Inside the Manson Cult: The Lost Tapes (2018) - full transcript

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- Yeah, every girl ought to

have a daddy like Charlie.

Should--deserves to have

a daddy like Charlie.

male narrator: Charles Manson:

Hippie guru,

would-be rock star,

and,

until his death in 2017,

the most notorious

prison inmate in America.

- You can't prove anything.

Now is the only thing

that's real.

narrator: Manson

was the leader of a cult

called The Family.

narrator: They murdered

nine people,

including movie actress

Sharon Tate

in the summer of 1969.

- It was one of the worst

things I've ever seen.

There was blood all over her.

narrator: The murders sent

shockwaves through Hollywood.

- No one was safe.

- Entertainers out there

are hiring bodyguards.

It put the fear of God

in them.

narrator: The court argued

that Manson had brainwashed

his followers

and programmed them to kill.

- They had no idea that where

Manson was leading them

was mayhem and murder.

narrator: But could one man

have this much power?

And if so, how?

For the first time,

we can see how.

Shortly after his arrest,

Manson gave a group

of young filmmakers

led by Robert Hendrickson

exclusive access

inside his cult.

- Scene one, take two, roll 53.

narrator: Hidden away

for decades,

the original footage

has now been found:

More than 100 hours of film,

and with it

reels of unheard audio...

- We've seen Charlie do things

that no human being

has ever done.

Or no human being has...

narrator: And dozens of unseen

photographs.

- No, we've seen miracles.

- This is dynamite information

to have.

Where's it been all these

years, all this stuff?

- Some people

are making a movie.

narrator: Today, former cult

members can see themselves

as they once were.

- Did you ever think

of Sharon Tate's baby?

-I didn't know her.

I never met her.

Anybody watching this

would think I was a monster.

narrator: Never-before-seen

interviews

give us a firsthand view

of the programming process.

- I am Charlie.

And if he dies, I die.

narrator: And long-forgotten

film

provides shocking revelations

about how Manson's

followers lived,

loved...

And ultimately,

how they were turned from

regular, peace-loving kids

into brutal and brainwashed

killers.

-I didn't want to believe

the things I heard.

- I'm ready to die.

- I didn't want to believe

the things I saw.

- They're persecuting

what they can't stand

to look at in themselves:

The truth.

- When somebody

needs to be killed...

There's no wrong.

You do it.

- Bam.

- And you kill whoever

gets in your way.

This is us.

- ♪ Your home is where

you're happy ♪

♪ It's not where

you're not free ♪

narrator: In the hills

above Hollywood, California,

lives a small band

of young men and women

about two dozen in all.

They share a love of music

and each other.

They call themselves

the Family.

- Roll 136.

- All we ever did amounted to

smoking grass

and taking acid

and making love

as much as we could.

If we weren't doing that,

we was leading up to it.

If we weren't leading up

to it, we was doing that.

narrator: The group's leader

is a career criminal

with a rap sheet

containing multiple offenses

from forgery to armed robbery:

32-year-old Charles Manson.

Manson never knew his father.

His mother was a petty thief

who was in and out of jail.

And Manson followed

in her footsteps.

His latest sentence:

a seven-year stretch

for forgery

and breaking parole.

He's released on March 21,

1967.

He heads to California...

and the Summer of Love.

- My name's Peter Coyote.

I'm the last ancient hippie,

and I was a serious player

in the counterculture.

It was wonderful

to wake up in the morning.

You could get food,

friendship,

whatever you needed.

People of like minds

got together

and they formed

extended families.

- My name is Aesop Aquarian.

There was a lot of talk about

going to the Summer of Love

and we did love each other

in those days.

We believed in peace and love

and that things

actually could get better.

♪

- Charlie saw

the hippie movement

and saw the power in it;

saw the power behind

the young people;

could see a huge

revolution starting.

And there really is

a revolution.

And Charlie wanted

to take this power

and turn it into

his own game.

- When Charlie

was released from prison,

he had spent over half

of his life in jail.

So he had no family.

For him, recruiting followers

was creating the family

that he never had.

♪

narrator: Guitar in hand,

Manson sets up

at street corners

and starts playing.

Gradually,

he attracts followers.

- ♪ People say

that I'm no good ♪

- In the late '60s,

music led kids

off the suburban sidewalks

to hear the sounds

of authentic voices

for whom the American dream

didn't work.

- The counterculture

was this idea that

young people

had been led astray.

What did it mean

to be a human being

in a capitalistic society?

Young people had been fed

a myth about

American exceptionalism

and American democracy

that was untrue.

♪

narrator: And Manson

knew just how

to get the kids to listen.

- My name is John Douglas.

I'm with the FBI,

former criminal profiler--

developed criminal profiling--

and I interviewed

Charles Manson

as part of the serial murderer

research project.

When Charles was in prison,

he was fascinated

by the pimps.

Because these pimps didn't

look anything extraordinary.

So how are you able to,

you know, master,

have this control,

you know, over others?

These pimps told him

where to find these girls.

They look like a broken wing.

A broken wing meaning that

something was wrong.

There was this rejection.

So Manson had the ability

to approach these so-called

broken wings

and talk to them.

- My name is Dianne Lake.

I was one of the first

and the youngest member

of the Manson Family.

I was 14 when I met Charlie.

♪ Say a little prayer?

- He expressed his love

and adoration for me.

It was a high.

It was magic.

It was an incredible

upwelling of love, and,

you know, joy.

My mom and dad were not

the warm, fuzzy

hugging variety.

They really weren't.

And I think that

I needed to feel that.

-♪ As long as you've got

love in your heart ♪

- Charlie invited me to be

a part of their family.

It was what I was looking for.

narrator: By the spring

of 1968,

Manson has gathered

half a dozen girls.

The lost tapes

show how he uses them

to lure men.

- Action.

What is your name?

- Paul Watkins.

- How did you get in?

- How did I get in

to The Family?

- Yes.

- I was walking through

Topanga Canyon

and it was starting

to get dark.

I needed a place to sleep.

And there was

this little house

in the clearing in the woods.

Who came to the door was

one of the prettiest girls

I'd ever seen.

- I go answer the door

and it's Paul.

- Big puff of marijuana smoke

hit me in the face.

And that smelled good to me.

- Charlie told me,

"I want you to reel him in."

- There was 15 people

sitting around in there.

And it was a big room that

had mattresses all over it

and a little table

in the middle.

Charlie, he was playing

the guitar.

He laid all his girls

out in front of me

and says, "They're yours.

What are you gonna

do with them?"

And uh...

I was flattered.

- Nancy and I made him

feel welcome

and had sex with him.

