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[Insects chirping]

[Dog barks in distance]

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"Don't ask me what to do."

I said, "you know what to do."

Maybe I should have
killed 400, 500 people,

then I would've felt better.

Then I would've felt like

I really offered society something.

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Welcome to "very scary people."
I'm Donnie wahlberg.

Tonight, we unravel the twisted tale

of one of america's most
despicable criminal minds...

Charles manson... a man
whose evil resulted in a series

of vicious murders that still
haunt the nation's conscience.

Decades have not erased
the bloody trail of terror

left by manson and his deadly disciples.

He cold-bloodedly commanded
his hippy followers

to carry out the brutal murders
of innocent people,

including actress Sharon Tate
and leno and Rosemary labianca.

Those horrific slayings
indelibly seared his name

at the very top of america's
list of very scary people.

But why did he do it, who was Charlie,

and how as he able
to convince his followers,

many of them bright, young people,

to commit unspeakable acts of violence

against unsuspecting strangers?

This is part one
of "the devil's work."

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In August of 1969,

19-year-old William garretson

is a fill-in summer caretaker
at 10050 cielo drive.

It is an exclusive Beverly Hills property

being rented by world-renowned
film director Roman polanski

and his stunning wife,
actress Sharon Tate.

Now, the owner of the property
has to go out of town a lot,

so he pays garretson
$35 per week to pet sit.

He was there to take care of a dog

and to do some chores around the house.

But because the polanskis and
their friends are celebrities,

garretson is under orders
to never, ever bother them...

Even though the main house
is just 25 yards away.

Now, the young man has no idea

that after the night of August 8th,

his life will never be the same.

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Garretson was gonna
call it early and not go out.

Sidner: Suddenly,
garretson hears loud voices

coming from the polanskis' house.

[Indistinct shouting in distance]

And then, when he picks up the phone,

the line is dead.

I think garretson was
probably scared to death.

Wiehl: As garretson
is hearing those screams,

absolute carnage is happening on the lawn

and inside that house.

Reporter:
It was a killing spree

that horrified the entire country.

People were slaughtered,

including actress Sharon Tate,

8 1/2 months pregnant

and married to director Roman polanski.

Sidner: What unfolds that night
at 10050 cielo drive

was set in motion by just
one man... Charles manson.

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Guinn: According to Charlie,

he was the son of an unwed
teenage prostitute

who cared so little about her son

that once, she tried to sell him
for a pitcher of beer.

I spent the best part of my life
in boys' schools, prisons,

and reform schools because I had nobody.

Nobody would come and sign
their name to take me out.

I never had no parents to speak of.

None of that's true.

Charles manson's mother did go to prison

when Charlie was 5.

She and her brother
tried to Rob somebody.

They were sentenced
to two years in prison.

But little Charlie was
taken in by loving relatives,

his grandmother, his aunt,
his cousin Jo Ann.

When his mother was released from prison,

she certainly loved him and wanted him.

The problem was that Charlie himself

was a rotten little kid
from the word "go."

He would lie about everything.

He was sometimes violent.

Charlie's cousin Jo Ann said

that when Charlie's in first grade,

a boy was mean to him,

and Charlie had
some of the girls in class

beat the boy up at recess.

When the principal said to
Charlie, "why did you do this?"

Charlie said, "it wasn't me.

The girls were doing
what they wanted to do."

He kept running away.

By the time he's 13,
he's pulling armed robberies.

And I burglarized a grocery store,

and I stole the car and didn't
know how to shift gears.

Guinn: He starts in
the reformatory system.

Charles manson told me that he was abused

at all these reform schools,

physically beaten, sexually abused.

Guinn: After being preyed on
in his first few years,

he became a predator himself.

At one point, he was caught
sodomizing another boy

while holding a sharp object
at the kid's throat.

There was no amount of harm
or hurt that he could inflict

on the world, in his mind,

that could ever fill
the sense of being the victim.

Nobody cares.

When it comes right down to it,
nobody cares.

