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♪ Always is always forever

♪ As long as one is one

♪ Inside yourself for your father ♪

♪ All is none all is none all is one ♪

♪ And it's time we put our love behind you ♪

♪ Illusion has been just a dream ♪

♪ Valley of death and I'll find you ♪

♪ Now is when on a sunshine beam ♪

♪ Los Angeles weather

- Another nice day, a little cooler today.

Sunny skies high near 85.

Moderate smog, that means quite a bit.

Right now it's 62 degrees in Hollywood.

♪ Somewhere beneath the sea and the sand ♪

♪ My baby waits for me

♪ Waits for me

♪ She calls, I come if I can

♪ You know she's good to me

♪ You never, never, never saw

♪ Someone like this girl before ♪

♪ Lalalalalala

- In '68, Sharon Tate

and husband Roman Polanski moved to Los Angeles.

♪ She calls, I come if I can

♪ You know she's good to me

- While Roman was in London

prepping his movie, "The Day of the Dolphins",

Sharon shared the house

with Roman Polanski's Polish pal, Voytek Frykowski,

and Voytek's girlfriend, Abigail Folger,

the San Francisco socialite

who was known as being the heiress to the Coffee Fortune.

And then Jay Sebring,

who was actually the former fiance of Sharon showed up,

pretty well every day to hang out with the foursome.

♪ Waits for me

♪ Waits for me, ah

- When I arrived in the spring of 1968,

Spahn Ranch was idyllic.

We were very accepting and loving.

The music really pulled me in.

We weren't catty, we weren't jealous.

We just all, just kinda loved each other.

Home was the ranch.

Home was Charlie and all the people at the ranch.

- I met Charlie at Spahn's Ranch.

I was walking up Santa Susanna Pass Road.

I was picked up by Dede and Stephanie

and they took me to where the Family was staying

and I got immersed in the milieu there.

It was like being pioneers.

You know it was just, wow, this is cool, this is fun.

The first thing that they asked me

if I heard of the White Album,

The Beatles White Album.

Did I know about Helter Skelter and all this stuff.

- In the winter of 1968 and the spring of 1969,

Charlie Manson, he's playing 'em The Beatles White Album

over and over and here are the messages

The Beatles are sending us.

- Charlie really believed

that The Beatles were sending him a subliminal message

in the White Album.

He played it forwards, backwards, slow, fast.

- Manson became so obsessed with that,

that that was all he cared about.

- We just thought that they were singing about us.

It was like to him and then of course to us,

that The Beatles had tuned in to the consciousness

and Charlie was tuned in to the consciousness.

- Dennis Wilson would say Charlie's cosmic, you know.

He gets messages from Beatle Records,

like the White Album.

But everybody did that.

I mean every rock song was a prophecy to my generation.

- This is where Charlie gets the idea

that Helter Skelter, the apocalypse is coming.

Blackbird works in very well.

Piggies works in very well.

- Then there's the song "Helter Skelter"

comin' down fast.

- Helter Skelter was the new name

for this race war that he'd been talking about.

- When Helter Skelter comes down,

the cities are gonna be mass hysteria

and that the cops won't know what to do.

- The Blacks would rise, kill off the Whites.

Karma would be turning

'cause of all that we done to the other races,

and then they would be unable to rule and run things

and so they would go

to the only white people left who survived,

which would be the Family who had hidden

and ultimately of course Charlie.

- It was real.

It was really real, Helter Skelter is coming down.

You know whether he was supposed to start it or not

but that it was imminent.

- Charlie Manson gets to the whole Helter Skelter idea,

mostly after it's pretty obvious to him

that he's not gonna become the music star

that he's promised his followers he's gonna become.

It gives him a new thing to predict is coming.

And let's face it.

There were race riots in every major American city.

And Los Angeles was a tinder box at that time.

And he could say to his followers,

see I'm telling you there are these great events

and we're right at the middle of them.

- We knew that we were part

of the Revelations in the Bible.

We knew that we had part in it.

- God's getting ready

to pull down the curtain on this game

and start it over again with His chosen people.

- Charlie at this point

was talking Beatles and Bible a lot.

That if The Beatles said it or it was in the Bible

it had to be true.

And one of the things in the book of Revelation,

is discussion of a bottomless pit.

- He says the Negroes are gonna revolt

and kill all the white man

except the ones that are hiding in the desert.