- I agreed that I would stay

with them for the summer

'cause he said he needed

some help;

he was all alone with them

and he couldn't handle them

all by his own,

couldn't keep them satisfied.

Charlie said that The Family

was my family forever.

♪

narrator: The lost tapes

show how Manson

broke down The Family

members' inhibitions

and used sex

not just to seduce,

but also to control them.

- We all had to go through

lots and lots of changes.

All the guys had to get over

all their homosexual things

by doing everything that you

could possibly think of

doing with guys.

And all the girls had to do

everything they could

possibly think of doing

with girls.

- He would have them talk

while he's having sex.

Was there anything, sexually,

that went on that you feel

disgraced by

or embarrassed by?

By doing that

they just felt better

about themselves,

although he had, now, all

the intelligence information

on them, and then would know

what kind of buttons to push.

narrator: Manson's technique

is finding the thing

each of his followers

really feels they need

and giving it to them.

- He'd mirror people.

He did that

the very first day with me.

He just mirrored me.

And he told me, "You're me.

We're the same."

He knew people.

He knew human nature.

So he made me feel

that this was just

meant to be.

And he made me feel important.

- People would say,

"Well, how come

you didn't leave?"

I stayed with

Charlie because

Charlie captured my heart.

And like heroin addicts the

first time they take heroin,

I was addicted to that initial

feeling of love and adoration

and acceptance.

I wanted that again

and again and again.

narrator: As he gathers

his followers around him,

Manson pursues an idea

first dreamt about

during his years in prison:

A career in music.

♪

He sends his girls

out into the streets,

hoping to meet people with

connections to the business.

- On some level,

Manson's entrance

into the LA music scene is

rooted in a chance encounter.

Two of the women in The Family

happen to meet

Dennis Wilson

of the Beach Boys,

one of the central figures

of rock music

in Los Angeles

in the late 1960s.

- Wilson takes the girls home.

And shortly afterwards,

Manson follows.

- I was at Dennis Wilson's

house.

It astounded me at that time

because I'd never seen

a place like that.

It was like a fairy tale.

And Charlie comes

dancing out of the house,

and I said, "Wow."

♪

- There's no other way

to put it.

Dennis Wilson falls in love

with Charles Manson

and falls in love

with the women.

- Both Charlie and Dennis,

I think that

there was a mutual admiration

going on between them.

They were both wild,

liked women,

liked music.

Dennis was very much impressed

with the fact that Charlie

could get his girls

to participate.

narrator: They party.

They hang out.

They even record together.

On one occasion,

captured in the lost tapes,

Manson gives his home-spun

philosophy on life.

- The way out of a room

is not through the door,

partner.

Because then you just go into

another room

which leads into another room,

which leads into a bigger room

and you're still inside

your cage, man.

- Dennis was kind of

looking for

some kind of spiritual

guidance, and I think that

you know, Charlie kind of

fit the bill.

- That's not the way out.

The way out is

to give it all up

and love every bit of it

as being perfect.

- Manson couldn't have

scripted it better.

Wilson introduces him

to his good friend

Terry Melcher,

one of the hottest

rock-and-roll producers

in America.

- He's the music producer

who has produced The Byrds,

and Paul Revere

and the Raiders.

He's got a number of hits

behind him.

narrator: Melcher has it all:

a superstar mom in Doris Day,

a superstar girlfriend

in Candice Bergen.

And at the time, he even rents

a superstar's mansion

in Beverly Hills

with an address

Charlie and the world

will never forget:

10050 Cielo Drive.

Coming up on "Inside

the Manson Cult"...

- Anyone in that house

on Cielo Drive...

- On Cielo Drive, over.

- Was going to die that night.

They were all going to die.

narrator: The real

inside story

of America's

most shocking cult.

- It was just pandemonium

in Los Angeles.

- It was terrifying,

the idea of

testifying against them.

- He's programming us.

-We are sneaking in

a county jail.

- He's telling us

to break him out.

male narrator: Hidden

and forgotten

for more than 40 years,

the lost tapes take us

inside the Manson cult

and show how Charles Manson

turns a group

of hippie runaways

into brainwashed zombies,

some capable of mass murder.

narrator: It is spring

of 1968.

The whole world

is rock-and-roll crazy.

- In that era, music's

a talking newspaper.

Music is a way that young

people were processing

the conflicts that were

all around them

in the culture.

It wasn't a secret code.

It was another language,

and it was a language that

thousands and thousands

of young Americans

spoke fluently.

narrator: Manson speaks

the language too,

and fame would bring him

the widest possible audience

for his ideas.

He's living with

California music legend

Dennis Wilson,

drummer of the Beach Boys.

He knows the power

rock stardom can bring.

Now he gets a taste

for the life.

- Charlie evolved.

He didn't want money or fame,

because he never had

money or fame.

But then when he sees

Dennis Wilson,

people are fawning over him,

he's got this beautiful house.

And Charlie thought,

"Hey, this is something

I want."

narrator: Wilson

hooks Manson up

with top Hollywood

music producer Terry Melcher.

Melcher is rock-and-roll

royalty.

- ♪ Just come

and say you love me ♪

- Manson thought Melcher

was there to audition him

for a record contract.

- I think Charlie was

very nervous,

but I don't think he wanted

to show that.

- ♪ Come on and look at me

narrator: Melcher

holds the keys

to Manson's musical dreams.

But a sound recording

from the lost tapes

reveals what Melcher thinks

of Manson's music.

-When Charlie was rejected

by Terry Melcher

and the music industry,

it festered with Charlie.

It's something he focused on

and fixated on

for a very long time

afterwards.

- He talked about all these

Hollywood people.

"They're all liars."

narrator: Manson has had it

with show business

and the people in it.

It marks a turning point

in the Manson story.

From now on,

Hollywood is the enemy.

Their dreams dashed,

The Family pack up

and hit the road.

♪

They settle at a horse ranch

around 30 miles north

of Los Angeles.

♪

- Spahn Ranch was private.

You know, it had that

interesting little flair

because it's been in a lot

of Western movies

but there also was, like,

a façade of a saloon

and, you know,

they rented horses

for horseback riding.

- Spahn Ranch

sat on old Highway 70.

It was a place...

Yeah, it had its own magic.

My job was looking after

horses and the cowboys,

the people that worked on

Spahn's Ranch.

A place like that

isn't actually a job.

It's a way of living.

narrator: A way of living

that is about to change.

- In comes this little guy

who bangs through the door

like he thought he was God,

and he screamed at us,

"I'm Charles Manson!"

