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Vincent Bugliosi was a rising star in the Los Angeles District Attorney's office when he was assigned one of the office's most high-profile cases in history -- the enigmatic murders of seven Angelenos, five perpetrated at the home of film director Roman Polanski and victimizing his pregnant wife, starlet Sharon Tate. Bugliosi went to work obsessively, acting as detective as much as prosecutor, compensating for appallingly bad police work by the LAPD.
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And I thought "In Cold Blood" was strange... Hmm probably last over 600 page book I will read for a while. I'm going to now have to watch " Valley of the Dolls". Interesting but way too long of a book.
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Second time around. Forty years later. Same rating. Different perpspective. More chilling. I see how much closer to me that it actually was. I picked up this book by chance this time. I have been hearing of an upcoming TV series titled Aquarius, based on the Manson Murders. The TV crew had been filming at a "ranch" near where I grew up. I used to work on the ranch as a teen. It piqued my interest to reread Helter Skelter. The murderers were all about my age. Leslie Van Houten was a fellow classm
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A fascinating story of the Manson family rampage across Southern California in the late-1960s. This book was actually written by the prosecutor who tried the case against Charles Manson and his cult of followers. The really scary thing about Charles Manson is the people that he managed to get to follow him. On the outside, they could be anyone. From a homecoming queen to an abused runaway.
I hope they never, ever get out of prison.
I hope they never, ever get out of prison.
This book kept me up at night listening for strange noises. In today's world, it may not be as shocking that murders like these took place, but, at the time, it was.
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I expected to loathe all 519 pages of this book. Guess what? It's goddam RIVETING.
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