Helter Skelter

by Vincent Bugliosi

Los Angeles, California; consecutive nights; multiple murders; victims affluent Caucasians; multiple stab wounds; incredible savagery; absence of a conventional motive; no evidence of ransacking or robbery; ropes around the neck of two Tate victims, cords around the necks of both LaBiancas. And the bloody printing. Yet within twenty-four hours the police would decide there was no connection between the two sets of murders.

Only 50 pages in and the lapd has already bungled this case several times