One last thing bothered me: the pubic hair. If, as police reports stated, Tenerelli had shaved his pubes just before killing himself, and a “few strands” had been found “between the pages” of a Playboy magazine—what happened to the rest? The Family’s Bill Vance had a “magic vest” he liked to wear that was “made of pubic hair,” per a report from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office. The LASO report never said where the pubic hair came from—and how could it, really?—but I found it relevant that Vance, an associate of Manson from prison, was arrested for stealing a gun from a car in Death
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