Sidner: It's only when he's 19,
after seven years in institutions,

that Charlie finally
gets out of the system.

Yet Charlie soon reverts
to what he knows best...

Stealing cars.

At 21, Charlie's crime lands him

at the terminal island federal
penitentiary in Los Angeles.

You can't understand Charlie manson

without understanding his criminal past

and his time in jail.

Rick:
And in order for him to survive,

he developed skills to manipulate people.

Sidner: Prison is where manson
perfected the art of the con,

and he's inspired
by a very unlikely source,

perhaps the most famous voice
in self-improvement ever.

His personal guru is none other
than Dale carnegie.

Wiehl: "How to win friends
and influence people."

Guinn: And when you talk now
to his followers,

"how did Charlie attract you?"

And they would say, "oh, it was
like he looked in my soul.

Chapter seven of "how to win
friends and influence people,"

word for word.

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Sidner: He's briefly released
in 1958 in Los Angeles,

but when he can't hold down
a regular job,

Charlie decides to think outside the box.

He sets himself up as a pimp.

Sidner: He racks up more arrests
for transporting women

across state lines
for the purpose of prostitution.

Wiehl: He talked to inmates
about being a better pimp.

Shelley: They instructed Charlie
how to find the right Mark,

to find young, vulnerable women
on their own,

women who had no one else to rely on.

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Guinn: Manson immediately
started telling the counselors

in prison that he was going
to be a musician.

He starts writing his own songs,
performing in prison shows.

He thought, "when I get out,
I can play guitar

and make money somehow
in the music industry."

Sidner:
In 1967, Charles manson is told

that he's finally about to be paroled.

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He's going back into the real world.

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Sidner: In the summer of '67,

manson heads north to San Francisco,

and he comes face to face
with the age of aquarius.

That was basically the beginning
of the summer of love.

Manson: And they were free
in their thinking.

And there was no fear
or paranoia to them,

and they'd come up and say,
"well, we like you."

I said, "you like me?
Hell, nobody likes me."

Everybody was a hippie then.

Peace, love, weed, sex, music.

You say, "well, you give
our kids drugs."

I'd say, "man, your kids
gave me the drugs."

They were already loaded.

And all sorts of weird gurus
going around.

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Sidner: Charlie comes out of
prison wanting to be a super pimp,

but people who know him say
he quickly realizes

he can't make money from sex

when all the hippies are into free love.

And so Charlie reinvents
himself as a guru,

and he has equal parts
Dale carnegie, the Bible,

and his own prison bs, and he
goes out and starts preaching.

The target would be young,
lonely, vulnerable women.

Dr. Jordan:
They came from good families.

So, how did they get sucked
into manson's cult?

There was an induction process,
drugs and sex.

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They would take LSD, he would have sex,

and then he would, like,
whisper in their ear,

and he would tell them about love.

Charlie showered me with love
and affection and adoration,

and the girls, too.

It was like, "oh, I'm home."

Dr. Jordan: And the key
to his power and control

was to simply convince his followers

that he was almost a Messiah,

that he held all the answers
to their problems,

and that they could find peace and love

and Serenity in their lives

if they would just do
exactly what he said.

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Roberts: As time goes on,

those women become
even more manipulatable,

more malleable in his hands
to a darker demonic future.

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Manson was able to finagle
an old school bus

that would hold about 35 people,

painted it black for attention,

and so they would travel

and they would live in the school bus.

Jakobson: Charlie worked his way
to the sunset strip, I.A.,

which was the heavy music scene.

Charlie believes he is destined
to be a rock star

and to have everything he never had.

I think he came out of prison

with like 80-some songs
that he'd written.

♪ Look at your game, girl ♪

♪ go on, look at your game,
girl ♪

He wanted to be like
the beach boys or Mick Jagger,

whoever you wanted to say.

That was Charlie's ideal.

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Guinn: In may of 1968,

manson moved the family to spahn ranch

just outside Los Angeles.

Roberts: Spahn ranch was
described as a movie set.

There was kind of a western street

with board sidewalks and faux saloons.

