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00:07August 1969, 400,000 young people gather at the Woodstock festival.
00:16Demonstrations against the Vietnam War irritate the White House.
00:24It is a time of protests, hippies, drugs and anarchy.
00:35In the Hollywood Hills, August 9th.
00:38Early Saturday morning the maid enters a house on Cielo Drive,
00:42once by Cary Grant and then by Doris Day's son, Terry Melcher.
00:47She comes out screaming in terror.
00:50Police find 18-year-old dead at the wheel of white Rambler
00:55with four gunshots to the head and chest and a deep wound to the neck.
01:03His name was Stephen Perth.
01:10On the lawn in front of the house lay the body of Abigail Folger,
01:14heiress of the coffee king Folger, struck several times with a bayonet.
01:19She had lost so much blood that her white nightgown had at first glance looked red.
01:25Near the front door was her boyfriend, Wojtek Frykowski,
01:29writer, producer and drug dealer,
01:31shot in the back and stabbed 51 times after a gunshot struck his head 13
01:37times.
01:46In the living room the police found Sharon Tate hanged,
01:50protagonist of The Valley of the Dolls, eight months pregnant.
01:54She had first been strangled and stabbed 16 times with a bayonet.
01:59Her husband, film director Roman Polanski, was away in Europe.
02:03Next to her lay the body of her ex-boyfriend, Jay Sebring, a hairdresser, who had been shot in the lungs.
02:08He had a towel on his head, like a grotesque hood,
02:11and was joined to her by a rope knotted on a beam.
02:15On the front door, the word a porto had been written in Sharon Tate's blood.
02:22The police were shocked and bewildered.
02:25Initially the only surviving member of the servants was arrested,
02:29a nineteen-year-old named William Garethson.
02:31He had been hired as a janitor.
02:34Two days later, however, he was released.
02:41The situation is this.
02:43He has been released.
02:45We had prepared a motion for his release, if he were not released.
02:49We have communicated our position to the authorities,
02:51and we were ready to go to court.
02:54The police considered our deductions,
02:56He conducted some investigations, and reached the same conclusion as us.
02:59The boy is innocent, not involved in any way, and has been released.
03:06For the time being, what was quickly dubbed the Sharon Tate massacre remained a mystery.
03:11The day after the Sielo Drive murders, 30 kilometers away,
03:15there was what the police considered a copycat killing.
03:19In the Spanish-style villa near Griffith Park,
03:21Supermarket magnate Lino Labianca had been repeatedly stabbed.
03:26His wife, Rosemary, had been strangled with an electrical cord.
03:30Carved with a knife into Labianca's chest were the word war and a series of crosses.
03:35A large fork was stuck in his stomach.
03:38They had placed a white towel on her head,
03:40and with blood on the walls of the hall they had written death to pigs.
03:44On the refrigerator was the word confusion.
03:47Nothing had been stolen.
03:51A police spokesman tried to reassure the public,
03:54but excluded any connection between the two crimes.
03:59The Los Angeles Police Department worked on both cases.
04:04We have 17 sergeants and two inspectors working to shed light on both murders.
04:09There are some similarities between the two events,
04:12but in reality the murders are not connected.
04:15I believe that the public and many media outlets
04:18they associated the two cases probably because of the blood and the writings.
04:22But this is quite common in this kind of crime.
04:28It took three months to link the two crimes to a third,
04:32the killing of a music teacher named Gary Hinman.
04:38A hippie, Bobby Bosoleil,
04:40he had left his fingerprints at the crime scene.
04:42When he was arrested he was wearing a shirt stained with Hinman's blood.
04:48A girl named Susan Atkins was recognized as having been seen with him.
04:56Atkins was among the hippies arrested during a raid on a community
05:01on a ranch near Death Valley.
05:03The gang of hippies who lived there financed themselves by stealing Volkswagens.
05:07and turning it into a Dune Buggy.
05:09They were caught during a pre-dawn raid by the traffic police.
05:19We were constantly on drugs and stealing cars.
05:21They sat there all day and slept.
05:24Then we would go around picking up garbage and that was our dinner.
05:27We went to the shops once in a while, that's all.
05:29They just slept and got high.
05:33Hidden in a small room behind the sink, in the bathroom,
05:36The police found the leader of the group.
05:38He was a little failed folk singer, about five feet tall.
05:41His name was Charles Manson.
