In the summer of 1969, in Los Angeles, a series of brutal, seemingly random Murders captured headlines across America. ?Helter Skelter ?is not merely a spellbinding murder case and courtroom drama but also, in the words of ?The New Republic?, a "social document of rare importance.". these elements make for a True crime classic.
Vincent Bugliosi was the prosecuting attorney in the Manson trial, and this book is his enthralling account of how he built his case from what a defense attorney dismissed as only "two fingerprints and Vince Bugliosi." The meticulous detective work with which the Story begins, the prosecutor\'s view of a complex murder trial, the reconstruction of the philosophy Manson inculcated in his fervent followers...
The Murders marked the end of the sixties and became an immediate symbol of the dark underside of that era.
What was his hold over them? And what was the motivation behind such savagery? In the public imagination, over time, the case assumed the proportions of myth.
A thin trail of circumstances eventually tied the Tate-Le Bianca Murders to Charles Manson, a would-be pop singer of small talent living in the desert with his "family" of devoted young women and men.
A famous actress (and her unborn child), an heiress to a coffee fortune, a supermarket owner and his wife were among the seven victims.
In the summer of 1969, in Los Angeles, a series of brutal, seemingly random Murders captured headlines across America