And I was like, "I don't give

a hell who you are,

Get the hell out of my house!"

narrator: But it isn't

Windy's ranch.

It belongs to 80-year-old

George Spahn.

And Manson

makes a deal with him.

The Family can stay

free of charge

if the girls help out.

- We helped out

renting the horses,

shoveling horse poop.

- Charles Manson

took two of the girls

and he assigned them to

keep George Spahn happy...

in any way they could.

And they did.

narrator: Manson's commune

attracts more and more

followers,

including 25-year-old

musician Catherine Share,

nicknamed Gypsy.

- To me, it was beautiful.

I didn't see the dust.

I just saw the quaintness

of it.

And it just looked

almost dreamlike to me.

I was told by

one of the girls that

everybody picked new names,

and I could pick whatever

name I wanted,

and I said, "Oh, okay,

then I'll call myself Gypsy."

- We didn't need food.

Charlie showed us how to

get food out of the dumpsters

at the back

of the grocery stores.

- You wouldn't believe

what we got

out of the garbage cans today.

We got a whole watermelon,

six boxes of bananas,

four boxes of oranges, um...

- Don't forget the artichokes.

- Artichokes...

- We'd wash it off

and make fruit salads.

We ate very well, actually.

Playing music and

making love and getting to

know everyone...

It was quite ideal

for quite a long time.

But beneath the surface

there was a monster

that was lurking.

narrator: The lost tapes

reveal the tightening grip

Manson has

on his followers' minds.

- I am Charlie.

And if he dies, I die.

- You said you

are Charlie?

- I gave up my personality

and become what he

showed me I can be.

- And that is what?

- Total love.

- So in this clip we can see

more about the mindset

of Manson's followers;

that, in essence, they had

eliminated their identities.

They have nothing else

to go upon

except what Charlie

had provided,

and this instills this idea

of groupthink,

where all they know

is the benefit of the group.

- We didn't talk about

our inner feelings

or emotions because we weren't

supposed to have any.

It was one mind

with a lot of hands.

And there was no discussing it.

narrator: Somehow The Family

seemed to believe

they're actually living the

dream Manson had sold them.

But those outsiders

close enough to witness

see something very different.

- Manson had a bunch

of ragtag...

dirty little girls.

They were kind of pathetic.

They sure were strange.

The men all carried knives.

When I went up there,

I always carried a gun.

narrator: Coming up,

the lost tapes reveal

how Manson takes his cult

a step closer to killing.

- Everybody just went

stark raving mad,

I mean, just completely crazy.

narrator: And startling

recordings

show that he is

bending their minds

to believe he is God.

- We've seen Charlie do things

that no human being

has ever done.

We've seen miracles.

male narrator: It is

the summer of 1968.

Charles Manson, wannabe

musician and ex-con,

has established a commune

on a run-down ranch

30 miles outside

of Los Angeles...

And he's turning it

from commune to cult.

- Every now and then,

them girls would ask me

why I didn't throw away my bras

and run like them half-naked

around the ranch.

Didn't I feel like

I should be free?

I said, "You're not free.

You're slaves."

narrator: Along with sex,

music, and mind-control,

Manson throws

one more ingredient

into his cult-creating

cocktail:

isolation.

At the ranch there are no

calendars or clocks;

no magazines or newspapers.

Manson's word

is the only word.

- We were totally reliant

on Charlie's idea

of what our family

should be doing.

♪

- The isolation

that Manson imposed

upon his followers by taking

them out into the Ranch

was pivotal.

In that environment,

he controlled

everything they saw,

everything they heard.

He could create

an absolute bubble.

- In hindsight, it was the

perfect breeding ground

for his philosophy to grow

and our commitment to him

to deepen.

narrator: The lost tapes

contain a unique record

of Manson's preaching.

- You're born with

a survival instinct

to be selfish.

So the first thing that

happens, man,

is they start giving you

their thoughts

and making things out of you

that they want out of.

And then by the time

you reach 30,

you're exactly what they want.

You're a free soul

standing in a cage

who has to die

because he was taught.

Yeah.

- We would listen

to everything he had to say.

We never joined in,

commented,

disagreed.

He would seem to just

answer your questions

before you had any.

narrator: Manson's Family

is now about 30 strong.

Some have been with him

more than a year.

He has bent them to his will

with sex, isolation,

and domination.

And the lost tapes show

one last vital ingredient.

- We took things

like belladonna

and smoked hashish a lot

and smoked marijuana

all the time, and...

and psilocybin and mescaline...

When I was with Charlie we took

anywhere between

30 and 40 trips

on acid alone.

♪

Everybody just went

stark raving mad.

I mean, just completely crazy.

- People are jumping in and out

of the fireplace,

flying through windows,

hitting other people

in the face.

- Arms and legs flying

in every directions

and people screaming,

"Charlie! Charlie!"

- ♪ One too many trips

♪ To the moon and back

♪ Feel like I'm shot through

♪ From green to black

♪ Had so many highs

- The LSD was fun.

Everything became

more animated,

the songs, you know, the words,

I felt totally disconnected

from reality.

narrator: But not everybody

in the cult is high.

- Manson was smart enough

to know

how to dose out LSD.

I've interviewed Manson

three times.

He told us in the interview

at San Quentin

he would take drugs,

but not that much.

But what about your flock?

"I gave them the

full dosage of it."

You know, "Why?"

"Because I felt I could have

more of an impact

over them."

- The shadow side

of psychedelics

is that you're nakedly innocent

and vulnerable.

And someone can weasel their

way inside your mind

and alter your perspective.

narrator: With The Family

drugged and under his spell,

Manson takes his power

to a whole nother level.

-Charlie never just said

he was Jesus Christ,

but then he always said it.

He said it in every other way

except for just coming

flat-out and saying

"I am Jesus Christ."

- He said that 2,000 years ago

he'd hung on a cross

and died for everyone's sins,

and it didn't do a

bit of good,

so now he's up again.

- He started using

subliminal messages

such as, "They won't kill me

this time

because I've already died."

But he'd say it very quickly

with a lot of other things.

- The most extreme form

of grandiosity

and power and narcissism

is to be godlike.

- You look the part.

You got the hair,

you got the beard,

and now you start talking

and it's very,

very convincing.

Before you know it,

you're Jesus.

You're Christ.

- It looked to me like he was

hanging on the cross and...

you know, bleeding

from his hands.

It seemed very real.

It seemed like other people

were, you know,

believing it.

- We've seen what's possible.

We've seen Charlie do things

that no human being...

has ever done.

Or no human being has revealed

that he could do these things.

No, we've seen miracles.

- He often talked about

the significance of his name,

Man-son.

