:06:18,308 Guitar in hand, 130 00:06:18,343 --> 00:06:20,207 Manson sets up at street corners 131 00:06:20,241 --> 00:06:21,967 and starts playing. 132 00:06:22,002 --> 00:06:25,074 Gradually, he attracts followers. 133 00:06:25,108 --> 00:06:30,010 - ♪ People say that I'm no good ♪ 134 00:06:30,044 --> 00:06:33,254 - In the late '60s, music led kids 135 00:06:33,289 --> 00:06:35,464 off the suburban sidewalks 136 00:06:35,498 --> 00:06:38,846 to hear the sounds of authentic voices 137 00:06:38,881 --> 00:06:41,228 for whom the American dream didn't work. 138 00:06:43,610 --> 00:06:46,440 - The counterculture was this idea that 139 00:06:46,475 --> 00:06:49,995 young people had been led astray. 140 00:06:50,030 --> 00:06:52,273 What did it mean to be a human being 141 00:06:52,308 --> 00:06:54,793 in a capitalistic society? 142 00:06:54,828 --> 00:06:57,417 Young people had been fed a myth about 143 00:06:57,451 --> 00:06:59,419 American exceptionalism 144 00:06:59,453 --> 00:07:02,283 and American democracy that was untrue. 145 00:07:02,318 --> 00:07:03,595 ♪ 146 00:07:03,630 --> 00:07:04,941 And Manson 147 00:07:04,976 --> 00:07:09,705 knew just how to get the kids to listen. 148 00:07:09,739 --> 00:07:11,051 - My name is John Douglas. 149 00:07:11,085 --> 00:07:14,226 I'm with the FBI, former criminal profiler-- 150 00:07:14,261 --> 00:07:15,607 developed criminal profiling-- 151 00:07:15,642 --> 00:07:17,747 and I interviewed Charles Manson 152 00:07:17,782 --> 00:07:20,578 as part of the serial murderer research project. 153 00:07:20,612 --> 00:07:21,855 When Charles was in prison, 154 00:07:21,889 --> 00:07:23,443 he was fascinated by the pimps. 155 00:07:23,477 --> 00:07:25,686 Because these pimps didn't look anything extraordinary. 156 00:07:25,721 --> 00:07:29,034 So how are you able to, you know, master, 157 00:07:29,069 --> 00:07:31,347 have this control, you know, over others? 158 00:07:33,211 --> 00:07:36,939 These pimps told him where to find these girls. 159 00:07:36,973 --> 00:07:39,113 They look like a broken wing. 160 00:07:39,148 --> 00:07:40,598 A broken wing meaning that 161 00:07:40,632 --> 00:07:42,254 something was wrong. 162 00:07:42,289 --> 00:07:43,497 There was this rejection. 163 00:07:43,532 --> 00:07:45,534 So Manson had the ability 164 00:07:45,568 --> 00:07:48,502 to approach these so-called broken wings 165 00:07:48,537 --> 00:07:50,055 and talk to them. 166 00:07:52,644 --> 00:07:55,682 - My name is Dianne Lake. 167 00:07:55,716 --> 00:07:58,167 I was one of the first and the youngest member 168 00:07:58,201 --> 00:08:00,100 of the Manson Family. 169 00:08:01,688 --> 00:08:04,138 I was 14 when I met Charlie. 170 00:08:07,625 --> 00:08:11,560 ♪ Say a little prayer? 171 00:08:11,594 --> 00:08:16,496 - He expressed his love and adoration for me. 172 00:08:16,530 --> 00:08:18,221 It was a high. It was magic. 173 00:08:18,256 --> 00:08:20,154 It was an incredible 174 00:08:20,189 --> 00:08:24,711 upwelling of love, and, you know, joy. 175 00:08:24,745 --> 00:08:27,817 My mom and dad were not the warm, fuzzy 176 00:08:27,852 --> 00:08:30,337 hugging variety. They really weren't. 177 00:08:30,371 --> 00:08:33,098 And I think that I needed to feel that. 178 00:08:33,133 --> 00:08:36,343 -♪ As long as you've got love in your heart ♪ 179 00:08:36,377 --> 00:08:40,140 - Charlie invited me to be a part of their family. 180 00:08:40,174 --> 00:08:43,695 It was what I was looking for. 181 00:08:48,010 --> 00:08:50,322 By the spring of 1968, 182 00:08:50,357 --> 00:08:53,360 Manson has gathered half a dozen girls. 183 00:08:55,638 --> 00:08:57,951 The lost tapes show how he uses them 184 00:08:57,985 --> 00:08:59,366 to lure men. 185 00:09:02,680 --> 00:09:03,853 - Action. 186 00:09:03,888 --> 00:09:05,475 What is your name? - Paul Watkins. 187 00:09:05,510 --> 00:09:06,580 - How did you get in? 188 00:09:06,615 --> 00:09:08,099 - How did I get in to The Family? 189 00:09:08,133 --> 00:09:09,583 - Yes. 190 00:09:09,618 --> 00:09:10,998 - I was walking through Topanga Canyon 191 00:09:11,033 --> 00:09:13,242 and it was starting to get dark. 192 00:09:13,276 --> 00:09:15,071 I needed a place to sleep. 193 00:09:15,106 --> 00:09:16,245 And there was this little house 194 00:09:16,279 --> 00:09:19,800 in the clearing in the woods. 195 00:09:19,835 --> 00:09:21,526 Who came to the door was 196 00:09:21,561 --> 00:09:27,808 one of the prettiest girls I'd ever seen. 197 00:09:27,843 --> 00:09:29,741 - I go answer the door 198 00:09:29,776 --> 00:09:32,433 and it's Paul. 199 00:09:32,468 --> 00:09:35,057 - Big puff of marijuana smoke hit me in the face. 200 00:09:35,091 --> 00:09:36,852 And that smelled good to me. 201 00:09:43,721 --> 00:09:45,136 - Charlie told me, 202 00:09:45,170 --> 00:09:48,277 "I want you to reel him in." 203 00:09:51,142 --> 00:09:54,041 - There was 15 people sitting around in there. 204 00:09:54,076 --> 00:09:56,561 And it was a big room that had mattresses all over it 205 00:09:56,596 --> 00:09:58,494 and a little table in the middle. 206 00:09:58,528 --> 00:10:01,014 Charlie, he was playing the guitar. 207 00:10:01,048 --> 00:10:02,843 He laid all his girls out in front of me 208 00:10:02,878 --> 00:10:04,500 and says, "They're yours. 209 00:10:04,534 --> 00:10:06,778 What are you gonna do with them?" 210 00:10:06,813 --> 00:10:08,642 And uh... 211 00:10:08,677 --> 00:10:12,404 I was flattered. 212 00:10:12,439 --> 00:10:15,511 - Nancy and I made him feel welcome 213 00:10:15,545 --> 00:10:18,652 and had sex with him. 214 00:10:18,687 --> 00:10:20,240 - I agreed that I would stay with them for the summer 215 00:10:20,274 --> 00:10:21,275 'cause he said he needed some help; 216 00:10:21,310 --> 00:10:22,622 he was all alone with them 217 00:10:22,656 --> 00:10:24,520 and he couldn't handle them all by his own, 218 00:10:24,554 --> 00:10:27,281 couldn't keep them satisfied. 219 00:10:27,316 --> 00:10:32,424 Charlie said that The Family was my family forever. 220 00:10:32,459 --> 00:10:39,500 ♪ 221 00:10:40,053 --> 00:10:41,882 The lost tapes show how Manson 222 00:10:41,917 --> 00:10:45,127 broke down The Family members' inhibitions 223 00:10:45,161 --> 00:10:48,130 and used sex not just to seduce, 224 00:10:48,164 --> 00:10:50,028 but also to control them. 225 00:10:52,030 --> 00:10:56,794 - We all had to go through lots and lots of changes. 226 00:10:56,828 --> 00:10:59,762 All the guys had to get over all their homosexual things 227 00:10:59,797 --> 00:11:01,868 by doing everything that you could possibly think of 228 00:11:01,902 --> 00:11:03,801 doing with guys. And all the girls had to do 229 00:11:03,835 --> 00:11:05,526 everything they could possibly think of doing 230 00:11:05,561 --> 00:11:07,908 with girls. 231 00:11:07,943 --> 00:11:10,842 - He would have them talk while he's having sex. 232 00:11:10,877 --> 00:11:12,499 Was there anything, sexually, 233 00:11:12,533 --> 00:11:15,709 that went on that you feel disgraced by 234 00:11:15,744 --> 00:11:17,849 or embarrassed by? 235 00:11:17,884 --> 00:11:20,265 By doing that they just felt better 236 00:11:20,300 --> 00:11:21,646 about themselves, 237 00:11:21,681 --> 00:11:24,753 although he had, now, all the intelligence information 238 00:11:24,787 --> 00:11:27,134 on them, and then would know 239 00:11:27,169 --> 00:11:30,655 what kind of buttons to push. 240 00:11:30,690 --> 00:11:33,382 Manson's technique is finding the thing 241 00:11:33,416 --> 00:11:36,488 each of his followers really feels they need 242 00:11:36,523 --> 00:11:39,629 and giving it to them. 243 00:11:39,664 --> 00:11:41,217 - He'd mirror people. 244 00:11:41,252 --> 00:11:43,633 He did that the very first day with me. 245 00:11:43,668 --> 00:11:44,842 He just mirrored me. 246 00:11:47,085 --> 00:11:50,502 And he told me, "You're me. 247 00:11:50,537 --> 00:11:54,058 We're the same." 248 00:11:54,092 --> 00:11:56,336 He knew people. He knew human nature. 249 00:11:56,370 --> 00:11:59,097 So he made me feel that this was just 250 00:11:59,132 --> 00:12:02,066 meant to be. 251 00:12:02,100 --> 00:12:04,758 And he made me feel important. 252 00:12:08,658 --> 00:12:09,798 - People would say, 253 00:12:09,832 --> 00:12:12,248 "Well, how come you didn't leave?" 254 00:12:12,283 --> 00:12:13,802 I stayed with Charlie because 255 00:12:13,836 --> 00:12:18,185 Charlie captured my heart. 256 00:12:18,220 --> 00:12:21,188 And like heroin addicts the first time they take heroin, 257 00:12:21,223 --> 00:12:23,570 I was addicted to that initial 258 00:12:23,604 --> 00:12:28,540 feeling of love and adoration and acceptance. 259 00:12:28,575 --> 00:12:32,372 I wanted that again and again and again. 260 00:12:35,409 --> 00:12:37,722 As he gathers his followers around him, 261 00:12:37,757 --> 00:12:40,207 Manson pursues an idea first dreamt about 262 00:12:40,242 --> 00:12:42,347 during his years in prison: 263 00:12:42,382 --> 00:12:43,693 A career in music. 264 00:12:43,728 --> 00:12:47,111 ♪ 265 00:12:47,145 --> 00:12:49,699 He sends his girls out into the streets, 266 00:12:49,734 --> 00:12:53,842 hoping to meet people with connections to the business. 267 00:12:53,876 --> 00:12:55,360 - On some level, Manson's entrance 268 00:12:55,395 --> 00:12:58,778 into the LA music scene is rooted in a chance encounter. 269 00:12:58,812 --> 00:13:00,918 Two of the women in The Family happen to meet 270 00:13:00,952 --> 00:13:02,989 Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys, 271 00:13:03,023 --> 00:13:06,233 one of the central figures of rock music 272 00:13:06,268 --> 00:13:09,547 in Los Angeles in the late 1960s. 273 00:13:09,581 --> 00:13:11,860 - Wilson takes the girls home. 274 00:13:11,894 --> 00:13:15,587 And shortly afterwards, Manson follows. 275 00:13:18,452 --> 00:13:20,213 - I was at Dennis Wilson's house. 276 00:13:20,247 --> 00:13:21,559 It astounded me at that time 277 00:13:21,593 --> 00:13:23,112 because I'd never seen a place like that. 278 00:13:23,147 --> 00:13:24,976 It was like a fairy tale. 279 00:13:25,011 --> 00:13:28,980 And Charlie comes dancing out of the house, 280 00:13:29,015 --> 00:13:31,224 and I said, "Wow." 281 00:13:34,434 --> 00:13:40,474 ♪ 282 00:13:40,509 --> 00:13:41,855 - There's no other way to put it. 283 00:13:41,890 --> 00:13:45,686 Dennis Wilson falls in love with Charles Manson 284 00:13:45,721 --> 00:13:50,346 and falls in love with the women. 285 00:13:50,381 --> 00:13:52,279 - Both Charlie and Dennis, I think that 286 00:13:52,314 --> 00:13:54,454 there was a mutual admiration 287 00:13:54,488 --> 00:13:58,768 going on between them. 288 00:13:58,803 --> 00:14:01,702 They were both wild, liked women, 289 00:14:01,737 --> 00:14:05,396 liked music. 290 00:14:05,430 --> 00:14:08,261 Dennis was very much impressed 291 00:14:08,295 --> 00:14:13,059 with the fact that Charlie could get his girls 292 00:14:13,093 --> 00:14:16,096 to participate. 293 00:14:16,131 --> 00:14:19,065 They party. They hang out. 294 00:14:19,099 --> 00:14:22,896 They even record together. 295 00:14:26,520 --> 00:14:29,351 On one occasion, captured in the lost tapes, 296 00:14:29,385 --> 00:14:33,838 Manson gives his home-spun philosophy on life. 297 00:14:35,598 --> 00:14:37,083 - The way out of a room 298 00:14:37,117 --> 00:14:39,637 is not through the door, partner. 299 00:14:39,671 --> 00:14:41,363 Because then you just go into another room 300 00:14:41,397 --> 00:14:42,640 which leads into another room, 301 00:14:42,674 --> 00:14:44,918 which leads into a bigger room 302 00:14:44,953 --> 00:14:48,163 and you're still inside your cage, man. 303 00:14:48,197 --> 00:14:50,855 - Dennis was kind of looking for 304 00:14:50,890 --> 00:14:54,514 some kind of spiritual guidance, and I think that 305 00:14:54,548 --> 00:14:57,241 you know, Charlie kind of fit the bill. 306 00:14:57,275 --> 00:14:58,932 - That's not the way out. The way out is 307 00:14:58,967 --> 00:15:00,451 to give it all up and love every bit of it 308 00:15:00,485 --> 00:15:02,004 as being perfect. 309 00:15:04,696 --> 00:15:07,458 - Manson couldn't have scripted it better. 310 00:15:07,492 --> 00:15:09,770 Wilson introduces him to his good friend 311 00:15:09,805 --> 00:15:11,669 Terry Melcher, 312 00:15:11,703 --> 00:15:13,257 one of the hottest rock-and-roll producers 313 00:15:13,291 --> 00:15:15,569 in America. 314 00:15:15,604 --> 00:15:19,056 - He's the music producer who has produced The Byrds, 315 00:15:19,090 --> 00:15:21,575 and Paul Revere and the Raiders. 316 00:15:21,610 --> 00:15:23,853 He's got a number of hits behind him. 317 00:15:23,888 --> 00:15:25,683 Melcher has it all: 318 00:15:25,717 --> 00:15:27,961 a superstar mom in Doris Day, 319 00:15:27,996 --> 00:15:31,654 a superstar girlfriend in Candice Bergen. 320 00:15:31,689 --> 00:15:33,725 And at the time, he even rents 321 00:15:33,760 --> 00:15:36,728 a superstar's mansion in Beverly Hills 322 00:15:36,763 --> 00:15:39,317 with an address Charlie and the world 323 00:15:39,352 --> 00:15:41,181 will never forget: 324 00:15:41,216 --> 00:15:44,288 10050 Cielo Drive. 325 00:15:46,635 --> 00:15:50,018 Coming up on "Inside the Manson Cult"... 326 00:15:50,052 --> 00:15:52,779 - Anyone in that house on Cielo Drive... 327 00:15:52,813 --> 00:15:54,298 - On Cielo Drive, over. 328 00:15:54,332 --> 00:15:55,402 - Was going to die that night. 