It was pretty much a dump.

George spahn, the old owner,
was nearly blind.

The old man was the boss.

Whatever the old man said,
we did, you dig?

He let us stay there free rent, you dig?

It didn't hurt to have girls
tending to George

on a regular basis,
you know, cleaning his house,

giving him some sex.

Guinn: Lynette fromme
was assigned by manson

to live with George and to
fulfill his every whim.

And George liked to pinch her
a lot, and she would squeal.

And George is the one
that nicknamed her "squeaky."

Fast forward to 1975, the world will know

Lynette fromme as "squeaky" fromme,

who tried to assassinate

then-president Gerald Ford with a gun.

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Charles manson knew that somehow

he was destined to enter
the recording industry,

and it's just going to come down to,

can he get one break, one random act,

one introduction?

And he does.

Guinn: When he and his family
first came to Los Angeles,

he sent all the women out to
troll for a famous musician.

As it happened, pat krenwinkel

and another woman called
"yeller" were walking

along the road, and here comes
Dennis Wilson in his car.

He was the beach boys' drummer.

And not surprising,
he took these two girls

back to his house.

They were telling Dennis
all about, you know,

this cool little guy, Charlie,
and got him intrigued.

Back then, a lot of musicians had gurus.

You know, cat Stevens, the Beatles.

That was, like, the in thing,
was to have a guru.

But a lot of lives were destroyed

because of that insane nonsense
that Charlie was trying to sell.

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Guinn: Dennis Wilson goes
to a recording session.

He comes back home that night
to find that there's this tribe

of weird-looking people in his house,

making themselves at home.

You know, inviting him in.

And he walks up to the leader, Charlie.

Dennis said, "you're not gonna
kill me, are you?"

Guinn: And Charlie
drops down on his knees,

kisses Dennis' feet, and said,

"do I look like
I'm gonna hurt you, man?"

It was shortly thereafter that there just

a small group of us
that moved into Dennis'.

And the girls are taking off
their clothes,

ready to do anything Dennis wants.

Jakobson: Dennis said, "hey,
gregg, you got to come down, man.

You got to meet this guy.

He's here with
a bunch of girls."

Love: Bruce Johnson and I,

we were invited to dinner
at Dennis' house.

And we got there, and Bruce
and I were the only people

with clothing on at dinner,

so I thought that was kind of unusual.

[Laughter]

Shelley: Endless orgies
and endless drug parties.

It was just all there with
Charlie manson orchestrating it.

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Lake: Dennis was having,
you know,

issues with his ex-wife
and custody of the kids.

Manson played on Dennis' insecurities.

Rick: People like Charlie manson
can smell it.

I mean, he's like a heat-seeking missile.

He could look at someone,
he could size them up,

and gain undue influence over them.

Lake: Dennis had been
with the maharishi,

the same maharishi
that the Beatles were with.

Dennis Wilson moved from
the maharishi to the manson.

Dennis was a celebrity that was
available for using and abusing.

Kay: Dennis paid for the numerous
sexually transmitted diseases

that these girls had and paying
for medical treatment

for his friends
who partook in these girls.

Dennis Wilson said that he ended
up spending

over $100,000 correcting the damage

manson and the family
had done to his house.

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Manson, at Dennis Wilson's
house, met Terry Melcher.

He was a famous record producer
at the time.

Jakobson: You know,
Paul revere and the raiders,

the byrds, a number of successful acts.

Terry's mom is Doris day.

You know, he's very high-profile.

His girlfriend is Candice Bergen.

So Terry's a real star,

and Charlie was like,
"ooh, this is my guy."

Guinn: Here's the top of
the food chain.

Terry Melcher, the kid-star
producer for Columbia,

he can sign Charlie.

Shelley: At the time, he was
living with his girlfriend,

Candice Bergen, at 10050 cielo drive.

Sidner: This is about a year
before the home

is rented by the new tenants...
Roman polanski and Sharon Tate.

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In the summer of 1968,

Dennis tries to start
Charlie's music career

with a session at the beach boys' studio.

