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20 Most Horrifying Hollywood Murders
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00:00:01Hollywood. The stars, the magic, the murder. For the next two hours, we'll retrace the
00:00:10most horrifying murders that helped make this town infamous. Crime scenes, forensic
00:00:16experts, celebrity friends. Choked her unconscious, banged her head on the floor. And perhaps
00:00:21the most chilling, the killers themselves. You people just don't understand. What really
00:00:30happened may surprise you. Join us for these gripping personal stories shared only with
00:00:36Edie as we count down the 20 most horrifying Hollywood murders.
00:01:06On the outside, they seemed like the perfect Hollywood couple. But behind closed doors,
00:01:11she struggled with substance abuse, and he tried to keep their marriage from falling apart.
00:01:18Number 20, the murder of Phil Hartman. I can suddenly become Jack Benny or John Wayne.
00:01:24By 1998, comedian Phil Hartman hit his stride in television and movies.
00:01:30I want to touch people's lives, and I want to be liked by a lot of people. We laughed at
00:01:36him,
00:01:36whether we were laughing at his face on Saturday Night Live or we were laughing at his voice on
00:01:41The Simpsons. But Phil's wife, Brynn, didn't completely share his joy. For years, she put
00:01:46her acting career on hold to be a stay-at-home mom. Brynn began seeking antidepressants.
00:01:52She had been parked in a couple of movies and TV shows, but it just was never going to happen
00:01:55for
00:01:56her. And by Phil's growing attention and growing popularity and fame, it was just eating away at her.
00:02:02There was a dirty little secret that Brynn Hartman was living with, and that was a prediction to
00:02:07prescription and other drugs. And Mr. Hartman was very upset over this, and they argued over it.
00:02:13On May 27, 1998, Brynn went out for dinner with a girlfriend. She left the restaurant around 9.45 p
00:02:21.m.
00:02:23Sometime before 3 a.m., Brynn returned home. Whether she and Phil argued is unclear, but at some point,
00:02:29Phil fell asleep in their bedroom.
00:02:31Brynn Hartman, at some time in the early evening, after the children had gone to bed, pulled the gun out.
00:02:39Brynn pointed the gun at Phil and fired three shots.
00:02:44The fatal wound to Mr. Hartman was a gunshot wound to the head, and he had two additional wounds,
00:02:51one of which was considered non-fatal. The other was considered a potentially fatal wound.
00:02:58Brynn Hartman was a drug addict and a cocaine addict. So somebody who's in a drug-induced state,
00:03:05has no control over their impulses, is profoundly depressed. I mean, this is a woman who was very lost.
00:03:12The Hartman children were still asleep down the hall.
00:03:15Brynn Hartman left her residence and drove to the residence of a longtime friend, Ron Douglas.
00:03:22Brynn told Douglas that she shot Phil.
00:03:25After he discovered that she was in the possession of a handgun,
00:03:28he ultimately agreed to follow her back to her residence.
00:03:32Brynn and Douglas returned to the Hartman home.
00:03:35When the gentleman got there and he actually saw that Mr. Hartman was deceased,
00:03:40he then got on his cell phone and called the police.
00:03:44I think there's been a shooting here.
00:03:46Okay, do you see a victim?
00:03:49Yes.
00:03:50Before the cops arrived, Brynn barricaded herself in the master bedroom.
00:03:54Moments later, Brynn picked up a second gun and laid down next to the body of her husband.
00:03:59She held the weapon to her own head and pulled the trigger.
00:04:03It appears to be a murder-suicide.
00:04:06Mrs. Hartman died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
00:04:09Mrs. Hartman was in bed, sitting up in bed with her back against the headboard
00:04:14before she had taken her own life.
00:04:16The homicide-suicide is devastating to the public,
00:04:19and it's something that, as a member of the media, you look at it and say,
00:04:22My God, how can this happen?
00:04:24And then you see these LAPD officers quickly carrying these kids out of that home.
00:04:30It is a tremendous tragedy for two young children to lose both parents at the same time.
00:04:35Police later learned that Brynn's blood alcohol level was .12, well above the legal limit.
00:04:42Mrs. Hartman had the trace of prescription medication, known as Zoloft, in her system,
00:04:47and also tested positive for cocaine use.
00:04:51Sometimes combinations of drugs that are found may often interact and cause erratic behavior.
00:04:58She was clearly an unstable person to begin with.
00:05:00That fueled with drugs and booze, I mean, that's what sent her over the edge.
00:05:04Phil Hartman doesn't tell everybody, My wife's an addict.
00:05:07My wife has these major problems.
00:05:08So when she does this act, it comes out of the blue.
00:05:11Phil Hartman's life ended at the age of 49.
00:05:23The father was forever immortalized on the silver screen.
00:05:27But for the son, his fame began with murder.
00:05:32Number 19, the case of Christian Brando.
00:05:36Christian Brando, son of movie legend Marlon Brando, barely knew his famous father.
00:05:41The boy was shuttled between his bickering parents until the age of 13, when Marlon won sole custody.
00:05:48Being the son of Marlon Brando was never going to be easy, and being the daughter of Marlon Brando is
00:05:53not going to be easy either.
00:05:55Christian Brando wanted to give his younger sister, Cheyenne, the protection and love that he never had.
00:06:00They were probably the closest of his sisters and brother.
00:06:06They had something special.
00:06:08On May 16, 1990, Christian and Cheyenne had dinner in Hollywood.
00:06:13Cheyenne told her brother that Dag Trolet, the father of her unborn child, hit her.
00:06:18I do believe that she manipulated her brother, and to say things like,
00:06:22Dag was abusive to me, Dag hit me, and it just escalated.
00:06:26He thought he had to protect Cheyenne, I think.
00:06:28And anger went right through his mind.
00:06:32Christian had been drinking, and according to Cheyenne's statement, her brother was looking for a fight.
00:06:37When Christian drank, he blows his top, his temper. He's got a very bad temper.
00:06:43I want to bust him in the chops. I want to knock him out.
00:06:46Okay, what was the reason that you want to do that?
00:06:48Because he's beaten up by a little sister, but she's four months pregnant.
00:06:51He then went over to a house he was living in with his girlfriend in Hollywood, got a gun,
00:06:59went up to the Brando place where Dag Trolet was staying with Cheyenne Brando.
00:07:06Christian arrived at Marlon's house in the Hollywood Hills and had a brief conversation with his father.
00:07:12I want to know what she said. I want to know what she said. Believe me, Pop, you don't want
00:07:18to know.
00:07:20And he got up and left the room.
00:07:23Christian went to the living room to speak to Dag.
00:07:27Cheyenne told police she saw Christian holding a gun, but she assumed the men were just playing and left them
00:07:32alone.
00:07:33Moments later, she heard a shot. Marlon ran to the room and found a terrifying scene.
00:07:38I saw Dag right there.
00:07:43And I tried to get a hold of myself.
00:07:48And I felt his pulse on his neck.
00:07:52He still had a pulse.
00:07:55And I breathed into his mouth.
00:07:59And I called 911.
00:08:03The bullet entered Drolet's left cheek and exited through the back of his head near the base of his neck.
00:08:09According to police, Christian immediately confessed to killing Dag Drolet, a man he had met for the first time only
00:08:16hours before.
00:08:17It was a struggle with the gun.
00:08:20And it was in my hands.
00:08:21And it did go wrong.
00:08:24And it was not an intentional thing.
00:08:26But police investigators maintained that the position of Dag's lifeless body painted a different picture.
00:08:32He's fallen slumped with his head back on the sofa.
00:08:35In his hands were a TV changer, some cigarette papers and a bag of tobacco and a lighter.
00:08:42All these were clasped in his hands.
00:08:44And this indicated to us that there had been absolutely no struggle.
00:08:49I didn't want to kill him.
00:08:52We're going to believe in police.
00:08:55I'll wait.
00:08:56I'm going to do that.
00:08:57I don't want to believe.
00:08:58Dag Drolet was never given any attempt to defend himself.
00:09:01Someone marched in, leaned over, and fired a gun through his face.
00:09:05At trial, the presence of Marlon Brando caused a media frenzy.
00:09:09Marlon tried to change the focus of the case from Christian to him.
00:09:14In the end, Christian took responsibility for what happened that night.
00:09:18He pled guilty to voluntary manslaughter.
00:09:21I am at fault of this.
00:09:23If I could trade places with Dag, I would.
00:09:26Christian Brando was sentenced to 10 years in prison for manslaughter.
00:09:31Christian was later paroled after serving only five years.
00:09:35Cheyenne lost custody of her infant son to Dag Drolet's parents.
00:09:39On April 17, 1995, she committed suicide.
00:09:44Marlon Brando died on July 1, 2004.
00:09:47He was 80 years old.
00:09:49On January 26, 2008, Christian Brando died in a Los Angeles hospital while being treated for pneumonia.
00:09:57Christian Brando was 49.
00:10:08She was a stunning playmate and promising actress who desperately wanted a divorce.
00:10:14But a volatile meeting with her estranged husband became the starlet's final casting call.
00:10:21Number 18, the murder of Dorothy Stratton.
00:10:24There was something luminescent and very special about Dorothy.
00:10:28Dorothy Stratton first appeared in Playboy in 1978.
00:10:32The next year, she made her movie debut.
00:10:35In 1980, Dorothy was named Playboy's playmate of the year.
00:10:39There was something about her right away that touched me.
00:10:45I mean, she was really beautiful, but there was more than that.
00:10:48Unfortunately, her personal life took an ugly turn.
00:10:51By the spring of 1980, Dorothy's marriage to her manager, Paul Snyder, was in trouble.
00:10:57Dorothy was in love with another man, her director, Peter Bogdanovich.