That he was Man's Son.

The Son of Man.

- We saw him bring

a bird back to life.

We know that

anything's possible.

narrator: It's taken two years

of sex, mind-control,

drugs, and domination

for Manson

to turn regular kids

into a cult of worshippers

ready to obey

his every command.

The question now

is what will he make them do?

- Manson knew

where he wanted to go.

He knew where he was taking

these people.

But they had no clue.

They had no idea that

where Manson was leading them

was mayhem and murder.

narrator: Coming up,

the lost tapes show Manson

as he prepares for war...

- We're always ready.

narrator: And the killings

start.

- He was the commander now

and we were all in boot camp.

narrator: And an incredible

confession

never broadcast before.

- He said that one day

in Beverly Hills,

there would be some

atrocious murders

and people would be

chopped to pieces.

There'd be things written on

the walls in blood.

narrator: June 1969.

Charles Manson is becoming

increasingly obsessed

with one extraordinary vision.

- I think Charles Manson

was looking for some

chaotic Armageddon

into which he could take

even more advantage

of disorder,

and rally people

behind a common threat.

- Charlie used to say

the blacks would

fight against the whites, and

everyone would fight

against everybody else

and that everyone would get

killed except for Charlie

and a few blacks who'd be left

to be their servants.

- He became increasingly,

you know,

paranoid about that,

and started preparing us

for that event.

- Manson is imbibing

what's happening

in terms of popular

and political culture

in the United States.

When we think about

the late 1960s,

the Civil Rights movement,

Malcolm X,

the Black Panther party,

the Vietnam War,

there were really hundreds

of civil disturbances.

And there was a real fear

that race war was coming

to the United States.

It seemed as if

the end of the world

was coming.

narrator: Manson dubs his

race war prophecy

"Helter Skelter,"

a name he takes from

a most unlikely source.

Male announcer: You guessed it,

the Beatles!

This rock-and-roll group

has taken over

as the kingpins

of musical appreciation

among the younger element.

narrator: In November 1968,

the Beatles release

their "White Album."

Manson becomes obsessed.

- Charlie played it forwards

and backwards

and he played it

over and over again.

He said, "The Beatles are

sending me a message...

That it's time."

Black man was gonna

take over the world.

- There was a song

called "Helter Skelter"...

About people who were at the

bottom of the slide

of society getting back

to the top.

According to Manson,

these were the blacks.

- The Beatles now were

confirming

that it was all true.

It was crazy, crazy thinking.

narrator: Now free love

transforms to boot camp

as Manson readies his Family

for Helter Skelter.

- Mark it.

- Sandy, Brenda, Squeaky,

six, take one, roll 210.

-We're always ready.

- The new thought is

to be a strong reflection

of the father.

Now, I'm just finding out

about this, see.

And it feels good.

It feels good to know.

- He issued us all buck knives

and showed us

the most effective way

to kill someone.

He said it...

"You have to be willing to kill

in order to not be killed."

- ♪ If you want it

♪ Here it is

♪ Come and get it

- ♪ But you better hurry

Because it won't be here long,

you.

- He told us

you stab and then you rip up.

You know, you--that's what

I remember.

It's like, you know, so,

the reason being that

you would hit as many organs--

you know, vital organs

as possible.

- He was the commander now.

And we were all in boot camp.

I think the dangerous side

of Charlie

was that

he would do anything...

to survive.

narrator: While Manson's

Family

think they're getting ready

to defend themselves,

in reality,

their leader's intentions

are very different.

- At that time, I was staying

with a man named Pete Nell

who was president of the

San Francisco Hell's Angels.

And I got to his house one day

just as Charles Manson

had left,

and he was flabbergasted.

Charles Manson had come to them

to try to get the Hell's Angels

to begin a race war;

to just go start randomly

shooting black people.

And Pete had said, "You know,

if you want a race war,

go start it yourself."

narrator: A chilling

piece of audio

captured on the lost tapes

when the cameras

stopped rolling

and never broadcast before

reveals that Manson

now does plan

to start that race war

himself.

And the place he's chosen?

The very heart

of Hollywood's elite:

Beverly Hills.

- He said

that one day, up in the

mountains of Beverly Hills

that they just, uh...

go in and have a bunch

of mass murders.

That they would be

so atrocious.

That there would be blood

splattered

all over everything.

That people would be

chopped to pieces

and cut up with knives.

There'd be things written

on the walls in blood.

And, uh, the white man would

get all uptight about it

and blame the for it.

narrator: Coming up

on "Inside the Manson Cult"...

- He confided in me about

killing people.

About how groovy it was

to take a gun and blast

some guy in the stomach.

narrator: And a former

cult member

has to face

her younger self

from half a century before.

- Did I ever think

of her baby?

I've pictured her pregnant.

Anybody watching this would

think I was a monster.

narrator: Early summer,

1969.

Charles Manson is convinced

a race war

is coming down fast.

- The ranch changed completely

after that.

narrator: And the lost tapes

show how his world view

turns dark.

- He confided in me about

killing people.

About how groovy it was

to take a gun and

blast some guy in the stomach

just because he was black.

About how far out it would be

to go into a house and...

cut the out of women

and cut the off

of little boys

and just have pools of blood

everywhere.

- Manson addressed

the issue of

the pending race war

by creating what he thought

would be the circumstances

to ignite it.

narrator: As Manson

hones his master plan,

the tapes show how he's

conditioned his followers

to commit the ultimate crime

by conquering their

deepest fears

of death.

-There is no death.

There's no such thing.

When you die,

you die with the thoughts that

you have in your head.

- Their reality was

such that oh,

you know, death was

no big deal.

- When somebody

needs to be killed,

there's no wrong.

You do it.

And then you move on.

- Manson had weaponized

his followers

to use--like a knife,

like a gun,

like a rope,

to kill the people

that he had targeted.

narrator: Manson has trained

his Family

to be able to kill for him.

But are they ready

to really do it?

It's time to find out.

-Gary Hinman had his ear

chopped off...

along with being killed

and stabbed and

tortured...

everything else he had done

to him.

- We'd been to Gary's house

you know, several times.

He lived in Topanga Canyon.

narrator: Gary Hinman has sold

Bobby Beausoleil some drugs.

Beausoleil sells them on

but his buyers think

the drugs are bad.

Beausoleil needs

the money back.

- So, uh, Bobby was driven

over there

to make it right

with two girls

that knew Gary very well.

In fact I think he had slept

with both of them.

Susan Atkins

and Mary Brunner.

- Hinman denies

he did anything wrong.

He doesn't have any money,

he swears by it.

