Often referring to me as “super-sleuth O’Neal”—the misspelling was intentional, I believe; he’d done the same to his nemesis Stephen Kay in Helter Skelter—Bugliosi claimed that I’d first approached him for the sole purpose of discovering titillating factoids about Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski’s “private sex and drug lives.” (Easy to disprove—I’d taped the whole interview.) He hinted at his allegations of pedophilia and claimed that I’d accused him of framing Manson. Most of all, he attacked the significance—or lack thereof—of my findings on Terry Melcher.