05:44Twenty-six members of the Manson family, as they called themselves,
05:47were arrested during the raid.
05:59Their arrest was not connected to the Sharon Tate massacre or other crimes.
06:04Manson appeared in court for a preliminary hearing on charges of auto theft.
06:08Some girls from the camp were there as spectators.
06:19Most were released, but not Susan Atkins,
06:22who boasted to a classmate of Cella that he had participated in the murders of Sharon Tate,
06:27of La Bianca and also to the killing of Hinman.
06:32Cella's partner told the police
06:34and on December 1st the Los Angeles police called a press conference.
06:38Warrants were issued today for the arrest of three individuals
06:43in relation to the murders of Sharon Tate, Abigail Folger,
06:47Frykowski,
06:48Stephen Parent and Thomas John Sebring.
06:56These crimes date back to August 8-9 in Cello Drive,
07:01in West Los Angeles.
07:07These people are also involved in homicide deaths
07:10by Rosemary La Bianca and Lino La Bianca,
07:14resident of Hollywood's Gateway Markets.
07:17This murder occurred one day later,
07:19August 10, 1969.
07:21It is expected that another 4 or 5 people will be included in the formal indictments.
07:29which will be issued by the Los Angeles County grand jury.
07:33The persons for whom a warrant has been issued are
07:37Charles D. Watson, aged 24,
07:41inmate in McKinney, Texas,
07:45Patricia Erwinkel
07:48and Linda Casabian, still at large.
07:54The development of the investigations into the Tate and La Bianca cases
07:58led the investigators to the conclusion
08:01that the crimes in both cases
08:03were committed by the same group of people.
08:07Linda Casabian became a witness for the prosecution
08:10and as a result, three more members of the gang were arrested.
08:15They were twenty-year-old Leslie Lulu Van Houten,
08:18seventeen-year-old Steve Grogan
08:20and their leader Charles Manson.
08:24Charles Manson, father unknown,
08:26he was born 35 years earlier,
08:28unwanted son of a prostitute.
08:30With his mother often in prison,
08:32Charles had lived in a series of orphanages,
08:35then in reformatory and later ended up in prison
08:37for burglary, car theft,
08:39speeding and exploitation of prostitution.
08:42At the time it was supposed to be released
08:45from the California State Penitentiary,
08:47he had spent more than half his life behind bars.
08:50He begged to be allowed to stay.
08:52This is my only home,
08:54he told the prison authorities.
08:55I don't know if I'll be able to get by on the outside.
08:57He moved to San Francisco in early 1967,
09:01where he discovered that he could get by just fine.
09:03The city had become the capital of a new culture.
09:07Getting into drugs and getting out of it
09:09they were the two trendy phrases.
09:11Weed and hallucinogens were everywhere.
09:21Manson found it easy
09:23to approach and take to bed an incredible number of people
09:25of rich middle-class girls
09:27with flowers in her hair
09:28and make them slaves to LSD and group love.
09:34Everyone must get to the truth.
09:36The whole country.
09:36The whole country will have to come to the truth.
09:39And it's not the money.
09:40The truth is not in your money.
09:45A dozen of them went to live with him.
09:47in an old bus in Los Angeles.
09:49The killings began
09:51while living on the old Span ranch in Simi Valley,
09:54which had been the home of Western star William Hart.
09:56In exchange for various favors from family members,
10:00including Lynette Fromm, the newsgirl,
10:03George Span, the eighty-one-year-old owner,
10:05he let the group live there for free.
10:08They lived an idyllic life,
10:09but there was also a left side.
10:13The psychotic Manson invented games
10:16in which they took turns playing the part of victims
10:18who were tortured and terrorized.
10:20He totally dominated his followers.
10:25When I first met him,
10:27he spoke to me and told me
10:28«Why don't you come with us?
10:29The rule is that there are no rules.
10:32Try it and you will see that you will like it.
10:34It's beautiful and I love beauty."
10:39His so-called power is only in his happiness.
10:42What attracts people is that he is completely happy.
10:47Usually he dances, he sings and you see him beautiful, you see him happy.
10:51And that attracts a lot of people,
10:52just like people are drawn to small children.
10:56The police conducted the ride to the ranch
10:59looking for stolen cars
11:00and discovered a large cache of weapons.
11:03Family members, including Charles,
11:05they were arrested,
11:06but they had to be released
11:08because the date on the mandate was incorrect.
