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rabbit hole with this story. My brain has turned to mush. I never wanna talk about
Charles Manson ever again. Ever again. There are so many layers
to this **** story. There is so much to this story. I am so. (laughs) I felt like I was losing
my mind at some points, but I'm here. So, I don't know how
long this is gonna be. I'm gonna try and keep it short because editing is a *****. But I did like simplify
it as much as I could. There's a lot of names that
are gonna be thrown your way. So get ready. Get ready to catch 'em. You get it. I had to simplify it a little bit as best as I could without
losing the overall story. Charles Manson, here we go. Charles Maddox was born
November 12th, 1934. So he's a Scorpio. In Cincinnati, Ohio to his
mother, Kathleen Maddox who was just 15 at the time of his birth. Charles wouldn't have a relationship with his biological father. His mother, Kathleen, she
ended up marrying a man by the name of William Manson. About four months before
she gave birth to Charles. So Charles took the name Manson. Then when the couple separated in 1937, Charles kept the last name. Tarnished that name. That's for sure. As a way to make money,
Kathleen worked as a sex worker and participated in petty crimes. It was said that Charles' mother wanted nothing to do with him. That at one point when he was a baby, his mom tried to sell him,
as a baby, to a waitress in return for a pitcher of beer. To some people that's
considered a fair trade. In 1939, Kathleen was sent
to prison for five years for armed robbery. And during this time, Charles, was sent to live with his aunt
and uncle in West Virginia. If I call him Charlie and Charles, just know it's the same person, whatever. Charlie seemed to bounce around a lot. He didn't really have a stable home but he would visit his off the grid uncle who lived in the Kentucky
Mountains from time to time. This uncle seemed to have
like a lasting impression on Charles, okay. This uncle, he was an outcast and would tell Charles
not to go to those schools because they brainwash kids and stuff. You know, that uncle. But Charlie said that he really liked him. He was different. He was off the grid man. When Charlie was nine, he tried
to set his school on fire. And that's when they sent
him to reform school. Between 1942 and 1947, Charles mom, she was out of prison and he would stay with her, which he said was like
one of the happiest times from his childhood. Then she couldn't and she
wouldn't take care of him anymore. And then she was arrested again. She wasn't able to put
him in a foster home. So the court stepped in and placed him in a school
for boys in Indiana. The school was very strict
and often abused the boys. And after about 10 months,
he ran away to find his mom. But she really wanted
nothing to do with him. And when Charles found her, she was like, s**t, you found me, **** it. So as you can probably gather
pretty loveless childhood. Okay, great. He spent a lot of his childhood in different schools for boys. He went to the famous Boys Town which we could do like a whole
story on this place alone. Okay. But not today. But he went there. And Charles would run away, he would commit a robbery. Then he would be some back, he would go a different
school for boys and repeat, like it was just this cycle. Then he got sent to
another terrible place. It was the Indiana Boys School where Charles said that
he would be beat and r***d by people in charge. He was heavily abused throughout
these schools he attended. He tried to run away here, but same thing. He would run away, commit a
crime like armed robbery, theft, he robbed a gas station, he was caught a couple
of times trying to r**e or m****t boys. Then he would get arrested and get sent back to a different school. It was just like a hot mess. When Charles reached 20 years old in 1955, he married a 17 year
old waitress named Rose. Not long after she was pregnant. The two of them stole a car
and drove to Los Angeles. When he was there, he was caught and he was sentenced
to three years in prison. While Charlie sat in prison,
Rose, she had her baby she moved in with her
family in Los Angeles. Then she met another man and moved on. And they separated. Charles Manson had a baby. Which is super sad
'cause later on in life, I think he committed s*****e. So when Charlie got out of
prison, he just found odd jobs. Like p*****g 16 year olds,
stealing cars, forging checks, stealing where he could. He ended up getting
another 10 year sentence for violating his probation. This time though he would only
serve seven and a half years. So this time though,
when he was in prison, he learned how to play guitar. And that's when he like started to become really into playing music. Music is my passion. Prison was rough, but it
was like a home to Charlie. And he was raised in there. And it's really where he
formed his outlook on life. I mean, based off of what he said. He refused to be programmed by the world or go along with the expectations of what was considered being
a functioning normal adult. Instead he would just
sit in his jail cell, play his guitar, and write music. That's not me trying to make him sound all peaches and cream, nay-nay. Rumor has it, prison, is like super rough and you don't play around there, okay? There are rules to be followed. So growing up in prison and being in constant
fight or flight mode, I think just really like main
and freaking psycho, I'm sure. I mean, how do you come out
normal in this situation. In 1967, Charles was released from prison and he actually asked if he could stay. He didn't wanna go. I mean, what the heck was he gonna do? But this time when he left prison, it was actually a lot