And he said that it was getting worse and worse

and that he wanted to hide in the desert.

- Charlie preached

when this terrible race war was going on all around him

that they would go into the bottomless pit

where underneath there would be a wonderful city

they could live in.

And there they would exist, and there they would multiply.

- He wanted beautiful people

to help repopulate and help the black man rule.

I think he went off the deep end

'cause I think he really believed it.

- That move from believing in the rational,

orderly world as we know it

to this other mystical realm,

is really a move into insanity.

- Life is the struggle.

The experience of existence to me.

Some people don't like to struggle.

I do, I like to struggle.

That's the reason I like the desert so much, yeah.

- At the end of September

or partway through October of '68,

Catherine came along

and she knew of a place in the desert in Death Valley

that her grandmother owned.

- We met Cathy Gilles at a recording session.

She had a boyfriend that was a recording engineer

and she was fascinated by our music.

She was listening to the words.

And she came up to Charlie

and told him how much she liked the music

and he asked if she wanted to go for a ride.

And she went for a ride with him

and came back about a half an hour later

and told her boyfriend at the time

that she had just met Jesus Christ

and she was gonna go home with him.

On that ride she told him

about her grandparents' place, the Myers.

She told him how remote it was

and he said that might be our place.

- She led everyone up

and the transportation used

was an old green school bus that they painted

and fixed up on the inside

to look like a harem sort of effect.

And we took the bus to the bottom of Goler Wash.

And hiked up seven or seven and a half miles to Myers Ranch.

And on the way, Charlie and the rest of us spotted,

all of us spotted this Barker's Ranch.

And a couple of days after we were there

we moved into Barker's Ranch and cleaned it up.

- Charlie found what he thought

was a discarded landscape

and since he was a discarded person

that's how he kinda characterized it.

He said, "It's just a perfect place for me

"out in the desert.

"Nobody wants that place.

"Nobody wanted me.

"So I'll go out there and be unwanted

"and not be a part of all the trappings of civilization."

- One of the fallacies

about the time they spend out in the desert

is that they're stuck there.

A lot of the Manson family members

actually liked it out there.

They liked being out in the wilderness

and the idea that we're really pioneers

and it's just us with thrown off civilization.

- I loved the desert.

We made a movie out there.

If you watch the movie,

you can see it's all this sweet,

everybody running around, jumping, having a good time.

I was just showing people that we were free

and that it was wonderful.

- Barker's Ranch,

part of the rules was that while it was warm enough,

that everyone was to go nude.

So that I suppose that would stimulate sexual interest

and everyone would wind up making love all day long.

And I heard him comment once that,

"Wouldn't it be nice if all had,

"if we could just stay in bed forever and make love?"

- Charlie also got the information

that there was a bottomless pit somewhere out in the desert.

And there are.

Somewhere out in the desert,

there is some kind of a lake under the earth.

Once you went through the water and inside the earth,

there was a place where people could live.

- I heard a lotta talk about the bottomless pit

and that didn't come out of Charlie's head.

He got lost one time,

and he calls it his 40 hours in the desert

rather than Jesus's 40 days and he met up with a miner

who told him the legends of Death Valley

and how people had disappeared,

and some people that it was UFOs.

And other people thought that had found the passage

to the inner world where El Dorado was.

This miner told him, "You can't be afraid of snakes

"because the legend says the passageways

"are covered in snakes."

- It's all fantasy and that's how I took it.

It was entertainment, fireside chats.

You know, that was most of the entertainment

within the group, playing music and making up stories.

- He said it's underneath Death Valley

and leads down to a city of gold

that the Indians know about,

and that every tuned in tribe of people

that's ever lived, the most tuned in

have escaped the destruction of their race

by going underground.

- Manson took people

who mostly had bad self images and convinced them

that they were so great

they were gonna rule the world with him.

They were in it for what they were going to get.

- Around this time,

Charles Manson goes back to Los Angeles

to give his music one last chance.

- I remember both Terry Melcher and Greg Jacobson

came to the ranch and listened to us

and Charlie play the guitar and sing.

- For the first time Charlie made things really important,

like this is an important person.

For those of you that you know who you are that can't sing,

just mouth the words and the ones that can sing,

you know, listen to each other.

This is important, he's a big producer.

Our music could go somewhere.

- I arrived and met a bunch a people.

They all sat down and they played,

I don't know, a dozen songs.

It was a big campfire.

