“I do not believe that Terry Melcher was at the Spahn Ranch after the murders. I just don’t believe that,” he said. “If he was there at the Spahn Ranch, Manson would have harmed him, because Manson was very upset.” But with the sheaf of papers in front of him, and the handwriting undeniably belonging to Bugliosi, Kay slumped in his chair. “I am shocked,” he said. “I am just shocked.” He was planning his retirement then, having boasted that he was leaving office “sixty and zero”: sixty court appearances opposite Family members, without a single one of them earning parole. With the evidence of
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