00:11:01She told me she was going to end the marriage because she wanted to be with me.
00:11:05And I said, but when you want to end the marriage anyway, you're not, you're miserable.
00:11:10However, Snyder refused to let her go.
00:11:12He wanted to make sure that if she was going to be a star, he was going to go along
00:11:16for the ride.
00:11:17And when he couldn't and he realized he wasn't going to, then nobody was going to have her and she
00:11:21was going to wind up dead.
00:11:23Just before noon on August 14th, Dorothy arrived at their West Los Angeles house to discuss a divorce.
00:11:30At some point, the meeting turned violent.
00:11:33Around 11 o'clock that night, Paul's roommates returned home.
00:11:37At some point, I opened the door and what met my eyes was the horror of two dead bodies.
00:11:45They were both naked and Dorothy was draped over the right side of the bed.
00:11:49Police speculated that sometime just before 1 p.m., Paul strapped Dorothy to a sex chair.
00:11:56Dorothy Stratton at one time was laid face down on the slant board with her head closest to the floor.
00:12:04And it would appear that she was held in that position by medical tape.
00:12:08That's when Paul pointed the barrel of a Mossberg pump-action 12-gauge shotgun at her cheek and fired around.
00:12:15It also blew off the tip of one of her fingers.
00:12:17The blood was all over the curtains and the walls.
00:12:20It was a hell of a thing.
00:12:22She had some post-mortem abrasions to her forehead, knees and her left shoulder.
00:12:28The fact that they're post-mortem indicates that there was some manipulation of her body after her death.
00:12:35Police say that within a half hour of murdering the love of his life, Paul Snyder turned the gun on
00:12:40himself.
00:12:41He was 29 years old.
00:12:44Dorothy was just 20.
00:12:47The Dorothy Stratton case to this day remains one of the scariest cases in Hollywood crimes.
00:12:55Because this is a woman who did nothing to deserve being shot by her own husband.
00:13:01Coming up, jealousy and rage end a promising career.
00:13:06And was it greed or revenge that led to this infamous phone call?
00:13:12They're very jealous.
00:13:14Will they stop?
00:13:15Yes.
00:13:28Two parents sat peacefully in their living room.
00:13:31They never imagined their sons were in the front yard planning their assassination.
00:13:37Number 17, the Menendez Murders.
00:13:40It was the first time that ordinary people became stars based on a murder charge.
00:13:49Jose Menendez was a prominent movie and music executive.
00:13:52His wife, Katie, was a socialite.
00:13:55Jose often clashed with his rebellious sons, Lyle and Eric.
00:13:59The Menendez brothers looked at their father with a combination of hatred and worship.
00:14:04They hated the pressure and the demands that he put on them.
00:14:08The strained relationship between father and sons created tension at home.
00:14:14But on August 20, 1989, 21-year-old Lyle and 18-year-old Eric did the unthinkable.
00:14:22That night, the boys went out.
00:14:24Jose and Katie fell asleep watching a video at their Beverly Hills mansion.
00:14:29Around 10 p.m., Lyle and Eric crept back into the house.
00:14:34The two sons burst in with shotguns and started blasting him away.
00:14:38Lyle fired at Jose, hitting him in the left elbow and right arm.
00:14:43Then Lyle placed the gun against the back of Jose's head.
00:14:47They ran out of ammunition and they had to run back out to their car and reload their weapons.
00:14:52Went back in, put the gun up to their mother's face, point blank, and pulled the trigger.
00:14:56The Menendez brothers carefully gathered the shell casings, leaving only the dead bodies of their parents for the cops to
00:15:03find.
00:15:03They ditched their clothing, ditched their blood, ditched the blood-stained clothing and guns,
00:15:07returned to the house, pretended to have stumbled on the crime scene for the first time.
00:15:12At 1147, Lyle made that very famous 911 call to the Beverly Hills Police Department.
00:15:28The boys were frantic and hysterical.
00:15:33And then if you listen to the 911 call, it's extremely disturbing.
00:15:37In the beginning, the boys weren't suspects.
00:15:40They didn't interrogate them at length.
00:15:43And usually, if there's a killing inside the home, you're supposed to start with those people who are closest to
00:15:50the victims and work out.
00:15:53Yet they didn't do that.
00:15:54It just seemed like, you know, somebody wanted these two people dead.
00:15:59It just came off as if it was a professional hit.
00:16:02But in the first months after the murders, Lyle and Eric went on a spending spree, blowing more than $1
00:16:08million.
00:16:09That was mostly the boys' own activities that drew attention to themselves.
00:16:14You know, if they'd fly under the radar, you know, who knows what would have happened.
00:16:20Eventually, Eric, the younger of the two, started feeling guilty.
00:16:24And he blabbed to a psychiatrist that they were the ones that did it.
00:16:27And the whole thing fell apart.
00:16:29Lyle and Eric were arrested in March 1990.
00:16:33They pleaded not guilty.
00:16:36They give back.
00:16:37They give a statement.
00:16:38They fired a gun.
00:16:40So really, you don't be a genius to figure it out.
00:16:44And the case is whether or not that's a self-defense.
00:16:48In court testimony, Lyle and Eric claimed they were the victims, not Jose and Kitty.
00:16:54My dad had been blessed to me.
00:16:56They developed what's known now as the abuse excuse.
00:16:59They claimed that they were being sexually violated, abused by their father.
00:17:02Well, very often with parasite, and that's when a child kills their parents, there is a history of abuse.
00:17:09And so they kill off their parents in an attempt to stop the abuse from happening.
00:17:15I think before the Menendez case, we felt as a culture that nearly everybody who claims that they're abused probably
00:17:23were.
00:17:24Well, then along came the Menendez, who had killed not only the dad, who they say had abused them, but
00:17:28the mother, who never abused them.
00:17:30That's the kind of shocking fact that I think made the jury take a step back and say, wait, we
00:17:34need to really examine this abuse excuse.
00:17:35On July 2nd, 1996, after two extensive trials, the Menendez brothers were found guilty of first-degree murder.
00:17:44Ultimately, the jury didn't buy the little crew neck sweaters, the little sad boy looks, and I think saw through
00:17:51the defense that they put on.
00:17:53I saw that they were cold-blooded murderers.
00:17:55Lyle and Eric are currently serving life sentences without parole at two separate California correctional facilities.
00:18:09A beautiful young actress with a promising career, a jealous ex-boyfriend with a volatile temper, one fatal encounter.
00:18:18Number 16, the murder of Dominique Dunne.
00:18:22Dominique Dunne was destined to enter show business.
00:18:26Her father was author Dominique Dunne, and her brother was actor Griffin Dunne.
00:18:30In 1981, Dominique's acting career was in full bloom.
00:18:34The future co-star of Poltergeist was about to hit the big time.
00:18:38She was a young, aspiring actress.
00:18:41She had an innocence about her that was amazing.
00:18:46That same year, she met executive chef John Sweeney at a birthday party.
00:18:50The two quickly became inseparable.
00:18:52And Sweeney was known as having a hot temper, and a lot of Dominique's friends didn't really care for him
00:19:01very much.
00:19:01By the summer of 1982, Dominique became the target of Sweeney's violent outbursts.
00:19:07Sweeney beat the crap out of her.
00:19:09She thought she was going to die.
00:19:11He choked her unconscious, banged her head on the floor, did all this.
00:19:13I was absolutely blown away.
00:19:16I couldn't believe it.
00:19:17On October 30th, Dominique told Sweeney their rocky relationship was over for good.
00:19:22He did not take the news well.
00:19:24That night, Dominique was at her Hollywood home rehearsing scenes with actor friend David Packer.
00:19:30Sweeney arrived at the front door.
00:19:32According to the police report, this is what happened next.
00:19:36She leaves her friend inside, goes out, and they get into this fight.
00:19:40Mr. Packer said he then heard loud noises, loud conversation coming from the front porch.
00:19:46At some point, Sweeney lost it, lunged at her.
00:19:50They fell off the porch, up to the side, into the bushes, and he had his hands around her throat.
00:19:56He started choking her hair.
00:19:57She started screaming.
00:19:59He then went next door, down this driveway, all the time going down this direction.
00:20:04He was choking her.
00:20:05But to me, the shocking thing was that someone could have been inside the house, heard her scream, I believe,
00:20:11and didn't go out and do anything to try and stop it.
00:20:14The police report states that Packer came outside and saw Sweeney kneeling over Dominique in the next-door neighbor's yard.
00:20:21At that point, John Sweeney told him to call the police and commit a terrible crime.
00:20:26At 8.52 p.m., a frantic David Packer called the police.
00:20:32Sweeney stayed at Dominique's side, trying to give her resuscitation.
00:20:37At some point, the police arrived and plucked him out from the driveway.
00:20:41Police reports state that Sweeney told the deputies, I've killed my girlfriend.
00:20:46You know, it's a very personal way to kill someone, because you're really looking right at them.
00:20:50However, Dominique was still alive.
00:20:53Following the attack, she slipped into a coma.
00:20:56And she's on life support for, like, almost a week.
00:20:59And the family, finally, after this agonizing week, decided to pull the plug.
00:21:04On November 4, 1982, Dominique Dunn died, just three weeks shy of her 23rd birthday.
00:21:12Something like this should not happen to a girl like that.
00:21:16It was extraordinarily shocking.
00:21:17This was one of those obsession cases.
00:21:19If her boyfriend couldn't have her, she couldn't have life as well.
00:21:23Sweeney was charged with murder.
00:21:25But during the trial, his lawyers claimed Sweeney killed Dominique in the heat of passion.
00:21:30On November 10, 1983, he was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter.
00:21:36Sweeney was sentenced to six and a half years in prison.