♪ Don't do anything illegal

♪ Beware of the eagle

♪ It's got you by the neck

- So Manson played the guitar,

and all the girls sang the parts and harmonies

and background stuff.

♪ Ah heck

♪ I don't wanna do that

- And it was, you know,

it was quite an interesting thing

and they talked about how they all shared this and that.

It was one big family, and that these were people

who were basically disenfranchised

by their biological families.

And I thought, well, all right,

I mean it's kind of, you know,

maybe this is what's going on today.

- We ran through the songs

and I remember Terry looking intrigued but uncomfortable.

He looked at his watch,

and said, "Well I gotta get going."

And so Charlie said, "Let me walk you back up."

He said that Terry Melcher said he was gonna get in touch

and never did.

He said things like people in Hollywood,

they just don't know what their word means.

He says where I come from, which is prison,

but he didn't say prison,

where I come from your word is your bond,

and you could die if you don't keep your word.

- Charlie got pissed off,

and at this point he turns all his attention to the desert.

But he needed money for that.

Money for supplies and so forth.

- That's when things, they started going a little crazier.

All the energy was about getting money

to fund this move, this long-term move to Death Valley.

We tried to do a night club in the saloon,

and I think the police came and you know, shut that down.

Also they did some drug deals

and I think Tex brought that element into the family.

- Charlie, because he was such a misogynist,

always needed to have a man

who he could send out to be in charge.

- Paul Watkins, he was just a young little kid.

He wanted to play music.

He was stoned all the time, more so than anybody

and he hung out a lot with Brooks.

Steve Grogan was taught by Charlie to act really stupid

and out of it, around anybody that he didn't know,

so that he could be totally under the radar.

And he was playing a game.

- Then there was Bruce Davis

who was really into Scientology

and he wanted to be just like Charlie.

- Bruce was more his own person.

Tex was a disciple.

Tex was more subordinate.

- Tex very much wanted to prove to Charlie

that he could do something big.

There were some problems with various drug deals,

and one involved Lotsapoppa, a dope dealer.

- How'd you get a moniker like that,

the name of Lotsapoppa?

- It seems like everyone that I meet

seems that I just need to be a daddy

to 'em more or less 'cause I'm always

trying to get some sort of advice, I guess, you know,

but I don't practice what I preach.

- Charles Tex Watson sold some drugs

to Bernard Lotsapoppa Crowe.

Somehow Crowe gave him the money

and off he went to the Spahn Ranch with the money

without delivering the drugs.

He gave the money to Manson

and Manson was gonna use the money

for one of his other dune buggies

or his vehicles or whatever.

- Was it a personal dispute of some kind or what?

- Yeah, sort of, with Charlie Watson.

- You mean Tex Watson?

- Yes, Tex Watson.

- Tex, he had a girlfriend that lived near Bernard Crowe.

He burned Bernard Crowe,

so Bernard Crowe kidnapped his girlfriend

and then called the ranch

and Charlie got on the phone.

- Mr. Crowe was not a happy camper,

and he said, "If you don't give me my money back

"or my drugs that you promised,

"I'm gonna come over there and I'm gonna create havoc."

- Bernard Crowe is making grandiose threats

about killing everybody at the ranch

if he doesn't get his money.

Charlie, he wouldn't take that lightly.

- Manson didn't want Crowe to come over to the ranch,

and he went to meet him.

- Where?

- In the apartment.

On Franklin Boulevard next to the Magic Castle.

- So Tex has a little problem.

He had a little problem, excuse me, a gun.

He can't do what I have to go deal with his problem.

- Which is?

- Lotsapoppa.

- Who?

- Some guy down in the drug world.

I had to go down and take care of some business

that was not my business because he's too much of a coward.

He's laying up underneath the bed with it.

- Bernard Crowe didn't seem to see Charlie

as much of a threat as he should have.

He's only like her hair over five-foot tall.

- Charlie had a gun, a 22 gun

and it was called the bump line.

And it was called the bump line

'cause it had an extended barrel,

supposedly like Wyatt Earp's bump line special did

back on the frontier.

- Mr. Manson pulled out his gun,

leveled it at Crowe, pulled the trigger.

- I've been told that Charlie Manson shot you,

is that true?

- Yes, he shot me, yes.

- Crowe was shot in the gut

and then went down like a felled tree.