different for him, okay? He was in San Francisco in the mid 1960s. Babe, things had changed. Things had changed. It was the time of the flower child. Hippies were thriving in the Haight-Ashbury
District of San Francisco. Tons of young adults were
coming from all over the place, just coming out to the area to
advocate for peace and love, grow their hair out long, join a commune, and just like go on a
spiritual journey man. But then LSD was introduced to the scene. And now people were not only going on their spiritual journeys, but they were just
straight up tripping balls. That's when it starts
to turn more aggressive. Because drugs and money and there was just like
lots of journeys happening. Anywho. So Charles enters the scene,
and he actually liked this because these people were
all about peace and love, we don't need the system,
sleep on the streets, play music, do drugs. He had long hair and a guitar. It was just like Charles' cup of tea. He fit right in. He would play music on the streets. People would gather around. Anyone who met him said that he had this charisma about him. He just knew how to talk to people and make them feel special,
important, and like, heard. So Charles, he really just
started making friends. One of his first followers
was Lynette Fromme. And she met Charlie early on and said that he was just easy to talk to, and his mind just really intrigued her. Then soon after that,
he met Pat Krenwinkel at a mutual friend's house. Charlie was there playing guitar, people came over to hang out. And Pat and Charlie ended up
like really hitting it off and involving in some sexual relations. She said that she just
felt very loved by him, the way he gave her
attention was fulfilling, she was young. She ran away from home. She was desperate for love and attention. And Charlie just gave that to her. And he seemed to do that with
a lot of different women. So Charlie also had a man named Tex Watson who joined the growing family. A way to get a man to stay with the group and join in on the fun. Charlie would offer women to the men, in hopes to gain their
trust and get them to stay. Charlie would like round up more women, sell, trade them for sex. He was really good at manipulating people. And he mentioned that it's
just something he learned or like picked up in prison. The prettiest girls, he
called the front street girls. And these were the ones that he thought were the most
attractive out of the bunch and would lure others to join their group. Like, hey, you should come
meet my friend, Charlie. He's super cool. And like, you would really love it. And then we can like do stuff, ah. Over time, Charles was
attracting more and more people into his group or what
he called his family. He gained their trust, gave them drugs, had sex, played music. It was just like somewhere all
the lost kids wanted to be. Most of the followers left home. They had like nothing to their name, in search of a new life,
anti-system, peace and love. So finding a family of
people with similar interests really kept people there. I think that's how a cult starts. In the summer of 1967, Charles and his family,
they left San Francisco. Got too much. They left San Francisco in a bus and they drove up and down the coast. Just going from place to place, which kept everybody entertained. You know, they weren't getting bored, 'cause it was like new location, cool. Haven't seen this rock before. Eventually they made it to Los Angeles where they spent most of their time. Plus Charlie really wanted to
like make a name for himself playing music. In March of 1968, two
of the family members. Two of the girls, they were walking along Sunset
Boulevard in Los Angeles. I don't know what was going
on, like what they were doing. Maybe they were trying to
find new family members. But either way, they're just walking. And they're hitchhiking, 'cause they're tryna find a ride to where they were all staying at. And Dennis Wilson ends up picking them up. He's from The Beach Boys, who
were a very popular group, still pretty popular, right? You hear The Beach Boys
everywhere sometimes. Especially like when you're shopping, they always had The Beach Boys playing. But they were very popular. So yet like yeah, small world. But he picks these two women up, who belonged to the Manson Family. To make a long story short, the women tell him about the
man that they're staying with, a spiritual guru of some sorts, you know? Spiritual guru his name is Charlie. You should meet him. And then Charles actually
ends up going over to Dennis Wilson's home. They really seem to hit it off. I mean, they became like BFFs. Okay, so then they end up spending like more and more time together. And then soon the whole Manson
Family ended up moving in with Dennis Wilson and
like his nice *** place. They are living with him,
doing drugs, playing music, writing music, recording music together. It seemed like Charles Manson was on his way to becoming a Beach Boy. Dennis Wilson really wanted
him to be a part of the group. But some of the other Beach Boys, they just didn't like him. They refused to work with him. Some members of The Beach
Boys were telling Dennis like, hey you need to get rid of
this guy, like, he's not good, we're just getting all sorts of bad vibes, you need to drop him. All he wants to do is party, do drugs, like he's just not good for you. The Manson Family ends
up getting kicked out of Dennis' house. And they ended up cutting
ties with one another. It's more complicated than that. But for the most part,
that is what happened. The Beach Boys song, the
"Bluebirds over the Mountain," was originally a song written by Manson, that The Beach Boys recorded and didn't credit him on. (chuckles) But Charles says that was his song, okay? And they didn't credit him on it. So Charles is ****** obviously. While they were living together, Charlie met a well-known music