11:10Among those arrested was Donald Shea,
11:12he made the mistake of going against Charles
11:14and immediately disappeared.
11:16Later, family members
11:18they testified that Manson had shot him,
11:20he had torn her body to pieces
11:22and had buried the various pieces on the ranch.
11:29They were arrested again
11:30when Susan Atkins bragged about the killings.
11:33With his pleased confession,
11:34the police were finally able
11:36to connect the Tate, Hinman and La Bianca murders.
11:40Preparing for the trial,
11:41the prosecution asked the judge
11:42to consider the three cases together.
11:44We plan to process at the same time
11:46all six accused
11:48for both cases.
11:55This fact, of course,
11:57would be subject to judge approval
11:59in the case one of the accused
12:01should request to be dissociated
12:03from one of the cases or from the other accused.
12:08Anyway we are ready
12:09and we intend to hold the trial
12:11as soon as possible
12:14and try all six defendants
12:17for both cases together.
12:19The trial against Charles Manson
12:21and his followers
12:22it lasted more than nine and a half months,
12:24obtaining the primacy
12:25of the longest and most expensive process
12:26for murder
12:27never held in the United States.
12:34Most of the Manson Family
12:37remained in solidarity with their book.
12:41To go with him every day
12:43in court like three innocent girls
12:44were twenty-one-year-old Susan Atkins,
12:47Leslie Van Houten, 20 years old,
12:48and Patricia Ken Binkle, 21.
12:52The defense had its problems.
12:55Yes, there are doubts, for me too.
12:57Charles Manson is in some ways
13:00an incredible man,
13:01but I'm not anxious at all
13:03to accept his defense.
13:04I would like to take care of it,
13:05I think it's interesting.
13:07And as I said,
13:08two law firms
13:09they argued with Manson,
13:10but he wanted it to be me
13:12to represent it.
13:13And I went to see him for this,
13:15just for this.
13:18Sometimes the three girls
13:20they sang like schoolchildren
13:21going to court
13:22to show their solidarity with Manson.
13:30Susan Atkins then tried
13:32to withdraw his testimony against Manson.
13:35In the meantime,
13:36the lawyers continued
13:37with their delaying tactics.
13:39The goal is to comply with the law.
13:43There are rules for testing
13:45and lawyers are obliged
13:47to follow all procedural rules,
13:49including those of the inadmissibility of evidence.
13:53The vice is in the questions.
13:55If the prosecution asks an inappropriate question
13:57and raises questions
13:58that might come out
14:00and that should not be presented
14:02to the court and jury,
14:04the lawyer has the right to raise objections.
14:07The one who is wrong is the one who asks an inappropriate question.
14:11Prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi
14:13he was confident.
14:15Well, the defense can object
14:16whatever he wants,
14:18whether anyone wants to believe it or not
14:19that's another matter.
14:22He was asked to comment
14:23the fact that Atkins' testimony
14:25was in danger of being called into question
14:27because perhaps rendered under the influence of LSD,
14:29but he was categorical about it.
14:34Well, it's normal, it's usual.
14:37The defense tries by all means
14:39to attack the credibility of every witness.
14:43But I don't foresee any problems
14:46regarding this LSD thing.
14:49In theory it doesn't mean
14:51that why one uses the SD
14:53I can never tell the truth about anything again.
14:56It's absurd.
15:05But despite the tactics of instructionism
15:08and the determination of the family
15:10to present the trial as a hoax,
15:12a horrible story came out
15:14and macabre of murders perpetrated
15:15at random and without provocation.
15:17Manson often changed his behavior and appearance
15:20and his acolytes,
15:21still totally under his influence,
15:23they copied his every change.
15:31They did everything they could
15:33to make the process appear a mockery.
15:35They shaved their heads
15:36and carved crosses and swastikas into their foreheads.
15:39But nothing of what they did
15:40he could not hide their depravity.
15:46It emerged that Manson thought he could
15:48to foment racial hatred
15:49killing rich people at random
15:50and blaming black activists.
15:55This is what he had taught his disciples.
15:57how to enter houses
15:59and how to kill using the most disgusting methods.
16:03While Manson had chosen Tate's house
16:06for a dark act of revenge
16:07against the previous owner Terry Melcher,
16:10La Bianca's was chosen by pure chance.