- Two days after he was watching the news

and saw that a Black Panther's body had been found,

he put two and two together in his head

that must be Bernard Crowe,

he must have been a Black Panther.

Bernard Crowe was the beginning of him just being cornered

and getting totally frantic and paranoid.

Everything changed after Bernard Crowe.

There was no more fun and games.

- Charlie pulled me aside.

He said, "Bobby, I killed a Black Panther."

And at the time I showed up,

he was worried that he didn't have enough men.

So he asked me if I would come and stay at the ranch

and just be there to give him some support.

There was no question that he believed

that he had killed this guy.

- Charlie truly believes that the Black Panthers

are going to descend on Spahn Ranch to kill them all.

He tries to arm the Family.

- He had lookouts.

Clem and Bruce Davis and some of the time he had,

and a couple of guys looking down the road

in case the car load of Black Panthers came up

towards the ranch.

- I've seen approximately

a knife on, everyone

and Charlie sometimes has two or three with him.

And I've seen him that he can throw a knife

approximately 10 or 15 feet and be deadly accurate with it.

- Charlie gave us all like a six inch buck knife.

And said, "I'm, you know, I'm going to show you how,

"you know, to kill somebody with the most effect."

- This would be our way of protecting ourselves

when the world would come crashing in on us

and you would take the knife

and you'd stick somebody with it

and be sure to wiggle it around a lot to get any organs

that you could get,

to be sure that you would kill the person.

- You put the knife in and then I think it was draw upwards.

We were like really building up this kind of army.

You know, really.

- His personality changed, he was mean all the time.

Everything had to be done exactly like bootcamp.

Like I say so.

He had been saying for a long time to us.

"This is gonna come down and you gotta be ready.

"'Cause when it happens,

"this is gonna happen just like that."

And to us, it was like it started,

and the only way we're gonna survive is still listen to him

and do everything he says

because the Black Panthers are gonna kill us all.

- That's when he asked the motorcycle club

that they were just visiting

to please stay for a while and protect the ranch.

- Danny DeCarlo and the Straight Satans

were like a protection and a provider of weapons.

- You taught the girls to shoot

and how to break a weapon down,

how to clean it, all that stuff?

- Yeah.

You know I had three rifles, I had a couple of hand guns,

I brought a machine gun out there.

- There was more like a criminal element

that showed up.

You know, there was more drug deals

and there were knives and there were guns.

- I showed them how to use a gun.

- Made your own ammunition?

- We made, we were, yeah.

I mean we made everything.

All our ammunition.

- It was just, there was this frenetic energy

to put together a plan and supplies and gasoline

and all that to head to the desert

and wait for the Helter Skelter war be over.

I mean, it was crazy, crazy talk.

He was always playing mind games.

The creepy crawly missions was part of that.

They dressed up in black clothes

and then they would sneak into people's homes

and eat some food, rearrange the furniture.

I don't think they stole anything.

It was just a mess with people's minds and instill fear.

- When he started taking the kids

on what he called creepy crawls,

where you snuck into someone's house and move things around,

he was actually getting him used to it.

You know, burglaries and calling it something cute.

- I think for the most part,

it was this whole exercise in sneaking into people's houses

and just messing with their psyche.

Like, "I didn't leave that there and who drake the milk?

One time Clem sat behind people watching television,

and was just silent.

He told me they were all fat,

watching TV and sitting there feeding their faces.

- Charlie frequently talked about ego

and the need to destroy it,

and he had somehow managed to get Tex

to surrender his will in a sense to him.

- This is what life was like.

It wasn't sunshine and roses.

Manson brainwashing.

Manson telling the girls what to eat, what to drink,

who to sleep with, how to sleep with, who to have sex with,

boys, each other the whole panoply of sexual orgies.

- Group orgies was the way to get tuned in.

He wants everybody to do everything,

and then you can make love with six or seven people

at the same time, if you get tuned in, that's what he says.

- Charlie used to play Jesus Christ

and he used to put everybody through the tests of death.

He told Brooks Poston to die

and Brooks Poston actually went and lay down

for several days without eating until Charlie said,

"You can come up, you know, you can rise."

Charlie played these games with them.

Charlie told them what to do and they did it.

- He, you know, would often tell us

that we didn't really need food

and he was always trying to get us to not feel pain,

holding our fingers over a candle flame.

And yeah, it hurts, you know, just, you know,

get beyond it, it's not, you know,

it's not really pain, it's just in your mind.