00:21:39It's without a doubt the worst trial that I've ever participated in, in 30 years.
00:21:45I was absolutely stunned when I heard the verdict.
00:21:48I was furious.
00:21:50I was enraged.
00:21:52Sweeney served less than three years.
00:21:54I think she had tremendous potential.
00:21:56And I think she was a very special girl.
00:22:01It's really incredibly sad.
00:22:03And it's our loss.
00:22:05Coming up, a horrifying murder that continues to haunt Hollywood.
00:22:24At the end of a quiet street in a small upstate New York town stood the house simply known as
00:22:30High Hopes.
00:22:32Inside lurked a troubled young man, Ronald Butch DeFeo.
00:22:36More than 30 years later, his actions still haunt us through countless books and films.
00:22:42Number 15, the Amityville murders.
00:22:48The town of Amityville is a small community.
00:22:51It's about 9,000 people.
00:22:53I mean, you're basically talking upscale living right on the shore.
00:22:57After a lifetime of hard work, Ronald DeFeo Sr. moved his wife and four children from Brooklyn to their dream
00:23:04home.
00:23:05But the dream was only a facade.
00:23:08It was a dysfunctional family at the height of all this turmoil that led up to the murders.
00:23:12The father was out of control.
00:23:14He was beating the children, beating the wife.
00:23:16On the night of November 13, 1974, fueled by a potent cocktail of booze, drugs, and self-pity, Butch decided
00:23:25it was time for the abuse to stop.
00:23:27Well, what he does, he goes up and grabs one of the goons and proceeds to walk into his mother
00:23:33and father's room and sticks the gun up and, boom, shoots his father several times.
00:23:37The mother just starts to get startled by the gunshots and then as soon as she looks up, he shoots
00:23:42her.
00:23:42The boys were next.
00:23:4511-year-old Mark was killed instantly.
00:23:489-year-old John was not so lucky.
00:23:52The younger brother did not die instantly.
00:23:54It was a very painful, slow death for him.
00:23:56He then methodically walks out, kills his two younger sisters, one after the other.
00:24:01Butch shot 13-year-old Allison in the face.
00:24:05Then he put the .35 caliber Marlin rifle against the head of his 18-year-old sister Dawn and pulled
00:24:11the trigger.
00:24:13Ballistics experts maintain that a blast from such a rifle could be heard a mile away.
00:24:18But no one heard a thing.
00:24:20Butch decided that he's going to take all of his bloody clothes and he's going to get out of there.
00:24:24So he drives out to Brooklyn and he dumps all of his clothes.
00:24:27He showers, clips his beard, dresses nicely, makes it to work by 6 in the morning and goes on like
00:24:35normal.
00:24:36He decides to go, well, I'm going to go to Henry's Bar, a little local bar, and proceed to get
00:24:40drunk with one of his buddies and shoot up heroin.
00:24:42Well, finally he says he's going to sneak into the house.
00:24:45And when he does, that's when miraculously he discovers the bodies.
00:24:48Someone killed my parents. Someone killed my parents.
00:24:51Butch was a suspect from the beginning and his own story spun wildly out of control.
00:24:57He starts to tell everybody that this was a mafia hit.
00:25:00The cops don't necessarily believe him.
00:25:02Butch pled not guilty by reason of insanity.
00:25:05You people just don't understand.
00:25:06He said the voices inside his head urged him to kill his family.
00:25:11The only chance he had was by showing that he was crazy by a defensive mental defect.
00:25:16Now a lot of people want to talk about, is he mentally unstable?
00:25:20You know, the psychologists had rendered him to be something from antisocial personality disorder.
00:25:25He basically admitted on trial.
00:25:27He'd done it to them before they did it to him.
00:25:31At trial, Butch admitted taking harrowing before the murders.
00:25:35He was found guilty on all counts.
00:25:41A couple of years later, George and Kathy Lutz moved into the house.
00:25:44And within a period of 28 days, made one of the most horrifying novels that were ever made.
00:25:51And scared the hell out of America with the Amityville horror.
00:25:55The Lutzes claimed that the house was haunted.
00:25:57They had been levitated.
00:25:58They said they heard disembodied bands.
00:26:00The banisters had been ripped off.
00:26:03The windows had been ripped out.
00:26:04And there's pigs with red eyes glowing.
00:26:07And there's ooze dripping out of the walls.
00:26:09Well, that's interesting.
00:26:10But it's also pretty much a Hollywood fabrication.
00:26:13The Lutzes story was soon discredited.
00:26:15But that didn't stop Hollywood from making eight sequels.
00:26:19In my opinion, the real story is ten times scared than any fake ghosts or demons.
00:26:24So you know we're talking about true evil.
00:26:52So you know we're talking about true evil.
00:26:53First of all, Marvin Gaye, a beloved American singer.
00:26:57Then the fact that it's a father killing his own adult son.
00:27:00That's almost unheard of.
00:27:02The Gaye family home was not exactly a happy one.
00:27:05Gaye prohibited any form of dancing, television, or popular music.
00:27:09He wanted to make sure that his children were brought up in the strictest form, conveying
00:27:16every thought to pleasing God.
00:27:20In the case of Marvin Gaye, there was something, a dynamic in that family that was missing between
00:27:26him and his father.
00:27:27Young Marvin tried to escape the abuse at home by turning to music.
00:27:31By the time he was 25, Marvin was one of Motown's rising stars.
00:27:36But with the fame came a whole new set of problems.
00:27:39Then ultimately, substance abuse comes in and Marvin Gaye was an abuser.
00:27:47By 1980, despite being a millionaire many times over, Marvin Gaye was broke.
00:27:53Marvin owed over $4 million in back taxes.
00:27:56All of a sudden, all these 17 automobiles, we had to get rid of them.
00:28:02Yet Marvin Gaye had one more comeback left in him.
00:28:06In 1983, sexual healing made him the toast of the music world and earned him two Grammys.
00:28:13Back on top, the singer decided to move home to help his ailing mother.
00:28:18Marvin would move back into the house and was fighting its own demons, drugs at the time.
00:28:23On April 1st, 1984, a day before his 45th birthday, Marvin Gaye was killed by the very
00:28:30same gun he had given to his father as a present.
00:28:33No one is quite sure how the argument started.
00:28:35What's kicking me around?
00:28:37There was obviously a huge argument between the two of them.
00:28:41And Marvin's mother witnessed the whole thing.
00:28:43His father pulled the gun on Marvin and shot him at point-blank distance.
00:28:47The first bullet tore through the singer's heart.
00:28:49I found the two gunshot wounds.
00:28:52One gunshot wound was considered fatal.
00:28:55That was the gunshot wound to the heart, lung, liver, and diaphragm area.
00:29:02And the father went onto the front porch, threw the gun into the front lawn of the house,
00:29:06and just sat down and waited for the police to arrive.
00:29:08The autopsy revealed drugs in Marvin Gaye's system.
00:29:12Later, it was disclosed that Marvin Sr. was severely bruised from his final fight with his son.
00:29:18The lawyers for the Elder Gaye made this fact the basis of their defense.
00:29:22It was not difficult to be able to argue that there was a beating.
00:29:27It was administered contemporaneous with the shooting.
00:29:30And so we had some good defense issues.
00:29:33In the struggle, there's often injuries to both parties.
00:29:38And that could be helpful in reconstructing whether it was cold-blooded murder,
00:29:42whether it happened after or during the struggle.
00:29:45The defense team was successful.
00:29:47Marvin Gaye Sr. was given a suspended six-year sentence for manslaughter.
00:29:52You know, I think Marvin Gaye is one of the most tragic cases,
00:29:55because Marvin Gaye had become so paranoid from the drugs.
00:30:00This was almost a type of suicide that he brought on by provoking this type of murder.
00:30:05On the day of his son's funeral, Marvin Sr. was asked if he loved his son.
00:30:10After a moment, he said only,
00:30:13let's just say I didn't dislike him.
00:30:22She was a wannabe celeb who would do anything to grab the brass ring.
00:30:27But once she got what she wanted, someone viciously took it all away.
00:30:36The wife of actor Robert Blake had a checkered past.
00:30:40Bonnie Lee Bateley was a huge celebrity wannabe.
00:30:46She had actually a black book in which were names of every major star in Hollywood that she was hoping
00:30:54to get to.
00:30:55Then more information came out that she had scammed other men,
00:30:58that she had left a trail of tears behind her in her life.
00:31:01She lived a very complicated life, selling pornography through the mail,
00:31:04and breaking a lot of hearts, and scamming people.
00:31:08Bonnie met Blake in 1999 at a birthday party.
00:31:11By the fall, she was pregnant with his child.
00:31:14Rather stormy relationship that was well-known and well-documented through their friends and through family.
00:31:22Despite their rocky affair,
00:31:23Bakley married the former Beretta star in November 2000,
00:31:27three months after the birth of their daughter.
00:31:29They didn't have a normal marriage.
00:31:32They didn't live in the same house.
00:31:35She was out by the pool in the pool house.
00:31:38The marriage continued to struggle,
00:31:40but on the night of May 4, 2001,
00:31:43the couple decided to have dinner together.
00:31:46Robert and Bonnie went to their favorite restaurant in Studio City, California.
00:31:50At 8.30 p.m., Blake parked his car next to a dumpster by a construction site
00:31:55a block and a half from the restaurant.
00:31:57Blake brought along his pistol.
00:31:59They were having dinner at Vitello's restaurant in Studio City.
00:32:02He was eating his own dish.
00:32:04They have a dish on the menu, the Robert Blake pasta dish.
00:32:06Around 9.30,
00:32:08Bonnie and Robert finished dinner and headed back to the car.