Dennis took us over
to his brother's house, Brian.

And Charlie was gonna do,
like, a recording session.

Rick: Charles manson, of course,
was obsessive about his music,

about his lyrics,
about his artistic talent.

Lake: I think they wanted Charlie
to change some of the words,

change some of the music.

People who were there say Charlie

pulls a knife on the engineer.

Next thing you know, Charlie came,

you know, storming out
of the recording studio.

I think things started
to go south after that.

Jakobson: Dennis knew that he
was never gonna get rid of him,

so he had to just leave.

He just abandoned the house.

He just left.
It was a rental house.

Still, manson clings to the hope
that his dream

of becoming a rock star isn't dead.

It seems Dennis might still be
willing to help him

with one of his songs in particular.

♪ Cease to exist ♪

♪ just come and say
you love me ♪

"Cease to exist."

♪ You walk on, walk on ♪

♪ I love you, pretty girl ♪

Guinn: Cease to exist
was considered good enough

to put on a beach boys album.

Jakobson: Dennis and Charlie
reached an agreement.

Now, god only knows what it was,

because this shouldn't really happen,

but Dennis got permission
from Charlie to use the song.

Or, anyway, Dennis thought
he had permission

from Charlie to use the song.

Manson called his song "cease to exist,"

and then Dennis Wilson changed it,

"never learn not to love."

The beach boys actually
perform the new version

of "cease to exist"
on "the Mike Douglas show."

♪ Submission is a gift,
a gift to your lover ♪

Having that song,
"cease to exist," reworked,

repackaged by the beach boys

and put out under a different title

without any credit given
to Charles manson angered him.

And he felt betrayed by Dennis Wilson.

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It came down to Charlie saying,

he says, "you know,
I know where you live.

I know where your kids live."

Sidner: Manson admitted to
threatening Dennis Wilson

in a 1993 interview with abc news.

I gave Dennis Wilson a bullet, didn't I?

I gave him a bullet because
he changed the words to my song.

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Friday night in Los Angeles,

a movie actress and four
of her friends were murdered,

and the circumstances were lurid.

The movie actress was Sharon Tate.

Charles manson is angry at the world,

and, increasingly, his thoughts
are turning to deadly violence.

His rage against humanity
is raised to new levels

by unfulfilled dreams of rock stardom.

Now he conjures up
a sinister solution to his hate.

He tries to incite a race riot
between blacks and whites

that he calls helter skelter.

Manson's mission...
To spark ethnic conflict

based on his unfounded belief

that the true meaning of the Beatles song

"helter skelter" is a call to arms.

♪♪

Manson is not about to give up his dream

of a recording contract.

He now pins all his hopes
on Terry Melcher.

Charlie was smart enough to know,

"okay, here's the guy that I want.

Now here's a guy
who is a record producer."

♪♪

Lake: And that's when
gregg jakobson and Terry Melcher

came to the spahn ranch,

and we did, like,
a little recording session.

♪ Just go, go ♪

♪ don't look back,
just go, go ♪

And manson played the guitar,

and all the girls sang parts

and harmonies and background stuff.

Charlie was really hopeful
that this was going to end up

in some kind of an album.

But, at some point, Terry gave
Charlie the classic speech,

"you know, Charlie, I mean,
you really got a talent,

I really appreciate your music,

but you're just not
my cup of tea."

In Charles manson's mind,

Terry Melcher had dashed
his hope for a music contract.

♪♪

Lake: And Charlie was really
upset about that.

I kind of remember Charlie,
like, you know,

"all those," you know,
"mother [bleep]" you know?

♪♪

Rick:
In my opinion, that rejection

is what led to his desire to kill,

to kill the people that had wronged him,

that had basically ignored his greatness.

♪♪

Now that he wasn't gonna make a record

that was gonna then bring us money,

they resorted to criminal activity.

♪♪

Shelley:
They had arms at the ranch,

but now they were really,
really arming themselves.