- Charlie was just sweet

and kind and cruel and nasty and they obeyed.

They obeyed.

- LSD, it's so powerful.

You just really feel like at one with the earth,

and the universe.

I mean, you just kind of like,

everything starts making more sense.

He did take acid in the beginning,

but he realized that he could control us better

if he didn't take any or as much.

- Wasn't as if Charlie was acting

like a staff sergeant and yelling out orders,

but when he told you to do something

and he gave you instructions,

everyone knew that you had to do it

exactly the way he wanted you to do it.

- I've had my life threatened several times

and he's, I've seen him drag people pull around by the hair,

hold a knife to the throat and say,

"You know, I can kill you.

"Don't you?"

And then after that he says,

"But I wouldn't because you're one of us."

- The first time he hit me, I remember he slapped me

'cause he wasn't feeling good.

I had asked him, you know, can I do anything?

You know, I do anything for you?

And it was just like, he just slapped me.

And then the other girl said,

"Oh, you know, he's not, you know,

"he's just not feeling good.

"And you know, you gotta be careful about what you say."

- What do you think of women?

- Oh, I like them.

Yeah, they're nice.

If they're put together well and everything

and their soft and spicy, yeah they're nice.

As long they keep their mouth shut

and do what they're supposed to do.

- I remember one time I was doing dishes,

and he wanted me to come to the circle

and I just wanted to finish doing it.

You know, it was just like, no, you know,

you're gonna do what I say now.

And he like, kind of whipped me with an electrical,

like an extension cord.

I remember him kind of like winking at me.

Like you can take it snake.

I'm using you as an example.

And then the next time I remember is that when,

the time when he wanted me to listen to the White Album

and I needed to go to the bathroom,

and so I ended up peeing on the rug

'cause he wouldn't let me leave.

I think he broke a chair leg, you know,

like threw a chair at me and the leg broke off

and then he hit me with the chair leg.

And then when we're out in the desert,

he threatened to hang me upside down and skin me alive

and I believed him, you know.

- He's beaten up several girls that I know of.

One Mary Brunner and I've seen him choke her

around by her hair and slap her and make her cry

while he was making love to her at the same time.

- We only saw his good side for a very long time.

By the time I got to the point

where I realized that there was no crossing him,

and I got the other end of his fist, it was just too late.

I remember we were at Spahn Ranch in the front

and I hadn't had sex with him for a while

and was feeling, you know, kind of left out.

And so I, you know, got up the nerve to, you know,

come on to him.

And so we walked back to that little gypsy caravan

that's in this meadow.

And he took me in there and then turned me, you know,

turned me around and you know, really roughly sodomized me

with no, you know, nothing like he had ever done

before nuts, you know, not sweet and tender and you know,

it wasn't magical anymore at all.

It was just brutal rape.

When he was finished,

he said something to the effect

of that's the way we do it in prison.

I was so conflicted and so hurt and I just,

he laughed and I cried.

And then I went down to the stream

and just sat in the stream 'cause I was bleeding.

And just cried.

It was after that that I really was really lost.

And at Spahn Ranch, I was considering

jumping off the cliff behind like George's house.

I really wanted to kill myself.

- T-minus 15 seconds

from the Apollo 11 lift off.

12, 11, 10, nine, ignition sequence start.

Six.

- Moon landing was advertised.

And I remember watching the moon landing

with the TV on George's stoop.

- This is Apollo Control, Houston,

at 105 hours now under the flight to Apollo 11.

- The world awaits curious, wondering, aware.

A moment sensed more than understood.

- We copy it down, eagle.

- The eagle has landed.

- I remember us all standing around in awe

and then looking up at the, you know,

looking up at the moon just like.

- That's one small step for man.

One giant leap for mankind.

- Southern California

is on a collision course with disaster.

The crisis we face is in the air around us.

For more than 20 years,

Los Angeles residents have been subjected

to the high smarting lung choking stench of smog.

There is alarming evidence

which indicates the levels of pollution

in Los Angeles are continuing to runs.

- While we were getting ready at Spahn Ranch

to try to go to the desert, Bobby came on the ranch

to come help us all get protected.

He hung out with a bikers, and he got enthralled with them.

He thought, you know, iron horses, freedom.

So he wanted to be a prospect?

- I really wanted to be a part of that.

Like you know, I was a wannabe and uh.