16:12Manson's murderous emissaries
16:14they had gone for a drive
16:15until they found the house
16:17of a rich man they could easily get into.
16:21Judges and lawyers
16:23they were constantly threatened.
16:25So too Linda Casabian,
16:27who had earned immunity
16:28presenting himself as a key witness for the prosecution.
16:31His testimony lasted 18 days,
16:33and yet so strong was Manson's influence
16:35on his disciples
16:36who declared that she still loved him.
16:38As he recalled the crimes,
16:40Susan Atkins had testified
16:41you have to have a deep love in your heart
16:43to do this for someone,
16:45referring to Manson.
16:46He said he stabbed Sharon Tate
16:48it had given her a strong shiver
16:49with a replenishing candor of self
16:51The more you do it, the more you like it.
16:58The defense argued that he had acted
17:00under hypnosis.
17:02I will prove that he was not in himself,
17:04he was not conscious,
17:05who actually followed this man
17:07and as I indicated,
17:08whatever he thought was right,
17:10she did it.
17:11And I think at this point,
17:13now that you've seen the other reports
17:15on Charles Manson,
17:16there are some concrete indications
17:18which in fact
17:19he is the kind of man
17:20which exercises a certain type
17:22of perverse power over people.
17:24To a commission
17:26for probation,
17:27one of the few male members
17:28of the community,
17:29Tex Watson,
17:30he told as damning evidence
17:32that Charles told him
17:33to take the gun and the knife
17:35and go to where he lived before
17:36Terry Melcher
17:37and kill everyone
17:38in the most horrible way possible.
17:40Anyway,
17:41he denied having hanged
17:42Sharon Tate after death.
17:44I can't confess it
17:46because it would be a lie
17:47and I don't remember
17:49that she be hanged.
17:51I've thought about it often
17:52but I don't know what happened.
17:54Really,
17:55I have no comments to make.
17:56It's just
17:57that I don't remember.
17:58I don't remember that detail.
18:01And as for
18:02the fact
18:02that I was the boss,
18:05Well,
18:05I was at the scene of the crime
18:07but at the time
18:09I didn't consider myself a leader.
18:11I considered myself more
18:12a follower of Charles Manson
18:15and I carried out his orders.
18:19A big question
18:20he was like Manson
18:21had achieved this power
18:23with which he dominated his neighbor
18:24and whether he was sane or not.
18:27Everything OK.
18:27How did it go this morning?
18:29This morning?
18:30He made a fool of himself again.
18:32He put,
18:32he questioned
18:33my sanity
18:34and I question his.
18:36Are you mentally fit?
18:37Intact?
18:38This is relative.
18:40The question of mental integrity
18:42by Manson
18:43dominated the process.
18:46Among the prosecution witnesses
18:47there was the maid
18:49which he had discovered
18:49the Tate murders
18:50and caretaker Steve Grogan
18:52who was harassed
18:53of questions from the press.
18:54The dogs barked that night.
18:56But she didn't do it.
18:57particularly case?
18:58No.
18:58How do you explain the fact?
19:00that there were many shouts
19:01and you shoot
19:01and she didn't hear them?
19:03I do not know.
19:04His Wi-Fi was on,
19:06his stereo?
19:07Yes.
19:07The jury reached
19:09the verdict after ten days.
19:10Everyone's guilty.
19:12Manson and the three girls
19:13sentenced to death.
19:15In the end they were deemed
19:17guilty Manson,
19:19Atkins,
19:20Ken Binkle
19:20and Van Oaten.
19:23They were sentenced to death.
19:25In a subsequent trial
19:26Manson,
19:27Bruce Davis,
19:28Bobby Bosoleil
19:29and Grogan
19:30were found guilty
19:31of other murders.
19:34Tex Watson
19:35he was tried separately
19:36and found guilty.
19:38Despite all the revelations,
19:40Manson's followers
19:41they did not abandon him.
19:43That's all,
19:44brothers and sisters.
19:45And Charles Manson
19:47he's your brother.
19:50And many of your sisters
19:51I'm in prison.
19:53There are so many innocent people
19:54who is crucified.
19:56Fromm,
19:57acting as leader
19:58of the family
19:58in Manson's absence,
20:00she was his ambassador.
20:02I can't hold
20:03law books.
20:04The library
20:06of the prison
20:06it is totally inadequate
20:08for legal research.