Guinn: What Charlie tells
his followers is,

"look, we need money for guns.

Now, how are we gonna
get that money?"

Wiehl: Gary hinman
was a Buddhist musician

that was a friend of many
of the family members.

Manson mistakenly thought that hinman

had come into a large inheritance.

On Charlie's instruction,
his friend Bobby beausoleil

and manson family members
Susan atkins and Mary brunner

go to Gary hinman's home.

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Martley:
Gary didn't have money.

I think he had a few dollars
in the house,

not much in his bank account.

Kay: Manson then came out.

Manson had a sword and told hinman

that he wanted his property,
and hinman, you know,

"I don't have anything."

And so manson slashed him.

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I cut his ear off.

Kay: And manson left.

After manson left the scene,

Bobby beausoleil reportedly
calls Charlie.

I said,
"don't ask me what to do."

I said, "you know what to do!"

It's very clear what Charlie manson

wants them to do to Gary hinman.

Kay: Then Susan atkins
held a pillow over his face

so that he couldn't breathe.

♪♪

Guinn:
They murdered Gary hinman.

And, so, what they did
with hinman's blood,

on Charlie's order,

was leave what supposedly
was a paw-print sign

and the word "political piggy"
scrawled in blood.

Sidner: It's the first time
manson manipulates his followers

to kill for him,
but it won't be the last.

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Lake: Charlie had been sharing
with us from really early on

about what he had learned
in reform school

and in prison, from the black man,

and that was that they were
going to overcome whitey.

And, so, Charlie interpreted
this as it was going to be,

like, a black-white race war.

A revolution that manson
referred to as "helter skelter"

after one of the songs
in the Beatles album.

♪ Helter skelter ♪

♪ look out! Helter skelter! ♪

To manson, it meant
that the Beatles wanted

to have a worldwide revolution,
blacks against whites.

Of course, it was all nonsense.

One of manson's goals
was to make it appear

as though black radicals had
murdered prominent white people.

He thought that would then
make the police retaliate,

there would be more riots in Los Angeles,

and that would kick off the race war.

And, so, Charlie decides they're
going to have another murder.

Rick: He was testing the limits
of how far he could go.

Could he get people to do violence?

Could he get people to kill for him?

♪♪

I remember playing games like
their creepy crawly games

where they would sneak
in somebody's house.

Guinn: You would enter someone's
house so silently,

they didn't know you were in there,

so that if you'd wanted to,
you could kill them.

All the women were issued buck knives.

Charles manson loved knives.

His female followers,

they had to prove their love
and loyalty to him

by standing against trees
and letting Charlie

throw knives into the trees
around their face.

♪♪

Tex Watson had been
holding training classes

for how to commit murder.

When you stab somebody,

you didn't just put the knife in,

you pulled up on it
after to do more damage.

Guinn: Manson, he thought,

"we've got to kill somebody
important."

♪♪

And it began right here on cielo drive,

a quiet, leafy cul-de-sac
overlooking Beverly Hills.

You see this security gate.

Behind it, there's a mansion.

The property where
record producer Terry Melcher

and his girlfriend, Candice Bergen, lived

until January of 1969.

They moved out in January,

and the polanskis moved in in February.

Wiehl: Roman polanski was a very
famous director at that time,

Sharon Tate, an up-and-coming
young actress.

Sidner: Sharon Tate and Roman
polanski had met three years earlier,

on polanski's film,

"the fearless vampire killers,"
in London.

I... I'm going to save you.

We'll go away together.

She was a stunningly
beautiful young woman.

As one person said to me,
she literally turned heads

when she walked down the street.

Sharon and Roman were married
in London in January 1968.

The newlyweds had moved
into 10050 cielo drive

just a year after
they had gotten married.

One of the main reasons
why they rented a house

was because they were about
to have a baby.

Kay: Sharon was just
so looking forward

to being a mom and having the child.

Sidner: But for his film projects,
Roman often needs to travel.

Sharon has friends who stay
with her at the house

so she's not alone.

Roberts: Jay sebring,
who was her boyfriend

before she married polanski.