329 00:15:55,437 --> 00:15:57,577 They were all going to die. 330 00:15:57,611 --> 00:15:59,130 The real inside story 331 00:15:59,165 --> 00:16:02,099 of America's most shocking cult. 332 00:16:05,136 --> 00:16:08,381 - It was just pandemonium in Los Angeles. 333 00:16:10,141 --> 00:16:12,972 - It was terrifying, the idea of 334 00:16:13,006 --> 00:16:15,215 testifying against them. 335 00:16:15,250 --> 00:16:16,527 - He's programming us. 336 00:16:16,561 --> 00:16:19,323 -We are sneaking in a county jail. 337 00:16:19,357 --> 00:16:23,154 - He's telling us to break him out. 338 00:16:31,818 --> 00:16:33,164 Hidden and forgotten 339 00:16:33,199 --> 00:16:34,994 for more than 40 years, 340 00:16:35,028 --> 00:16:38,445 the lost tapes take us inside the Manson cult 341 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:40,792 and show how Charles Manson 342 00:16:40,827 --> 00:16:43,071 turns a group of hippie runaways 343 00:16:43,105 --> 00:16:45,107 into brainwashed zombies, 344 00:16:45,142 --> 00:16:47,144 some capable of mass murder. 345 00:16:51,079 --> 00:16:54,013 It is spring of 1968. 346 00:16:54,047 --> 00:16:57,844 The whole world is rock-and-roll crazy. 347 00:16:57,878 --> 00:16:59,984 - In that era, music's a talking newspaper. 348 00:17:00,019 --> 00:17:03,263 Music is a way that young people were processing 349 00:17:03,298 --> 00:17:04,609 the conflicts that were all around them 350 00:17:04,644 --> 00:17:05,748 in the culture. 351 00:17:05,783 --> 00:17:07,060 It wasn't a secret code. 352 00:17:07,095 --> 00:17:09,062 It was another language, 353 00:17:09,097 --> 00:17:10,270 and it was a language that 354 00:17:10,305 --> 00:17:12,169 thousands and thousands of young Americans 355 00:17:12,203 --> 00:17:14,516 spoke fluently. 356 00:17:14,550 --> 00:17:17,312 Manson speaks the language too, 357 00:17:17,346 --> 00:17:20,832 and fame would bring him the widest possible audience 358 00:17:20,867 --> 00:17:22,593 for his ideas. 359 00:17:22,627 --> 00:17:25,113 He's living with California music legend 360 00:17:25,147 --> 00:17:26,562 Dennis Wilson, 361 00:17:26,597 --> 00:17:28,461 drummer of the Beach Boys. 362 00:17:28,495 --> 00:17:31,705 He knows the power rock stardom can bring. 363 00:17:31,740 --> 00:17:35,261 Now he gets a taste for the life. 364 00:17:35,295 --> 00:17:37,021 - Charlie evolved. 365 00:17:37,056 --> 00:17:39,748 He didn't want money or fame, 366 00:17:39,782 --> 00:17:41,405 because he never had money or fame. 367 00:17:41,439 --> 00:17:44,408 But then when he sees Dennis Wilson, 368 00:17:44,442 --> 00:17:46,444 people are fawning over him, 369 00:17:46,479 --> 00:17:47,928 he's got this beautiful house. 370 00:17:47,963 --> 00:17:49,171 And Charlie thought, 371 00:17:49,206 --> 00:17:51,967 "Hey, this is something I want." 372 00:17:52,001 --> 00:17:53,831 Wilson hooks Manson up 373 00:17:53,865 --> 00:17:57,731 with top Hollywood music producer Terry Melcher. 374 00:17:57,766 --> 00:18:01,597 Melcher is rock-and-roll royalty. 375 00:18:01,632 --> 00:18:04,255 - ♪ Just come and say you love me ♪ 376 00:18:04,290 --> 00:18:06,637 - Manson thought Melcher was there to audition him 377 00:18:06,671 --> 00:18:09,674 for a record contract. 378 00:18:09,709 --> 00:18:11,849 - I think Charlie was very nervous, 379 00:18:11,883 --> 00:18:14,058 but I don't think he wanted to show that. 380 00:18:14,093 --> 00:18:17,234 - ♪ Come on and look at me 381 00:18:17,268 --> 00:18:19,132 Melcher holds the keys 382 00:18:19,167 --> 00:18:22,101 to Manson's musical dreams. 383 00:18:22,135 --> 00:18:24,586 But a sound recording from the lost tapes 384 00:18:24,620 --> 00:18:27,727 reveals what Melcher thinks of Manson's music. 385 00:18:45,883 --> 00:18:48,541 -When Charlie was rejected by Terry Melcher 386 00:18:48,575 --> 00:18:50,059 and the music industry, 387 00:18:50,094 --> 00:18:51,958 it festered with Charlie. 388 00:18:51,992 --> 00:18:53,304 It's something he focused on 389 00:18:53,339 --> 00:18:54,443 and fixated on 390 00:18:54,478 --> 00:18:56,100 for a very long time afterwards. 391 00:18:58,206 --> 00:19:00,863 - He talked about all these Hollywood people. 392 00:19:03,383 --> 00:19:04,867 "They're all liars." 393 00:19:06,973 --> 00:19:09,872 Manson has had it with show business 394 00:19:09,907 --> 00:19:12,254 and the people in it. 395 00:19:12,289 --> 00:19:15,257 It marks a turning point in the Manson story. 396 00:19:15,292 --> 00:19:21,470 From now on, Hollywood is the enemy. 397 00:19:21,505 --> 00:19:23,714 Their dreams dashed, The Family pack up 398 00:19:23,748 --> 00:19:25,371 and hit the road. 399 00:19:28,408 --> 00:19:29,789 ♪ 400 00:19:29,823 --> 00:19:31,411 They settle at a horse ranch 401 00:19:31,446 --> 00:19:34,242 around 30 miles north of Los Angeles. 402 00:19:34,276 --> 00:19:37,314 ♪ 403 00:19:37,348 --> 00:19:39,212 - Spahn Ranch was private. 404 00:19:39,247 --> 00:19:41,525 You know, it had that interesting little flair 405 00:19:41,559 --> 00:19:43,112 because it's been in a lot of Western movies 406 00:19:43,147 --> 00:19:46,495 but there also was, like, a façade of a saloon 407 00:19:46,530 --> 00:19:49,084 and, you know, they rented horses 408 00:19:49,118 --> 00:19:51,259 for horseback riding. 409 00:19:51,293 --> 00:19:54,641 - Spahn Ranch sat on old Highway 70. 410 00:19:54,676 --> 00:19:57,575 It was a place... 411 00:19:57,610 --> 00:20:00,785 Yeah, it had its own magic. 412 00:20:00,820 --> 00:20:03,995 My job was looking after horses and the cowboys, 413 00:20:04,030 --> 00:20:07,206 the people that worked on Spahn's Ranch. 414 00:20:07,240 --> 00:20:10,485 A place like that isn't actually a job. 415 00:20:10,519 --> 00:20:12,314 It's a way of living. 416 00:20:12,349 --> 00:20:16,318 A way of living that is about to change. 417 00:20:16,353 --> 00:20:19,425 - In comes this little guy who bangs through the door 418 00:20:19,459 --> 00:20:21,392 like he thought he was God, 419 00:20:21,427 --> 00:20:25,293 and he screamed at us, "I'm Charles Manson!" 420 00:20:25,327 --> 00:20:26,708 And I was like, "I don't give a hell who you are, 421 00:20:26,742 --> 00:20:28,951 Get the hell out of my house!" 422 00:20:28,986 --> 00:20:31,264 But it isn't Windy's ranch. 423 00:20:31,299 --> 00:20:34,923 It belongs to 80-year-old George Spahn. 424 00:20:34,957 --> 00:20:37,408 And Manson makes a deal with him. 425 00:20:37,443 --> 00:20:40,135 The Family can stay free of charge 426 00:20:40,169 --> 00:20:42,758 if the girls help out. 427 00:20:42,793 --> 00:20:45,899 - We helped out renting the horses, 428 00:20:45,934 --> 00:20:50,594 shoveling horse poop. 429 00:20:50,628 --> 00:20:53,079 - Charles Manson took two of the girls 430 00:20:53,113 --> 00:20:59,050 and he assigned them to keep George Spahn happy... 431 00:20:59,085 --> 00:21:01,777 in any way they could. 432 00:21:01,812 --> 00:21:04,642 And they did. 433 00:21:04,677 --> 00:21:05,954 Manson's commune 434 00:21:05,988 --> 00:21:09,820 attracts more and more followers, 435 00:21:09,854 --> 00:21:13,444 including 25-year-old musician Catherine Share, 436 00:21:13,479 --> 00:21:17,448 nicknamed Gypsy. 437 00:21:17,483 --> 00:21:18,484 - To me, it was beautiful. 438 00:21:18,518 --> 00:21:20,209 I didn't see the dust. 439 00:21:20,244 --> 00:21:22,695 I just saw the quaintness of it. 440 00:21:22,729 --> 00:21:26,457 And it just looked almost dreamlike to me. 441 00:21:26,492 --> 00:21:29,115 I was told by one of the girls that 442 00:21:29,149 --> 00:21:30,806 everybody picked new names, 443 00:21:30,841 --> 00:21:32,532 and I could pick whatever name I wanted, 444 00:21:32,567 --> 00:21:39,298 and I said, "Oh, okay, then I'll call myself Gypsy." 445 00:21:39,332 --> 00:21:41,921 - We didn't need food. 446 00:21:41,955 --> 00:21:44,337 Charlie showed us how to get food out of the dumpsters 447 00:21:44,372 --> 00:21:46,512 at the back of the grocery stores. 448 00:21:46,546 --> 00:21:47,858 - You wouldn't believe what we got 449 00:21:47,892 --> 00:21:49,100 out of the garbage cans today. 450 00:21:49,135 --> 00:21:50,999 We got a whole watermelon, 451 00:21:51,033 --> 00:21:55,831 six boxes of bananas, four boxes of oranges, um... 452 00:21:55,866 --> 00:21:59,179 - Don't forget the artichokes. - Artichokes... 453 00:21:59,214 --> 00:22:01,458 - We'd wash it off and make fruit salads. 454 00:22:01,492 --> 00:22:04,288 We ate very well, actually. 455 00:22:04,323 --> 00:22:06,325 Playing music and 456 00:22:06,359 --> 00:22:09,293 making love and getting to know everyone... 457 00:22:09,328 --> 00:22:11,847 It was quite ideal for quite a long time. 458 00:22:13,504 --> 00:22:16,852 But beneath the surface there was a monster 459 00:22:16,887 --> 00:22:19,027 that was lurking. 460 00:22:21,478 --> 00:22:24,273 narrator: The lost tapes reveal the tightening grip 461 00:22:24,308 --> 00:22:28,105 Manson has on his followers' minds. 462 00:22:28,139 --> 00:22:29,934 - I am Charlie. 463 00:22:29,969 --> 00:22:31,764 And if he dies, I die. 464 00:22:31,798 --> 00:22:33,317 - You said you are Charlie? 465 00:22:33,352 --> 00:22:34,939 - I gave up my personality 466 00:22:34,974 --> 00:22:38,046 and become what he showed me I can be. 467 00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:39,323 - And that is what? 468 00:22:39,358 --> 00:22:41,705 - Total love. 469 00:22:41,739 --> 00:22:43,603 - So in this clip we can see 470 00:22:43,638 --> 00:22:45,985 more about the mindset of Manson's followers; 471 00:22:46,019 --> 00:22:49,540 that, in essence, they had eliminated their identities. 472 00:22:49,575 --> 00:22:51,197 They have nothing else to go upon 473 00:22:51,231 --> 00:22:52,612 except what Charlie had provided, 474 00:22:52,647 --> 00:22:55,270 and this instills this idea of groupthink, 475 00:22:55,304 --> 00:23:00,655 where all they know is the benefit of the group. 476 00:23:00,689 --> 00:23:02,657 - We didn't talk about our inner feelings 477 00:23:02,691 --> 00:23:05,625 or emotions because we weren't supposed to have any. 478 00:23:05,660 --> 00:23:10,250 It was one mind with a lot of hands. 479 00:23:10,285 --> 00:23:12,218 And there was no discussing it. 480 00:23:13,702 --> 00:23:16,395 Somehow The Family seemed to believe 481 00:23:16,429 --> 00:23:19,777 they're actually living the dream Manson had sold them. 482 00:23:19,812 --> 00:23:23,263 But those outsiders close enough to witness 483 00:23:23,298 --> 00:23:26,163 see something very different. 484 00:23:26,197 --> 00:23:30,547 - Manson had a bunch of ragtag... 485 00:23:30,581 --> 00:23:32,376 dirty little girls. 486 00:23:32,411 --> 00:23:34,516 They were kind of pathetic. 487 00:23:34,551 --> 00:23:36,967 They sure were strange. 488 00:23:37,001 --> 00:23:40,142 The men all carried knives. 489 00:23:40,177 --> 00:23:41,420 When I went up there, 490 00:23:41,454 --> 00:23:44,043 I always carried a gun. 491 00:23:44,077 --> 00:23:45,493 Coming up, 492 00:23:45,527 --> 00:23:48,530 the lost tapes reveal how Manson takes his cult 493 00:23:48,565 --> 00:23:52,120 a step closer to killing. 494 00:23:52,154 --> 00:23:54,225 - Everybody just went stark raving mad, 495 00:23:54,260 --> 00:23:57,263 I mean, just completely crazy. 496 00:23:57,297 --> 00:23:59,438 And startling recordings 497 00:23:59,472 --> 00:24:01,578 show that he is bending their minds 498 00:24:01,612 --> 00:24:05,133 to believe he is God. 499 00:24:05,167 --> 00:24:07,860 - We've seen Charlie do things that no human being 500 00:24:07,894 --> 00:24:08,964 has ever done. 501 00:24:08,999 --> 00:24:11,311 We've seen miracles. 502 00:24:21,183 --> 00:24:23,910 male narrator: It is the summer of 1968. 503 00:24:23,945 --> 00:24:27,604 Charles Manson, wannabe musician and ex-con, 504 00:24:27,638 --> 00:24:30,503 has established a commune on a run-down ranch 505 00:24:30,538 --> 00:24:34,265 30 miles outside of Los Angeles... 506 00:24:36,095 --> 00:24:40,409 And he's turning it from commune to cult. 507 00:24:40,444 --> 00:24:42,101 - Every now and then, 508 00:24:42,135 --> 00:24:43,965 them girls would ask me 509 00:24:43,999 --> 00:24:48,176 why I didn't throw away my bras 510 00:24:48,210 --> 00:24:51,455 and run like them half-naked around the ranch. 511 00:24:51,490 --> 00:24:54,458 Didn't I feel like I should be free? 512 00:24:54,493 --> 00:24:59,532 I said, "You're not free. You're slaves." 513 00:24:59,567 --> 00:25:02,777 Along with sex, music, and mind-control, 514 00:25:02,811 --> 00:25:05,089 Manson throws one more ingredient 515 00:25:05,124 --> 00:25:08,127 into his cult-creating cocktail: 516 00:25:08,161 --> 00:25:09,784 isolation. 517 00:25:09,818 --> 00:25:13,097 At the ranch there are no calendars or clocks; 518 00:25:13,132 --> 00:25:15,341 no magazines or newspapers. 519 00:25:15,375 --> 00:25:18,447 Manson's word is the only word. 520 00:25:18,482 --> 00:25:22,797 - We were totally reliant on Charlie's idea 521 00:25:22,831 --> 00:25:27,008 of what our family should be doing. 522 00:25:30,045 --> 00:25:33,290 ♪ 523 00:25:33,324 --> 00:25:35,982 - The isolation that Manson imposed 524 00:25:36,017 --> 00:25:39,572 upon his followers by taking them out into the Ranch 525 00:25:39,607 --> 00:25:41,194 was pivotal. 