producer named Terry Melcher. Charles knew that this
producer had altered his music and honestly just hated him. He hated Charlie. Because he just didn't
like him, they had issues. And then he ended up stealing
his music, and altering it, and using it and not crediting him. So Charlie is obviously very ****** off, and held a very nasty grudge
against this producer. And there really wasn't
anything he could do about it. Terry is important. So remember Terry. August of 1968, Susan Atkins who was like a time family
member at this point, found the family, a new home. It was an old Western movie set which had been turned
into a writing stable. It was owned at the time by
an 80 year old half blind man named George Spahn. So they find this place, they
think it's perfect, great. The whole gang moved in. Great location for a cult, honestly. So soon after a woman by the
name of Leslie Van Houten she joined the family, and they all stayed in that
old torn down movie set, Spahn Ranch. It was said to be all
like fun and innocent, they spent time play acting movie roles. Kind of like summer
camp with your friends. So it was said when they were there, it was like time didn't exist. There was no time. They were all just living
in the moment. The now. They would pretend
every day was Halloween, and they would dress up in
costumes, play different roles, and it was just a way for
them to get out of themselves. Let their ego go and their worldviews. And by removing their egos,
it would allow Charlie in and change their views on the world. Charlie would tell family
members that society was corrupt and that they needed to forget everything they've ever learned. If I can talk. (laughs) Charlie would tell them that
like he was the noble one, the one with all the answers,
and only he knew the truth. So the family, they would
drop acid all the time and they would do different
exercises together while tripping balls, you know? He would make everyone sit
around like in a circle, and he would be in the middle and he would have everybody focus on him. He was the focal point. He would also tell them
to get rid of their past, forget their mothers and fathers. and that they needed to
die in order to be rebuilt. Some of the members said that
it's funny, we can laugh, but it's not funny, well, it's funny. Because some of the members said that like he even
reenacted the crucifixion while they were on LSD. And because they were
tripping, it was like, oh my God, Jesus is melting. That's Jesus, bro. So this group they're cut off from society in the middle of nowhere,
doing drugs every day, with the same people,
brainwashing seemed to happen. Charles, his philosophy
was the notion of oneness, and the power of love. But over time, he got
more and more paranoid. His messaging would become darker. There was no right or wrong in life, death and life were the same thing. Not to fear it. Death was actually a
welcoming to a better life. This is what he's telling them. It was said, it got to a point where like Charlie stopped letting anybody leave the compound without his permission. They weren't allowed
to listen to any music except for The Beatles, The Moody Blues, or Charles' his own music. Like I mentioned in last Monday's upload, in 1966, there was like a
bunch of riots going on, protesting against the war in Vietnam. So Charlie was following this but wouldn't allow his members to know about what was going on. But he seemed to be becoming paranoid that there was going to be
a race war happening soon. Now this is where things get tricky, and people have different
versions for what happened next. There's the "Helter Skelter"
version, which I'll explain. And then there's like the
drug deal gone wrong version, that I personally think
is what really happened. I don't think the "Helter
Skelter" doomsday cult thing was a thing. I'll explain. I know, controversial. Oh my God. So July 1969, one of
the followers was Tex. His name was Tex. Remember? Okay, cool. So he was also a drug dealer
while living on the ranch. It was said that Tex went to go to a deal with another dealer named
Bernard Crowe in Los Angeles. Tex was buying a lot
of drugs from the guy, like $1,200 worth. Tex didn't have all of the
money, but he told Bernard, hey, I'll take the drugs
get the rest of your money and then come back and pay you. 'Cause you know, that always works. Bernard was like, how do I
know you're gonna come back? And Tex was like, here's my girlfriend. I'll have her stay with you. She'll stay here with you as collateral. He agrees. And then Tex takes off. Tex never comes back. Yeah, I know what a ******. So his girlfriend is probably like, yeah, don't worry he's coming back, he's a man of his word, he
would never just leave me here. And then like 12 hours go by. And she's like, yeah, maybe he
got sidetracked or something, he loves me, he's coming back. He's not coming back is he? No? Okay. So some time passes. Bernard still has the
girlfriend hostage, mind you. And then he calls up Tex. Now Tex, his real name was also Charles. But everyone called him Tex. So Bernard calls on the number
to reach Tex at the compound or whatever Bernard asks for Charles, because he means Tex. But it was actually Charles Manson that was on the other end, yeah. So Bernard is like, I want
my money, where's my money. Bernard then said that if
he didn't get his money he was going to burn down the
ranch and r**e all his women. So Charles Manson then
decides to take matters into his own hand. He goes down to meet
with Bernard walks in. They fight, Charles shoots
him, Charles grabs the girl. And then he leaves him behind,