00:32:11According to the police report,
00:32:12Blake said he forgot his gun and went back to the restaurant to get it.
00:32:17It says he left his gun at the booth.
00:32:20So he goes to the booth, can't find the gun, and he goes back out to the car.
00:32:24The police report continues to say that when Blake returned to the car,
00:32:28he found Bonnie bleeding to death from gunshot wounds.
00:32:31Now, that short span of time, if somebody wants to murder her,
00:32:36you have to follow them and knows exactly the location,
00:32:40knows exactly he's going to walk away back to the restaurant.
00:32:43So this window of opportunity is very narrow.
00:32:47Blake ran to a nearby home and called 911.
00:32:51Paramedics arrived and raced Bonnie to the hospital, but she was DOA.
00:32:55I had multiple gunshot wounds.
00:32:58One gunshot wound to the right cheek, which was considered fatal wound,
00:33:02and one gunshot to the wife's shoulder, which was considered potentially fatal.
00:33:06Police grilled Blake for hours after the murder and searched his home.
00:33:11Blake maintained his innocence, but according to police, evidence began to mount.
00:33:16It turns out that Robert Blake collects guns,
00:33:18and they happen to find this rare German gun in the dumpster a couple of blocks away
00:33:23that happens to be the murder weapon.
00:33:24In April 2002, after an 11-month investigation,
00:33:28police arrested Blake for the murder of Bonnie Lee Bakley.
00:33:32When Bonnie Lee Bakley was murdered, the initial assumption was it has to be Robert Blake.
00:33:37It has to be her own husband, especially when information came out that he really didn't like her.
00:33:42The trial lasted three months.
00:33:44Bonnie's shady lifestyle was brought into question.
00:33:46And there's other people that she's finessed and finagled money out of have reason
00:33:51to want to come after her.
00:33:52And so the specter of reasonable doubt is so high in that case.
00:33:58Bonnie Lee Bakley is a perfect example where the focus wasn't really on what occurred,
00:34:04but who she was, what she was like, and what her private and personal life was.
00:34:10On March 16, 2003, Robert Blake was found not guilty.
00:34:15No one else has been charged for Bonnie's murder.
00:34:19I thought that was the perfect example of a highly professional lawyer
00:34:26doing an extraordinary job of creating reasonable doubt.
00:34:32In November 2005, in a civil trial brought by Bakley's children,
00:34:37the jury found that Blake had intentionally caused Bonnie's death.
00:34:41Her children were awarded $30 million in damages.
00:34:45Some people said in Hollywood, if you kill your wife,
00:34:48you don't have to go to prison, you just have to pay a fine.
00:34:50Up next, hundreds of witnesses, several shots fired,
00:34:55an iconic rapper dead, and not a single arrest.
00:34:59Who wants to be the snitch?
00:35:14DNA, gun residue, trace evidence.
00:35:17Today, advances in forensic science help prosecutors nail their cases shut.
00:35:23So how is it possible that some murders remain a mystery?
00:35:27Number 12, the murder of Biggie Smalls.
00:35:32Christopher Wallace, better known as Notorious B.I.G. or Biggie Smalls,
00:35:37was one of the most influential hip-hop artists of the 1990s.
00:35:41The street buzz on him was exorbitant.
00:35:46It was a foregone conclusion that Biggie had something that was going to touch people.
00:35:50But everything came to an abrupt end on March 9, 1997.
00:35:55It was two weeks before the release of his third CD, ironically titled,
00:36:00Life After Death, Till Death Do Us Part.
00:36:03The New York rapper attended a party in Los Angeles.
00:36:06Notorious B.I.G. and Puffy Combs were attending an after-party for a Soul Train Music Award.
00:36:14The party took place at the Peterson Museum.
00:36:16The party ended around 12.35 a.m.
00:36:20Biggie got into the passenger seat of his suburban.
00:36:23Sean Diddy Combs was in the SUV in front of him.
00:36:26Three vehicles exited the parking structure and proceeded to the first light at Wilshire and Fairfax.
00:36:34A dark-colored Chevy Impala pulled up next to Biggie's vehicle.
00:36:43The driver opened fire on Biggie with a 9-millimeter semi-automatic handgun,
00:36:47shooting several bullets into Biggie's chest before speeding off.
00:36:52While Biggie fought for his life, the rapper's driver raced to the hospital with Diddy close behind.
00:36:57But it was too late.
00:36:59At 1.15 a.m., Biggie Smalls was pronounced dead at the age of 24.
00:37:06Biggie wasn't a dangerous person.
00:37:08He was a musician.
00:37:10He was just trying to make some records, trying to make some money.
00:37:13Biggie wasn't a, you know, a bad guy overall.
00:37:17Police say dozens of people witnessed the murder, yet no one identified the killer.
00:37:22Who was behind this violent attack?
00:37:26I can tell you that, obviously, the parties involved are going to be East Coast and West Coast gang members.
00:37:34The major misconception, I think everybody believes this is a regular gang drive-by shooting.
00:37:41The evidence, in my opinion, shows that this was an organized hit.
00:37:46To this day, there's still speculation around that.
00:37:49Some people felt that Suge Knight and Death Row Records put out a hit on Biggie and Diddy.
00:37:55But Suge Knight doesn't see it that way.
00:37:58I ain't no Biggie to like Biggie or dislike Biggie, but if anybody know me, I'm a businessman.
00:38:04If I would have been on the streets before long, Biggie would have been a Death Row artist because he's
00:38:08a great rapper.
00:38:08Well, I don't know what I ask for this guy for is giving him a record deal, not to bring
00:38:12harm to him.
00:38:13Some people felt that some gang members were paid to kill Biggie as a result of the old debt that
00:38:22Biggie had with some gang members in Los Angeles.
00:38:24Without suspects or evidence to make an arrest, Notorious B.I.G.'s case went cold.
00:38:31One reason why the case hasn't been solved is the fact that there are police officers involved in the conspiracy
00:38:38to kill Biggie Smalls.
00:38:40There are political implications that have caused this case not to be officially solved.
00:38:46But maybe this cold case will heat up again one day.
00:38:49It all takes is one witness to come forward, one suspect to come forward.
00:38:52In July 2006, investigators reopened Biggie's case, reinstating a $50,000 reward for any information leading to a conviction.
00:39:02People in the hip-hop world don't want to talk to the police. It's really that simple.
00:39:05Who wants to be the snitch? I just nobly snitched on somebody and here's my address, so if you want
00:39:11to kill me now, kill me now.
00:39:12Nobody wants to do that. The more dangerous the case, the harder it is to get it solved with a
00:39:18witness coming forward.
00:39:27On July 15th, 1997, a world-famous designer bought his morning paper.
00:39:34His assassination an hour later became front-page news.
00:39:39Number 11, the murder of Gianni Versace.
00:39:44To the world of fashion, he's definitely a legend because he was so different.
00:39:49He created a style that you could not compare with any other designer.
00:39:54By the summer of 1997, Miami resident Gianni Versace was a bold and innovative presence in the fashion world.
00:40:02Versace's name became synonymous with Hollywood's red carpet.
00:40:06He did a lot of fun things. He took a lot of chances that weren't traditional.
00:40:10I think that he opened a lot of doors for some designers, too, to get a little crazier.
00:40:15With sales topping more than $560 million, life never seemed better.
00:40:22He's distinguished from other designers simply because he did what he did.
00:40:26He never did things that were aimed at trendy stuff.
00:40:29It's just what he did turned out to be very, very popular.
00:40:32But on the morning of July 15th, Versace's world was destroyed.
00:40:38At 8.30 a.m., he returned home from a walk and opened the gate to his mansion.
00:40:43Without warning, a man approached and shot Versace point-blank in the back of his skull.
00:40:51The killer fired one more shot and fled the scene.
00:40:55The king of fashion was dead.
00:41:00Friends inside the house raced out and discovered Versace's lifeless body lying in a pool of blood.
00:41:08I was actually notified right away because I was on my way to work when this call came out,
00:41:12so I heard it on the radio come out.
00:41:14I didn't know if it was Versace at the time, but I heard the call shots fired,
00:41:18and the person running from the scene, and I heard all of our troops responding.
00:41:22The news about Versace's murder spread quickly.
00:41:26I mean, when you finally understand what really happened, it's just very sad.
00:41:31It was horrible.
00:41:32And then I left for Europe the next day, so I saw it worldwide, the worldwide upset of this.
00:41:37Within a few days, police suspected Versace's death was linked to a bloody trail of other murder victims in Minneapolis
00:41:44and Chicago.
00:41:46Evidence from all five slayings pointed to a man named Andrew Cunanan,
00:41:50an elusive con artist on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list.
00:41:55Andrew Cunanan, in addition to having probably some sociopathic tendencies, had a lot of rage.
00:42:02In the case of the serial killer, obviously, they become more empowered every time they do it.
00:42:07Eight days after Versace's murder, a tip led Miami police to a houseboat where Cunanan was hiding out.
00:42:14But as police were closing in, the serial killer took his own life, putting a gun into his mouth and
00:42:20pulling the trigger.
00:42:22He would have been so overwhelmed with shame for his actions that I think that from then on,
00:42:27it would have become a total self-loathing, self-hating existence of desperation.
00:42:33So why did Cunanan target Versace?
00:42:36Versace was everything he probably wanted to be.
00:42:39He was wealthy, he was a gay man, he was successful, he had it all, and Andrew Cunanan had none
00:42:46of it.
00:42:47It was this case of anger and envy, and in that moment of killing, he was powerful.
00:42:53He was in charge of his life.
00:42:55Up ahead, a chilling glimpse into the mind of a celebrity stalker.
00:43:00It's just me and her, you know, talking to her, you know?
00:43:19Hogan's hero star, Bob Crane, was a beloved TV actor.