526 00:25:41,229 --> 00:25:43,334 In that environment, he controlled 527 00:25:43,369 --> 00:25:44,612 everything they saw, 528 00:25:44,646 --> 00:25:46,268 everything they heard. 529 00:25:46,303 --> 00:25:50,859 He could create an absolute bubble. 530 00:25:50,894 --> 00:25:54,449 - In hindsight, it was the perfect breeding ground 531 00:25:54,483 --> 00:25:58,073 for his philosophy to grow 532 00:25:58,108 --> 00:26:01,801 and our commitment to him 533 00:26:01,836 --> 00:26:03,562 to deepen. 534 00:26:06,634 --> 00:26:09,464 The lost tapes contain a unique record 535 00:26:09,498 --> 00:26:13,192 of Manson's preaching. 536 00:26:13,226 --> 00:26:15,090 - You're born with a survival instinct 537 00:26:15,125 --> 00:26:17,127 to be selfish. 538 00:26:17,161 --> 00:26:19,198 So the first thing that happens, man, 539 00:26:19,232 --> 00:26:20,682 is they start giving you their thoughts 540 00:26:20,717 --> 00:26:23,271 and making things out of you that they want out of. 541 00:26:23,305 --> 00:26:24,686 And then by the time you reach 30, 542 00:26:24,721 --> 00:26:27,309 you're exactly what they want. 543 00:26:27,344 --> 00:26:29,139 You're a free soul standing in a cage 544 00:26:29,173 --> 00:26:31,072 who has to die because he was taught. 545 00:26:31,106 --> 00:26:33,419 Yeah. 546 00:26:35,248 --> 00:26:37,803 - We would listen 547 00:26:37,837 --> 00:26:39,805 to everything he had to say. 548 00:26:39,839 --> 00:26:42,152 We never joined in, 549 00:26:42,186 --> 00:26:43,947 commented, 550 00:26:43,981 --> 00:26:46,225 disagreed. 551 00:26:46,259 --> 00:26:48,123 He would seem to just answer your questions 552 00:26:48,158 --> 00:26:51,540 before you had any. 553 00:26:51,575 --> 00:26:55,683 Manson's Family is now about 30 strong. 554 00:26:55,717 --> 00:26:58,099 Some have been with him more than a year. 555 00:26:58,133 --> 00:27:00,032 He has bent them to his will 556 00:27:00,066 --> 00:27:04,968 with sex, isolation, and domination. 557 00:27:05,002 --> 00:27:10,801 And the lost tapes show one last vital ingredient. 558 00:27:10,836 --> 00:27:13,079 - We took things like belladonna 559 00:27:13,114 --> 00:27:15,323 and smoked hashish a lot 560 00:27:15,357 --> 00:27:18,809 and smoked marijuana all the time, and... 561 00:27:18,844 --> 00:27:21,156 and psilocybin and mescaline... 562 00:27:21,191 --> 00:27:22,951 When I was with Charlie we took 563 00:27:22,986 --> 00:27:26,092 anywhere between 30 and 40 trips 564 00:27:26,127 --> 00:27:27,784 on acid alone. 565 00:27:30,683 --> 00:27:31,995 ♪ 566 00:27:32,029 --> 00:27:33,824 Everybody just went stark raving mad. 567 00:27:33,859 --> 00:27:36,758 I mean, just completely crazy. 568 00:27:36,793 --> 00:27:39,209 - People are jumping in and out of the fireplace, 569 00:27:39,243 --> 00:27:40,866 flying through windows, 570 00:27:40,900 --> 00:27:42,315 hitting other people in the face. 571 00:27:42,350 --> 00:27:45,146 - Arms and legs flying in every directions 572 00:27:45,180 --> 00:27:46,595 and people screaming, 573 00:27:46,630 --> 00:27:50,427 "Charlie! Charlie!" 574 00:27:50,461 --> 00:27:53,050 - ♪ One too many trips 575 00:27:53,085 --> 00:27:55,915 ♪ To the moon and back 576 00:27:55,950 --> 00:27:58,504 ♪ Feel like I'm shot through 577 00:27:58,538 --> 00:28:01,749 ♪ From green to black 578 00:28:01,783 --> 00:28:04,234 ♪ Had so many highs 579 00:28:04,268 --> 00:28:06,926 - The LSD was fun. 580 00:28:06,961 --> 00:28:08,997 Everything became more animated, 581 00:28:09,032 --> 00:28:11,275 the songs, you know, the words, 582 00:28:11,310 --> 00:28:13,381 I felt totally disconnected 583 00:28:13,415 --> 00:28:16,487 from reality. 584 00:28:16,522 --> 00:28:23,460 But not everybody in the cult is high. 585 00:28:23,494 --> 00:28:25,289 - Manson was smart enough to know 586 00:28:25,324 --> 00:28:29,500 how to dose out LSD. 587 00:28:29,535 --> 00:28:31,295 I've interviewed Manson three times. 588 00:28:31,330 --> 00:28:33,919 He told us in the interview at San Quentin 589 00:28:33,953 --> 00:28:36,680 he would take drugs, but not that much. 590 00:28:36,715 --> 00:28:39,441 But what about your flock? 591 00:28:39,476 --> 00:28:40,719 "I gave them the full dosage of it." 592 00:28:40,753 --> 00:28:42,168 You know, "Why?" 593 00:28:42,203 --> 00:28:44,792 "Because I felt I could have more of an impact 594 00:28:44,826 --> 00:28:47,449 over them." 595 00:28:47,484 --> 00:28:49,244 - The shadow side of psychedelics 596 00:28:49,279 --> 00:28:52,903 is that you're nakedly innocent and vulnerable. 597 00:28:52,938 --> 00:28:56,907 And someone can weasel their way inside your mind 598 00:28:56,942 --> 00:29:01,084 and alter your perspective. 599 00:29:01,118 --> 00:29:03,396 With The Family drugged and under his spell, 600 00:29:03,431 --> 00:29:09,575 Manson takes his power to a whole nother level. 601 00:29:09,609 --> 00:29:12,302 -Charlie never just said he was Jesus Christ, 602 00:29:12,336 --> 00:29:14,787 but then he always said it. 603 00:29:14,822 --> 00:29:16,099 He said it in every other way 604 00:29:16,133 --> 00:29:17,652 except for just coming flat-out and saying 605 00:29:17,686 --> 00:29:18,998 "I am Jesus Christ." 606 00:29:19,033 --> 00:29:22,346 - He said that 2,000 years ago he'd hung on a cross 607 00:29:22,381 --> 00:29:23,831 and died for everyone's sins, 608 00:29:23,865 --> 00:29:26,074 and it didn't do a bit of good, 609 00:29:26,109 --> 00:29:27,558 so now he's up again. 610 00:29:29,629 --> 00:29:32,598 - He started using subliminal messages 611 00:29:32,632 --> 00:29:35,187 such as, "They won't kill me this time 612 00:29:35,221 --> 00:29:37,810 because I've already died." 613 00:29:37,845 --> 00:29:40,537 But he'd say it very quickly 614 00:29:40,571 --> 00:29:43,643 with a lot of other things. 615 00:29:43,678 --> 00:29:46,370 - The most extreme form of grandiosity 616 00:29:46,405 --> 00:29:50,167 and power and narcissism is to be godlike. 617 00:29:50,202 --> 00:29:51,720 - You look the part. 618 00:29:51,755 --> 00:29:52,825 You got the hair, 619 00:29:52,860 --> 00:29:53,826 you got the beard, 620 00:29:53,861 --> 00:29:55,310 and now you start talking 621 00:29:55,345 --> 00:29:58,555 and it's very, very convincing. 622 00:29:58,589 --> 00:29:59,625 Before you know it, 623 00:29:59,659 --> 00:30:00,971 you're Jesus. 624 00:30:01,006 --> 00:30:02,076 You're Christ. 625 00:30:04,733 --> 00:30:06,977 - It looked to me like he was 626 00:30:07,012 --> 00:30:09,117 hanging on the cross and... 627 00:30:09,152 --> 00:30:13,363 you know, bleeding from his hands. 628 00:30:13,397 --> 00:30:14,882 It seemed very real. 629 00:30:14,916 --> 00:30:17,677 It seemed like other people were, you know, 630 00:30:17,712 --> 00:30:19,265 believing it. 631 00:30:19,300 --> 00:30:21,267 - We've seen what's possible. 632 00:30:21,302 --> 00:30:24,719 We've seen Charlie do things that no human being... 633 00:30:24,753 --> 00:30:26,445 has ever done. 634 00:30:26,479 --> 00:30:29,655 Or no human being has revealed that he could do these things. 635 00:30:29,689 --> 00:30:32,796 No, we've seen miracles. 636 00:30:32,831 --> 00:30:35,316 - He often talked about 637 00:30:35,350 --> 00:30:38,250 the significance of his name, Man-son. 638 00:30:38,284 --> 00:30:40,942 That he was Man's Son. 639 00:30:40,977 --> 00:30:43,289 The Son of Man. 640 00:30:43,324 --> 00:30:47,224 - We saw him bring a bird back to life. 641 00:30:47,259 --> 00:30:49,157 We know that anything's possible. 642 00:30:51,884 --> 00:30:55,646 It's taken two years of sex, mind-control, 643 00:30:55,681 --> 00:30:57,648 drugs, and domination 644 00:30:57,683 --> 00:31:00,168 for Manson to turn regular kids 645 00:31:00,203 --> 00:31:02,412 into a cult of worshippers 646 00:31:02,446 --> 00:31:05,311 ready to obey his every command. 647 00:31:05,346 --> 00:31:06,968 The question now 648 00:31:07,003 --> 00:31:08,901 is what will he make them do? 649 00:31:08,936 --> 00:31:12,249 - Manson knew where he wanted to go. 650 00:31:12,284 --> 00:31:15,045 He knew where he was taking these people. 651 00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:17,599 But they had no clue. 652 00:31:17,634 --> 00:31:19,015 They had no idea that 653 00:31:19,049 --> 00:31:22,466 where Manson was leading them was mayhem and murder. 654 00:31:23,847 --> 00:31:25,400 Coming up, 655 00:31:25,435 --> 00:31:28,921 the lost tapes show Manson as he prepares for war... 656 00:31:28,956 --> 00:31:30,543 - We're always ready. 657 00:31:30,578 --> 00:31:32,131 And the killings start. 658 00:31:32,166 --> 00:31:34,064 - He was the commander now 659 00:31:34,099 --> 00:31:36,584 and we were all in boot camp. 660 00:31:36,618 --> 00:31:38,448 And an incredible confession 661 00:31:38,482 --> 00:31:40,553 never broadcast before. 662 00:31:40,588 --> 00:31:43,349 - He said that one day 663 00:31:43,384 --> 00:31:44,695 in Beverly Hills, 664 00:31:44,730 --> 00:31:47,112 there would be some atrocious murders 665 00:31:47,146 --> 00:31:48,630 and people would be chopped to pieces. 666 00:31:48,665 --> 00:31:51,254 There'd be things written on the walls in blood. 667 00:32:02,990 --> 00:32:07,822 June 1969. 668 00:32:07,856 --> 00:32:10,963 Charles Manson is becoming increasingly obsessed 669 00:32:10,998 --> 00:32:14,484 with one extraordinary vision. 670 00:32:14,518 --> 00:32:17,280 - I think Charles Manson was looking for some 671 00:32:17,314 --> 00:32:19,661 chaotic Armageddon 672 00:32:19,696 --> 00:32:22,216 into which he could take even more advantage 673 00:32:22,250 --> 00:32:24,494 of disorder, and rally people 674 00:32:24,528 --> 00:32:26,220 behind a common threat. 675 00:32:28,636 --> 00:32:31,673 - Charlie used to say the blacks would 676 00:32:31,708 --> 00:32:33,606 fight against the whites, and 677 00:32:33,641 --> 00:32:34,987 everyone would fight against everybody else 678 00:32:35,022 --> 00:32:37,265 and that everyone would get killed except for Charlie 679 00:32:37,300 --> 00:32:41,960 and a few blacks who'd be left to be their servants. 680 00:32:41,994 --> 00:32:44,928 - He became increasingly, you know, 681 00:32:44,963 --> 00:32:46,585 paranoid about that, 682 00:32:46,619 --> 00:32:49,415 and started preparing us 683 00:32:49,450 --> 00:32:52,280 for that event. 684 00:32:52,315 --> 00:32:55,007 - Manson is imbibing what's happening 685 00:32:55,042 --> 00:32:56,975 in terms of popular and political culture 686 00:32:57,009 --> 00:32:59,046 in the United States. 687 00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:00,979 When we think about the late 1960s, 688 00:33:01,013 --> 00:33:03,740 the Civil Rights movement, Malcolm X, 689 00:33:03,774 --> 00:33:05,052 the Black Panther party, 690 00:33:05,086 --> 00:33:06,605 the Vietnam War, 691 00:33:06,639 --> 00:33:09,746 there were really hundreds of civil disturbances. 692 00:33:09,780 --> 00:33:11,541 And there was a real fear 693 00:33:11,575 --> 00:33:15,890 that race war was coming to the United States. 694 00:33:15,924 --> 00:33:17,271 It seemed as if 695 00:33:17,305 --> 00:33:18,927 the end of the world was coming. 696 00:33:21,516 --> 00:33:24,071 Manson dubs his race war prophecy 697 00:33:24,105 --> 00:33:26,107 "Helter Skelter," 698 00:33:26,142 --> 00:33:30,042 a name he takes from a most unlikely source. 699 00:33:30,077 --> 00:33:32,355 Male announcer: You guessed it, the Beatles! 700 00:33:32,389 --> 00:33:34,253 This rock-and-roll group has taken over 701 00:33:34,288 --> 00:33:36,324 as the kingpins of musical appreciation 702 00:33:36,359 --> 00:33:37,601 among the younger element. 703 00:33:37,636 --> 00:33:40,087 In November 1968, 704 00:33:40,121 --> 00:33:44,056 the Beatles release their "White Album." 705 00:33:44,091 --> 00:33:47,991 Manson becomes obsessed. 706 00:33:48,026 --> 00:33:51,132 - Charlie played it forwards and backwards 707 00:33:51,167 --> 00:33:52,996 and he played it over and over again. 708 00:33:53,031 --> 00:33:58,312 He said, "The Beatles are sending me a message... 709 00:33:58,346 --> 00:34:00,003 That it's time." 710 00:34:00,038 --> 00:34:03,248 Black man was gonna take over the world. 711 00:34:04,732 --> 00:34:07,804 - There was a song called "Helter Skelter"... 712 00:34:09,633 --> 00:34:12,740 About people who were at the bottom of the slide 713 00:34:12,774 --> 00:34:17,365 of society getting back to the top. 714 00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:21,059 According to Manson, these were the blacks. 715 00:34:21,093 --> 00:34:22,681 - The Beatles now were confirming 716 00:34:22,715 --> 00:34:25,097 that it was all true. 717 00:34:29,584 --> 00:34:33,001 It was crazy, crazy thinking. 718 00:34:36,729 --> 00:34:40,423 Now free love transforms to boot camp 719 00:34:40,457 --> 00:34:45,013 as Manson readies his Family for Helter Skelter. 720 00:34:45,048 --> 00:34:47,361 - Mark it. - Sandy, Brenda, Squeaky, 721 00:34:47,395 --> 00:34:50,778 six, take one, roll 210. 722 00:34:50,812 --> 00:34:52,918 -We're always ready. 723 00:34:52,952 --> 00:34:56,335 - The new thought is to be a strong reflection 724 00:34:56,370 --> 00:35:00,339 of the father. 725 00:35:00,374 --> 00:35:03,722 Now, I'm just finding out about this, see. 726 00:35:03,756 --> 00:35:05,275 And it feels good. 727 00:35:05,310 --> 00:35:08,382 It feels good to know. 728 00:35:08,416 --> 00:35:10,832 - He issued us all buck knives 729 00:35:10,867 --> 00:35:12,731 and showed us the most effective way 730 00:35:12,765 --> 00:35:14,560 to kill someone. 