I wanted to be accepted, I was building a bike,

I liked the lifestyle, oh, motorcycle culture,

the biker culture represented that kind of freedom

that I longed for.

And I did learn that the Straight Satans

were getting ready to celebrate their 10th anniversary

as a chartered club.

- They were saying that they wanted some kind of drugs

besides downers and alcohol and maybe some acid this time.

And he said, "Well, I don't know where we can get acid

"but I know somebody that makes masculine."

And that was Gary Hinman.

- Gary wasn't like a dealer,

a real dealer by any means.

He was just a guy who sometimes helped to make ends meet

by selling a little bit of pot to his friends.

- Bobby wanted to ingratiate himself to these guys.

So he went to his, you know, friend and made a deal.

Well, masculine will get you sick,

it cleans you out before it gets you high.

So they thought they had been poisoned,

They thought it was bad drugs,

and they cornered Bobby, they beat him up

and they threatened his life and said,

"Get us our money back!"

- Bobby and Mary and baby went to Gary Hinman

to get some money.

- Honestly, I didn't think

it was gonna be a big deal.

I thought I could just explain what the problem was

and he would give me the money back.

So anyway, we talked about it

and I told him what had happened

and he says, "Well, buddy, I don't have the money."

And then I'm starting to get frantic.

- Bobby asked one of the girls to, you know,

keep the gun on him while he went around the house

to see if there's any money and there was an altercation

and the gun was thrown out of her hand.

- I heard some yelling from the kitchen,

and I just immediately just spun around

and ran into the kitchen

and saw Gary tried to turn the gun on me

and I just dove at him.

When we were struggling, the gun went off.

And in that instant, I was able to take the gun from him.

- Well, in the meantime, Mary ran out and called Charlie

and said, "It's all out of control."

- We both calmed down.

I put the gun away

and Gary and I sat down at the table again

and we became aware that someone

was coming to the front door and Gary went to answer it,

and he opened the door and said, "Hi, Charlie."

And Charlie stepped into the front door

just slashed him across the face

without telling him a word without warning.

I said, "Charlie, why did you do that?"

And he said, "Showing you how to be a man."

He and Bruce left.

As quick as they came, they left and Travis said,

"Tell her to clean this mess up."

Gary was bleeding, he's holding his hand up to his cheek.

I spent the next day with Gary.

I was terrified of taking him to the hospital,

and that's exactly what I wish I had done.

- Bobby stitched him up and put antiseptic on it,

gave him first aid,

but Gary was adamant about going to the hospital.

Bobby knew the first thing he would do is, you know,

say what happened and he'd go to prison,

and he made the worst choice of that a human being can make.

- Well, I called Mitch

and got Charlie on the phone.

And I said, "Man, I don't know what to do."

And he said something to the effect, you know,

what to do as well as I do and hung up on me.

And then maybe a half hour later, I stabbed Gary to death.

I looked up and Mary was standing in the doorway

with her eyes just, you know, as big as saucers.

She was horrified

and I mean they with just reflected back at me,

the way I felt about myself at that moment.

I don't remember anything else.

I don't remember writing blood on the wall.

I don't know that I did that.

I had always assumed it was me.

I remember a little bit of driving back to the ranch

and I spent time down at the creek.

Charlie found me down there.

He said to me, "How does it feel to kill your brother?"

I hated him at that moment.

- Only one of these men is the real Jay Sebring.

The other two are imposters,

and we'll try to fool this panel on to tell the truth.

- Jay Sebring was a hot property.

- Number three, how do you cut hair for a toupee?

- Well, you blend it in with the hair.

- He was a booming star in his own right.

He was the hairdresser to all the top major movie stars

and Henry Fonda and Paul Newman and Steve McQueen

and earned huge amounts of money.

- Will the real, Jay Sebring please stand up.

- He was also a friend of Sharon Tate,

and in the summer of 1969, Sharon and Roman

were living in the house with Terry Melcher

and Candice Bergen used to live on Cielo Drive.

And while Roman was in London,

Jay Sebring was hanging around at the house with Sharon.

Sharon was very pregnant about to deliver.

A lot of Hollywood stars knew she was pregnant

and would like to stop by and talk to Sharon.

There was always a party going on there.

- I am a mechanical man.

A mechanical man and I do the best I can

because I have my family.

I am a mechanical boy.

I am my mother's toy.

- I met Charlie on a road trip.