Bernard actually survives. But Charlie doesn't know
that, he thinks he's dead. Charlie starts to get really paranoid because he believed that Bernard belonged to
the group Black Panthers. And that they were going to come after him and his family for what he did. I mean, this guy, Bernard was
like a big wig drug dealer. Once someone got word, it was like, it was gonna be over for him. So Charlie starts warning
the family members that the Black Panthers
are going to kill them. And that they need to learn
how to fend for themselves. But he's just getting really paranoid, and hopes that nobody
finds out what he did. He decides that he needs
to get the family members to commit crimes, and
then make them complicit in the crimes that he had committed. I feel like criminals always
over-complicate things. That's just a personal opinion though. But I feel like it's very true. Due to his growing paranoia, that the black Panther
group was coming after him, Charles enlisted a motorcycle gang called The Straight Satans for
protection over the compound. In exchange for protection,
Charlie promised him or them, all the girls they wanted. Here's where I'm gonna
throw some names at you, but it's fine, just follow it. So one day the biker guys wanted drugs. They wanna do some drugs. And one of the family
members his name was Bobby. He said that there was
a guy named Gary Hinman who would be able to supply
them with some goods. So the biker guys give Bobby some money and he goes and he gets drugs from Gary. So the biker guys, they do the drugs. Afterwards, they're ******. They're because the guys
from The Straight Satans, said the drugs were bad and
they wanted their money back for being ripped off. These guys were growing
more and more angry threatening to kill people if they didn't get their money back. So Charlie told Bobby and
two other family members, Mary Brunner and Susan
Atkins to go with Bobby and get the money back from Gary Hinman because he didn't want any
problems with the biker guys. Like you didn't wanna
be on their bad side. Charlie already believed that the Black Panthers were after him. He didn't want The Straight
Satans after him either. So the three of them head out and when they get to Gary's house, they have like a gun and
stuff, they're threatened him. They're like we want our money back, the drugs were fake, whatever. Gary refused to give them
the money back saying that the drugs were good. And he didn't even have the money, 'cause he already spent it. And then things seem to escalade. Escalade. Things escalated. And then Bobby, Mary, and
Susan stayed at Gary's house for like two days. They had him tied up. They're trying to reason
with him to give up the money or give them something valuable that he could give to The Straight Satans in lieu of the money. At some point there was
like a bit of a struggle that happened. And one of the girls ends
up calling Charlie Manson to let him know that
Gary wasn't cooperating. And then Charles was like,
okay, I'll be right there. Bobby regained control. And then soon after Gary
agreed to sign over his cars, which were worth about a thousand dollars. He could use the cars
in lieu of the money. So they're making this agreement, cool. Then, this sounds like a
cheesy movie, but this is yes. Then Charlie comes
busting through the door. He has a Confederate knife,
busted through the door, cut Gary across the face,
starts threatening him. Bobby was like, okay, that was
really unnecessary, you know? But what do we do now? We can't just let him go. He'll rat us out. Bobby ends up killing Gary, because that was really his only option. So he takes the knife
and he just kills Gary. So before leaving Gary's house, Bobby wrote on the walls in Gary's blood. He drew a Black Panther paw print, along with the words, "Political piggy." And he did this because
it was recommended to him by Charles Manson because he wanted to
throw off investigators and make them believe that the murder was related to the Black Panthers, tying back to the Bernard Crowe shooting. Like maybe they would
tie those two together. Not long after though Bobby,
was pulled over and arrested in one of Gary's cars. And he was being charged
with the murdie... (Bailey laughs) He was being charged for
the murder of Gary Hinman because he did it, yeah, you know? So yeah, it makes sense. Bobby was a family member though, okay? The group stood up for
their family members. So when he was arrested, Charlie started getting really paranoid that things were gonna lead back to him. He knew that they had to get Bobby out. So the group decided to kill again. They would stage it to
look like a copycat murder, leading investigators to believe whoever did it, also probably committed the Gary Hinman murder, which meant Bobby wasn't
involved because he was in jail. So it would make them think
that they had the wrong guy and then Bobby would be set free. Flawless plan. Totally makes sense. Nobody will know. Again, criminals always
over-complicate things, but this is what they're thinking. So back at Spahn Ranch, Charlie and Tex, they were like trying
to come up with a plan. Who do we hate that we can kill and create like this copycat scene? Hmm. Terry Melcher. Remember? The music producer. Yeah. So Charlie had been to
Terry's home at one point when they were living with The Beach Boy. So he knew where Terry lived. August 9th, 1969, in a big old house on
Cielo Drive in Los Angeles, is where actress Sharon Tate,
who was eight months pregnant. And her movie director,
husband, Roman Polanski, were renting Terry Melcher's home. Talk about wrong place, wrong **** time. Now on this night, Roman was in the UK and Sharon was at home with her friends having like a little get