731 00:35:14,595 --> 00:35:16,286 He said it... 732 00:35:16,321 --> 00:35:18,978 "You have to be willing to kill 733 00:35:19,013 --> 00:35:21,774 in order to not be killed." 734 00:35:21,809 --> 00:35:23,431 - ♪ If you want it 735 00:35:23,466 --> 00:35:24,846 ♪ Here it is 736 00:35:24,881 --> 00:35:27,815 ♪ Come and get it 737 00:35:27,849 --> 00:35:29,196 - ♪ But you better hurry 738 00:35:29,230 --> 00:35:34,339 Because it won't be here long, you. 739 00:35:34,373 --> 00:35:35,409 - He told us 740 00:35:35,443 --> 00:35:37,342 you stab and then you rip up. 741 00:35:37,376 --> 00:35:40,034 You know, you--that's what I remember. 742 00:35:40,068 --> 00:35:41,587 It's like, you know, so, 743 00:35:41,622 --> 00:35:44,349 the reason being that you would hit as many organs-- 744 00:35:44,383 --> 00:35:49,112 you know, vital organs as possible. 745 00:35:54,117 --> 00:35:55,912 - He was the commander now. 746 00:35:55,946 --> 00:35:58,156 And we were all in boot camp. 747 00:35:58,190 --> 00:36:00,503 I think the dangerous side of Charlie 748 00:36:00,537 --> 00:36:01,538 was that 749 00:36:01,573 --> 00:36:04,714 he would do anything... 750 00:36:04,748 --> 00:36:09,028 to survive. 751 00:36:09,063 --> 00:36:10,168 While Manson's Family 752 00:36:10,202 --> 00:36:11,169 think they're getting ready 753 00:36:11,203 --> 00:36:12,860 to defend themselves, 754 00:36:12,894 --> 00:36:14,344 in reality, 755 00:36:14,379 --> 00:36:18,762 their leader's intentions are very different. 756 00:36:18,797 --> 00:36:21,524 - At that time, I was staying with a man named Pete Nell 757 00:36:21,558 --> 00:36:24,803 who was president of the San Francisco Hell's Angels. 758 00:36:24,837 --> 00:36:26,218 And I got to his house one day 759 00:36:26,253 --> 00:36:28,979 just as Charles Manson had left, 760 00:36:29,014 --> 00:36:30,981 and he was flabbergasted. 761 00:36:31,016 --> 00:36:32,983 Charles Manson had come to them 762 00:36:33,018 --> 00:36:35,227 to try to get the Hell's Angels 763 00:36:35,262 --> 00:36:36,711 to begin a race war; 764 00:36:36,746 --> 00:36:39,852 to just go start randomly shooting black people. 765 00:36:39,887 --> 00:36:42,234 And Pete had said, "You know, if you want a race war, 766 00:36:42,269 --> 00:36:44,340 go start it yourself." 767 00:36:47,757 --> 00:36:49,448 A chilling piece of audio 768 00:36:49,483 --> 00:36:51,278 captured on the lost tapes 769 00:36:51,312 --> 00:36:52,900 when the cameras stopped rolling 770 00:36:52,934 --> 00:36:54,867 and never broadcast before 771 00:36:54,902 --> 00:36:57,801 reveals that Manson now does plan 772 00:36:57,836 --> 00:37:00,390 to start that race war himself. 773 00:37:00,425 --> 00:37:02,220 And the place he's chosen? 774 00:37:02,254 --> 00:37:04,532 The very heart of Hollywood's elite: 775 00:37:04,567 --> 00:37:07,846 Beverly Hills. 776 00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:09,088 - He said 777 00:37:09,123 --> 00:37:11,539 that one day, up in the 778 00:37:11,574 --> 00:37:13,921 mountains of Beverly Hills 779 00:37:13,955 --> 00:37:15,405 that they just, uh... 780 00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:17,407 go in and have a bunch of mass murders. 781 00:37:17,442 --> 00:37:18,753 That they would be so atrocious. 782 00:37:18,788 --> 00:37:20,168 That there would be blood splattered 783 00:37:20,203 --> 00:37:21,653 all over everything. 784 00:37:21,687 --> 00:37:23,275 That people would be chopped to pieces 785 00:37:23,310 --> 00:37:24,897 and cut up with knives. 786 00:37:24,932 --> 00:37:29,316 There'd be things written on the walls in blood. 787 00:37:29,350 --> 00:37:33,389 And, uh, the white man would get all uptight about it 788 00:37:33,423 --> 00:37:36,806 and blame the for it. 789 00:37:48,956 --> 00:37:50,026 Coming up 790 00:37:50,060 --> 00:37:52,270 on "Inside the Manson Cult"... 791 00:37:52,304 --> 00:37:54,341 - He confided in me about killing people. 792 00:37:54,375 --> 00:37:55,618 About how groovy it was 793 00:37:55,652 --> 00:37:59,691 to take a gun and blast some guy in the stomach. 794 00:37:59,725 --> 00:38:00,761 And a former cult member 795 00:38:00,795 --> 00:38:03,695 has to face her younger self 796 00:38:03,729 --> 00:38:05,869 from half a century before. 797 00:38:05,904 --> 00:38:08,458 - Did I ever think of her baby? 798 00:38:08,493 --> 00:38:10,667 I've pictured her pregnant. 799 00:38:10,702 --> 00:38:13,912 Anybody watching this would think I was a monster. 800 00:38:24,509 --> 00:38:27,788 Early summer, 1969. 801 00:38:27,822 --> 00:38:31,032 Charles Manson is convinced a race war 802 00:38:31,067 --> 00:38:32,482 is coming down fast. 803 00:38:32,517 --> 00:38:34,691 - The ranch changed completely 804 00:38:34,726 --> 00:38:37,176 after that. 805 00:38:37,211 --> 00:38:38,695 And the lost tapes 806 00:38:38,730 --> 00:38:43,321 show how his world view turns dark. 807 00:38:43,355 --> 00:38:45,150 - He confided in me about killing people. 808 00:38:45,184 --> 00:38:46,634 About how groovy it was 809 00:38:46,669 --> 00:38:47,808 to take a gun and 810 00:38:47,842 --> 00:38:49,913 blast some guy in the stomach 811 00:38:49,948 --> 00:38:55,885 just because he was black. 812 00:38:55,919 --> 00:38:57,645 About how far out it would be 813 00:38:57,680 --> 00:38:59,509 to go into a house and... 814 00:38:59,544 --> 00:39:01,200 cut the out of women 815 00:39:01,235 --> 00:39:02,823 and cut the off of little boys 816 00:39:02,857 --> 00:39:07,448 and just have pools of blood everywhere. 817 00:39:07,483 --> 00:39:09,139 - Manson addressed 818 00:39:09,174 --> 00:39:12,867 the issue of the pending race war 819 00:39:12,902 --> 00:39:15,353 by creating what he thought 820 00:39:15,387 --> 00:39:18,425 would be the circumstances to ignite it. 821 00:39:20,979 --> 00:39:23,809 As Manson hones his master plan, 822 00:39:23,844 --> 00:39:26,467 the tapes show how he's conditioned his followers 823 00:39:26,502 --> 00:39:29,056 to commit the ultimate crime 824 00:39:29,090 --> 00:39:31,472 by conquering their deepest fears 825 00:39:31,507 --> 00:39:32,646 of death. 826 00:39:36,546 --> 00:39:38,168 -There is no death. 827 00:39:38,203 --> 00:39:41,102 There's no such thing. When you die, 828 00:39:41,137 --> 00:39:46,867 you die with the thoughts that you have in your head. 829 00:39:46,901 --> 00:39:49,939 - Their reality was such that oh, 830 00:39:49,973 --> 00:39:54,253 you know, death was no big deal. 831 00:39:54,288 --> 00:39:56,428 - When somebody needs to be killed, 832 00:39:56,463 --> 00:39:57,429 there's no wrong. 833 00:39:57,464 --> 00:39:58,637 You do it. 834 00:39:58,672 --> 00:40:00,708 And then you move on. 835 00:40:05,610 --> 00:40:08,820 - Manson had weaponized his followers 836 00:40:08,854 --> 00:40:10,718 to use--like a knife, 837 00:40:10,753 --> 00:40:12,444 like a gun, 838 00:40:12,479 --> 00:40:14,170 like a rope, 839 00:40:14,204 --> 00:40:18,726 to kill the people that he had targeted. 840 00:40:21,211 --> 00:40:23,006 Manson has trained his Family 841 00:40:23,041 --> 00:40:25,250 to be able to kill for him. 842 00:40:25,284 --> 00:40:27,942 But are they ready to really do it? 843 00:40:27,977 --> 00:40:30,773 It's time to find out. 844 00:40:59,249 --> 00:41:02,183 -Gary Hinman had his ear chopped off... 845 00:41:02,218 --> 00:41:04,634 along with being killed and stabbed and 846 00:41:04,669 --> 00:41:05,946 tortured... 847 00:41:05,980 --> 00:41:09,674 everything else he had done to him. 848 00:41:09,708 --> 00:41:11,469 - We'd been to Gary's house 849 00:41:11,503 --> 00:41:12,539 you know, several times. 850 00:41:12,573 --> 00:41:14,955 He lived in Topanga Canyon. 851 00:41:14,989 --> 00:41:18,614 Gary Hinman has sold Bobby Beausoleil some drugs. 852 00:41:18,648 --> 00:41:20,408 Beausoleil sells them on 853 00:41:20,443 --> 00:41:23,204 but his buyers think the drugs are bad. 854 00:41:23,239 --> 00:41:25,379 Beausoleil needs the money back. 855 00:41:36,563 --> 00:41:38,737 - So, uh, Bobby was driven over there 856 00:41:38,772 --> 00:41:40,083 to make it right 857 00:41:40,118 --> 00:41:42,707 with two girls that knew Gary very well. 858 00:41:42,741 --> 00:41:45,813 In fact I think he had slept with both of them. 859 00:41:45,848 --> 00:41:47,090 Susan Atkins 860 00:41:47,125 --> 00:41:49,610 and Mary Brunner. 861 00:42:00,587 --> 00:42:03,348 - Hinman denies he did anything wrong. 862 00:42:03,382 --> 00:42:06,213 He doesn't have any money, he swears by it. 863 00:42:06,247 --> 00:42:09,527 But he's getting loud, he's getting angry. 864 00:42:09,561 --> 00:42:11,390 - The women get on the phone with Manson 865 00:42:11,425 --> 00:42:12,460 and tell him what's going on 866 00:42:12,495 --> 00:42:13,669 and Manson decides 867 00:42:13,703 --> 00:42:15,533 that now he has to ride in again 868 00:42:15,567 --> 00:42:19,329 and solve the situation. 869 00:42:19,364 --> 00:42:21,469 - Charlie gets a samurai sword. 870 00:42:21,504 --> 00:42:24,231 He takes the sword to the house. 871 00:42:24,265 --> 00:42:25,646 - Once you show up with a sword, 872 00:42:25,681 --> 00:42:27,130 things will not end well. 873 00:42:33,447 --> 00:42:36,588 - Manson makes a swipe. 874 00:42:36,623 --> 00:42:39,246 He made a slice from the ear down to the face. 875 00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:41,800 It was bleeding a lot. 876 00:42:51,672 --> 00:42:53,571 - Pretty much what he's telling Beausoleil 877 00:42:53,605 --> 00:42:55,193 is, "Come on. 878 00:42:55,227 --> 00:42:58,506 You know what you have to do." 879 00:43:46,175 --> 00:43:48,764 - Bobby Beausoleil takes one of the cars 880 00:43:48,798 --> 00:43:50,904 and leaves the area. 881 00:43:50,938 --> 00:43:53,803 Beausoleil is found in the car, asleep, 882 00:43:53,838 --> 00:43:56,357 arrested, charged with the crime 883 00:43:56,392 --> 00:43:58,014 of killing Gary Hinman. 884 00:43:58,049 --> 00:44:00,948 Manson gets a call letting him know 885 00:44:00,983 --> 00:44:02,674 that Beausoleil has been arrested, 886 00:44:02,709 --> 00:44:05,953 and this is where the chaos really sets in. 887 00:44:05,988 --> 00:44:08,542 - This is when things start getting really dire. 888 00:44:08,576 --> 00:44:11,096 I mean, really murderous. 889 00:44:11,131 --> 00:44:14,652 narrator: Manson's Family are now murderers 890 00:44:14,686 --> 00:44:18,517 and, it seems, ready to give up everything for him. 891 00:44:20,727 --> 00:44:24,075 It's time to put his master plan into action. 892 00:44:24,109 --> 00:44:28,010 The Helter Skelter race war won't start on its own. 893 00:44:28,044 --> 00:44:30,840 But his family can start it for him, 894 00:44:30,875 --> 00:44:33,532 and he knows just where and how 895 00:44:33,567 --> 00:44:36,190 he wants them to do it. 896 00:44:36,225 --> 00:44:38,917 It has taken over two years, 897 00:44:38,952 --> 00:44:41,023 but he has created an army of followers 898 00:44:41,057 --> 00:44:45,683 ready to kill to please their master. 899 00:44:45,717 --> 00:44:49,238 On the evening of August 8, 1969, 900 00:44:49,272 --> 00:44:52,759 Charles Manson selects his most trusted 901 00:44:52,793 --> 00:44:56,935 for a mission that will haunt U.S. history. 902 00:44:56,970 --> 00:44:59,593 - Manson told his followers 903 00:44:59,627 --> 00:45:03,045 that this would be the ignition point 904 00:45:03,079 --> 00:45:05,772 for Helter Skelter. 905 00:45:05,806 --> 00:45:08,050 Charles "Tex" Watson, 906 00:45:08,084 --> 00:45:11,812 23-year-old ex-high school football star. 907 00:45:11,847 --> 00:45:13,434 Patricia Krenwinkle, 908 00:45:13,469 --> 00:45:17,059 21, a onetime church choir member. 909 00:45:17,093 --> 00:45:19,371 And Susan Atkins, 910 00:45:19,406 --> 00:45:20,856 also 21, 911 00:45:20,890 --> 00:45:24,756 a former Girl Scout. 912 00:45:24,791 --> 00:45:26,585 They'll be driven to the onetime home 913 00:45:26,620 --> 00:45:28,691 of Terry Melcher, 914 00:45:28,726 --> 00:45:32,868 the man who rejected Manson for a record deal: 915 00:45:32,902 --> 00:45:37,113 10050 Cielo Drive. 916 00:45:37,148 --> 00:45:38,183 Coming up 917 00:45:38,218 --> 00:45:41,117 on "Inside the Manson Cult"... 918 00:45:41,152 --> 00:45:45,190 Manson brings terror to Tinseltown... 919 00:45:45,225 --> 00:45:48,055 - The gore. The blood. 920 00:45:48,090 --> 00:45:50,886 This was what Charles Manson wanted. 921 00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:53,785 And the threat of more murder to come 922 00:45:53,820 --> 00:45:56,029 on the lost tapes. 923 00:45:56,063 --> 00:45:58,479 - If you had to kill more, you'd kill more? 924 00:45:58,514 --> 00:45:59,791 - Mm-hmm. 925 00:45:59,826 --> 00:46:01,586 - Whatever we have to do. - Whatever. 926 00:46:01,620 --> 00:46:04,278 - We leave our house open to the soul. 927 00:46:13,909 --> 00:46:15,703 Charles Manson has turned 928 00:46:15,738 --> 00:46:17,222 his young followers... 929 00:46:17,257 --> 00:46:19,017 - We're always ready. 930 00:46:19,052 --> 00:46:21,054 Into killers. 931 00:46:21,088 --> 00:46:23,781 - There is a deed to be done. 932 00:46:23,815 --> 00:46:28,786 There is something that has to be taken care of here. 933 00:46:28,820 --> 00:46:31,202 The murder spree has begun. 