20:10I can't have
20:11a telephone number
20:12in my name.
20:13I can't receive
20:13phone calls.
20:14My legal work
20:15it is constantly monitored
20:17from the sheriff.
20:19Years later,
20:19attempted to assassinate
20:20President Ford
20:21and was sentenced
20:22to life imprisonment.
20:26Family members
20:27condemned
20:28they were saved
20:29from the execution
20:30when California
20:31abolished the death penalty.
20:32When he fought
20:33for probation
20:34without success
20:35from life imprisonment,
20:36Tex Watson
20:37he seemed to have regretted it.
20:39I have to live with it
20:39day after day,
20:42just like family does.
20:44There is a lot of bitterness
20:45on my part.
20:46There is great suffering.
20:49A deep indignation
20:51for what I did.
20:53And despite
20:54its elegant appearance,
20:55Susan Atkins' request
20:57for probation
20:58it was rejected
20:59with the motivation
20:59that was not suitable
21:00to re-enter society.
21:04Having found guilty
21:05Susan Atkins,
21:06we have arrived
21:07for a series of circumstances
21:09to determine
21:10which is not suitable
21:10on probation
21:11at this moment
21:12and which would constitute
21:13an unacceptable danger
21:15for the company
21:15if she were released from prison.
21:17Charles Manson
21:18he made appearances
21:19sporadic and provocative
21:21over the years
21:22on the occasion
21:22of requests
21:23of probation.
21:25I'm going back
21:26in my old hole.
21:29What does it feel like?
21:30for the decision?
21:31What decision?
21:33To keep her in prison.
21:38We are all in prison.
21:39He also released
21:40press interviews
21:41appearing lucid at times
21:43sometimes crazy.
21:44Like here,
21:45while he speaks
21:46by Gary Hinman.
21:48For twenty years
21:49I did everything
21:50what he wanted.
21:52And at a certain point
21:53I thought
21:53why this guy
21:54he doesn't do something
21:55what do I tell him to do?
21:56And he said
21:57No.
21:59I said
21:59well because I have to do
22:01always what you want
22:02but you never do
22:03what I tell you to do.
22:06And he said
22:07blah blah blah blah blah blah.
22:08So I told him
22:10now you do
22:11what I say.
22:11and he said no.
22:13And I said
22:14do exactly
22:15as I tell you.
22:17On another occasion
22:19after his request
22:20of probation
22:21had been rejected
22:21he was asked
22:22where he would have liked to go
22:24if he had been released.
22:25I could go to Libya
22:26I could go and visit
22:27the Yatollah
22:27I could go to France
22:29I could go to France
22:30to pick someone up
22:30who I'm angry with.
22:35He's still in prison
22:37and most likely
22:38he will never get out of it.
22:40It's a small consolation
22:41for the company
22:42since it does not demonstrate
22:44no remorse
22:45for his terrible crimes.
22:48Remorse for what?
22:50You did everything to me.
22:52I don't have the same rights.
22:55I can do everything
22:56whatever you think is right for me
22:57whenever I feel like it
22:58because that's what it is
22:59that you have done to me.
23:00if you spit in my face
23:02and punch me in the mouth
23:03and send me to jail
23:04no penalty at all
23:05what do you think he does?
23:06when do I get out of here?
23:09Maybe I didn't do enough
23:10I could be ashamed
23:11for not having done enough
23:12for not having given enough
23:15for not having been
23:16more perceptive
23:17for not having been
23:18more aware
23:19for not having understood
23:20for having been
23:22a fool.
23:27Maybe I should have killed
23:29four or five hundred people
23:31then I would have felt better.
23:32Then I would have really felt
23:34to have offered something
23:35to society.
23:36You got me in the head
23:37that I had killed someone.
23:39Why do you call me a murderer?
23:40I have never killed anyone.
23:42I don't need it
23:43to kill anyone.
23:44I think so.
23:46I have it here.
23:49The street is my world.
23:51I don't...
23:52I don't pretend
23:54to go to the city
23:55and to be famous.
23:56I could.
23:58but I find it more real
24:00the world
24:01where I live here
24:03than if I were in Hollywood.
24:04And the real world
24:06that's what it's about
24:07I deal with it every day.
24:11Believe me
24:12if I started
24:13to kill people
24:15there wouldn't be anything left
24:16none of you.
24:19Thank you.
24:19Thank you.
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