“I didn’t have nothing to do with killing those people,” he told Day in a phone call.

One of the people who offered Day a version of the story was, of course, Manson, who maintained his innocence until his death. No one was making decisions for the whole group,” he says.

“There are so many people involved in the Manson story, not one of them can say what really happened. 19, 2017, at the age of 83, and is thus believed to be the last person to interview the infamous criminal at length. While researching the book, Day conducted interviews with Manson - who was still serving a life sentence - during the year leading up to Manson’s death on Nov. Prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi also argued that Manson was obsessed with the Beatles’ White Album, and thought its message was that he should start a race war by framing black innocents for crimes against affluent white people the “race war” was nicknamed “Helter Skelter” after that song, and the fact that the word “pig” was written on the wall at the crime scene in blood was linked to the track “Piggies.”īut, says James Buddy Day, a true-crime TV producer and author of the new book Hippie Cult Leader: The Last Words of Charles Manson, everyone involved in the crimes had a slightly different take on what happened. In Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood, one of the most infamous crimes of the 20th century plays a prominent role: though the movie’s story is fictionalized, Margot Robbie plays Sharon Tate, the real actor who was a victim of the 1969 murders committed by followers of the cult leader Charles Manson.Ī half-century after Tate’s death, there remain plenty of myths and theories about why Manson’s followers carried out the murders - and one of the biggest questions is the extent to which Charles Manson himself was involved, and why.Īt the time, prosecutors said that Manson, who wanted to be a rock star, ordered the murders of Tate and four others because the previous owner of the house at which the deaths occurred - Terry Melcher, a music producer - had refused to make a record with Manson.

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