934 00:46:31,236 --> 00:46:33,273 -When somebody needs to be killed, 935 00:46:33,307 --> 00:46:34,377 there's no wrong. 936 00:46:34,412 --> 00:46:35,447 You do it. 937 00:46:39,797 --> 00:46:40,832 woman on radio: Man down, man down, 938 00:46:40,867 --> 00:46:44,008 at 10050 Cielo Drive, over. 939 00:46:44,042 --> 00:46:46,631 - August 9, 1969. 940 00:46:46,665 --> 00:46:48,046 9:00 a.m. 941 00:46:48,081 --> 00:46:51,981 Bob Burbridge is a 25-year-old cop on patrol 942 00:46:52,016 --> 00:46:53,707 for the LAPD. 943 00:46:53,741 --> 00:46:56,192 - Well, I just got out of roll call 944 00:46:56,227 --> 00:46:58,160 at West Los Angeles Police Station 945 00:46:58,194 --> 00:47:00,507 and the call was a man down call, 946 00:47:00,541 --> 00:47:04,511 a call of a drunk or it could be a dead body. 947 00:47:04,545 --> 00:47:06,616 So I rolled on the call... 948 00:47:09,792 --> 00:47:13,002 - We're turning onto Cielo Drive. 949 00:47:13,037 --> 00:47:15,902 This is the way I came up on that day. 950 00:47:18,076 --> 00:47:21,321 We're approaching the driveway going up to the mansion, 951 00:47:21,355 --> 00:47:25,359 the Sharon Tate mansion. 952 00:47:25,394 --> 00:47:26,671 As soon as I went through the gate, 953 00:47:26,705 --> 00:47:31,745 I discovered a body in a white car. 954 00:47:31,779 --> 00:47:33,126 I looked on the lawn, 955 00:47:33,160 --> 00:47:37,302 and there were two more bodies laying on the lawn. 956 00:47:39,477 --> 00:47:42,411 We decided that there might be a sniper involved, 957 00:47:42,445 --> 00:47:43,999 so we asked one of the policemen 958 00:47:44,033 --> 00:47:45,517 to go get a shotgun 959 00:47:45,552 --> 00:47:47,105 to cover us while we went 960 00:47:47,140 --> 00:47:50,108 running across this open area to the house. 961 00:47:52,593 --> 00:47:55,113 By the summer of 1969, 962 00:47:55,148 --> 00:47:56,459 Terry Melcher 963 00:47:56,494 --> 00:47:58,703 had moved out of the Cielo Drive house. 964 00:47:58,737 --> 00:48:00,912 - Manson knew pretty damn well 965 00:48:00,947 --> 00:48:03,190 that Terry Melcher no longer lived there. 966 00:48:03,225 --> 00:48:06,366 What you have here is you have a resonance-- 967 00:48:06,400 --> 00:48:08,437 it's a symbolic resonance. 968 00:48:08,471 --> 00:48:10,473 And there's gonna be revenge 969 00:48:10,508 --> 00:48:12,855 on whoever is there: men, women, children. 970 00:48:12,890 --> 00:48:15,168 It didn't really matter. 971 00:48:16,686 --> 00:48:20,414 The people now living at 10050 Cielo Drive 972 00:48:20,449 --> 00:48:23,486 are Hollywood director Roman Polanski 973 00:48:23,521 --> 00:48:24,729 and his wife, 974 00:48:24,763 --> 00:48:28,422 Sharon Tate. 975 00:48:28,457 --> 00:48:35,084 - Sharon Tate was a rising young movie actress. 976 00:48:35,119 --> 00:48:38,398 She had not starred in any A movies 977 00:48:38,432 --> 00:48:42,540 but she was certainly headed in that direction. 978 00:48:42,574 --> 00:48:45,715 Polanski is in London working on a movie. 979 00:48:45,750 --> 00:48:48,166 But Tate is at home with friends. 980 00:48:51,238 --> 00:48:55,553 ♪ 981 00:48:55,587 --> 00:48:58,038 Three of Charles Manson's most trusted followers 982 00:48:58,073 --> 00:49:00,523 had paid them a visit. 983 00:49:00,558 --> 00:49:04,044 ♪ 984 00:49:04,079 --> 00:49:05,943 Charles "Tex" Watson, 985 00:49:05,977 --> 00:49:07,496 Patricia Krenwinkle, 986 00:49:07,530 --> 00:49:11,672 and Susan Atkins. 987 00:49:13,571 --> 00:49:16,677 The LAPD is just about to find out 988 00:49:16,712 --> 00:49:18,783 what horrors they had inflicted 989 00:49:18,817 --> 00:49:20,164 inside the house. 990 00:49:20,198 --> 00:49:22,442 - We got to the living room. 991 00:49:22,476 --> 00:49:24,962 We saw two more bodies-- 992 00:49:24,996 --> 00:49:26,894 towels over their head 993 00:49:26,929 --> 00:49:30,795 and a rope wrapped around both of their necks. 994 00:49:30,829 --> 00:49:35,213 One of them was Sharon Tate. 995 00:49:35,248 --> 00:49:39,217 She was obviously eight to nine months pregnant. 996 00:49:39,252 --> 00:49:40,805 man's voice: A movie actress and four 997 00:49:40,839 --> 00:49:42,255 of her friends were murdered. 998 00:49:42,289 --> 00:49:46,535 And the circumstances were lurid. 999 00:49:46,569 --> 00:49:48,709 - I just remember she was the most beautiful thing 1000 00:49:48,744 --> 00:49:53,300 I've ever seen. 1001 00:49:53,335 --> 00:49:56,821 And there was blood all over her and... 1002 00:49:56,855 --> 00:49:57,822 it was awful. 1003 00:49:57,856 --> 00:49:58,926 It was just awful. 1004 00:49:58,961 --> 00:50:03,621 I--I hate to even think about it. 1005 00:50:03,655 --> 00:50:06,969 - Identification of the persons are as follows: 1006 00:50:07,004 --> 00:50:09,765 Sharon Polanski, 1007 00:50:09,799 --> 00:50:13,217 Jay Sebring, Abigail Folger... 1008 00:50:13,251 --> 00:50:15,495 - Jay Sebring was an internationally famous 1009 00:50:15,529 --> 00:50:17,911 hairstylist. 1010 00:50:17,945 --> 00:50:20,396 Abigail Folger was the heiress 1011 00:50:20,431 --> 00:50:23,641 for the Folger coffee fortune. 1012 00:50:23,675 --> 00:50:29,060 Wojciech Frykowski was good friends with Roman Polanski. 1013 00:50:29,095 --> 00:50:33,961 Steven Parent had just been there to visit the caretaker. 1014 00:50:33,996 --> 00:50:37,034 The victims suffered 102 stab wounds. 1015 00:50:39,208 --> 00:50:42,246 Three of the victims were shot. 1016 00:50:42,280 --> 00:50:44,179 One of the victims was pounded 1017 00:50:44,213 --> 00:50:47,665 on his head with a gun butt. 1018 00:50:47,699 --> 00:50:50,564 Sharon Tate was hung from a high beam 1019 00:50:50,599 --> 00:50:52,670 going across the living room ceiling. 1020 00:50:57,261 --> 00:51:00,954 - The Manson followers, they leave "pig" scrawled in blood 1021 00:51:00,988 --> 00:51:03,129 to try to convince investigators 1022 00:51:03,163 --> 00:51:05,752 that the Black Panthers had done this. 1023 00:51:05,786 --> 00:51:09,480 The Panthers call police officers pigs 1024 00:51:09,514 --> 00:51:10,826 because they're trying to 1025 00:51:10,860 --> 00:51:13,518 dehumanize law enforcement 1026 00:51:13,553 --> 00:51:15,555 in the same way they argue law enforcement 1027 00:51:15,589 --> 00:51:18,247 has dehumanized black people. 1028 00:51:18,282 --> 00:51:20,525 - The gore. The blood. 1029 00:51:20,560 --> 00:51:23,321 Manson told his followers 1030 00:51:23,356 --> 00:51:26,083 that this would be the ignition point 1031 00:51:26,117 --> 00:51:28,430 for Helter Skelter. 1032 00:51:28,464 --> 00:51:30,294 - The revolution is waiting for a spark. 1033 00:51:30,328 --> 00:51:31,640 Everybody's ready. 1034 00:51:31,674 --> 00:51:34,953 Everybody's got their-- their guns together. 1035 00:51:34,988 --> 00:51:37,370 - All right, this is beautiful. 1036 00:51:37,404 --> 00:51:39,717 Okay, you'll be able to... 1037 00:51:39,751 --> 00:51:41,270 You have to have this thing to where 1038 00:51:41,305 --> 00:51:43,410 it just slides right out with your own motion. 1039 00:51:43,445 --> 00:51:45,792 - Everybody's waiting for somebody 1040 00:51:45,826 --> 00:51:48,829 to... 1041 00:51:48,864 --> 00:51:50,728 have enough love 1042 00:51:50,762 --> 00:51:53,282 to start it. 1043 00:51:53,317 --> 00:51:55,767 Not content with one bloodbath, 1044 00:51:55,802 --> 00:51:57,493 on the following night 1045 00:51:57,528 --> 00:51:59,461 Manson decides that the killing spree 1046 00:51:59,495 --> 00:52:01,290 must continue. 1047 00:52:01,325 --> 00:52:04,259 - The Family drove around Los Angeles county 1048 00:52:04,293 --> 00:52:06,157 for 4 1/2 hours 1049 00:52:06,192 --> 00:52:09,954 looking at random for people to murder. 1050 00:52:09,988 --> 00:52:11,369 Then Manson started giving 1051 00:52:11,404 --> 00:52:14,683 more specific directions, 1052 00:52:14,717 --> 00:52:17,203 and they ended up at the LaBianca house 1053 00:52:17,237 --> 00:52:19,481 at 3301 Waverly Drive. 1054 00:52:23,485 --> 00:52:25,797 The house belongs to supermarket owner 1055 00:52:25,832 --> 00:52:27,351 Leno LaBianca 1056 00:52:27,385 --> 00:52:28,835 and his wife, Rosemary. 1057 00:52:31,838 --> 00:52:35,531 ♪ 1058 00:52:35,566 --> 00:52:38,293 - He said, "Don't move. This is just a robbery." 1059 00:52:41,227 --> 00:52:42,745 He assured them that 1060 00:52:42,780 --> 00:52:44,575 he wasn't going to hurt them. 1061 00:52:44,609 --> 00:52:49,338 ♪ 1062 00:52:49,373 --> 00:52:51,616 He took Rosemary LaBianca's wallet 1063 00:52:51,651 --> 00:52:56,587 because he wanted to have it planted in a black area 1064 00:52:56,621 --> 00:52:59,555 and he wanted a black person to find the wallet 1065 00:52:59,590 --> 00:53:00,970 and use the credit cards 1066 00:53:01,005 --> 00:53:02,558 and get blamed for the murders. 1067 00:53:02,593 --> 00:53:04,905 ♪ 1068 00:53:04,940 --> 00:53:07,425 He said, "Don't let them know that you're gonna kill them." 1069 00:53:07,460 --> 00:53:10,946 ♪ 1070 00:53:10,980 --> 00:53:13,328 - In a personality-driven cult, 1071 00:53:13,362 --> 00:53:16,365 whatever the leader says is right is right, 1072 00:53:16,400 --> 00:53:19,575 and whatever the leader says is wrong is wrong. 1073 00:53:19,610 --> 00:53:22,233 His ideas, 1074 00:53:22,268 --> 00:53:23,855 his prescriptions 1075 00:53:23,890 --> 00:53:25,271 are absolute 1076 00:53:25,305 --> 00:53:27,997 and must be accepted without question. 1077 00:53:30,517 --> 00:53:32,105 - No "why?" 1078 00:53:32,139 --> 00:53:33,313 We never ask why. 1079 00:53:35,798 --> 00:53:37,248 - Mm-hmm. 1080 00:53:37,283 --> 00:53:39,008 - Whatever we have to do. - Whatever. 1081 00:53:39,043 --> 00:53:41,494 - We leave our house open to the soul. 1082 00:53:41,528 --> 00:53:43,737 We leave our mind open. 1083 00:53:51,366 --> 00:53:53,230 - In the LaBianca house, 1084 00:53:53,264 --> 00:53:55,232 above the inside of the front door 1085 00:53:55,266 --> 00:53:58,925 is written the word "rise." 1086 00:53:58,959 --> 00:54:00,927 On the living room wall 1087 00:54:00,961 --> 00:54:02,549 in Leno LaBianca's blood 1088 00:54:02,584 --> 00:54:06,519 is written "death to pigs." 1089 00:54:06,553 --> 00:54:08,452 - Well, that was the whole point of it. 1090 00:54:08,486 --> 00:54:11,696 Staging the murder scene the way it was staged 1091 00:54:11,731 --> 00:54:14,423 was so that it would be believed that 1092 00:54:14,458 --> 00:54:16,839 this was a race war. 1093 00:54:16,874 --> 00:54:19,290 That this was the disenfranchised 1094 00:54:19,325 --> 00:54:22,707 lashing out at the rich and the privileged. 1095 00:54:22,742 --> 00:54:24,813 - And it's the people that will cause a revolution. 1096 00:54:24,847 --> 00:54:26,815 And it's the people that will cause a change 1097 00:54:26,849 --> 00:54:28,057 in the country. 1098 00:54:28,092 --> 00:54:30,439 - And on the refrigerator at the LaBiancas 1099 00:54:30,474 --> 00:54:32,476 in Leno LaBianca's blood 1100 00:54:32,510 --> 00:54:35,133 is written the words "Helter Skelter." 1101 00:54:39,276 --> 00:54:42,865 Coming up on "Inside the Manson Cult," 1102 00:54:42,900 --> 00:54:46,386 news of the murders spreads through The Family... 1103 00:54:46,421 --> 00:54:48,388 - Tex tells me, "I did this. 1104 00:54:48,423 --> 00:54:49,907 Charlie told me to." 1105 00:54:49,941 --> 00:54:52,185 They were almost like lethal. 1106 00:54:52,219 --> 00:54:56,223 They didn't seem to have any remorse. 1107 00:54:56,258 --> 00:54:57,639 And a new member 1108 00:54:57,673 --> 00:54:59,986 shares an extraordinary confession 1109 00:55:00,020 --> 00:55:02,126 for the first time. 1110 00:55:02,160 --> 00:55:04,749 - One of the girls came up to me and said 1111 00:55:04,784 --> 00:55:10,583 "We want you to go to the courthouse and... 1112 00:55:10,617 --> 00:55:11,929 Kill the judge." 1113 00:55:25,045 --> 00:55:26,944 The latest murders were discovered 1114 00:55:26,978 --> 00:55:28,808 during the night. 1115 00:55:28,842 --> 00:55:31,362 Leno LaBianca, a supermarket owner, 1116 00:55:31,397 --> 00:55:34,054 and his wife had both been stabbed to death, 1117 00:55:34,089 --> 00:55:37,161 repeated stab wounds. 1118 00:55:37,195 --> 00:55:41,407 - It was just pandemonium, in Los Angeles especially. 1119 00:55:41,441 --> 00:55:43,443 People were so scared 1120 00:55:43,478 --> 00:55:48,172 that gun sales went up tremendously. 1121 00:55:48,206 --> 00:55:51,175 - People are buying extra locks on their doors. 1122 00:55:51,209 --> 00:55:53,142 Entertainers out there are hiring bodyguards 1123 00:55:53,177 --> 00:55:54,834 to be--to be with them, 1124 00:55:54,868 --> 00:55:56,663 you know, 24/7. 1125 00:55:56,698 --> 00:55:58,320 So it put the fear of God in them. 1126 00:56:00,702 --> 00:56:03,567 - Charles Manson accomplished his goal 1127 00:56:03,601 --> 00:56:06,708 of terrorizing Los Angeles. 1128 00:56:06,742 --> 00:56:13,473 No one was safe. 1129 00:56:13,508 --> 00:56:15,510 Back at Spahn Ranch, 1130 00:56:15,544 --> 00:56:19,341 news of the murders spread through The Family. 1131 00:56:19,376 --> 00:56:21,447 - Tex tells me, "I did this. 1132 00:56:21,481 --> 00:56:23,932 Charlie told me to." 1133 00:56:23,966 --> 00:56:27,107 Patty said that she had stabbed somebody 1134 00:56:27,142 --> 00:56:29,627 and at first, you know, it was hard 1135 00:56:29,662 --> 00:56:33,182 but then it got to be more fun. 1136 00:56:33,217 --> 00:56:35,530 They were almost like boastful 1137 00:56:35,564 --> 00:56:37,428 or gleeful. 