together, just hanging out. Along with Sharon was her
ex-boyfriend or fiance, and friend hairstylist, Jay Sebring. Iconic hairstylist. Also coffee heiress
Abigail Folger was there. Yeah, "Folgers In Your Cup" queen. Yeah, she's there. Abigail's boyfriend was also
there, Wojciech Frykowski. He was there too. There was also a man named Steven Parent, who was visiting the home,
taking care of the property. So the family members,
Tex, Pat, Linda and Susan, get into the car and they
drive out to the home. Charles tells them to do
everything that Tex says but doesn't tell them like
what it is they're doing. Except for Tex, he's
the only one that knows. When they arrive late at night, Tex went onto the property first, that's when he came across Steven Parent, who was like literally in his car. Like it looked like, he just
put the keys in or something, 'cause he was about to leave and go home. Poor Steven. He was shot by Tex four times. So then after that Tex
goes back to the car and told the girls like,
come on, come with me, we're going inside down. Tex was able to get into the
house through an unlocked door and let the others in. And then in the living room, Tex was trying to deal with Jay Sebring, who he came across first. And he had him on the floor, he was trying to tie him up. Tex, asked Susan to go
and check the back rooms and like bring everyone
into the living room. So Tex and Jay are in the living room and they're starting to fight because Jay's trying to run away, escape. But sadly Tex shot him and killed him. It was said that Tex was the
one who killed most that night. But like they all participated
in their own ways. It was just a really gruesome scene. There was blood everywhere. Everyone was brutally murdered. It was just horrifying. Then in Sharon Tate's blood there was the word pig
written on the front door. They were trying to tie it
back to the previous murder. In total, the victims had
been stabbed 102 times. And they had gunshot wounds. So it was like a little much. Like they're dead. We get it. Now many believe that this was some kind of satanic ritual type of killing. And when the media got ahold
of it, it was a massive story. Hollywood was terrified. Celebrities were thinking that like someone was gonna come to them and killed them next. It's believed Charlie had
the family members involved in the Tate murders to prevent them from talking to police about the Bernard and Garry murder, 'cause now their hands were dirty too. So they were hoping that
back at the crime scene the police would be making the connection between the two murders. Unfortunately, the police
never made that connection. They didn't connect the twos. So great plan. Worked great. So the next night, another murder was in the works. This time, it would be at the home of a grocery company executive
named Leno and his wife, Rosemary LaBianca. Now this was being like
a very different section of Los Angeles. This night though, Leslie van Houghton. She went along, to like
prove her loyalty to Charlie and the family. She said that before going, she knew people were gonna die, but she like wanted to prove herself. Charlie, Leslie, Pat, Tex, Linda and Susan all crammed into a car. And he drove around for a
while before they stopped at the house that they
were gonna hit next. Charles went in first and tied up the LaBiancas then he left. So the rest of the gang they came in, they're struggling with the LaBiancas. The two girls were going
to kill the LaBiancas. But I think they chickened out and they asked Tex to come in, kill them. So he killed the husband and wife. And then the girls took
the knives and stabbed them and like cut them up and
carved in their body, because Tex said that they
needed to do something. Again, it was a pretty
brutal and awful scene. Anything bad you can
imagine, that was it okay? That was the scene. It was not nice. The LaBiancas, had been
stabbed a total of 67 times. Once again, they used their blood and they wrote death to pigs, rise, and "Helter Skelter" on
the walls and the fridge. "Helter Skelter," which they
spelled wrong first of all, great, was referencing the
Beatles song "Helter Skelter" from the "White Album." The only thing that they
were allowed to listen to on Spahn Ranch Charles believed the music,
incited a race war and murder. Because The Beatles were huge, they thought that investigators
would make this connection because they are trying to make it look like a copycat murder. So they wrote in the blood again, they'll connect it with
the Sharon Tate ones, Sharon Tate connects to the Gary ones, Gary one leads back to the drug dealer. So it was said that the
reason they killed again was because they didn't realize that the Tate murders were
going to become so big, 'cause it wasn't supposed to. It was just supposed to
be Terry Melcher there. But it was all over the news and everybody was talking about it. And that wasn't the plan. So they needed to hit again. The reason that Charlie
picked the LaBianca's home because it may seem super
random, but it wasn't random. Not at all. Nay-nay. Like mentioned earlier,
Charlie, he held a grudge and he never forgot
when you did him wrong. The LaBianca's they lived next door to a guy named Harold True. We don't need to know
him, but he was there. Harold was a friend to
Charlie and the family. They actually stayed at Harold's
house for a bit of time. The family, again, they like
moved in to Harold's house, and were living there for some time. But I guess they were
causing a bit of a ruckus. And the neighbors called the cops, which led to Charlie and the
family having to move out. Who were the neighbors? The LaBiancas of course. That's why he decided
to kill them that night because he remembered that. And because they needed