00:43:23His easygoing personality and fast wit won him friends and fans.
00:43:28But what he did behind closed doors led to quite a few enemies.
00:43:33Number 10, Bob Crane.
00:43:39The first blow opened up Crane's head at the scalp.
00:43:43The second hit crushed the actor's scalp.
00:43:46The killer then grabbed a VCR cord and strangled him.
00:43:50But Bob Crane was already dead.
00:43:53He was 49.
00:43:54The reason there's a bit of an overkill, somebody wanted to do extreme violence,
00:43:59so there was a case of some anger and rage just against the person of Bob Crane.
00:44:06It was horrific with a camera tripod.
00:44:08I mean, his head was a pulpy mess when they found him.
00:44:11On June 28, 1978, police found more than just a grisly murder scene.
00:44:17Fifty pornographic videotapes were discovered in a closet, along with photo equipment in the bathroom.
00:44:23He would use this equipment to take photos of himself with maybe two or three or four people, you know,
00:44:30all at the same time.
00:44:31He had one of the first home video cameras ever marketed, and he liked to tape himself having sex with
00:44:37women.
00:44:37Lots of women.
00:44:39Clearly, the fun-loving actor had a secret dark side.
00:44:42In his private life, he was dealing with some pretty serious demons.
00:44:47He achieved this greatness because of his success and luck, and then part of his identity couldn't tolerate it,
00:44:54so he created this underworld that felt comfortable for him, and it just collided in this horrible way.
00:45:00After Hogan's Heroes was canceled in 1971, Crane seemed to sink ever deeper into his pornographic compulsion.
00:45:08He had deep addictions, not just the kind where, I'm going to go home and I'm going to, you know,
00:45:13tie up the wife and have some kinky sex.
00:45:16No, it was, like, obsessive.
00:45:18The initial suspect in the case was Crane's longtime friend and sexual wingman, John Carpenter.
00:45:24They like to corral these girls and hate each other.
00:45:27I think possibly Carpenter had a little bit more of an interest in Bob Crane than Bob Crane had in
00:45:32him.
00:45:32Friends maintained that Crane wanted to cut off the friendship.
00:45:36Police found the actor's date book with the name John Carpenter scratched out.
00:45:41I think there's a real good possibility that at or about that night that Bob Crane broke off a relationship
00:45:48with Carpenter,
00:45:49and that in turn apparently enraged Carpenter.
00:45:54After the murder, police found Carpenter less than cooperative.
00:45:58He began to look like a suspect just from his avoidance of trying to assist in the investigation,
00:46:05plus some of the things he was saying or not saying just didn't sound right.
00:46:10Police found small traces of blood in Carpenter's rental car.
00:46:14But since DNA testing didn't exist at the time, they could prove only that it was Crane's blood type, not
00:46:20his specific blood.
00:46:21So the case against Carpenter remained circumstantial.
00:46:25They had theories on how the crime had been committed, and I felt that those theories were unsubstantiated.
00:46:33The case sat on the shelf for 14 years.
00:46:36That is, until police found overlooked photos that showed blood and what looked like brain matter in Carpenter's car.
00:46:43John Carpenter was finally charged with killing Bob Crane.
00:46:47I mean, you'd have the blood inside of the car, the blood type mesh Bob Crane.
00:46:52You had the tissue in the photograph that appeared very similar to the types of tissue from the bloody crime
00:46:58scene that was found on the pillowcase.
00:47:00All of those things together, we thought was going to convince a jury.
00:47:04The evidence proved inconclusive.
00:47:06On October 31st, 1994, he was acquitted.
00:47:11Carpenter died four years later at the age of 70.
00:47:14There are no other suspects, and the case remains unsolved.
00:47:28Celebrities and entertainers would not be who they are if not for their fans.
00:47:32But at what point does fan become fanatic?
00:47:40Rebecca Schaefer is a horrifying Hollywood story because this is innocence gunned down.
00:47:50In the 1980s, actress Rebecca Schaefer began climbing the Hollywood ladder of success as the co-star of My Sister
00:47:58Sam.
00:47:59Such a gorgeous, clean, down-home girl, really good actress, and obviously very beautiful.
00:48:05Rebecca had many admirers, including an eager fan in Tucson, Arizona, named Robert John Bardo.
00:48:12Bardo was an emotionally unstable high school dropout.
00:48:16All the teachers commented on the fact that he was very isolated and exhibited no social skills.
00:48:22Bardo's adoration for the young star turned into an obsession.
00:48:26He wrote dozens of letters to Rebecca.
00:48:29In return, Bardo received a personal postcard and an autographed photo.
00:48:33But he wanted more.
00:48:35He had been obsessed with her, had written her constant letters, had told her that he was going to be
00:48:40with her, he was going to marry her,
00:48:41that he would come down and be with her one day.
00:48:43Well, he actually did that.
00:48:44In 1987, Bardo went to Los Angeles twice and tried unsuccessfully to visit Rebecca on the set of her show.
00:48:52Stalkers often feel like they aren't somebody unless somebody loves them.
00:48:57So there's really this hole, and so they're trying to achieve a feeling of, I am worthy, I am lovable.
00:49:03Two years later, Bardo hired a private investigator to locate Rebecca's home address.
00:49:09At the time, you know, she lived in an apartment where you could literally walk right up to the door.
00:49:13In the early hours of July 18, 1989, 19-year-old Bardo arrived by bus in Los Angeles.
00:49:21He found Rebecca's building and buzzed her apartment.
00:49:24I introduced myself to a homeowner of Bardo, which is, I don't know, I said, you know, I'm a fan
00:49:29of yours, you know.
00:49:31After a friendly exchange, Bardo left.
00:49:34Bardo went to a nearby diner, then realized he forgot to give Rebecca a note he'd written.
00:49:40I figured since I was 30, you know, I could ask her, you know.
00:49:43Just go back to her place and ask her, you know, and give her that.
00:49:46All right, yeah.
00:49:47Plus, I want to use that there as an excuse to bring her to the door so we can talk
00:49:50with her, so she'd come out just like before.
00:49:52I could talk, you know.
00:49:53Then he went into the bathroom and loaded his .357 Magnum pistol.
00:49:59At 10.15 a.m., Bardo returned to Rebecca's building and buzzed her again.
00:50:04Rebecca came downstairs.
00:50:32So I think what happened is, my personal opinion is,
00:50:35that he reached out to hand her the card.
00:50:38She leans forward to take the card, and she shot in the chest.
00:50:45Bardo took off running.
00:50:47I couldn't, I just couldn't do it.
00:50:50A neighbor called the police.
00:50:5230 minutes later, Rebecca Schaefer was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital.
00:50:57The next day, Bardo was found in Arizona and taken into custody.
00:51:01He ran away afterwards, really expecting to be caught on the way.
00:51:05He was waiting for the great result that would come after the attack, and it didn't come.
00:51:09So now he gets back to Arizona, and he acts in a way that will predictably bring attention to himself.
00:51:14He walks around in the middle of traffic.
00:51:16He makes no denials about what he's done.
00:51:18In October 1991, Robert John Bardo was convicted of homicide in the first degree.
00:51:25He was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
00:51:28It's why stars are afraid.
00:51:30It's why people run into nightclubs, and people, you know, zoom into their gates and have these gates shut.
00:51:36Hollywood can be a very scary place.
00:51:46A down-on-her-luck actress, an iconic music producer, a chance encounter that led to tragedy.
00:51:54Number eight, the death of Lana Clarkson.
00:51:58Lana Clarkson was tall and beautiful.
00:52:01The 40-year-old actress appeared in more than 30 movies and TV shows,
00:52:05but she was always looking for her breakthrough role.
00:52:08She took a job as a hostess at a very popular club.
00:52:13Many, many actresses do that because you meet people who can help your career.
00:52:18On the evening of February 3rd, 2003, Lana was working at the House of Blues on the Sunset Strip
00:52:25when she met legendary rock and roll producer Phil Spector.
00:52:29She was titillated by a celebrity, and Phil Spector was a celebrity.
00:52:34Here's a very eccentric record producer who worked with John Lennon, and he worked with the Ronettes.
00:52:42Spector ordered a cocktail and a bottled water.
00:52:45He gave Lana a $450 tip and a ride back to his mansion.
00:52:50We don't know what happened behind those walls, but evidently, somebody snapped.
00:52:56According to the initial police report, Spector's chauffeur was outside when he heard a gunshot.
00:53:03This is what he told the cops.
00:53:05Phil Spector comes out with a gun in his hand and says, I think I killed her.
00:53:08The chauffeur called the police.
00:53:10When they arrived, the cops found Lana Clarkson dead from a single gunshot wound to her mouth.
00:53:15A blue steel .38 Colt revolver lay under her left leg.
00:53:20Of course, a single gunshot, not necessary, is a homicide.
00:53:24So sometimes the media report, not really represent the fact.
00:53:29That could be a suicide, could be an accidental death.
00:53:32Police found teeth scattered on the floor.
00:53:34In my experience, most people who commit suicide with a firearm via the mouth
00:53:40typically place the barrel of the weapon inside their mouth and pull the trigger.
00:53:46They tend not to fire the weapon through clenched teeth.
00:53:49Police had to subdue Spector with a taser and cuff him while they searched his home.
00:53:54They found a blood-soaked cloth on the bathroom floor and a wet hand towel on the sink.
00:54:01Spector initially told police he shot the actress accidentally.
00:54:05Later, he officially changed his story and said Clarkson killed herself.
00:54:10Don't forget, you know, Spector said, yeah, she was shot.
00:54:13The big issue was, was it accidental?
00:54:15Did she pull the trigger or did he intentionally kill her?