1138 00:56:37,463 --> 00:56:38,498 I mean, it's like they... 1139 00:56:38,533 --> 00:56:43,779 they didn't seem to have any remorse. 1140 00:56:43,814 --> 00:56:47,024 - Despite the violence and the brutality 1141 00:56:47,058 --> 00:56:48,405 of these murders, 1142 00:56:48,439 --> 00:56:50,061 the people that had committed them 1143 00:56:50,096 --> 00:56:51,338 of this following 1144 00:56:51,373 --> 00:56:54,928 were still very proud of what they had done. 1145 00:56:54,963 --> 00:56:57,448 For them, it was a way to sort of say, 1146 00:56:57,483 --> 00:56:58,794 "Hey, look at what I did. 1147 00:56:58,829 --> 00:57:01,625 This is how loyal I am for Charlie." 1148 00:57:10,150 --> 00:57:12,049 For the first time in decades, 1149 00:57:12,083 --> 00:57:13,395 Catherine Share, 1150 00:57:13,430 --> 00:57:15,466 known in The Family as Gypsy, 1151 00:57:15,501 --> 00:57:18,193 sets eyes on her younger self. 1152 00:57:18,227 --> 00:57:22,059 She was filmed shortly after the Tate murders. 1153 00:57:23,336 --> 00:57:24,371 - Mm-hmm. 1154 00:57:27,202 --> 00:57:29,515 - Did I ever think of her baby? 1155 00:57:29,549 --> 00:57:31,551 I've pictured her pregnant. 1156 00:57:31,586 --> 00:57:33,380 Yeah. 1157 00:57:33,415 --> 00:57:35,866 No, I've--I've only pictured her pregnant. 1158 00:57:35,900 --> 00:57:38,144 That's the only way I can picture her. 1159 00:57:38,178 --> 00:57:41,354 I was so cut off that I couldn't feel... 1160 00:57:41,388 --> 00:57:43,667 what I should have felt for another pregnant woman 1161 00:57:43,701 --> 00:57:44,840 and her child. 1162 00:57:44,875 --> 00:57:47,602 And it's very disturbing to watch me 1163 00:57:47,636 --> 00:57:50,605 put that out. 1164 00:57:50,639 --> 00:57:52,089 - The baby? 1165 00:57:52,123 --> 00:57:56,403 - No, I picture Sharon Tate pregnant at times. Yeah. 1166 00:57:56,438 --> 00:57:59,199 Anybody watching this would think I was a monster. 1167 00:58:02,548 --> 00:58:04,170 - I didn't know her. 1168 00:58:04,204 --> 00:58:05,654 I never met her. 1169 00:58:05,689 --> 00:58:08,277 How can you tell what's in a picture? 1170 00:58:08,312 --> 00:58:10,314 It's not even living. 1171 00:58:10,348 --> 00:58:12,212 And there was part of me 1172 00:58:12,247 --> 00:58:15,630 that still believed that he had all the answers 1173 00:58:15,664 --> 00:58:17,045 and he was the one. 1174 00:58:17,079 --> 00:58:18,529 There was another part of me 1175 00:58:18,564 --> 00:58:20,876 that was starting to know better. 1176 00:58:20,911 --> 00:58:22,429 But I was keeping it 1177 00:58:22,464 --> 00:58:24,293 just deep down inside. 1178 00:58:24,328 --> 00:58:26,537 Because if I showed it, 1179 00:58:26,572 --> 00:58:28,228 my life would be in danger. 1180 00:58:30,472 --> 00:58:33,061 While Manson plots his next move, 1181 00:58:33,095 --> 00:58:36,409 the cops are fumbling their investigation. 1182 00:58:36,443 --> 00:58:38,238 - The police had no idea 1183 00:58:38,273 --> 00:58:41,345 who committed these murders. 1184 00:58:41,379 --> 00:58:44,348 They had one team working on 1185 00:58:44,382 --> 00:58:46,419 the Tate murders, 1186 00:58:46,453 --> 00:58:49,318 and another team working on the LaBianca murders. 1187 00:58:51,493 --> 00:58:53,909 - They didn't think these cases, ah, were related, 1188 00:58:53,944 --> 00:58:55,704 you know, at all. 1189 00:58:55,739 --> 00:58:58,051 I mean, this is obvious to me. 1190 00:58:58,086 --> 00:58:59,259 Here's the signature. 1191 00:58:59,294 --> 00:59:01,572 Here's the symbolism of this. 1192 00:59:01,607 --> 00:59:03,194 What are the probability 1193 00:59:03,229 --> 00:59:06,094 that someone else is perpetrating the same crime, 1194 00:59:06,128 --> 00:59:07,095 the same way? 1195 00:59:10,132 --> 00:59:11,617 ♪ 1196 00:59:11,651 --> 00:59:13,998 As the investigation stumbles along, 1197 00:59:14,033 --> 00:59:16,898 Manson leads his followers to the desert 1198 00:59:16,932 --> 00:59:19,694 to hide out from the Helter Skelter race war 1199 00:59:19,728 --> 00:59:21,765 he still insists is coming. 1200 00:59:21,799 --> 00:59:24,457 ♪ 1201 00:59:24,491 --> 00:59:28,530 But then things start to go wrong. 1202 00:59:28,565 --> 00:59:31,671 - Charlie decided that he was gonna burn up an earth-mover. 1203 00:59:31,706 --> 00:59:33,431 Not a very swift move when you, 1204 00:59:33,466 --> 00:59:35,710 when you want to hide. 1205 00:59:38,644 --> 00:59:40,059 - I was washing my hair. 1206 00:59:40,093 --> 00:59:41,854 - Get your hands up! 1207 00:59:41,888 --> 00:59:44,304 Everybody up, turn around! 1208 00:59:44,339 --> 00:59:46,721 - And I had a gun pointing at me, 1209 00:59:46,755 --> 00:59:48,067 "You're under arrest." 1210 00:59:48,101 --> 00:59:49,516 - Quiet, give me your other hand. 1211 00:59:49,551 --> 00:59:50,517 I said move! 1212 00:59:50,552 --> 00:59:53,486 - Charlie disappeared. 1213 00:59:53,520 --> 00:59:54,798 Just-- 1214 00:59:57,317 --> 00:59:59,043 You know, he made himself invisible. 1215 01:00:04,324 --> 01:00:06,499 -Get up! Get up! 1216 01:00:06,533 --> 01:00:08,777 - So the police found Charlie 1217 01:00:08,812 --> 01:00:10,330 under the sink cupboard. 1218 01:00:10,365 --> 01:00:12,885 ♪ 1219 01:00:12,919 --> 01:00:14,749 To The Family's relief, 1220 01:00:14,783 --> 01:00:16,647 the cops aren't hunting for the Tate 1221 01:00:16,682 --> 01:00:19,098 and LaBianca killers. 1222 01:00:19,132 --> 01:00:23,309 They're looking for the people who burnt the earth-mover. 1223 01:00:23,343 --> 01:00:25,207 - We got arrested for vandalizing 1224 01:00:25,242 --> 01:00:27,382 government property. 1225 01:00:27,416 --> 01:00:31,662 ♪ 1226 01:00:31,697 --> 01:00:33,560 The police have no idea 1227 01:00:33,595 --> 01:00:36,391 that they have America's most wanted killers 1228 01:00:36,425 --> 01:00:37,806 in their care. 1229 01:00:40,706 --> 01:00:42,086 Coming up, 1230 01:00:42,121 --> 01:00:44,710 exclusive lost tape footage with the prisoner 1231 01:00:44,744 --> 01:00:46,988 who blows the Sharon Tate murder case 1232 01:00:47,022 --> 01:00:47,989 wide open. 1233 01:00:48,023 --> 01:00:49,473 - She told me 1234 01:00:49,507 --> 01:00:52,752 she just kept stabbing her until she stopped screaming. 1235 01:00:52,787 --> 01:00:53,753 And shocking evidence 1236 01:00:53,788 --> 01:00:56,238 of the power Charles Manson 1237 01:00:56,273 --> 01:00:57,964 has over his followers. 1238 01:00:57,999 --> 01:00:59,586 - I'm ready to die for Charlie. 1239 01:00:59,621 --> 01:01:01,588 I'm ready to die. 1240 01:01:11,529 --> 01:01:13,014 Charles Manson 1241 01:01:13,048 --> 01:01:15,154 and some of his most faithful followers 1242 01:01:15,188 --> 01:01:18,813 are in jail after burning an earth-mover. 1243 01:01:18,847 --> 01:01:22,023 But they also just may be getting away with murder. 1244 01:01:23,921 --> 01:01:26,096 - It wasn't until Susan Atkins 1245 01:01:26,130 --> 01:01:27,891 got transferred 1246 01:01:27,925 --> 01:01:30,825 to Los Angeles County Jail Sybil Brand 1247 01:01:30,859 --> 01:01:34,691 that she started talking to her cellmate 1248 01:01:34,725 --> 01:01:36,969 about Charlie, and, you know, 1249 01:01:37,003 --> 01:01:38,349 Helter Skelter. 1250 01:01:40,179 --> 01:01:43,527 Susan Atkins, known in The Family as Sadie, 1251 01:01:43,561 --> 01:01:44,942 was at the Hinman murder 1252 01:01:44,977 --> 01:01:48,739 and also at the Tate mansion on Cielo Drive. 1253 01:01:48,774 --> 01:01:52,018 - Susan Atkins came from a, uh, middle-class family. 1254 01:01:52,053 --> 01:01:54,676 Unfortunately her mother died at a very, very young age, 1255 01:01:54,711 --> 01:01:57,023 which devastated her. 1256 01:01:57,058 --> 01:01:58,784 She wasn't getting the attention anymore 1257 01:01:58,818 --> 01:02:00,958 from the mother who she loved, she loved dearly 1258 01:02:00,993 --> 01:02:03,374 and she sought out others 1259 01:02:03,409 --> 01:02:06,515 to get some type of attention. 1260 01:02:06,550 --> 01:02:07,896 While in jail, 1261 01:02:07,931 --> 01:02:11,348 Atkins latches onto cellmate Ronnie Howard. 1262 01:02:11,382 --> 01:02:14,075 - Roll 159. 1263 01:02:14,109 --> 01:02:15,490 What is your name? 1264 01:02:15,524 --> 01:02:17,699 - My name is Ronnie Howard. 1265 01:02:17,734 --> 01:02:20,288 And the lost tapes reveal how Atkins 1266 01:02:20,322 --> 01:02:22,842 unwittingly gives the game away. 1267 01:02:22,877 --> 01:02:24,706 - She was telling me about 1268 01:02:24,741 --> 01:02:25,776 different things that 1269 01:02:25,811 --> 01:02:27,467 she thought would shock me. 1270 01:02:27,502 --> 01:02:29,607 And I told her, "Nothing shocks me." 1271 01:02:29,642 --> 01:02:31,402 And she said, "Well, I think I can tell you 1272 01:02:31,437 --> 01:02:33,094 a few things that would shock you." 1273 01:02:38,409 --> 01:02:40,687 - She confessed to Ronnie Howard 1274 01:02:40,722 --> 01:02:42,517 about her participation 1275 01:02:42,551 --> 01:02:45,209 and Charles Manson's participation 1276 01:02:45,244 --> 01:02:46,590 in these murders. 1277 01:02:46,624 --> 01:02:48,799 - I asked her, "If you were really there," 1278 01:02:48,834 --> 01:02:53,839 I said, "Who really killed Sharon Tate?" 1279 01:02:53,873 --> 01:02:55,288 And she told me 1280 01:02:55,323 --> 01:02:59,189 that she killed Sharon Tate. 1281 01:02:59,223 --> 01:03:01,812 She said she was the one that stabbed her. 1282 01:03:01,847 --> 01:03:04,366 Every time she screamed she'd stab her again and... 1283 01:03:04,401 --> 01:03:08,094 she just kept stabbing her until she stopped screaming. 1284 01:03:08,129 --> 01:03:09,509 And she said it sent 1285 01:03:09,544 --> 01:03:12,512 a hot rush all the way through her body. 1286 01:03:12,547 --> 01:03:14,135 And she told me that 1287 01:03:14,169 --> 01:03:15,619 to stab somebody 1288 01:03:15,653 --> 01:03:17,655 is better than having a climax. 1289 01:03:20,520 --> 01:03:21,970 But she--she told me that 1290 01:03:22,005 --> 01:03:24,352 the future murders would be more gruesome. 1291 01:03:24,386 --> 01:03:26,872 They wanted to do something to really shock the world. 1292 01:03:26,906 --> 01:03:28,770 A few of them were celebrities. 1293 01:03:28,805 --> 01:03:31,117 - Which celebrities were they going to kill? 1294 01:03:31,152 --> 01:03:32,843 - Steve McQueen. 1295 01:03:32,878 --> 01:03:34,880 Tom Jones. 1296 01:03:34,914 --> 01:03:36,536 Frank Sinatra. 1297 01:03:36,571 --> 01:03:38,055 Liz Taylor. 1298 01:03:40,817 --> 01:03:45,028 ♪ 1299 01:03:45,062 --> 01:03:46,512 - Ronnie Howard 1300 01:03:46,546 --> 01:03:48,721 called LAPD and said, "Hey, 1301 01:03:48,755 --> 01:03:52,035 this is what this woman has told us," 1302 01:03:52,069 --> 01:03:54,209 and that broke the case. 1303 01:03:56,246 --> 01:03:59,214 On December 9, 1969, 1304 01:03:59,249 --> 01:04:02,804 the charge against Manson is changed from arson 1305 01:04:02,839 --> 01:04:04,323 to first-degree murder. 1306 01:04:04,357 --> 01:04:05,669 Male announcer: A wandering band 1307 01:04:05,703 --> 01:04:07,705 of members of a so-called religious cult 1308 01:04:07,740 --> 01:04:09,880 with a leader they call Jesus 1309 01:04:09,915 --> 01:04:12,124 has had three of its followers arrested 1310 01:04:12,158 --> 01:04:15,334 in the investigation of the murder of Sharon Tate 1311 01:04:15,368 --> 01:04:17,888 and six others. 1312 01:04:17,923 --> 01:04:20,132 But Manson's arrest for the murders 1313 01:04:20,166 --> 01:04:22,928 does not signal the end of his Family. 1314 01:04:22,962 --> 01:04:25,862 In fact, it gains a new member 1315 01:04:25,896 --> 01:04:27,725 at a crucial time. 1316 01:04:27,760 --> 01:04:30,970 - I walked away from my house and everything that was in it. 1317 01:04:31,005 --> 01:04:34,146 Just...away. 1318 01:04:34,180 --> 01:04:37,321 And, uh, went to the ranch. 1319 01:04:37,356 --> 01:04:40,014 24-year-old Aesop Aquarian 1320 01:04:40,048 --> 01:04:43,258 is a musician and aspiring actor. 1321 01:04:43,293 --> 01:04:45,882 The lost tapes show him playing guitar 1322 01:04:45,916 --> 01:04:48,125 with the Family just days after the murder charge 1323 01:04:48,160 --> 01:04:51,094 is filed. 1324 01:04:51,128 --> 01:04:55,029 - I was, "part of The Family." 1325 01:04:55,063 --> 01:04:57,963 I was living on the ranch, working the ranch. 1326 01:04:57,997 --> 01:04:59,447 I was taking care of the girls, 1327 01:04:59,481 --> 01:05:00,620 I was driving the girls, 1328 01:05:00,655 --> 01:05:03,244 I was making sure they were safe. 1329 01:05:03,278 --> 01:05:06,109 And the love that was there was... 1330 01:05:06,143 --> 01:05:09,284 undeniable, anybody who came on the ranch 1331 01:05:09,319 --> 01:05:11,045 even for a second, 1332 01:05:11,079 --> 01:05:14,255 you know, caught the love that we had. 1333 01:05:16,636 --> 01:05:18,638 - Even when he was in jail, 1334 01:05:18,673 --> 01:05:21,779 Charlie was still able to manipulate 1335 01:05:21,814 --> 01:05:26,336 and have power and control over his followers. 1336 01:05:26,370 --> 01:05:28,027 New recruit Aquarian 1337 01:05:28,062 --> 01:05:30,754 can see firsthand how Manson's power 1338 01:05:30,788 --> 01:05:33,791 is getting, if anything, stronger. 