another copycat murder. Also Charlie remembered that
the LaBiancas liked to gamble and had lots of money, money that he needed to pay
back The Straight Satans. That's his plan. So over the years, Charlie had said that like he was never
there at the LaBiancas in interviews and whatnot. But everyone said he was the one who drove to the LaBianca house, and that he went in for a
bit, for a period of time. While inside, after
tying the LaBiancas up, Charlie went and grabbed
Rosemary LaBianca's wallet then waited for the gang back in the car. Once the murders were complete, Charlie then took them to
a house in Venice beach which was right next to The
Straight Satans clubhouse. Mind you, it was like 4:00 AM. And there's many speculation
as to why they went there. Some say it was to commit another murder but many believe it was actually
because Charlie went there to give The Straight Satans the money owed and regain their protection
over Spahn Ranch. Which makes sense, because he just got the
money from the LaBiancas. Back at Spahn Ranch, there was a ranch hand named Donald Shea who was a Hollywood stuntman actor, but also helped out around the ranch. Now he didn't like the family. He thought they were trying
or they were taking advantage of the old man who owned it. And on August 16th, 1969, 26 members of the family were arrested on suspicion of auto theft. It didn't last long though due to like some paperwork
errors, they were all released. But because of this, Charlie thought that
the ranch hand Donald, tip them off to police. And when they got back
to the ranch, Donald Shea was never seen again, just vanished. ****, gone. So now that they're on police's radar, they wanted somewhere else to live. And the group ends up
moving to Barker Ranch in Death Valley, which was like an old mining property that was pretty cut off from the world. So they were there for a bit. Then on October 12th 1969, officers raided the Barker Ranch on suspicion of auto theft, again. 24 members were arrested this time. Now they didn't even know that these people were involved
with the murders going on, they were just there and
you know, auto theft, you're arrested auto theft, let's go. Now this time though, while in jail, one of the family members,
Susan Atkins, she blabbed, she told her cellmates that she and the family were involved with the murder of Sharon Tate. I don't know why I'm whispering, but I am. She was kind of bragging about it. Like, oh, you're looking at her. I'm the one who was involved
based off interviews with the cellmate. Yes, I would like went down a rabbit hole. Anyway, the cellmate tells
investigators this information because hello, I want a lesser sentence. I'm gonna rat on you, which they did. And this, my friends is where
it all just falls apart. Goodbye. December, 1969, four
months after the crimes. Oh, a lot of things
happened in between here but it's like nothing that
really makes a difference. It's just B.S. Charles Manson and five
members were being charged with the Tate and LaBianca murders. In June 15th 1970, the trial starts. Charles, Charlie, Mr. Manson. He asked for permission to
serve as his own attorney, but he was denied. They should have let him,
no they shouldn't have. He was denied. Susan Atkins gave a testimony
and described in great detail. What happened the night
of the Tate murders. She had like little to no emotion and showed not a lot of remorse. It was very awkward. They didn't wanna use her as a witness because they thought it wouldn't help the "Helter Skelter" story that prosecutors were going to focus on, which we will get into. So they ended up not using her. They like you're a bad
look, get out of here. Now the main problem
was that Charles Manson was not at the murder scene
during the Tate murders and did not participate
in the LaBianca murders. So they had to get him with
circumstantial evidence. And by the law of conspiracy. I know, confusing. They didn't have any proof
that he did a **** thing. So prosecutors, had to get creative and come up with a storyline that would convict Charles Manson. Now Hollywood was going
crazy over this trial. And day after day, Charlie
would come into court. All of this was like
being filmed for TV news, he would just spew some wild ****. He was playing to the courtroom. He knew it was a circus
and he was feeding into it. Charlie would have like constant
stare offs with the camera, because he knew that people would be like, oh my God, what a fricking weirdo. And then he would also do
it to the jury members. He would just stare at the jury and then it just made them
feel extremely uncomfortable. He was just aggressive,
intimidating, and very strange. But the media was loving it. They're like, oh, this is just bizarre. We're in. So every day Charles Manson, and the three girls they would
meet and they would discuss like what they were gonna
do in court that day. For example, one day he
wanted them all to stand up and hold hands in some symbols. Another day he wanted
them to get up and scream. Or he wanted them to sing his songs, when they were walking into court. It is creepy. It is weird. And I think he just loved that. It was just a weird performance
that nobody asked for. So the rest of the Manson Family members were banned from court proceedings
for disrupting the court. So they moved out to the hallways and they also kept a vigil
outside to show their support. Charles carved an X into
his forehead at one point to symbolize his removal from society. And in the three girls
did the same as well. Eventually down the line, he turned that X into a swastika. So that's great, he seems like
a real hoot of a guy, wow. So again, TV news went wild. Everyone went wild. Girls gone wild. It was just all wild. So here's where the "Helter