00:54:18The coroner ruled the death a homicide.
00:54:21Nine months after the shooting, Phil Spector was charged with Lana Clarkson's murder.
00:54:26He pled not guilty.
00:54:27We try not to talk about anything extraneous to it, let the report speak for itself
00:54:33and let the case go through the court and, you know, give Mr. Spector the benefit of the doubt
00:54:38and let him have his day in court.
00:54:40He got it.
00:54:41Spector's trial began in April 2007.
00:54:44Five months later, jurors reported they were deadlocked and unable to reach a verdict.
00:54:49The judge declared a mistrial.
00:54:51Prosecutors then announced plans to retry Spector.
00:54:54Coming up, porn, drugs, and a brutal murder scene.
00:55:11The white stucco house in the Hollywood Hills was very easy to miss.
00:55:16But to the cops, it was a renowned drug dealer.
00:55:19And for porn legend John Holmes, it was his own personal pharmacy.
00:55:24Number seven, The Wonderland Murders.
00:55:29John Holmes was the biggest adult film star in the late 70s.
00:55:34It was tons of money, tons of drugs.
00:55:38Holmes made more than 2,500 films as his alter ego, Johnny Watt.
00:55:42But all he had to show for his career was a $1,500 a day coke habit.
00:55:47This was a period where porn was still very much a shadow environment,
00:55:51and the people involved in it were shadowy people.
00:55:54By the end of the 70s, Holmes was out of work, unable to perform due to his drug abuse.
00:56:00He fell in with the gang at the house on Wonderland Avenue.
00:56:04People would come and go from the house day and night.
00:56:06That balcony came into play.
00:56:08They would just throw the drugs down and the money up.
00:56:11Holmes also hung out with nightclub owner Eddie Nash,
00:56:15a man who always seemed to keep an ample supply of drugs in his Hollywood mansion.
00:56:21Desperate and broke, the porn star and his drug buddies decided to rob Nash.
00:56:25And basically, the Wonderland Avenue gang were a bunch of dope house rip-offs.
00:56:30They would get police badges and go rip off drug dealers, and then they would sell the drugs.
00:56:35So that's what they were known for.
00:56:37On June 29, 1981, hours after Holmes left a door unlocked at Nash's house,
00:56:44the Wonderland gang stormed inside.
00:56:47According to police, they came away with drugs, jewelry, and $185,000 in cash.
00:56:54I stole some money, tied Nash up.
00:56:56Not a good thing to do.
00:56:57A day after the robbery, Holmes was spotted wearing some of the stolen jewelry.
00:57:02Nash forced a confession from the porn star.
00:57:05On July 1, 1981, Holmes led at least three men into the Wonderland house.
00:57:12John punched in the security code, and they said,
00:57:14Who is it?
00:57:15And he said, It's John Holmes.
00:57:17They let him in.
00:57:17I'm not suspecting that they were going to be attacked.
00:57:19The murderers went from room to room, beating whomever they found.
00:57:24The victims were bludgeoned to death with lead pipes.
00:57:27There were five victims involved.
00:57:30Of the five victims, four died as a result of the attacks.
00:57:35One did survive, although suffered some debilitating injuries.
00:57:39The murderers were so violent that when police arrived the next day,
00:57:43they discovered a grisly sight.
00:57:45Usually the bloodiest kinds of wounds that we see are typically stab wounds.
00:57:51They tend to be the worst kinds of bleeders,
00:57:54but blood force would probably be a close second to the amount of blood loss that will occur.
00:58:00And in this particular case, the Wonderland murderers presented a fairly gruesome, fairly bloody scene.
00:58:07Holmes immediately was a suspect,
00:58:09as he was the only link between the Wonderland gang and Nash.
00:58:13Now, how much he saw, how much he did is up for speculation.
00:58:17There are those that say that he was made to watch the murders and to get his hands dirty.
00:58:21They did find, I believe, it was a bloody Holmes print on the wall from one of the victims' blood,
00:58:26and that involved him.
00:58:28In 1982, Holmes was tried for the murders,
00:58:31but his lawyers argue that he was just another victim.
00:58:34Holmes was acquitted.
00:58:36Eventually, Eddie Nash pled guilty to conspiracy in connection to the Wonderland murders.
00:58:40He served just 31 months in prison.
00:58:44For John Holmes, he escaped prison time,
00:58:47but life didn't get better for the porn legend.
00:58:50He started to do gay films for money to feed his drug addict,
00:58:56and that's allegedly where he contracted the AIDS virus.
00:59:01John Holmes died on March 13, 1988.
00:59:05John Holmes was kind of the embodiment and the consequence of what happens with that kind of culture.
00:59:12That's what was going on on the Sunset Strip.
00:59:14That's what was going on in Hollywood.
00:59:16That's what was going on in America.
00:59:27Her music enchanted millions of fans.
00:59:31Her tragic death stunned the world.
00:59:34Number six, the murder of Selena.
00:59:39In the early 90s, Selena was the international queen of Tejano music.
00:59:45She won a Grammy.
00:59:47She was a very well-loved artist by the fans, by the people.
00:59:52Not only here, but every Spanish-speaking country in the world.
00:59:56Nurse Yolanda Saldivar was one of Selena's biggest fans.
01:00:00She explained that she had seen Selena in a concert in San Antonio, Texas,
01:00:07and they had really loved the music, and they're asking me if we had a fan club in San Antonio.
01:00:14I told her no, and she asked for permission to start one.
01:00:19By 1994, Yolanda was the Selena fan club president in San Antonio.
01:00:24She also worked as the bookkeeper for Selena's company in Corpus Christi, Texas.
01:00:28When she was president of the fan club, she was far enough away where she could admire Selena.
01:00:34And the closer she got, that admiration turned to envy.
01:00:38But in March 1995, Selena's father fired Yolanda, accusing her of embezzling money.
01:00:45I found a yellow manila envelope, a big envelope.
01:00:48In it was the last quarter of the Selena fan club statements from Bank One in San Antonio.
01:00:55And I started finding other documents in there that I knew at that moment that there was some money being
01:01:03taken from the fan club.
01:01:04Sometime during the next few weeks, 34-year-old Yolanda purchased a gun.
01:01:09On the morning of March 31st, Selena met up with Yolanda to tie up some loose ends in Saldivar's hotel
01:01:16room.
01:01:17She had some paperwork in her briefcase because Selena had asked her,
01:01:21well, I thought you said that the paperwork was in the trunk of the car.
01:01:24And she says, well, I had some of it in my briefcase.
01:01:28So Selena says, I'm going to go out there and pick it up.
01:01:31Around 11.40 a.m., Selena and Yolanda began to discuss missing company records.
01:01:37Soon after, Selena opened the door to leave.
01:01:40Yolanda pulled out her pistol and shot Selena in the back.
01:01:45And Selena ran from the door of the motel room all the way to the lobby.
01:01:51And Yolanda came out with a gun.
01:01:54She was going to shoot her for the second time.
01:01:56Gunshot wound to the torso, whether it's from the front or the back,
01:02:00are certainly dangerous wounds because the internal organs are nearby.
01:02:08Selena collapsed on the floor of the hotel lobby.
01:02:11An ambulance arrived and Selena was taken to the hospital.
01:02:15But it was too late for the 23-year-old singer.
01:02:19When we walked inside, a policeman approached me and says, your daughter was killed.
01:02:25And just abruptly like that, just shot me.
01:02:30Meanwhile, Yolanda got into her pickup truck at the hotel.
01:02:33Police surrounded the vehicle.
01:02:35She held the gun to her head and threatened to commit suicide.
01:02:40The first two hours, she's crying and saying, my God, I killed my friend.
01:02:46And then two hours later, she changed her story.
01:02:51It was an accident. It was an accident.
01:02:53Nine hours later, Yolanda finally stepped out of the truck and was arrested.
01:02:58In October 1995, six months after the shooting, Yolanda Saldivar was convicted of first-degree murder.
01:03:07She was sentenced to life in a maximum security prison.
01:03:11Yolanda will be eligible for parole in 2025.
01:03:31Coming up, two gruesome deaths, two unsolved murders.
01:03:36You come forward, there's no guarantee you're going to be around long enough to be a witness in the case.
01:03:51On the morning of January 15, 1947, a young mother walked by a vacant lot near downtown Los Angeles.
01:03:59In a ditch, she spotted what appeared to be a department store mannequin.
01:04:04In reality, it was the victim of one of the most brutal slayings in Hollywood history.
01:04:10Number five, the Black Dahlia.
01:04:13It is really the body that people are drawn to, this picture of the body in their mind.
01:04:19Bloodless, drained of blood, as though a vampire had been involved.
01:04:23The victim was identified as Elizabeth Short.
01:04:27She came to Hollywood to be a star.
01:04:30The nickname Black Dahlia came from Elizabeth Short's habit of dressing in black and wearing flowers in her hair.
01:04:36The 22-year-old was outgoing and beautiful, a combination that may have ultimately led to her demise.
01:04:44She wasn't a hooker like people think.
01:04:46I mean, she did what was called dating for dinner, which a lot of women did back in the 40s.
01:04:50You know, they went out on dates to eat.
01:04:51She was a woman who was trying to survive in a very, very difficult time, in a very difficult situation.
01:04:58She may have lived by her wits, but she didn't deserve to die the way she did.
01:05:03From the start, the LAPD was overwhelmed.
01:05:06The Black Dahlia was the very, very beginning of crime scenes and crime scene investigation, and everything was in its
01:05:14infancy.
01:05:14We had no idea, you know, if the body was moved, if anything was, you know, tampered with.
01:05:21There was a lot of walking on the scene and disturbance of evidence that might have been there.