1339 01:05:35,828 --> 01:05:39,245 - These girls loved Charlie so much 1340 01:05:39,280 --> 01:05:41,282 that they literally 1341 01:05:41,316 --> 01:05:45,044 would do anything for him. 1342 01:05:45,079 --> 01:05:48,841 Literally would do anything for him. 1343 01:05:48,875 --> 01:05:50,291 - Whenever we need to, 1344 01:05:50,325 --> 01:05:51,499 we respond. 1345 01:05:51,533 --> 01:05:52,672 We respond with our knives. 1346 01:05:52,707 --> 01:05:54,019 We respond with whatever we have. 1347 01:05:57,746 --> 01:06:00,025 Among Manson's most loyal disciples 1348 01:06:00,059 --> 01:06:01,405 on the outside 1349 01:06:01,440 --> 01:06:03,994 are Nancy Pitman, known as Brenda, 1350 01:06:04,029 --> 01:06:06,617 Lynette Fromme, known as Squeaky, 1351 01:06:06,652 --> 01:06:10,138 and Sandra Goode, known as Sandy. 1352 01:06:10,173 --> 01:06:12,554 - We could respond so quickly. 1353 01:06:12,589 --> 01:06:14,556 Teeth... - Anything. 1354 01:06:14,591 --> 01:06:18,112 Whatever. Whatever's at hand. 1355 01:06:18,146 --> 01:06:19,113 Because we are animals. 1356 01:06:19,147 --> 01:06:20,114 - We are. 1357 01:06:22,392 --> 01:06:24,256 - And I know that if they 1358 01:06:24,290 --> 01:06:26,396 ever laid a finger on Charlie, 1359 01:06:26,430 --> 01:06:28,398 if we were unarmed, we would 1360 01:06:28,432 --> 01:06:31,332 chew their necks off, 1361 01:06:31,366 --> 01:06:33,161 anything. Claw their eyes out. 1362 01:06:33,196 --> 01:06:34,300 And they know it. 1363 01:06:34,335 --> 01:06:36,785 - Those members that stayed 1364 01:06:36,820 --> 01:06:39,857 to the very end with Charles Manson 1365 01:06:39,892 --> 01:06:41,480 were in love with him. 1366 01:06:41,514 --> 01:06:44,034 - N-88! 1367 01:06:44,069 --> 01:06:47,451 - The idea that they might imagine 1368 01:06:47,486 --> 01:06:51,559 another life did not occur to them. 1369 01:06:51,593 --> 01:06:53,181 - I'm ready to die for Charlie. 1370 01:06:53,216 --> 01:06:54,665 He's ready to die for me. 1371 01:06:54,700 --> 01:06:58,359 He has died for me. 1372 01:06:58,393 --> 01:07:01,258 I'm ready to die. 1373 01:07:01,293 --> 01:07:03,985 I'm ready to die for-- to protect my own. 1374 01:07:08,783 --> 01:07:14,202 The Manson trial begins on July 24, 1970. 1375 01:07:14,237 --> 01:07:16,480 - I have no, uh, absolute knowledge, 1376 01:07:16,515 --> 01:07:17,964 but I don't think any case in history 1377 01:07:17,999 --> 01:07:20,346 has received this much pre-trial publicity 1378 01:07:20,381 --> 01:07:22,555 throughout the world. 1379 01:07:22,590 --> 01:07:23,936 Stephen Kay 1380 01:07:23,970 --> 01:07:27,284 was a rookie prosecutor working on the case. 1381 01:07:27,319 --> 01:07:30,667 - At age 27, I had been assigned 1382 01:07:30,701 --> 01:07:32,427 to be a prosecutor on 1383 01:07:32,462 --> 01:07:37,294 what was then considered the crime of the century. 1384 01:07:37,329 --> 01:07:40,780 Kay's job will be tough. 1385 01:07:40,815 --> 01:07:44,336 - Manson left no fingerprints at the locations. 1386 01:07:44,370 --> 01:07:46,269 There was nothing at the scene 1387 01:07:46,303 --> 01:07:48,857 of the crimes to tie Manson into the crime 1388 01:07:48,892 --> 01:07:53,310 so it was all testimony. 1389 01:07:53,345 --> 01:07:55,519 - So what basically had to be proved 1390 01:07:55,554 --> 01:07:58,246 was that Charlie had manipulated his followers 1391 01:07:58,281 --> 01:08:01,422 so much that he himself was culpable of these murders. 1392 01:08:01,456 --> 01:08:03,079 You want Mr. Kanarek 1393 01:08:03,113 --> 01:08:05,943 to challenge the jurors or are you ready to accept 1394 01:08:05,978 --> 01:08:07,393 anyone that's put in the box? 1395 01:08:07,428 --> 01:08:09,913 - You've already tried the case. 1396 01:08:09,947 --> 01:08:11,742 To bring Manson down, 1397 01:08:11,777 --> 01:08:14,297 the prosecution needs someone on the inside 1398 01:08:14,331 --> 01:08:16,506 to turn against him. 1399 01:08:16,540 --> 01:08:19,060 But getting a Family member to break ranks 1400 01:08:19,095 --> 01:08:21,959 will be no easy task. 1401 01:08:21,994 --> 01:08:24,721 - In the visiting room he said to a Family member, 1402 01:08:24,755 --> 01:08:27,137 "If Gypsy tries to get away, 1403 01:08:27,172 --> 01:08:29,415 "I want you to... 1404 01:08:29,450 --> 01:08:31,210 "tie her behind a car 1405 01:08:31,245 --> 01:08:33,281 "and drag her slowly 1406 01:08:33,316 --> 01:08:35,973 "back to the ranch. Don't kill her, 1407 01:08:36,008 --> 01:08:38,942 but you can get close." 1408 01:08:38,976 --> 01:08:41,047 And then he looked at me and said, 1409 01:08:41,082 --> 01:08:42,118 "Are you going anywhere?" 1410 01:08:42,152 --> 01:08:43,705 And I said, "No." 1411 01:08:46,087 --> 01:08:48,917 Another potential witness is Dianne Lake, 1412 01:08:48,952 --> 01:08:51,437 known in The Family as Snake. 1413 01:08:51,472 --> 01:08:53,819 She's now 16. 1414 01:08:53,853 --> 01:08:55,993 Still under Manson's control, 1415 01:08:56,028 --> 01:08:58,099 Lake has kept her true identity hidden 1416 01:08:58,134 --> 01:09:00,481 from the prison authorities... 1417 01:09:00,515 --> 01:09:02,759 Until now. 1418 01:09:02,793 --> 01:09:05,693 - They sent us to testify in front of the Grand Jury 1419 01:09:05,727 --> 01:09:10,007 and that's when I finally felt safe enough 1420 01:09:10,042 --> 01:09:11,906 to say... 1421 01:09:11,940 --> 01:09:14,495 "My name is Dianne Lake. 1422 01:09:14,529 --> 01:09:18,775 I'm 16, and I want my mommy." 1423 01:09:18,809 --> 01:09:22,537 But after two years of near-daily LSD use 1424 01:09:22,572 --> 01:09:25,057 Lake is in no position to testify. 1425 01:09:25,091 --> 01:09:27,577 Diagnosed with schizophrenia, 1426 01:09:27,611 --> 01:09:31,201 she's sent for emergency psychiatric treatment. 1427 01:09:31,236 --> 01:09:34,480 - They committed me to 90 days observation 1428 01:09:34,515 --> 01:09:36,724 at Patton State Hospital. 1429 01:09:36,758 --> 01:09:43,144 And then the 90 days turned into nine months. 1430 01:09:43,179 --> 01:09:46,251 It was like he was in my head 1431 01:09:46,285 --> 01:09:48,460 telling me, 1432 01:09:48,494 --> 01:09:50,358 "Turn left. Turn right." 1433 01:09:50,393 --> 01:09:53,016 You know, "Turn the light off." 1434 01:09:53,050 --> 01:09:56,985 "Don't say that" or "Don't talk to that person." 1435 01:10:00,541 --> 01:10:03,129 There was one officer in particular that really 1436 01:10:03,164 --> 01:10:07,444 treated me with--with respect 1437 01:10:07,479 --> 01:10:09,757 and like a tenderness. 1438 01:10:09,791 --> 01:10:11,241 He made me feel safe 1439 01:10:11,276 --> 01:10:14,693 enough to start telling... 1440 01:10:14,727 --> 01:10:16,591 telling the truth. 1441 01:10:16,626 --> 01:10:19,318 - Sandy, Brenda, Squeaky, four, take one, roll 209. 1442 01:10:19,353 --> 01:10:22,287 As Lake prepares to testify against Manson 1443 01:10:22,321 --> 01:10:27,050 the tapes reveals what her former friends think of her. 1444 01:10:27,084 --> 01:10:28,431 -She's a very young girl, 1445 01:10:28,465 --> 01:10:30,398 and by the time the, the DAs had gotten through with her 1446 01:10:30,433 --> 01:10:32,297 she was speaking their language. 1447 01:10:32,331 --> 01:10:33,539 She's just like a baby. 1448 01:10:33,574 --> 01:10:35,196 She can be molded whatever way 1449 01:10:35,231 --> 01:10:37,094 anyone chooses to mold her. 1450 01:10:38,958 --> 01:10:40,477 - I'm sure that's what they believed, you know, 1451 01:10:40,512 --> 01:10:43,066 that I had been, uh, swallowed up. 1452 01:10:43,100 --> 01:10:45,517 You know, that I was being manipulated 1453 01:10:45,551 --> 01:10:49,521 by the courts. 1454 01:10:49,555 --> 01:10:51,419 The big question is: 1455 01:10:51,454 --> 01:10:55,596 will Lake be brave enough to testify? 1456 01:10:55,630 --> 01:10:58,978 - Snitches will be taken care of. 1457 01:10:59,013 --> 01:11:01,222 - How? 1458 01:11:01,257 --> 01:11:02,810 -Oh, that's to be seen. 1459 01:11:02,844 --> 01:11:04,156 That's to be seen. 1460 01:11:07,055 --> 01:11:10,611 Still to come on "Inside the Manson Cult," 1461 01:11:10,645 --> 01:11:13,648 secretly filmed footage of Manson in prison... 1462 01:11:13,683 --> 01:11:14,960 - We are sneaking 1463 01:11:14,994 --> 01:11:16,306 in the county jail. 1464 01:11:16,341 --> 01:11:19,654 Looking under the door to see if the man is there. 1465 01:11:19,689 --> 01:11:22,070 - He's telling us to break him out. 1466 01:11:22,105 --> 01:11:24,176 And an extraordinary command 1467 01:11:24,210 --> 01:11:26,351 to young member of the cult: 1468 01:11:26,385 --> 01:11:28,111 Kill the judge. 1469 01:11:28,145 --> 01:11:31,356 - I felt my jaw drop 1470 01:11:31,390 --> 01:11:33,772 to the ground. 1471 01:11:42,781 --> 01:11:44,817 Charles Manson is on trial 1472 01:11:44,852 --> 01:11:46,785 for multiple murders. 1473 01:11:46,819 --> 01:11:49,201 Teenage cult member Dianne Lake 1474 01:11:49,235 --> 01:11:51,721 might be key to convicting him 1475 01:11:51,755 --> 01:11:54,102 if she can escape his control. 1476 01:11:54,137 --> 01:11:56,657 - It was like he was in my head. 1477 01:11:58,141 --> 01:12:00,074 A unique moment from the lost tapes 1478 01:12:00,108 --> 01:12:03,457 shows just how hard that's going to be. 1479 01:12:08,876 --> 01:12:11,603 Secretly, the filmmaker smuggles a camera 1480 01:12:11,637 --> 01:12:13,329 into Manson's jail cell. 1481 01:12:16,297 --> 01:12:17,954 And the cult leader takes his chance 1482 01:12:17,988 --> 01:12:20,370 to speak directly to his followers. 1483 01:12:20,405 --> 01:12:23,166 - We are sneaking in the county jail. 1484 01:12:23,200 --> 01:12:26,963 Looking under the door to see if the man is there. 1485 01:12:26,997 --> 01:12:28,896 Sneaking like little children out of town. 1486 01:12:29,931 --> 01:12:31,139 Sneaking... 1487 01:12:31,174 --> 01:12:32,175 Sneaking all around 1488 01:12:32,209 --> 01:12:33,383 the courthouse. 1489 01:12:33,418 --> 01:12:34,557 - He's programming us. 1490 01:12:34,591 --> 01:12:36,835 Telling us what to do. 1491 01:12:36,869 --> 01:12:39,907 - Everything is sneaky up around Sneakyville. 1492 01:12:41,287 --> 01:12:43,773 - He was telling us to break him out 1493 01:12:43,807 --> 01:12:45,809 of jail. 1494 01:12:45,844 --> 01:12:47,604 To learn where the vents are, 1495 01:12:47,639 --> 01:12:49,917 learn how to get in and out of the building 1496 01:12:49,951 --> 01:12:52,678 and learn how to set him free. 1497 01:12:52,713 --> 01:12:54,370 - You gotta sneak to get to the truth. 1498 01:12:54,404 --> 01:12:55,992 The truth is condemned. 1499 01:12:56,026 --> 01:12:57,821 The truth is in the gas chamber. 1500 01:13:00,479 --> 01:13:04,725 - Manson had a very powerful personality. 1501 01:13:04,759 --> 01:13:06,934 When he was in a room, you could almost feel 1502 01:13:06,968 --> 01:13:10,144 the electricity pouring off of him. 1503 01:13:10,178 --> 01:13:12,664 And he would kind of command the room. 1504 01:13:15,667 --> 01:13:18,428 Manson one time came into court, 1505 01:13:18,463 --> 01:13:20,188 and he had taken a razor blade 1506 01:13:20,223 --> 01:13:24,986 and put an X on his forehead. 1507 01:13:25,021 --> 01:13:28,887 And the next day, the girls all had Xs on their foreheads. 1508 01:13:28,921 --> 01:13:31,890 They said they were going to X themselves out of society. 1509 01:13:37,240 --> 01:13:39,691 - Some of the behaviors that the girls exhibited 1510 01:13:39,725 --> 01:13:42,418 during the trials really was frightening. 1511 01:13:42,452 --> 01:13:45,628 Because you can see that despite being back in reality 1512 01:13:45,662 --> 01:13:47,043 back in society, 1513 01:13:47,077 --> 01:13:50,771 they're still totally under Charlie's spell. 1514 01:13:55,534 --> 01:13:57,881 The tapes show how Manson's followers 1515 01:13:57,916 --> 01:13:59,745 may be ready to threaten anyone 1516 01:13:59,780 --> 01:14:02,679 involved in the prosecution. 1517 01:14:02,714 --> 01:14:06,200 - Sandy, Brenda, Squeaky. 1518 01:14:06,234 --> 01:14:08,236 - Ask me a question. 1519 01:14:08,271 --> 01:14:10,963 - What if they execute Charlie? 1520 01:14:10,998 --> 01:14:13,690 - Well, they'll have to contend with us. 1521 01:14:13,725 --> 01:14:16,797 Just how far the cult is prepared to go 1522 01:14:16,831 --> 01:14:18,868 is made frighteningly clear 1523 01:14:18,902 --> 01:14:22,527 to new member Aesop Aquarian. 1524 01:14:22,561 --> 01:14:25,633 - One of the girls came up to me and said 1525 01:14:25,668 --> 01:14:27,842 "We've got to get Charlie out. 1526 01:14:27,877 --> 01:14:32,778 "We want you to," uh... 1527 01:14:32,813 --> 01:14:38,094 "To go the courthouse and... 1528 01:14:38,128 --> 01:14:40,406 Kill the judge." 1529 01:14:40,441 --> 01:14:46,067 I felt my jaw drop to the ground. 1530 01:14:46,102 --> 01:14:48,656 "You want me to what?" 1531 01:14:48,691 --> 01:14:51,176 Said, "We want you to kill the judge." 1532 01:14:51,210 --> 01:14:53,765 "That'll show them that we're serious 1533 01:14:53,799 --> 01:14:55,387 and that'll get Charlie out." 1534 01:14:55,421 --> 01:14:59,184 "Are you for real?" 1535 01:14:59,218 --> 01:15:01,980 And she said, "Yeah." 1536 01:15:02,014 --> 01:15:03,499 My first thought was, 1537 01:15:03,533 --> 01:15:07,019 "What the hell am I doing here?" 1538 01:15:07,054 --> 01:15:09,401 I don't think that was the next day that I left 1539 01:15:09,435 --> 01:15:12,887 but it could have been. 1540 01:15:15,925 --> 01:15:20,343 ♪ 1541 01:15:20,377 --> 01:15:22,690 Manson's power over his followers 1542 01:15:22,725 --> 01:15:26,004 may be giving Dianne Lake second thoughts. 