Jay sebring made his name
as a hairdresser to the stars.

Roberts: Wojciech frykowski
was a Polish émigré.

His girlfriend, Abigail Folger, who...

Folger, of course, was a prominent name.

She was, in fact, of the coffee family.

Now 8 1/2 months pregnant,
Sharon's at her most vulnerable

to a threat
she doesn't even know is coming

from Charles manson.

Kay: On Friday, August the 8th,
he said,

"now is the time
for helter skelter."

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Manson sends out three women,

Patricia krenwinkel, Susan atkins,

and Linda kasabian

with Tex Watson to the Tate residence.

Shelley: Manson instructs Tex
that he's to go in there

and kill everyone in a gory scene.

He wanted a blood bath.

Kay: And manson told the women,

"do whatever Tex
tells you to do."

Do you know why they picked Sharon Tate?

- No.
- Was that purely bad luck?

I know now that it had

something to do with Terry Melcher.

Kay: Manson knew that
Terry Melcher and Candice Bergen

didn't live there anymore,

but he wanted to send a message to them.

"There but for the grace
of god go you."

♪♪

[Insects chirping]

[Dog barks in distance]

♪♪

Sidner: At 10050 cielo drive,
Sharon Tate and her friends,

Jay sebring, Abigail Folger,
and wojciech frykowski,

are settled in for the night.

♪♪

25 yards away from the main house,

in the separate guesthouse,
the fill-in caretaker,

William garretson,
has decided to stay in.

But late that night, garretson
gets a surprise visitor.

♪♪

Steven parent, the night before,

had met the caretaker, William garretson,

and garretson invited him to come up.

♪♪

Meanwhile, the car with Tex Watson

and the other manson followers

pulls up near the gate of the Tate house.

Steven parent was on his way out.

♪♪

Tex Watson is, at that point,
cutting the wires to the house.

♪♪

[Engine starts]

Kay:
Watson saw the headlights.

♪♪

And then Watson approached parent

with his nine-inch buntline
.22-caliber revolver.

Parent begged for his life,
at which point,

Watson shot him four times
at point-blank range

in the upper torso...

[Gunshots]

...killing him.

He was just a kid in the wrong
place at the wrong time.

♪♪

Kay: Watson and the women
proceeded to the house.

♪♪

This was a family that wanted to kill.

♪♪

I remember that I had gone so far,

and there was no turning back.

Even if I had wanted to run,

even if I had wanted
to leave, I couldn't.

It was like I was caught in something

that I had no control over.

♪♪

Dr. Jordan: Sharon Tate
and three house guests

have no idea what's
coming up the driveway.

♪♪

Tex Watson enters
the residence through a window,

and then quietly lets in two of the women

through the front door,

but he leaves the third one
outside as a lookout.

Wojciech frykowski is asleep
on the living-room couch,

and he suddenly awakens
to find Tex Watson

standing in front of him, staring at him.

And he simply asks him,

"who are you, and what do you want?

And Tex said, "I'm the devil,

and I'm here to do
the devil's business."

The people in the house were all brought

into the living room and tied up.

Susan atkins recalls that one
of the victims called out,

"what are you going
to do with us?"

And Tex Watson simply replied,
"you are all going to die."

And Jay sebring, who's a former boyfriend

of the very pregnant Sharon Tate,

is pleading with Watson, he's saying,

"she's pregnant.
Can't she just sit down?"

And for his protest,

Tex Watson shoots Jay sebring
in cold blood.

♪♪

Wojciech frykowski,
I tied his hands with a towel

and then was instructed to kill him.

Wojciech very easily undid the towel

that I'd tied his wrists with,
and he and I began to fight.

Dr. Jordan:
He bolts for the front door,

and he makes it all the way out
to the front porch,

but Tex runs him down, and with that gun,

starts beating him over the head

with the butt of the gun
and stabbing him 51 times.

All I can remember seeing is people

just scattering in different places.