01:05:28Elizabeth's mutilated body told a gruesome story.
01:05:31The murderer had placed the body on a series of boards on top of a bathtub.
01:05:37And the ankles had been tied together, and the hands had been looped and tied to the faucet handles.
01:05:45The girl was not absolutely dead when he began to cut the body in half.
01:05:50Number one, he got off on the fact that he was torturing this woman and got to possess her by
01:05:55basically killing her.
01:05:57Number two, he derived a lot of pleasure by dropping the body off someplace where it would be found fairly
01:06:03quickly and in a shocking manner.
01:06:05However, police were left with very few leads.
01:06:09There was no blood or very little blood at the scenes.
01:06:12They had taken steps to drain the body of blood before they moved the body from wherever she was killed
01:06:20at to where she was eventually deposited at.
01:06:23In death, the Black Dahlia achieved the fame that had so eluded her in life.
01:06:28The Black Dahlia case represents the sickest type of murder, where you have a victim who isn't just killed, but
01:06:37really tortured and desecrated.
01:06:41Nobody had ever seen anything like it before in the history of Hollywood, and that is why it remains today
01:06:50Hollywood's most gruesome unsolved crime.
01:07:05He was gunned down in his crime at a busy Las Vegas intersection with hundreds of witnesses.
01:07:13Why was the shooter never ID'd?
01:07:15Number four, Tupac Shakur.
01:07:19I mean, that case scares the crap out of everybody involved.
01:07:24In fact, the people involved are the ones who understand retaliation probably better than anybody else.
01:07:28You had a guy who was an icon in the music industry, one of the greatest rappers, who got killed
01:07:33senselessly.
01:07:34In the world of rap music, no star burned brighter than Tupac Shakur.
01:07:39You know, Tupac represents not only, you know, a controversial figure, but Tupac is somebody who's complex, both volatile and
01:07:49also radical.
01:07:50What we're doing is using our brain to get out of the ghetto any way we can.
01:07:55So we tell these stories, you know what I'm saying?
01:07:57And they tend to be violent.
01:07:58On September 7, 1996, Tupac and his manager, Jethro Records President Marion Shug Knight, left the MGM Hotel in Las
01:08:07Vegas after watching a Mike Tyson fight.
01:08:10Shug led a procession of luxury vehicles on their way to a nightclub.
01:08:14His only passenger was Tupac Shakur.
01:08:18Shug's BMW stopped at the corner of East Flamingo Road and Koval Lane, an intersection that was about to become
01:08:25an infamous crime scene.
01:08:27There was another car that pulled up alongside them, and some individuals began firing at the car, hitting Tupac several
01:08:35times.
01:08:36Shug Knight, I believe, got grazed, and Tupac went to the hospital.
01:08:40The shooter sped around the corner and disappeared into the chaos of the Las Vegas Strip, never to be seen
01:08:47again.
01:08:48Tupac died seven days later.
01:08:53You had ten vans full of guys when Tupac got shot.
01:08:57None of them went or came forward.
01:08:59These are not the people that go, hey, let me tell you what I saw.
01:09:03You know, frankly, you come forward, there's no guarantee you're going to be around long enough to be a witness
01:09:08in the case.
01:09:08L.A. gang unit cops quickly pointed the finger at a man Tupac and Shug had confronted earlier that night
01:09:15a known L.A. gang member named Orlando Anderson.
01:09:19Anderson was never formally charged with the crime.
01:09:22He was gunned down two years later at a Compton car wash.
01:09:25Well, a rapper-on-rapper killing is a lot like other gang killings, which is, you know, those witnesses don't
01:09:32want to come forward either.
01:09:33They'd rather deal with it in their own way.
01:09:35At some point, they'll bring their own type of justice.
01:09:38They don't even trust the system.
01:09:40To this day, those who know who killed Tupac aren't talking.
01:09:44It is a misconception when cases are unsolved that the police don't know who did it.
01:09:49A lot of times they do know who did it, and they just don't have enough evidence to arrest them.
01:10:03Four bullets tore into him, but the singer did not fall.
01:10:07He stumbled up six stairs and said only, I'm shot.
01:10:11Number three, the murder of former Beatle John Lennon.
01:10:15John Lennon was the embodiment of peace and harmony and nonviolence.
01:10:20He was a symbol for changing the world, and it was so expressly in his music.
01:10:26John Lennon loved walking the streets of New York.
01:10:30He enjoyed fans approaching him for autographs.
01:10:33One such fan was Mark David Chapman, a failed charity worker turned suicidal obsessive with a history of mental problems.
01:10:42He was completely psychotic, and he had this obsession with John Lennon.
01:10:48And a lot of these murderers, they have this desire to be known for something, to be known for something
01:10:54grand.
01:10:54On December 8, 1980, Mark David Chapman waited all day outside John Lennon's Manhattan apartment, the Dakota.
01:11:04Lennon was coming home with Yoko Ono.
01:11:06He was coming home from a recording session.
01:11:08A fan stepped out of the darkness and shot him.
01:11:12Chapman crouched combat style and yelled out, Mr. Lennon.
01:11:16He fired five times.
01:11:18John yelled, I'm shot, and he staggered into the vestibule and collapsed right there.
01:11:26Two shots struck the singer in the back and two lodged in his left shoulder.
01:11:31The fatal shot pierced his aorta.
01:11:33Police arrived almost immediately.
01:11:36They couldn't even wait for the ambulance, threw him right in the radio car and took him right over to
01:11:40Roosevelt Hospital.
01:11:41The staff in the emergency department said, no, this is impossible, this is another person.
01:11:45And only when Yoko Ono followed about a minute later did the staff say, oh my God, this is the
01:11:52real thing.
01:11:53Lennon lost more than 80% of his blood.
01:11:56Chapman used hollow point bullets designed to inflict maximum and final damage.
01:12:01In spite of all of our efforts, blood transfusion, surgical procedures, intravenous line, ventilation, breathing tubes, John Lennon was pronounced
01:12:09dead.
01:12:10After the shooting, Chapman threw off his hat and coat and sat down on the sidewalk.
01:12:16He pulled out a copy of The Catcher in the Rye and began to read.
01:12:20Police arrested him on the spot.
01:12:23Chapman planned to plead not guilty by reason of insanity.
01:12:26The only defense that had any chance of prevailing was that he was delusional, that he was suffering from a
01:12:35mental illness.
01:12:37Two weeks before his trial, Mark David Chapman told his lawyer that he spoke to God.
01:12:42Mark is still a very religious Christian person and believes that he is going to, quote, go to heaven.
01:12:50Chapman was sentenced to 20 years to life for second degree murder.
01:12:54There's a very good chance that Mark David Chapman will never see the light of day outside of a prison
01:12:59cell.
01:13:00Chapman admitted he became a murderer as a way to get attention, cursed by feelings that he was a nobody.
01:13:06Clearly, there are better ways of going about achieving fame and a name for oneself.
01:13:11What happened to Lennon was shocking because it wasn't happening to a president or a political leader.
01:13:17It was happening to a singer.
01:13:19In a 1960s interview, Lennon was asked how he expected to die.
01:13:25He paused and then said with a smile,
01:13:27I'll probably be popped off by some loony.
01:13:32Coming up, a slaughter in the suburbs leads to the trial of the century.
01:13:53She was a California beauty trying to escape the shadow of her famous ex-husband.
01:13:58He was an all-American guy trying to become a movie star.
01:14:03Their brutal killings stunned the nation.
01:14:05Number two, the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.
01:14:11On the surface, Nicole Brown and O.J. Simpson seemed like a happy Hollywood couple.
01:14:17But behind closed doors, the marriage was troubled.
01:14:20I saw pictures of Nicole Brown Simpson beat up.
01:14:23I heard that 911 call, the transcript of that, that she saved in a safe deposit box.
01:14:29And I know she was a victim of domestic violence.
01:14:32Nicole and O.J. divorced in October 1992.
01:14:36They continued to raise their children together, living in the same Brentwood, California neighborhood.
01:14:41This is a very important part of their lives, was to keep up a cordial environment so that their kids
01:14:47would try to grow up in a healthy manner.
01:14:48But for Nicole, everything came to an end on the night of June 12, 1994.
01:14:55Around 7 p.m., Nicole had dinner with her children and her mother at Mezzaluna Trattoria in Brentwood.
01:15:01So she returns home.
01:15:03Her mother calls and says she left her glasses behind at Mezzaluna Restaurant.
01:15:08And so Nicole calls the restaurant, and one of the waiters agrees to bring the glasses over to her house.
01:15:14The waiter was Nicole's friend, Ron Goldman.
01:15:17When he left, he said to me, he said, he said, do you want me to call you?
01:15:22And I said, yeah, you can call me or I'll call you.
01:15:23And he said, great.
01:15:24And then he walked one way and then walked another.
01:15:27And the last words that I ever heard from him was, I'll see you later.
01:15:30Goldman arrived at Nicole's condo around 10.15 p.m.
01:15:34The assistant came out of the condo to let Mr. Goldman in the gate.
01:15:38And at that point is when they were attacked.
01:15:43According to the autopsy reports, an assailant stabbed Ron 11 times with a knife at least 6 inches long.
01:15:50During the struggle, the killer cut Ron multiple times on the neck and scalp
01:15:54and struck him with a blunt object on the back of his head.
01:15:57He was basically cornered in a very small area.
01:16:01He was unarmed and you really, as hard as you fight eventually, especially with the loss of blood,
01:16:08you lose acuity and you, you know, you pass out.
01:16:12And as hard as he fought, he really had no chance because he couldn't get away.
01:16:18The killer also attacked Nicole.
01:16:21What happened to Nicole Simpson, she had a cut of the neck that went down two inches to the bone.
