“He might have been carrying on with one of the girls,” he told me, though Melcher had fiercely denied exactly that. “I had a soft spot for little Ruth Ann Moorehouse. He might have, too. She was the little gem of the group. Little sweet fifteen, sixteen.” Likewise, Jeff Guinn’s 2013 book Manson includes several references to Melcher’s having sex with Ruth Ann Moorehouse, all sourced to Jakobson.
