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[ Insects chirping ]
[ Dog barks in distance ]
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"Don't ask me what to do."
I said, "you know what to do."
Maybe I should have killed 400, 500 people,
then I would've felt better.
Then I would've felt like
I really offered society something.
♪♪
Welcome to "very scary people." I'm Donnie wahlberg.
Tonight, we unravel the twisted tale
of one of america's most despicable criminal minds...
Charles manson... a man whose evil resulted in a series
of vicious murders that still haunt the nation's conscience.
Decades have not erased the bloody trail of terror
left by manson and his deadly disciples.
He cold-bloodedly commanded his hippy followers
to carry out the brutal murders of innocent people,
including actress Sharon Tate and leno and Rosemary labianca.
Those horrific slayings indelibly seared his name
at the very top of america's list of very scary people.
But why did he do it, who was Charlie,
and how as he able to convince his followers,
many of them bright, young people,
to commit unspeakable acts of violence
against unsuspecting strangers?
This is part one of "the devil's work."
♪♪
In August of 1969,
19-year-old William garretson
is a fill-in summer caretaker at 10050 cielo drive.
It is an exclusive Beverly Hills property
being rented by world-renowned film director Roman polanski
and his stunning wife, actress Sharon Tate.
Now, the owner of the property has to go out of town a lot,
so he pays garretson $35 per week to pet sit.
He was there to take care of a dog
and to do some chores around the house.
But because the polanskis and their friends are celebrities,
garretson is under orders to never, ever bother them...
Even though the main house is just 25 yards away.
Now, the young man has no idea
that after the night of August 8th,
his life will never be the same.
♪♪
Garretson was gonna call it early and not go out.
Sidner: Suddenly, garretson hears loud voices
coming from the polanskis' house.
[ Indistinct shouting in distance ]
And then, when he picks up the phone,
the line is dead.
I think garretson was probably scared to death.
Wiehl: As garretson is hearing those screams,
absolute carnage is happening on the lawn
and inside that house.
Reporter: It was a killing spree
that horrified the entire country.
People were slaughtered,
including actress Sharon Tate,
8 1/2 months pregnant
and married to director Roman polanski.
Sidner: What unfolds that night at 10050 cielo drive
was set in motion by just one man... Charles manson.
♪♪
Guinn: According to Charlie,
he was the son of an unwed teenage prostitute
who cared so little about her son
that once, she tried to sell him for a pitcher of beer.
I spent the best part of my life in boys' schools, prisons,
and reform schools because I had nobody.
Nobody would come and sign their name to take me out.
I never had no parents to speak of.
None of that's true.
Charles manson's mother did go to prison
when Charlie was 5.
She and her brother tried to Rob somebody.
They were sentenced to two years in prison.
But little Charlie was taken in by loving relatives,
his grandmother, his aunt, his cousin Jo Ann.
When his mother was released from prison,
she certainly loved him and wanted him.
The problem was that Charlie himself
was a rotten little kid from the word "go."
He would lie about everything.
He was sometimes violent.
Charlie's cousin Jo Ann said
that when Charlie's in first grade,
a boy was mean to him,
and Charlie had some of the girls in class
beat the boy up at recess.
When the principal said to Charlie, "why did you do this?"
Charlie said, "it wasn't me.
The girls were doing what they wanted to do."
He kept running away.
By the time he's 13, he's pulling armed robberies.
And I burglarized a grocery store,
and I stole the car and didn't know how to shift gears.
Guinn: He starts in the reformatory system.
Charles manson told me that he was abused
at all these reform schools,
physically beaten, sexually abused.
Guinn: After being preyed on in his first few years,
he became a predator himself.
At one point, he was caught sodomizing another boy
while holding a sharp object at the kid's throat.
There was no amount of harm or hurt that he could inflict
on the world, in his mind,
that could ever fill the sense of being the victim.
Nobody cares.
When it comes right down to it, nobody cares.