Skelter" story came into play and is what Charles Manson is
really remembered by nowadays. They go hand in hand. The prosecutor, his name
is Vincent Bugliosi, whatever the hell. Now Vincent was said to be
a very great prosecutor. He was a known womanizer
and he loved attention. He brought in another guy with him during the court proceedings, who everyone thought was like
his assistant or extra help, but really, the guy was there to help Vincent write a book on the case. Which he didn't mention to
anyone 'til after the fact. So he brings in the guy,
the guy is taking notes, gonna help him write a book. The "Helter Skelter" story
that was presented in court, was that Charles Manson formed a cult filled with people who didn't
want to be a part of society. Okay? Facts. Charles wanted to be a rock star. He was obsessed with the
Beatles, The Beach Boys. Through The Beach Boys is how
he came to meet Terry Melcher, who stole his music and represented the
establishment to Charlie. Charlie hated the establishment. He believed that The Beatles
were predicting a race war through hidden messages in their songs, and he needed to prepare
for this race war. Charles brainwashed his members in believing that there was a
race war about to take place, order them to kill Gary Hinman, then ordered them to kill white people and frame black people,
by telling his followers to kill whoever lived at Terry's house. Then Charles picked another
house at random to attack, the LaBiancas, and ordered
everyone to be killed. The plot was to frame black people by having his followers leave messages and lines from The Beatles' "White Album" at the crime scene. This would then lead to a race war. Once the race war started, Charles and his family
would hide in the desert until it was over. Then Charles would come out of hiding and become leader of the black
army and rebuild the world. This in summary, is the
story that convicted Charles and gained Vincent fame and fortune, for selling his bestselling
book, "Helter Skelter." But we'll get into that too. This whole story was created which I think there are bits
and pieces correct in there, like Charles Manson, do not be mistaken, he was super freaking
racist, disturbed man. This reason as to why Charles
Manson committed these crimes, made for a shocking story. But most of all, it set Charles
up for first-degree murder and conspiracy under California law. Without the "Helter Skelter" storyline, there was no evidence that Charles wanted to make these murders happen or even participated in them. So the only way to get him convicted was by enhancing what happened. Charlie's plan to start a race war would make him responsible
for all crimes committed. If the prosecution mentioned
to the court the auto thefts, the drugs, the ****, "Barnard killing" then the "Helter Skelter
story or whatever. It just wouldn't make sense. So they didn't even introduce any of that. They didn't even try to explain the whole Garry killing either. They really didn't, because
how does that fit in with the doomsday cult mentality? It didn't. Which in court could
lead to reasonable doubt. Possibly leaving jurors to think, hmm, maybe it had to do
with a drug deal gone bad and not a cult. Maybe Charlie technically
didn't do anything. And the prosecution did not want that. Their job was to get Charlie arrested. Plus he is a danger to society. So they needed to go like, how do we make sure he gets locked up? So this whole story just blew up. Everybody was talking
about "Helter Skelter," how terrifying it all was. And then that became the
story that really defined this whole, everything Charles Manson. And many believe that it
really wasn't even true. The court hearings were a hot mess, I'm just gonna glaze over
it, they were a hot mess. In the end though, on March 29th, Charlie was charged with seven counts of first-degree murder, and one count of
conspiracy to commit murder for the deaths of Abigail,
Wojciech, Steve, Sharon, Jay, Leno and his wife, Rosemary. Guilty, goodbye. Pat, Leslie, and Susan, they
were also charged with murder and the jury had called
for the death penalty for all four defendants. The three girls were like,
I'm not trying to say, that there wasn't like
brainwashing happening and a cult mentality. Charlie's followers were
like ride or die for him. These girls were like loyal to him. They were like, he is everything to us. And they just did everything that he said. I just don't want that to get lost, because I think that's very true. So they go to prison goodbye. Now in 1972, The Supreme Court
overturned the death penalty. So sentences were turned
into life imprisonment. Charlie said at the end of the trial, all they really accomplished, was sending him right
back to where he started. And he really wasn't wrong there. Now throughout the years, most
of them have done interviews behind prison walls or whatever. Where they have showed great
remorse for what they've done. Except for that one girl,
she was like really weird. Who was it Susan? I think it was Susan. I think as they got older, they just kinda came to their senses. Not so much, Charlie though. He never, never, owned up to his part in the choices that they made. He would say over and over
again until his dying day that he never told them what to do, that they made their choices on their own, and he had nothing to do with any of it. And I think that's why Charles
Manson remains so infamous because he never actually did anything. He got these other people to
commit the crimes for him. He never got his hands dirty. But he did shoot the Bernard guy. So he did technically, sorry. Also the whole like "Helter
Skelter" doomsday cult story added to it. People just love cults. So it just took him to this