But he's getting loud,

he's getting angry.

- The women get on the phone

with Manson

and tell him what's going on

and Manson decides

that now he has to

ride in again

and solve the situation.

- Charlie gets a samurai sword.

He takes the sword

to the house.

- Once you show up

with a sword,

things will not end well.

- Manson makes a swipe.

He made a slice from the ear

down to the face.

It was bleeding a lot.

- Pretty much what he's

telling Beausoleil

is, "Come on.

You know what you have to do."

- Bobby Beausoleil

takes one of the cars

and leaves the area.

Beausoleil is found

in the car, asleep,

arrested,

charged with the crime

of killing Gary Hinman.

Manson gets a call

letting him know

that Beausoleil

has been arrested,

and this is where the chaos

really sets in.

- This is when things

start getting really dire.

I mean, really murderous.

narrator: Manson's Family

are now murderers

and, it seems, ready to

give up everything for him.

It's time to put his

master plan into action.

The Helter Skelter race war

won't start on its own.

But his family can start

it for him,

and he knows just where

and how

he wants them to do it.

It has taken over two years,

but he has created

an army of followers

ready to kill

to please their master.

On the evening

of August 8, 1969,

Charles Manson

selects his most trusted

for a mission that will haunt

U.S. history.

- Manson told his followers

that this would

be the ignition point

for Helter Skelter.

narrator: Charles "Tex"

Watson,

23-year-old ex-high school

football star.

Patricia Krenwinkle,

21, a onetime

church choir member.

And Susan Atkins,

also 21,

a former Girl Scout.

They'll be driven

to the onetime home

of Terry Melcher,

the man who rejected Manson

for a record deal:

10050 Cielo Drive.

Coming up

on "Inside the Manson Cult"...

Manson brings terror

to Tinseltown...

- The gore. The blood.

This was what Charles Manson

wanted.

narrator: And the threat

of more murder to come

on the lost tapes.

- If you had to kill more,

you'd kill more?

- Mm-hmm.

- Whatever we have to do.

- Whatever.

- We leave our house open

to the soul.

narrator: Charles Manson

has turned

his young followers...

- We're always ready.

narrator: Into killers.

- There is a deed to be done.

There is something that has

to be taken care of here.

narrator: The murder spree

has begun.

-When somebody

needs to be killed,

there's no wrong.

You do it.

woman on radio: Man down,

man down,

at 10050 Cielo Drive, over.

- August 9, 1969.

9:00 a.m.

Bob Burbridge is a 25-year-old

cop on patrol

for the LAPD.

- Well, I just got out

of roll call

at West Los Angeles

Police Station

and the call was

a man down call,

a call of a drunk

or it could be a dead body.

So I rolled on the call...

- We're turning onto

Cielo Drive.

This is the way I came up

on that day.

We're approaching the driveway

going up to the mansion,

the Sharon Tate mansion.

As soon as I went through

the gate,

I discovered a body

in a white car.

I looked on the lawn,

and there were two more bodies

laying on the lawn.

We decided that there might be

a sniper involved,

so we asked one of the

policemen

to go get a shotgun

to cover us while we went

running across this open area

to the house.

narrator: By the summer

of 1969,

Terry Melcher

had moved out of the

Cielo Drive house.

- Manson knew pretty damn well

that Terry Melcher

no longer lived there.

What you have here

is you have a resonance--

it's a symbolic resonance.

And there's gonna be revenge

on whoever is there:

men, women, children.

It didn't really matter.

narrator: The people now

living at 10050 Cielo Drive

are Hollywood director

Roman Polanski

and his wife,

Sharon Tate.

- Sharon Tate was a rising

young movie actress.

She had not starred

in any A movies

but she was certainly headed

in that direction.

narrator: Polanski is in

London working on a movie.

But Tate is at home

with friends.

♪

Three of Charles Manson's

most trusted followers

had paid them a visit.

♪

Charles "Tex" Watson,

Patricia Krenwinkle,

and Susan Atkins.

The LAPD is just about

to find out

what horrors

they had inflicted

inside the house.

- We got to the living room.

We saw two more bodies--

towels over their head

and a rope wrapped around

both of their necks.

One of them was Sharon Tate.

She was obviously

eight to nine months pregnant.

man's voice: A movie

actress and four

of her friends were murdered.

And the circumstances

were lurid.

- I just remember she was

the most beautiful thing

I've ever seen.

And there was blood

all over her and...

it was awful.

It was just awful.

I--I hate

to even think about it.

- Identification of the persons

are as follows:

Sharon Polanski,

Jay Sebring, Abigail Folger...

- Jay Sebring was an

internationally famous

hairstylist.

Abigail Folger was the heiress

for the Folger coffee fortune.

Wojciech Frykowski was good

friends with Roman Polanski.

Steven Parent had just been

there to visit the caretaker.

The victims suffered

102 stab wounds.

Three of the victims

were shot.

One of the victims was pounded

on his head with a gun butt.

Sharon Tate was hung

from a high beam

going across

the living room ceiling.

- The Manson followers, they

leave "pig" scrawled in blood

to try to convince

investigators

that the Black Panthers

had done this.

The Panthers call

police officers pigs

because they're trying to

dehumanize law enforcement

in the same way they argue

law enforcement

has dehumanized black people.

- The gore. The blood.

Manson told his followers

that this would

be the ignition point

for Helter Skelter.

- The revolution

is waiting for a spark.

Everybody's ready.

Everybody's got their--

their guns together.

- All right, this is beautiful.

Okay, you'll be able to...

You have to have

this thing to where

it just slides right out

with your own motion.

- Everybody's waiting

for somebody

to...

have enough love

to start it.

narrator: Not content

with one bloodbath,

on the following night

Manson decides

that the killing spree

must continue.

- The Family drove around

Los Angeles county

for 4 1/2 hours

looking at random

for people to murder.

Then Manson started giving

more specific directions,

and they ended up

at the LaBianca house

at 3301 Waverly Drive.

narrator: The house belongs to

supermarket owner

Leno LaBianca

and his wife, Rosemary.

♪

- He said, "Don't move.

This is just a robbery."

He assured them that

he wasn't going to hurt them.

♪

He took Rosemary LaBianca's

wallet

because he wanted to have it

planted in a black area

and he wanted a black person

to find the wallet

and use the credit cards

and get blamed

for the murders.

♪

He said, "Don't let them know

that you're gonna kill them."

♪

- In a personality-driven

cult,

whatever the leader says

is right is right,

and whatever the leader says

is wrong is wrong.

His ideas,

his prescriptions

are absolute

and must be accepted

without question.

- No "why?"