We were near Big Sur.

Charlie thought he was gonna be, you know,

a music star, a rock star.

And I remember going to the Esalen Institute.

He took his guitar and he told me,

"Stay in the van while I go in there,

"and I'll be back in a little bit."

I think that he was thinking

that they were gonna be really blown away by his talent,

and you know, ask him to come back and possibly pay him

for, you know, his music abilities but they didn't.

He was pretty upset when he came back.

The fact that these people were not impressed

with his talent, made him angry.

- When he got back on August the eighth,

he said, "Now is the time for Helter Skelter."

And that meant now was the time for the race war.

- Well, how are you gonna start

this revolution?

- He gathered some of his family members,

Susan Atkins, Tex Watson,

Linda Kasabian and Patricia Krenwinkel.

He told them that now was the time for Helter Skelter.

- I was told to go get a change of clothing

and a knife, my driver's license and meet back.

- Manson told the girls to do whatever Tex says.

- Manson said to Susan Atkins,

"Leave assigned something witchy."

- I remember getting in the car with Tex,

and before I ever got in the car,

Tex and I had our own special little stash of cocaine.

And I think it was cocaine and methadone,

I'm not sure which.

It was speeding.

We bought this at some speed.

- And we drove to the house

with instructions to kill everyone in the house.

And when we first went in,

one of the people said, "Who are you?"

and Tex said, "I'm the devil

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

- I was the first a reporter on duty

on that Saturday.

We suddenly got a call from the assignment desk.

There's been a 211 in Beverly Hills

and they gave us an address,

Cielo Drive that didn't ring any bells.

And we pulled up and parked where we could

by the side of the road, walked up to the gate.

We didn't know who lived there or what was going on.

There was a body in a car

that you could see through the gate.

The gate was closed, LAPD had people inside.

As the morning wore on,

more and more camera crews began showing up.

When I got there on that Saturday morning,

by then there were about 25 journalists

and we were kept outside the gates

and we were talking to each other

and ask him what's going on.

- The epiphany for me was when Rona Barrett showed up.

Rona did Gossip News for Channel 7 and for ABC at the time.

And I went over to her and I said,

"Miss Rona, what are you doing here?"

She said, "Don't you know who lives here?"

I said, "I have no idea."

"This is Roman Polanski's house."

- By pure chance, I had a friend who lived on Cielo Drive.

Three doors away and I went to see him

and use his telephone to phone in the story.

And he told me that Sharon lived there with Roman Polanski.

- Definitive identification of the persons are as follows.

Sharon Polanski, Jay Sebring, Voytek Frykowski,

Abigail Folgere, and another man who is unknown.

- Do you have any kind of an idea of who might've done it?

Do you have any kind of APBs out, any suspects at all?

- No.

- Why is this case more complicated

than other cases that you can't comment.

but what's the difference in this case?

- Well, how many cases and how many times

do you have five persons

that are found murdered at the same time?

♪ I will make sure you breath

- I was watching TV

and Johnny Schwartz's trailer

was just sitting there watching it.

I was just sitting there and Sadie came in

and demanded I turn the channel to the news.

The first thing on the news was the story

that Sharon Tate had been murdered.

- In a scene described by one investigator

is reminiscent of a weird religious right.

Five persons including Actress Sharon Tate were found dead

at the home of Miss Tate,

and her husband, Screened Director Roman Polanski.

- Why in the world

would you wanna go out and kill somebody?

- Manson gathered Susan Atkins,

Patricia Krenwinkel, Leslie Van Houten, Linda Kasabian,

Tex Watson and Steve Grogan.

- We drove all over LA and Manson was very agitated

and Kasabian was very nervous and upset

and he was yelling at her a lot.

- Manson led them to a house next door

to where Leno and Rosemary LaBianca lived.

That house at one time was rented by Harold True,

and a friend of the family,

some of the girls had actually spent the night at his house,

but he no longer lived there.

Kasabian asked, "Are you going to that house?"

pointing at Harold Trues,

and Manson said, "No, I'm going next door."

So Manson went up to the house.

- We sat in the car.

Manson came back and he pointed at Pat

and I and told us to get out and go do what Tex said.

He said to Tex to make sure that everybody did something.

♪ A ground just passing by

♪ I remember everything you said♪

♪ I remember every inch of you

♪ Every torrid inch of you

♪Laid across your back♪

- Brett, move your head