iconic infamous being, I guess. In 1974, Vincent
Buglogloie, the prosecutor, well, he was now an author, because he released his
book "Helter Skelter," which was based off of the Manson case. And it became the best selling
true crime book in hi-story. History. Selling over 7 million copies. So it brought him great success. Vincent was just riding the wave. A lot more things happened but this video is already super long. So yeah, but everyone remained. And some still, to this
day, remain in prison. Leslie van Houten, she was
sentenced to life in prison. She's 68 now and she's been
denied parole numerous times. Susan Atkins died in prison
of brain cancer in 2009. Pat Krenwinkel, is now
73 and still in prison. She's been denied parole
numerous times as well. Tex Watson. Tex was like the most f****d
up out of all of them, okay? Like he was really crazy, but he's 75 now. And he's still in prison. He's been denied parole
numerous times as well. But he has become a born again Christian and runs a Christian
outreach site from prison. Linda Kasabian, I didn't really
talk about her that much, but she was involved. I'm assuming that she came from money because she got a good attorney, okay? She was charged with nothing. She was there the night of the
Tate murders as the lookout. And then she also helped like clean and dispose of the weapons and whatnot. But she was charged with nothing, because she was considered a star witness for the prosecutor's case
against Charles Manson. She told them everything they wanted. And then afterwards she disappeared, changed her name, she was like, bye. Linda's done a couple of interviews since this whole thing,
like later in life. And you can find them on YouTube. And her face is always like blacked out, 'cause she doesn't want anyone
to know what she looks like. She kind of has meth face. And that's not me trying to be a dick. I don't really blame her for doing meth. Like, come on, just tell your truth. It's been a hundred years. Bobby, remember Bobby
in the very beginning? He killed Gary Hinman. He's 71 now, and he's still in prison. Yeah, he was convicted for
murder for killing Gary, so he's still in prison. Another family member, Steve Grogan. We didn't talk about him, but he was charged for
the murder of Donald Shea. The Spahn Ranch hand that went missing. Yeah. Well, Steve was charged, but Steve was granted parole
after serving 15 years for Donald's murder. He was allowed his freedom
after telling authorities where Donald's body had been disposed. Lucky him, I guess, you know? Charles Manson remained behind
bars until the age of 83. And then he died on November
19th, 2017 in prison. Oh my God, not long after his birthday. Like a full circle. But he had a heart attack
or something, I don't know. He needed to go. Goodbye. He was just (sighs) exhausting. I watched so many
interviews with this dude. He just talks in circles but people find him
absolutely fascinating. He says nothing really. He just talks. I couldn't take it anymore. Charles Manson wasn't a
god or Jesus-like figure. He was just an odd little man who was abandoned by his parents, who wanted attention and validation, and was just filled with
hate and did terrible things. Charles Manson has so many
fan girls and guys, or did. I mean, people love the guy. And they believe that he was 100% innocent and didn't need to be in prison. But what I don't think
these morons realize is that maybe he wanted to be in prison. Maybe it was his home. I mean, look what happens when he's out? Nothing good. Like they were fighting so hard for him to be proven innocent. It's like, babe, babe, no. We don't need that, no. There are so many people out
there who idolize this guy. I just will never understand it. It's so bizarre. I've said this before
and I will say it again. Get (claps) better (claps) idols. There are so many great people out there who have done amazing things. Why idolize someone
who's just f*****g weird with a swastika on their forehead? You f*****g morons. I think it is fair to say, that Charles Manson had
a very difficult life and now he's dead. The end. That is a story about Charles Manson. I told the other version,
drug deal gone bad, but there's a lot of people, and a lot of stories and versions
about the "Helter Skelter" where it involves a doomsday cult. After this week of binge-watching
frickin 'everything that had to do a Charles,
I just personally believe that the doomsday cult wasn't the thing. I think it was just a drug deal gone bad. Either way, they needed
something to prosecute him on, and they had to create some
kind of story to get him. Because if they didn't,
then he would have been out and they didn't want that. If they did do that,
is that morally right? I don't know. I'm just someone on YouTube in a box. Anyways, it's still all sad though because they were like really murdered. Like really, really murdered. If you made it all the way
to the end, congratulations, I love you and appreciate
you, you're the best. Wow, you're my best friend. I hope you guys have a
wonderful rest of your day. My voice hurts. I think I lost it. Let me know your thoughts down below and who you want me to
talk about next week. (upbeat music)
But other than that, I hope you have a
wonderful rest of your day. You make good choices. And I'll be seeing you next week. Bye. (upbeat music continues)
& here I just finished reading helter skelter... lol
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Shoutout to neige (and also me, but can I give myself a shoutout? IDK) on the Discord for guessing this week’s case correctly! I’ve been wanting Bailey to cover this case for so long and I can’t wait to hear her thoughts about it. Woo! :)