We never ask why.

- Mm-hmm.

- Whatever we have to do.

- Whatever.

- We leave our house open

to the soul.

We leave our mind open.

- In the LaBianca house,

above the inside

of the front door

is written the word "rise."

On the living room wall

in Leno LaBianca's blood

is written "death to pigs."

- Well, that was the whole

point of it.

Staging the murder scene

the way it was staged

was so that it would be

believed that

this was a race war.

That this was

the disenfranchised

lashing out at the rich

and the privileged.

- And it's the people

that will cause a revolution.

And it's the people that will

cause a change

in the country.

- And on the refrigerator

at the LaBiancas

in Leno LaBianca's blood

is written the words

"Helter Skelter."

narrator: Coming up on

"Inside the Manson Cult,"

news of the murders

spreads through The Family...

- Tex tells me, "I did this.

Charlie told me to."

They were almost like lethal.

They didn't seem to have

any remorse.

narrator: And a new member

shares an extraordinary

confession

for the first time.

- One of the girls came up

to me and said

"We want you to go

to the courthouse and...

Kill the judge."

Male announcer: The latest

murders were discovered

during the night.

Leno LaBianca,

a supermarket owner,

and his wife had both

been stabbed to death,

repeated stab wounds.

- It was just pandemonium,

in Los Angeles especially.

People were so scared

that gun sales

went up tremendously.

- People are buying

extra locks on their doors.

Entertainers out there

are hiring bodyguards

to be--to be with them,

you know, 24/7.

So it put the fear of God

in them.

- Charles Manson

accomplished his goal

of terrorizing Los Angeles.

No one was safe.

narrator: Back at Spahn Ranch,

news of the murders

spread through The Family.

- Tex tells me, "I did this.

Charlie told me to."

Patty said that

she had stabbed somebody

and at first, you know,

it was hard

but then it got to be more fun.

They were almost

like boastful

or gleeful.

I mean, it's like they...

they didn't seem to have

any remorse.

- Despite the violence

and the brutality

of these murders,

the people that had

committed them

of this following

were still very proud

of what they had done.

For them, it was a way to

sort of say,

"Hey, look at what I did.

This is how loyal I am

for Charlie."

narrator: For the first time

in decades,

Catherine Share,

known in The Family as Gypsy,

sets eyes on her younger self.

She was filmed shortly after

the Tate murders.

- Mm-hmm.

- Did I ever think of her baby?

I've pictured her pregnant.

Yeah.

No, I've--I've only pictured

her pregnant.

That's the only way I can

picture her.

I was so cut off

that I couldn't feel...

what I should have felt

for another pregnant woman

and her child.

And it's very disturbing

to watch me

put that out.

- The baby?

- No, I picture Sharon Tate

pregnant at times. Yeah.

Anybody watching this

would think I was a monster.

- I didn't know her.

I never met her.

How can you tell

what's in a picture?

It's not even living.

And there was part of me

that still believed that

he had all the answers

and he was the one.

There was another part of me

that was starting

to know better.

But I was keeping it

just deep down inside.

Because if I showed it,

my life would be in danger.

narrator: While Manson

plots his next move,

the cops are fumbling

their investigation.

- The police had no idea

who committed these murders.

They had one team working on

the Tate murders,

and another team working on

the LaBianca murders.

- They didn't think these

cases, ah, were related,

you know, at all.

I mean, this is obvious to me.

Here's the signature.

Here's the symbolism of this.

What are the probability

that someone else is

perpetrating the same crime,

the same way?

♪

narrator: As the investigation

stumbles along,

Manson leads his followers

to the desert

to hide out from

the Helter Skelter race war

he still insists is coming.

♪

But then things start

to go wrong.

- Charlie decided that he was

gonna burn up an earth-mover.

Not a very swift move when you,

when you want to hide.

- I was washing my hair.

- Get your hands up!

Everybody up, turn around!

- And I had a gun

pointing at me,

"You're under arrest."

- Quiet, give me

your other hand.

I said move!

- Charlie disappeared.

Just--

You know, he made himself

invisible.

-Get up! Get up!

- So the police found Charlie

under the sink cupboard.

♪

narrator: To The Family's

relief,

the cops aren't hunting

for the Tate

and LaBianca killers.

They're looking for the people

who burnt the earth-mover.

- We got arrested

for vandalizing

government property.

♪

narrator: The police

have no idea

that they have America's

most wanted killers

in their care.

Coming up,

exclusive lost tape footage

with the prisoner

who blows the Sharon Tate

murder case

wide open.

- She told me

she just kept stabbing her

until she stopped screaming.

narrator: And shocking

evidence

of the power Charles Manson

has over his followers.

- I'm ready to die

for Charlie.

I'm ready to die.

narrator: Charles Manson

and some of his

most faithful followers

are in jail after burning

an earth-mover.

But they also just may be

getting away with murder.

- It wasn't until Susan Atkins

got transferred

to Los Angeles County Jail

Sybil Brand

that she started

talking to her cellmate

about Charlie, and, you know,

Helter Skelter.

narrator: Susan Atkins,

known in The Family as Sadie,

was at the Hinman murder

and also at the Tate mansion

on Cielo Drive.

- Susan Atkins came from a,

uh, middle-class family.

Unfortunately her mother died

at a very, very young age,

which devastated her.

She wasn't getting

the attention anymore

from the mother who she loved,

she loved dearly

and she sought out others

to get some type of attention.

narrator: While in jail,

Atkins latches onto cellmate

Ronnie Howard.

- Roll 159.

What is your name?

- My name is Ronnie Howard.

narrator: And the lost tapes

reveal how Atkins

unwittingly gives

the game away.

- She was telling me about

different things that

she thought would shock me.

And I told her,

"Nothing shocks me."

And she said, "Well,

I think I can tell you

a few things that would

shock you."

- She confessed

to Ronnie Howard

about her participation

and Charles Manson's

participation

in these murders.

- I asked her,

"If you were really there,"

I said, "Who really

killed Sharon Tate?"

And she told me

that she killed Sharon Tate.

She said she was the one

that stabbed her.

Every time she screamed

she'd stab her again and...

she just kept stabbing her

until she stopped screaming.

And she said it sent

a hot rush all the way

through her body.

And she told me that

to stab somebody

is better than having a climax.

But she--she told me that

the future murders

would be more gruesome.

They wanted to do something

to really shock the world.

A few of them

were celebrities.

- Which celebrities were

they going to kill?

- Steve McQueen.

Tom Jones.

Frank Sinatra.

Liz Taylor.