1543 01:15:28,869 --> 01:15:30,387 - It was terrifying, 1544 01:15:30,422 --> 01:15:33,667 the idea of going by the girls 1545 01:15:33,701 --> 01:15:37,015 and testifying against them. 1546 01:15:37,049 --> 01:15:38,741 And I was always afraid that I was going to have 1547 01:15:38,775 --> 01:15:41,778 mind control by Charlie again. 1548 01:15:41,813 --> 01:15:43,159 That was a big fear. 1549 01:15:43,193 --> 01:15:47,163 And also that fear of wanting that... 1550 01:15:47,197 --> 01:15:49,303 you know, that original feeling 1551 01:15:49,337 --> 01:15:51,650 of love and adoration from him. 1552 01:15:51,685 --> 01:15:53,790 I thought that was going to be a weakness. 1553 01:15:57,622 --> 01:16:01,177 - The truth has not been in your courtrooms. 1554 01:16:01,211 --> 01:16:04,042 Never has been in your courtrooms. 1555 01:16:04,076 --> 01:16:07,666 All you have is confusion in your courtroom. 1556 01:16:07,701 --> 01:16:09,565 - We went in, like, the back door, 1557 01:16:09,599 --> 01:16:11,187 and there was still a lot of press 1558 01:16:11,221 --> 01:16:13,327 but they kind of snuck me in. 1559 01:16:16,537 --> 01:16:18,815 - You can't prove anything 1560 01:16:18,850 --> 01:16:21,128 that happened yesterday. 1561 01:16:21,162 --> 01:16:25,063 Now is the only thing that's real. 1562 01:16:25,097 --> 01:16:28,722 - The girls were outside the Hall of Justice. 1563 01:16:28,756 --> 01:16:30,620 I was scared. 1564 01:16:35,418 --> 01:16:37,178 - We were on pins and needles. 1565 01:16:37,213 --> 01:16:40,285 We didn't know how the jury was gonna respond 1566 01:16:40,319 --> 01:16:41,389 to Dianne Lake. 1567 01:16:41,424 --> 01:16:44,496 We felt that she had been a great witness. 1568 01:16:44,530 --> 01:16:46,256 Believable, but... 1569 01:16:46,291 --> 01:16:48,914 she had spent eight months in a mental hospital. 1570 01:16:48,949 --> 01:16:51,468 We didn't know what the jury was going to do. 1571 01:16:55,024 --> 01:16:58,614 Still to come on "Inside the Manson Cult"... 1572 01:16:58,648 --> 01:17:00,201 - He's waiting in a cage. 1573 01:17:00,236 --> 01:17:03,135 He's looking down like I'm one of his disciples. 1574 01:17:04,620 --> 01:17:06,552 An astonishing revelation... 1575 01:17:06,587 --> 01:17:09,590 - I don't believe Charlie believed in Helter Skelter. 1576 01:17:09,625 --> 01:17:12,248 It was just a crazy story. 1577 01:17:20,705 --> 01:17:22,189 narrator: One of Charles Manson's 1578 01:17:22,223 --> 01:17:23,673 earliest converts 1579 01:17:23,708 --> 01:17:25,986 has testified against the man she loved. 1580 01:17:26,020 --> 01:17:27,435 - It was terrifying, 1581 01:17:27,470 --> 01:17:29,092 going by the girls 1582 01:17:29,127 --> 01:17:31,647 and testifying against them. 1583 01:17:31,681 --> 01:17:35,616 Time for the jury to decide. 1584 01:17:35,651 --> 01:17:37,342 The jury, hearing the charges 1585 01:17:37,376 --> 01:17:39,896 against Charles Manson and three girl members 1586 01:17:39,931 --> 01:17:41,380 of his so-called Family 1587 01:17:41,415 --> 01:17:43,313 brought in its verdict this afternoon. 1588 01:17:45,350 --> 01:17:48,525 All were found guilty of murder in the first degree. 1589 01:17:49,872 --> 01:17:52,288 The trial has lasted seven months 1590 01:17:52,322 --> 01:17:54,600 and is, at the time, the most expensive 1591 01:17:54,635 --> 01:17:56,879 in U.S. criminal history. 1592 01:17:56,913 --> 01:18:00,952 The jury takes ten days to reach a verdict. 1593 01:18:00,986 --> 01:18:03,437 Manson then shouted at the jurors, 1594 01:18:03,471 --> 01:18:05,577 "You're all guilty!" 1595 01:18:14,379 --> 01:18:18,003 On Monday, March 29, 1971, 1596 01:18:18,038 --> 01:18:20,454 Manson is sentenced to die 1597 01:18:20,488 --> 01:18:23,008 for the murder spree that shocked the world. 1598 01:18:26,011 --> 01:18:27,875 Leslie Van Houten, 1599 01:18:27,910 --> 01:18:29,083 Susan Atkins, 1600 01:18:29,118 --> 01:18:30,464 and Patricia Krenwinkle 1601 01:18:30,498 --> 01:18:32,293 will also be given the death sentence. 1602 01:18:34,882 --> 01:18:37,333 - I couldn't understand how they could 1603 01:18:37,367 --> 01:18:39,404 be so happy 1604 01:18:39,438 --> 01:18:43,511 and cheerful when they were facing the death penalty. 1605 01:18:43,546 --> 01:18:46,929 It would be years later that I would see that look 1606 01:18:46,963 --> 01:18:49,345 in other eyes of cult followers 1607 01:18:49,379 --> 01:18:50,933 and I would realize 1608 01:18:50,967 --> 01:18:53,521 this is the way that people look 1609 01:18:53,556 --> 01:18:55,696 when they're under undue influence 1610 01:18:55,731 --> 01:18:58,734 and they're not thinking for themselves. 1611 01:19:01,771 --> 01:19:07,846 ♪ 1612 01:19:07,881 --> 01:19:09,883 In 1972, 1613 01:19:09,917 --> 01:19:13,196 Charles Manson and his three female accomplices 1614 01:19:13,231 --> 01:19:16,303 have their death sentences commuted to life in prison 1615 01:19:16,337 --> 01:19:20,479 when California temporarily abolishes the death penalty. 1616 01:19:20,514 --> 01:19:22,309 - After Charlie Manson 1617 01:19:22,343 --> 01:19:23,620 was locked away for life, 1618 01:19:23,655 --> 01:19:26,451 he became the most popular prison inmate 1619 01:19:26,485 --> 01:19:27,901 in the United States 1620 01:19:27,935 --> 01:19:29,626 measured by the amount of fan mail 1621 01:19:29,661 --> 01:19:30,869 that he received. 1622 01:19:34,666 --> 01:19:36,185 For a lot of young people, 1623 01:19:36,219 --> 01:19:38,497 he was like the ultimate outlaw, 1624 01:19:38,532 --> 01:19:40,948 the counterculture icon... 1625 01:19:44,814 --> 01:19:47,472 And he continued to live on in that sense 1626 01:19:47,506 --> 01:19:50,406 and continued to have a cult following 1627 01:19:50,440 --> 01:19:54,755 in the broader population. 1628 01:19:54,790 --> 01:19:57,654 - I think within the psychodrama of his own mind 1629 01:19:57,689 --> 01:19:59,864 Manson tapped into this idea 1630 01:19:59,898 --> 01:20:04,144 of a fear of black-led racial violence. 1631 01:20:04,178 --> 01:20:05,939 And I think that idea 1632 01:20:05,973 --> 01:20:07,837 was something that is a 1633 01:20:07,872 --> 01:20:09,563 carry-over from the '60s 1634 01:20:09,597 --> 01:20:12,600 even to this day. 1635 01:20:12,635 --> 01:20:15,258 - Charlie Manson wanted to be rich and famous. 1636 01:20:15,293 --> 01:20:17,640 When he couldn't do it in the music business, 1637 01:20:17,674 --> 01:20:20,850 he figured out another way to be famous. 1638 01:20:20,885 --> 01:20:22,300 - Manson frequently said 1639 01:20:22,334 --> 01:20:25,199 he wanted to be bigger than the Beatles. 1640 01:20:25,234 --> 01:20:26,407 And it could be argued 1641 01:20:26,442 --> 01:20:28,858 that he did have even more of an impact 1642 01:20:28,893 --> 01:20:30,826 than the Beatles on our lives, 1643 01:20:30,860 --> 01:20:33,863 on American culture. 1644 01:20:33,898 --> 01:20:35,382 It did something to us. 1645 01:20:35,416 --> 01:20:38,730 We're no longer as free and able to just... 1646 01:20:38,764 --> 01:20:40,801 think that we're safe in our homes. 1647 01:20:40,836 --> 01:20:44,632 - Roll N-72, scene four girls A, take one. 1648 01:20:44,667 --> 01:20:47,463 narrator: Over the years, many of Manson's followers 1649 01:20:47,497 --> 01:20:50,052 remained devoted to their Messiah. 1650 01:20:50,086 --> 01:20:52,226 - Again and again I've gotta pay for your sins. 1651 01:20:52,261 --> 01:20:53,779 I've been laying up here paying for your sins 1652 01:20:53,814 --> 01:20:57,197 for 2,000 years. 1653 01:20:57,231 --> 01:20:59,958 narrator: Others managed to break free. 1654 01:20:59,993 --> 01:21:02,823 - Do I feel that Charlie Manson conned me? 1655 01:21:02,858 --> 01:21:06,068 As time went on, absolutely. 1656 01:21:06,102 --> 01:21:09,588 Charlie had learned to be a very good manipulator. 1657 01:21:09,623 --> 01:21:12,868 A shark, it will eat whatever to survive. 1658 01:21:12,902 --> 01:21:16,906 And it will kill whatever to survive. 1659 01:21:16,941 --> 01:21:19,909 - I lost some innocence for sure. 1660 01:21:19,944 --> 01:21:21,428 But I--I survived 1661 01:21:21,462 --> 01:21:22,670 and I thrived, 1662 01:21:22,705 --> 01:21:25,881 and, um, I'm very thankful for that. 1663 01:21:45,555 --> 01:21:47,385 In the space of two years, 1664 01:21:47,419 --> 01:21:50,491 Manson brainwashed dozens of followers 1665 01:21:50,526 --> 01:21:54,599 and even convinced some to kill for him. 1666 01:21:54,633 --> 01:21:57,809 Behind it all lay his twisted world view, 1667 01:21:57,843 --> 01:22:01,951 the Helter Skelter race war. 1668 01:22:01,986 --> 01:22:06,162 But did Manson ever truly believe in this philosophy 1669 01:22:06,197 --> 01:22:08,026 or did he simply use it 1670 01:22:08,061 --> 01:22:12,375 to frighten and control The Family? 1671 01:22:12,410 --> 01:22:14,377 In 1979, 1672 01:22:14,412 --> 01:22:16,966 when FBI profiler John Douglas 1673 01:22:17,001 --> 01:22:19,486 met Charles Manson in prison, 1674 01:22:19,520 --> 01:22:22,454 they had a revealing exchange. 1675 01:22:22,489 --> 01:22:23,869 - He's waiting in a cage. 1676 01:22:23,904 --> 01:22:25,112 He's looking down, 1677 01:22:25,147 --> 01:22:27,804 he's looking down like I'm one of his disciples. 1678 01:22:27,839 --> 01:22:29,082 Like, you know. 1679 01:22:29,116 --> 01:22:30,946 - You gotta sneak to get to the truth. 1680 01:22:30,980 --> 01:22:32,568 The truth is condemned. 1681 01:22:32,602 --> 01:22:34,639 The truth is in the gas chamber. 1682 01:22:34,673 --> 01:22:37,021 - At the end of the day, I don't believe Charlie 1683 01:22:37,055 --> 01:22:39,264 believed in Helter Skelter 1684 01:22:39,299 --> 01:22:40,610 at all. 1685 01:22:40,645 --> 01:22:43,337 It was just a crazy story. 1686 01:22:43,372 --> 01:22:44,442 And I didn't believe it, 1687 01:22:44,476 --> 01:22:45,477 I told him he didn't believe it, 1688 01:22:45,512 --> 01:22:46,927 and he laughed 1689 01:22:46,962 --> 01:22:50,379 when I told him, "I don't believe your BS here, Charlie, 1690 01:22:50,413 --> 01:22:51,759 "Come on, man. 1691 01:22:51,794 --> 01:22:53,865 You're just into sex, drugs, and rock and roll." 1692 01:22:56,764 --> 01:22:59,077 - And he was nodding his head, he was smiling, 1693 01:22:59,112 --> 01:23:00,527 laughing, you know. 1694 01:23:00,561 --> 01:23:01,597 So. 1695 01:23:02,908 --> 01:23:05,670 - ♪ Pretty girl 1696 01:23:05,704 --> 01:23:10,571 ♪ Pretty, pretty girl 1697 01:23:13,057 --> 01:23:16,681 ♪ Cease to exist 1698 01:23:16,715 --> 01:23:22,687 ♪ Just come and say you love me ♪ 1699 01:23:25,069 --> 01:23:29,245 ♪ Give up your world 1700 01:23:29,280 --> 01:23:35,424 ♪ Come on, you could be 1701 01:23:35,458 --> 01:23:37,771 ♪ I'm your kind 1702 01:23:37,805 --> 01:23:39,083 ♪ Oh your kind 1703 01:23:39,117 --> 01:23:42,500 ♪ And I can see 1704 01:23:42,534 --> 01:23:46,711 - Um, as far as these things go, um... 1705 01:23:46,745 --> 01:23:48,402 You have to make love with it. 1706 01:23:49,093 --> 01:23:51,854 - ♪ Walk on, walk on 1707 01:23:51,888 --> 01:23:57,584 ♪ I love you, pretty girl 1708 01:23:57,618 --> 01:24:00,828 ♪ My life is yours 1709 01:24:00,863 --> 01:24:06,455 ♪ And you can have my world 1710 01:24:06,489 --> 01:24:08,491 ♪ Never had a lesson 1711 01:24:08,526 --> 01:24:11,218 ♪ I ever learned 1712 01:24:11,253 --> 01:24:12,944 ♪ But I know 1713 01:24:12,978 --> 01:24:14,532 ♪ We all get our turn 1714 01:24:14,566 --> 01:24:17,190 ♪ I love you 1715 01:24:17,224 --> 01:24:18,536 ♪ Never learn 1716 01:24:18,570 --> 01:24:21,401 ♪ Not to love you 1717 01:24:21,435 --> 01:24:23,679 ♪ Submission is a gift 1718 01:24:23,713 --> 01:24:29,167 ♪ Go on, give it to your brother ♪ 1719 01:24:29,202 --> 01:24:32,550 ♪ Love and understanding 1720 01:24:32,584 --> 01:24:36,588 ♪ Is for one another 1721 01:24:36,623 --> 01:24:38,418 ♪ I'm your kind 1722 01:24:38,452 --> 01:24:40,247 ♪ I'm your kind 1723 01:24:40,282 --> 01:24:44,044 ♪ I'm your brother 1724 01:24:44,079 --> 01:24:45,701 ♪ I never had a lesson 1725 01:24:45,735 --> 01:24:47,910 ♪ I ever learned 1726 01:24:47,944 --> 01:24:49,739 ♪ But I know we all 1727 01:24:49,774 --> 01:24:50,844 ♪ Get our turn 1728 01:24:50,878 --> 01:24:53,674 ♪ And I love you 1729 01:24:53,709 --> 01:24:54,882 ♪ Never learn 1730 01:24:54,917 --> 01:24:57,471 ♪ Not to love you 1731 01:24:57,506 --> 01:25:01,475 ♪ Never learn not to love you ♪ 1732 01:25:01,510 --> 01:25:03,028 ♪ Never learn 1733 01:25:03,063 --> 01:25:07,067 ♪ Not to love you 1734 01:25:11,416 --> 01:25:13,073 Thanks for watching. 1735 01:25:13,108 --> 01:25:16,111 And here are a few more shows to check out from Fox. 1736 01:25:18,320 --> 01:25:20,115 Buckle up, Buttercup. 1737 01:25:21,185 --> 01:25:24,015 It's real, and it pulls people together. 1738 01:25:24,049 --> 01:25:26,500 ♪ We're breaking waves♪ 1739 01:25:26,535 --> 01:25:27,708 ♪ Shooting stars♪ 1740 01:25:27,743 --> 01:25:31,333 ♪ We live for glory not forever♪ 1741 01:25:31,367 --> 01:25:32,403 Touchdown! 1742 01:25:32,437 --> 01:25:35,923 ♪ Reach out♪ 1743 01:25:35,958 --> 01:25:39,582 - ♪ Make this right here right now♪ 1744 01:25:39,617 --> 01:25:43,414 ♪ Stand up♪ 1745 01:25:43,448 --> 01:25:45,243 ♪ Here right now♪ 1746 01:25:45,278 --> 01:25:47,245 That sounds like fun. 116957

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