“Something in the deepest resources of their soul enabled them to do something that you and I cannot do,” he said to me that day. “There was something independent of Charles Manson that was coursing through them… These people not only killed for him, but they did it with gusto, with relish. One hundred and sixty-nine stab wounds! Some of them postmortem! What does that show? I think it’s circumstantial evidence that some people have much more homicidal tendencies than others.”