♪

- Ronnie Howard

called LAPD and said, "Hey,

this is what this woman

has told us,"

and that broke the case.

narrator: On December 9, 1969,

the charge against Manson

is changed from arson

to first-degree murder.

Male announcer:

A wandering band

of members of

a so-called religious cult

with a leader they call Jesus

has had three of its

followers arrested

in the investigation

of the murder of Sharon Tate

and six others.

narrator: But Manson's arrest

for the murders

does not signal the end

of his Family.

In fact, it gains a new member

at a crucial time.

- I walked away from my house

and everything that was in it.

Just...away.

And, uh, went to the ranch.

narrator: 24-year-old

Aesop Aquarian

is a musician

and aspiring actor.

The lost tapes show him

playing guitar

with the Family just days

after the murder charge

is filed.

- I was,

"part of The Family."

I was living on the ranch,

working the ranch.

I was taking care

of the girls,

I was driving the girls,

I was making sure

they were safe.

And the love that

was there was...

undeniable, anybody who came

on the ranch

even for a second,

you know, caught the love

that we had.

- Even when he was in jail,

Charlie was still able

to manipulate

and have power and control

over his followers.

narrator: New recruit Aquarian

can see firsthand

how Manson's power

is getting, if anything,

stronger.

- These girls loved Charlie

so much

that they literally

would do anything for him.

Literally would do

anything for him.

- Whenever we need to,

we respond.

We respond with our knives.

We respond with

whatever we have.

narrator: Among Manson's

most loyal disciples

on the outside

are Nancy Pitman,

known as Brenda,

Lynette Fromme,

known as Squeaky,

and Sandra Goode,

known as Sandy.

- We could respond so quickly.

Teeth...

- Anything.

Whatever. Whatever's at hand.

Because we are animals.

- We are.

- And I know that if they

ever laid a finger on Charlie,

if we were unarmed, we would

chew their necks off,

anything. Claw their eyes out.

And they know it.

- Those members that stayed

to the very end

with Charles Manson

were in love with him.

- N-88!

- The idea

that they might imagine

another life

did not occur to them.

- I'm ready to die

for Charlie.

He's ready to die for me.

He has died for me.

I'm ready to die.

I'm ready to die for--

to protect my own.

narrator: The Manson trial

begins on July 24, 1970.

- I have no, uh,

absolute knowledge,

but I don't think any case

in history

has received this much

pre-trial publicity

throughout the world.

narrator: Stephen Kay

was a rookie prosecutor

working on the case.

- At age 27,

I had been assigned

to be a prosecutor on

what was then considered

the crime of the century.

narrator: Kay's job

will be tough.

- Manson left no fingerprints

at the locations.

There was nothing at the scene

of the crimes to tie Manson

into the crime

so it was all testimony.

- So what basically

had to be proved

was that Charlie had

manipulated his followers

so much that he himself was

culpable of these murders.

man: You want Mr. Kanarek

to challenge the jurors

or are you ready to accept

anyone that's put in the box?

- You've already tried

the case.

narrator: To bring

Manson down,

the prosecution needs someone

on the inside

to turn against him.

But getting a Family member

to break ranks

will be no easy task.

- In the visiting room

he said to a Family member,

"If Gypsy tries to get away,

"I want you to...

"tie her behind a car

"and drag her slowly

"back to the ranch.

Don't kill her,

but you can get close."

And then he looked at me

and said,

"Are you going anywhere?"

And I said, "No."

narrator: Another potential

witness is Dianne Lake,

known in The Family as Snake.

She's now 16.

Still under Manson's control,

Lake has kept

her true identity hidden

from the prison authorities...

Until now.

- They sent us to testify

in front of the Grand Jury

and that's when I finally

felt safe enough

to say...

"My name is Dianne Lake.

I'm 16, and I want my mommy."

narrator: But after two years

of near-daily LSD use

Lake is in no position

to testify.

Diagnosed with schizophrenia,

she's sent for emergency

psychiatric treatment.

- They committed me

to 90 days observation

at Patton State Hospital.

And then the 90 days

turned into nine months.

It was like he was in my head

telling me,

"Turn left. Turn right."

You know, "Turn the light off."

"Don't say that" or

"Don't talk to that person."

There was one officer

in particular that really

treated me with--with respect

and like a tenderness.

He made me feel safe

enough to start telling...

telling the truth.

- Sandy, Brenda, Squeaky,

four, take one, roll 209.

narrator: As Lake prepares

to testify against Manson

the tapes reveals what her

former friends think of her.

-She's a very young girl,

and by the time the, the DAs

had gotten through with her

she was speaking their

language.

She's just like a baby.

She can be molded whatever way

anyone chooses to mold her.

- I'm sure that's what they

believed, you know,

that I had been, uh,

swallowed up.

You know, that I was

being manipulated

by the courts.

narrator: The big question is:

will Lake be brave enough

to testify?

- Snitches will be taken

care of.

- How?

-Oh, that's to be seen.

That's to be seen.

narrator: Still to come

on "Inside the Manson Cult,"

secretly filmed footage

of Manson in prison...

- We are sneaking

in the county jail.

Looking under the door

to see if the man is there.

- He's telling us

to break him out.

narrator: And an extraordinary

command

to young member of the cult:

Kill the judge.

- I felt my jaw drop

to the ground.

narrator: Charles Manson

is on trial

for multiple murders.

Teenage cult member

Dianne Lake

might be key

to convicting him

if she can escape his control.

- It was like he was

in my head.

narrator: A unique moment

from the lost tapes

shows just how hard

that's going to be.

Secretly, the filmmaker

smuggles a camera

into Manson's jail cell.

And the cult leader

takes his chance

to speak directly

to his followers.

- We are sneaking

in the county jail.

Looking under the door

to see if the man is there.

Sneaking like little children

out of town.

Sneaking...

Sneaking all around

the courthouse.

- He's programming us.

Telling us what to do.

- Everything is sneaky

up around Sneakyville.

- He was telling us

to break him out

of jail.

To learn where the vents are,

learn how to get in and out

of the building

and learn how to set him free.

- You gotta sneak

to get to the truth.

The truth is condemned.

The truth is in

the gas chamber.

- Manson had a very powerful

personality.

When he was in a room,

you could almost feel

the electricity

pouring off of him.

And he would kind of

command the room.

Manson one time

came into court,

and he had taken a razor blade

and put an X on his forehead.

And the next day, the girls

all had Xs on their foreheads.

They said they were going to

X themselves out of society.

- Some of the behaviors

that the girls exhibited

during the trials

really was frightening.

Because you can see that

despite being back in reality

back in society,

they're still totally

under Charlie's spell.

narrator: The tapes show

how Manson's followers

may be ready

to threaten anyone

involved in the prosecution.

