I’ve already mentioned Mary Neiswender, the reporter who told me that Bugliosi was “terribly dangerous”: he’d sent an emissary warning that he knew where her kids went to school and implied that “it would be very easy to plant narcotics in their lockers.” And I knew that Bugliosi had been indicted for perjury as a result of his prosecuting the murders—as mentioned earlier, he’d leaked information about Manson’s “hit list” to a reporter and had threatened professional consequences for his coprosecutors if they told anyone.
