Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders

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Most of the people he brought into The Family were between the ages of 17 to 27, with a heavy emphasis on 17. He had a man by the name of Paul Watkins, who was a good looking lad, who would hang around areas where high school girls would be and recruit them into The Family. There was no end of young women from middle class families who had runaway from their families or wanted to. Manson offered them a haven in the desert. During the first few days a total of forty-three officers would visit the crime scene, looking for weapons and other evidence. In searching the loft above the living room, Sergeant Mike McGann found a film can containing a roll of video-tape. Sergeant Ed Henderson took it to the Police Academy, which had screening facilities. The film showed Sharon and Roman Polanski making love. With a certain delicacy, the tape was not booked into evidence but was returned to the loft where it had been found.” Eric from Byron, NyRingo re-confirms that it was him that shouted at the end on his VH1 Storytellers record.

Krissy from Boston, MaIt was not John who screamed at theend it was ringo. Why would John scream that?Atkins then used Tate’s blood to write the word “pig” on the front door. However, instead of this brutal massacre sating the pathological Manson, he criticized the murderers for being sloppy.

The irony of all this was not lost on the press, which reported, with some incredulity, that Manson had taken the stand to defend the man who had convicted him of seven murders!” The trial began in June 1970, with lawyer Ronald Hughes named the attorney for Manson and Van Houten. Hughes soon dropped Manson as a client, reportedly because he felt he could convince the jury that Van Houten had been unduly influenced by the cult leader. The move might have cost him his life: Late in the year, Hughes went camping and disappeared, and his decomposed body turned up several months later. It is thought that he was the victim of a retaliation killing by members of Manson’s Family. Coco56 from Small Town, TxIf Ringo says he screamed "I've got blisters on my fingers!"...I'll accept it. But for 41 years I thought it was John because it sounds like John and it shows John saying it on the video/film. Why would they show John yelling it if Ringo did? Just wondering.

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Ironically, Manson and his family were arrested not on suspicion of the Tate-LaBianca murders, but simply on the belief that they had vandalized a portion of the Death Valley National Park while hiding out in the Mojave Desert.