- Sandy, Brenda, Squeaky.

- Ask me a question.

- What if they execute

Charlie?

- Well, they'll have

to contend with us.

narrator: Just how far

the cult is prepared to go

is made frighteningly clear

to new member Aesop Aquarian.

- One of the girls

came up to me and said

"We've got to get Charlie out.

"We want you to," uh...

"To go the courthouse and...

Kill the judge."

I felt my jaw

drop to the ground.

"You want me to what?"

Said, "We want you

to kill the judge."

"That'll show them

that we're serious

and that'll get Charlie out."

"Are you for real?"

And she said, "Yeah."

My first thought was,

"What the hell

am I doing here?"

I don't think that was

the next day that I left

but it could have been.

♪

narrator: Manson's power

over his followers

may be giving Dianne Lake

second thoughts.

- It was terrifying,

the idea of going by the girls

and testifying against them.

And I was always afraid

that I was going to have

mind control by Charlie again.

That was a big fear.

And also that fear

of wanting that...

you know, that original feeling

of love and adoration from him.

I thought that was going

to be a weakness.

- The truth has not been

in your courtrooms.

Never has been

in your courtrooms.

All you have is confusion

in your courtroom.

- We went in, like,

the back door,

and there was still

a lot of press

but they kind of snuck me in.

- You can't prove anything

that happened yesterday.

Now is the only thing

that's real.

- The girls were outside

the Hall of Justice.

I was scared.

- We were on pins and needles.

We didn't know how the jury

was gonna respond

to Dianne Lake.

We felt that she had been

a great witness.

Believable, but...

she had spent eight months

in a mental hospital.

We didn't know what the jury

was going to do.

narrator: Still to come

on "Inside the Manson Cult"...

- He's waiting in a cage.

He's looking down like

I'm one of his disciples.

narrator: An astonishing

revelation...

- I don't believe Charlie

believed in Helter Skelter.

It was just a crazy story.

narrator: One of

Charles Manson's

earliest converts

has testified against

the man she loved.

- It was terrifying,

going by the girls

and testifying against them.

narrator: Time for the jury

to decide.

man: The jury,

hearing the charges

against Charles Manson

and three girl members

of his so-called Family

brought in its verdict

this afternoon.

All were found guilty

of murder in the first degree.

narrator: The trial

has lasted seven months

and is, at the time,

the most expensive

in U.S. criminal history.

The jury takes ten days

to reach a verdict.

man: Manson then shouted

at the jurors,

"You're all guilty!"

narrator: On Monday,

March 29, 1971,

Manson is sentenced to die

for the murder spree

that shocked the world.

Leslie Van Houten,

Susan Atkins,

and Patricia Krenwinkle

will also be given

the death sentence.

- I couldn't understand

how they could

be so happy

and cheerful when they were

facing the death penalty.

It would be years later

that I would see that look

in other eyes of cult followers

and I would realize

this is the way

that people look

when they're under

undue influence

and they're not thinking

for themselves.

♪

narrator: In 1972,

Charles Manson and his

three female accomplices

have their death sentences

commuted to life in prison

when California temporarily

abolishes the death penalty.

- After Charlie Manson

was locked away for life,

he became the most popular

prison inmate

in the United States

measured by the amount

of fan mail

that he received.

For a lot of young people,

he was like the ultimate

outlaw,

the counterculture icon...

And he continued to live on

in that sense

and continued to have

a cult following

in the broader population.

- I think within the

psychodrama of his own mind

Manson tapped into

this idea

of a fear of black-led

racial violence.

And I think that idea

was something that is a

carry-over from the '60s

even to this day.

- Charlie Manson wanted to be

rich and famous.

When he couldn't do it

in the music business,

he figured out another way

to be famous.

- Manson frequently said

he wanted to be bigger

than the Beatles.

And it could be argued

that he did have

even more of an impact

than the Beatles on our lives,

on American culture.

It did something to us.

We're no longer as free

and able to just...

think that we're safe

in our homes.

- Roll N-72, scene

four girls A, take one.

narrator: Over the years,

many of Manson's followers

remained devoted

to their Messiah.

- Again and again I've gotta

pay for your sins.

I've been laying up here

paying for your sins

for 2,000 years.

narrator: Others managed

to break free.

- Do I feel that

Charlie Manson conned me?

As time went on, absolutely.

Charlie had learned to be

a very good manipulator.

A shark, it will eat

whatever to survive.

And it will kill whatever

to survive.

- I lost some innocence

for sure.

But I--I survived

and I thrived,

and, um, I'm very thankful

for that.

narrator: In the space

of two years,

Manson brainwashed

dozens of followers

and even convinced some

to kill for him.

Behind it all

lay his twisted world view,

the Helter Skelter race war.

But did Manson ever truly

believe in this philosophy

or did he simply use it

to frighten and control

The Family?

In 1979,

when FBI profiler John Douglas

met Charles Manson in prison,

they had a revealing exchange.

- He's waiting in a cage.

He's looking down,

he's looking down like

I'm one of his disciples.

Like, you know.

- You gotta sneak

to get to the truth.

The truth is condemned.

The truth

is in the gas chamber.

- At the end of the day,

I don't believe Charlie

believed in Helter Skelter

at all.

It was just a crazy story.

And I didn't believe it,

I told him he

didn't believe it,

and he laughed

when I told him, "I don't

believe your BS here, Charlie,

"Come on, man.

You're just into sex, drugs,

and rock and roll."

- And he was nodding his head,

he was smiling,

laughing, you know.

So.

- ♪ Pretty girl

♪ Pretty, pretty girl

♪ Cease to exist

♪ Just come and say

you love me ♪

♪ Give up your world

♪ Come on, you could be

♪ I'm your kind

♪ Oh your kind

♪ And I can see

- Um, as far as

these things go, um...

You have to make love with it.

- ♪ Walk on, walk on

♪ I love you, pretty girl

♪ My life is yours

♪ And you can have my world

♪ Never had a lesson

♪ I ever learned

♪ But I know

♪ We all get our turn

♪ I love you

♪ Never learn

♪ Not to love you

♪ Submission is a gift

♪ Go on, give it

to your brother ♪

♪ Love and understanding

♪ Is for one another

♪ I'm your kind

♪ I'm your kind

♪ I'm your brother

♪ I never had a lesson

♪ I ever learned

♪ But I know we all

♪ Get our turn

♪ And I love you

♪ Never learn

♪ Not to love you

♪ Never learn

not to love you ♪

♪ Never learn

♪ Not to love you

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