An investigative journalist chronicles his twenty-year obsession with the 1969 Manson murders and describes how he discovered evidence of a cover-up, carelessness from police, misconduct by prosecutors, and potential surveillance by intelligence agents.

Once he had his own TV series, but now Rick Dalton's a washed-up villain-of-the week drowning his sorrows in whiskey sours. Will a phone call from Rome save his fate or seal it? Cliff Booth is Rick's stunt double, and the most infamous man on any movie set because he's the only one there who might have gotten away with murder. Sharon Tate left Texas to chase a movie-star dream, and found it. Sharon's salad days are now spent on Cielo Drive, high in...

The prosecutor of the Tate-LaBianca trials presents a perceptive study of Charles Manson, his followers, and the murders of actress Sharon Tate and four others in 1969.

Years after the shocking murders that made the name Charles Manson synonymous with pure evil, the three women killed for him, Leslie Van Houten, Patricia Krenwinkel, and Susan Atkins, remain under the spell of the infamous cult leader. Confined to an isolated cellblock in a California penitentiary, the trio seems destined to live out the rest of their lives under the delusion that their crimes were part of a cosmic plan until empathetic graduate student...

In the summer of 1969, Leslie Van Houten and Patricia Krenwinkel carried out horrific acts of butchery on the orders of the charismatic cult leader Charles Manson. At their murder trial the following year, lead prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi described the two so-called Manson Women as "human monsters." But to anyone who knew them growing up, they were bright, promising girls, seemingly incapable of such an unfathomable crime. Award-winning journalist...