Abigail Folger manages
to escape and run for the door,

and she gets outside,

but Patricia krenwinkel runs her down,

and Tex Watson is right behind.

Together, they hold her down
on the ground

and stab her repeatedly.

And I was left sitting with Sharon Tate,

and she was talking to me.

Susan atkins, she said Sharon
begged for her life.

"Please let me live
so I can have my baby."

Dr. Jordan:
"I just want my baby to be born.

You can kill me later,
but let the baby live."

I felt nothing. I felt
absolutely nothing for her.

Susan atkins grabbed Sharon Tate
by the hands and holds her arms,

holding her captive while Tex Watson

stabs her in the heart.

Atkins: Tex, the way he moved,
the viciousness,

it was just like seeing somebody go crazy

with more power
than I've ever seen anybody.

I don't think he was
in control of himself.

Dr. Jordan: Charles manson
may not have been there,

but he had given them
very specific instructions.

"Before you leave,
leave a sign."

Susan atkins picks up a towel

and dips it in the blood of Sharon Tate,

and on the front door of
the house writes the word "pig."

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Wiehl:
At 8:00 A.M., August 9th,

housekeeper winnie Chapman
arrives at 10050 cielo drive.

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She first sees that the wires
to the house have been cut.

She then goes through the back entrance,

and she looks through to the lawn.

Kay: She saw wojciech frykowski
and Abigail Folger's bodies

in the front yard.

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She runs now, through the
front entrance of the house,

to the driveway,

and she sees a body
slumped over in a car.

She runs frantically to get help.

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Reporter: In a scene described
by one investigator

as reminiscent of a weird religious rite,

five persons including actress
Sharon Tate were found dead.

Manson wanted a bloodbath,
and that's what he got.

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They found Sharon Tate
had been stabbed to death,

16 stab wounds,
and had a rope around her neck.

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And the rope went over a beam
of the high-beam ceiling.

The other end had been tied
around Jay sebring's neck.

You have this 8 1/2-month-pregnant woman

being hung while she was still alive.

Guinn: Abigail Folger had been
wearing a white nightgown.

You couldn't tell that it was
white, there was so much blood.

Wojciech frykowski's face had
been swollen from the beating.

It was hard to tell
his facial features at all.

Wiehl: When the police
look in the driveway,

they see a car.

In the car, there is a body
of a young man

who has been both shot and stabbed.

Roberts: It was inexplicable

because there was no apparent motive.

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Sidner: As LAPD investigators
attempt to make sense

of all this death, they suddenly
hear a sign of life.

[Dog barks]

They hear a dog barking.

[Barking continues]

So that alerts them to the guesthouse.

Incredibly, 19-year-old
William garretson,

the fill-in caretaker,

had been just 25 yards away
in the guesthouse

when these five people
were murdered the night before.

At first they thought, well,
here is this person alive.

He had to know what was going on.

Wiehl:
Their first order of business

is to take William garretson
into custody,

and he becomes suspect number one.

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Sidner: After killing Sharon Tate
and her friends the night before,

family members Tex Watson,

Susan atkins, Patty krenwinkel,

and Linda kasabian
had returned to spahn ranch.

Charles manson was waiting for them.

I said, "do you feel any remorse
about your actions?"

And they says no.
I said,

"do you feel that you did
what you had to do,

and it was right?"

And she says, "yes."

What judgment could I make?

I had no judgment.

Charles manson has a long history

of manipulating other people
to do his violence for him.

He's not finished yet
acting out his rage.

Believe me, if I started
murdering people,

there'd be none of you left.

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The scene of brutal butchery
at the Tate residence

rattles even the most
hardened homicide detectives

assigned to the case.

Hollywood celebrities are
panicked that they may be next.

Throughout southern California,

people scramble to beef up
their home security

and around the world,
millions more watch the news

in disbelief, hoping to find out
who did this and why.

But Charles manson will not be stopped.

He's already planning
his next vicious killing spree.

The rampage continues in part two

of "very scary people:
The devil's work."

Thanks for watching.
I'm Donnie wahlberg.

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