01:16:26If you have to sustain a cut that deep, you're pretty much not going to survive
01:16:31because you can't breathe, you're bleeding out.
01:16:35It's fatal.
01:16:37Nicole was stabbed seven more times in her neck and scalp.
01:16:40She was also struck on the back of the head.
01:16:43Police found 25-year-old Ron and 35-year-old Nicole dead on the front steps just after midnight.
01:16:51Any time you have somebody stabbed or shot or bludgeoned multiple times,
01:17:02multiple, multiple times, your first indication that somebody was very angry,
01:17:09that this is a crime of passion.
01:17:11You have to love a person a great deal to keep injuring the person after death.
01:17:16And that's part of the rage reactions.
01:17:18In the days that followed, investigators discovered a bloody glove,
01:17:23bloody shoe prints, and other suspicious items at the murder site.
01:17:27Both these victims were stabbed.
01:17:30It was a very personal thing.
01:17:32And for that reason, I'm sure it led the investigators to think that quite possibly it was a domestic situation.
01:17:42According to police reports, O.J. Simpson became the prime suspect.
01:17:46There was his blood all over the crime scene.
01:17:50There was the victim's blood in his car.
01:17:52There was a mountain of forensic evidence.
01:17:54On June 17th, a warrant was issued for O.J.'s arrest.
01:17:58That afternoon, Simpson and his longtime friend, Al Cowling,
01:18:02led police on a now-famous low-speed car chase in his white Bronco.
01:18:06O.J. eventually surrendered at his Brentwood home.
01:18:10In January 1995, Simpson went on trial for the double homicide.
01:18:16The case became a media circus.
01:18:19At this time, do you wish you had a plea guilty or not guilty?
01:18:22Not guilty.
01:18:23It touched on all these issues of race, of celebrity, of wealth, of popularity in our society.
01:18:32It had something for everyone, in essence.
01:18:34And I don't mean to talk about it in such a detached way,
01:18:37but I think for all of us, that's what it became.
01:18:40It became something other than the fact that, you know, this man was on trial for murder.
01:18:45It became a cultural moment, a phenomenon.
01:18:49If it doesn't fit, you must acquit.
01:18:52The O.J. Simpson-Nicole Simpson case was, at least in my memory,
01:18:58the most watched event in the history of pop culture.
01:19:03On October 3rd, 1995, nearly 100 million people tuned in to hear the verdict.
01:19:09The jury in the above-entitled action find the defendant, Orenthal James Simpson,
01:19:14not guilty of the crime of murder in violation of penal code section 187,
01:19:18A, a felony upon Nicole Brown Simpson.
01:19:21I think the O.J. verdict happened, the acquittal.
01:19:24Because, one, O.J. could afford to have a whole team of fabulous lawyers.
01:19:30Second of all, you had O.J. Simpson.
01:19:32He was an all-American hero.
01:19:34People didn't want to believe he could commit such a crime.
01:19:37No one else has been arrested for the murders.
01:19:40Regardless of what happened, I don't think anybody came out of one.
01:19:43Yeah, he's not in jail, but, you know, his life has turned all the way around.
01:19:49It's just one big tragedy.
01:19:51Under the law, he was acquitted.
01:19:54Then he went on to the civil trial.
01:19:57In the 1997 civil trial, O.J. Simpson was found liable for the killings.
01:20:03O.J. was ordered to pay the victim's families $33.5 million.
01:20:09The most terrible thing about the case is that no one's paying for it.
01:20:13You know, no one is in jail for this.
01:20:15These two people are dead.
01:20:16But no one is paying the price for these two murders.
01:20:21Up next, Hell in the Hollywood Hills, the number one most horrifying Hollywood murder.
01:20:51On the night of August 8, 1969,
01:20:54four people broke into a secluded house in the Hollywood Hills.
01:20:59One of the intruders announced,
01:21:01I am the devil and I have come to do the devil's work.
01:21:05Number one, the Manson murders.
01:21:08No case had a more prominent victims that were totally innocent,
01:21:13that were absolutely slaughtered by this cult element.
01:21:18Charlie Manson was an ex-con, failed musician,
01:21:21and self-proclaimed prophet to a fanatical group of followers known as The Family.
01:21:27Manson desperately wanted to be a rock star.
01:21:30Hung out with the Beach Boys, cut a few songs.
01:21:32Charles Manson was pissed off at the Beach Boys and their producer, Terry Melcher.
01:21:39Terry Melcher, the producer, cut Manson off because Manson was so crazy
01:21:43and it enraged him because Manson was getting a taste of fame.
01:21:46Manson called upon his followers to exact revenge.
01:21:50The only problem, they didn't know where to find Melcher.
01:21:53He knew that Melcher no longer lived there at 10050 Cielo Drive,
01:22:00but he knew that somebody prominent lived there.
01:22:05That prominent couple was director Roman Polanski
01:22:08and his wife, actress Sharon Tate.
01:22:11Tate starred in the film Valley of the Dolls.
01:22:14Polanski was working in London that summer
01:22:16and asked friends to stay with Sharon.
01:22:19Manson wanted to commit some shocking murders.
01:22:23Charles Manson sent family members
01:22:26Tex Watson, Susan Atkins, Patricia Kranwinkle,
01:22:29and Linda Kasabian on a mission.
01:22:32As they were driving out from Spahn Ranch,
01:22:34he leaned in the car and said,
01:22:36leave a sign, something witchy.
01:22:39In this group, he was God.
01:22:41He was mini-God.
01:22:43He decided who lived, who died.
01:22:45He decided how the murders would take place.
01:22:48The first to die was Stephen Parent,
01:22:51a recent high school grad who was visiting the Gardner.
01:22:54Stephen Parent begged him,
01:22:56please, please don't kill me, please don't do anything,
01:22:59I won't say anything.
01:23:01Watson shot him four times at point-blank range.
01:23:05J.C. Brink, a renowned Hollywood hairstylist, was next.
01:23:10And Watson smashed him in the face with the gun and then shot him.
01:23:16Wojtek Frykowski, a Polish actor and close friend to Polanski,
01:23:20was stabbed 51 times and shot twice.
01:23:24His head was partially caved in by the butt of a gun.
01:23:27Watson then went over to help Patricia Krenwinkel stab Abigail Folger.
01:23:35Abigail Folger, heiress to the Folger coffee fortune,
01:23:39led to death.
01:23:40The result of 28 stab wounds.
01:23:43And after they took care of her,
01:23:45Watson went back in the residence.
01:23:48Susan Adkins had Sharon Tate at knife point.
01:23:52Sharon was eight months pregnant.
01:23:54Sharon was crying and begging and pleading.
01:23:58She said, look, please, please don't hurt me.
01:24:01All I want to do is have my baby.
01:24:03Please let me have my baby.
01:24:04Sharon Tate had 16 stab wounds.
01:24:07And of those 16 stab wounds,
01:24:09only three of the stab wounds were considered fatal.
01:24:12Just simply one where the person was just stabbing indiscriminately.
01:24:17Sharon's blood was found smeared on the front door,
01:24:20spelling out the word pig.
01:24:22One common element in anybody that commits these types of crimes
01:24:26is to shock people, to shock the community,
01:24:31to create a sense of terror,
01:24:35and that somehow embraces them, makes them feel powerful.
01:24:40Manson hoped to spark a race war
01:24:43and then rule over the post-apocalyptic world himself.
01:24:47Charlie Manson's helter-skelter was a war
01:24:50that the Manson family were going to start
01:24:52between the blacks and the whites.
01:24:54Manson was going to jumpstart this war
01:24:56by making it appear like black people had done these murders.
01:25:00The next night, members of the family found two more victims,
01:25:03a Los Angeles couple, the LaBiancas.
01:25:07The LaBianca killings the next night
01:25:09was, again, I believe, a matter of convenience to kill them.
01:25:14It was just by chance, simply by chance.
01:25:18The killers used a fork to carve war into one of the bodies.
01:25:23The city of Los Angeles was in a state of shock.
01:25:27People started locking their doors, locking their windows.
01:25:29That was the only subject people were talking about
01:25:32was these mass murderers who were out there
01:25:34killing and brutalizing people.
01:25:37It was a completely random situation,
01:25:40which is why it was so scary.
01:25:42It's why all of L.A. went crazy then,
01:25:44because it was like, oh my gosh,
01:25:45who would kill these people, and in such a brutal way?
01:25:49Loose talk by several Manson family members
01:25:52led to their eventual arrest.
01:25:54On January 15, 1971,
01:25:58a jury found Charles Manson, Patricia Krenwinkel,
01:26:01Susan Atkins, and Leslie Van Houten
01:26:03each guilty of murder and conspiracy to commit murder.
01:26:07Charles Tex Watson was found guilty of the same crimes
01:26:10at a later trial.
01:26:12One of the most famous misconceptions
01:26:14about this group of murders
01:26:16is that Charlie Manson had blood on his hands,
01:26:18and it's not true.
01:26:20Charlie Manson never actually killed anyone
01:26:22of those seven victims.
01:26:23Charles Manson has been up for parole ten times.
01:26:27Each time, he's been denied.
01:26:30Over the past three decades,
01:26:33Charles Manson has become almost a symbol
01:26:36of what ultimate darkness and evil represent.
01:26:40These aren't people you would have initially thought of
01:26:43to be such cold-blooded murderers.
01:26:46That in itself is pretty darn scary.
01:26:53These are the people we know.
01:26:55The famous, the beautiful, the powerful.
01:26:59Gone, but never forgotten.
01:27:02We are rolling!
01:27:03In a town of a thousand manufactured deaths,
01:27:06it is the real stories of tragedy
01:27:09that grip us still.
01:27:13The AUDIO
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