Sidner: It's only when he's 19, after seven years in institutions,
that Charlie finally gets out of the system.
Yet Charlie soon reverts to what he knows best...
Stealing cars.
At 21, Charlie's crime lands him
at the terminal island federal penitentiary in Los Angeles.
You can't understand Charlie manson
without understanding his criminal past
and his time in jail.
Rick: And in order for him to survive,
he developed skills to manipulate people.
Sidner: Prison is where manson perfected the art of the con,
and he's inspired by a very unlikely source,
perhaps the most famous voice in self-improvement ever.
His personal guru is none other than Dale carnegie.
Wiehl: "How to win friends and influence people."
Guinn: And when you talk now to his followers,
"how did Charlie attract you?"
And they would say, "oh, it was like he looked in my soul.
Chapter seven of "how to win friends and influence people,"
word for word.
♪♪
Sidner: He's briefly released in 1958 in Los Angeles,
but when he can't hold down a regular job,
Charlie decides to think outside the box.
He sets himself up as a pimp.
Sidner: He racks up more arrests for transporting women
across state lines for the purpose of prostitution.
Wiehl: He talked to inmates about being a better pimp.
Shelley: They instructed Charlie how to find the right Mark,
to find young, vulnerable women on their own,
women who had no one else to rely on.
♪♪
Guinn: Manson immediately started telling the counselors
in prison that he was going to be a musician.
He starts writing his own songs, performing in prison shows.
He thought, "when I get out, I can play guitar
and make money somehow in the music industry."
Sidner: In 1967, Charles manson is told
that he's finally about to be paroled.
♪♪
He's going back into the real world.
♪♪
Sidner: In the summer of '67,
manson heads north to San Francisco,
and he comes face to face with the age of aquarius.
That was basically the beginning of the summer of love.
Manson: And they were free in their thinking.
And there was no fear or paranoia to them,
and they'd come up and say, "well, we like you."
I said, "you like me? Hell, nobody likes me."
Everybody was a hippie then.
Peace, love, weed, sex, music.
You say, "well, you give our kids drugs."
I'd say, "man, your kids gave me the drugs."
They were already loaded.
And all sorts of weird gurus going around.
♪♪
Sidner: Charlie comes out of prison wanting to be a super pimp,
but people who know him say he quickly realizes
he can't make money from sex
when all the hippies are into free love.
And so Charlie reinvents himself as a guru,
and he has equal parts Dale carnegie, the Bible,
and his own prison bs, and he goes out and starts preaching.
The target would be young, lonely, vulnerable women.
Dr. Jordan: They came from good families.
So, how did they get sucked into manson's cult?
There was an induction process, drugs and sex.
♪♪
They would take LSD, he would have sex,
and then he would, like, whisper in their ear,
and he would tell them about love.
Charlie showered me with love and affection and adoration,
and the girls, too.
It was like, "oh, I'm home."
Dr. Jordan: And the key to his power and control
was to simply convince his followers
that he was almost a Messiah,
that he held all the answers to their problems,
and that they could find peace and love
and Serenity in their lives
if they would just do exactly what he said.
♪♪
Roberts: As time goes on,
those women become even more manipulatable,
more malleable in his hands to a darker demonic future.
♪♪
Manson was able to finagle an old school bus
that would hold about 35 people,
painted it black for attention,
and so they would travel
and they would live in the school bus.
Jakobson: Charlie worked his way to the sunset strip, I.A.,
which was the heavy music scene.
Charlie believes he is destined to be a rock star
and to have everything he never had.
I think he came out of prison
with like 80-some songs that he'd written.
♪ Look at your game, girl ♪
♪ go on, look at your game, girl ♪
He wanted to be like the beach boys or Mick Jagger,
whoever you wanted to say.
That was Charlie's ideal.
♪♪
Guinn: In may of 1968,
manson moved the family to spahn ranch
just outside Los Angeles.
Roberts: Spahn ranch was described as a movie set.
There was kind of a western street
with board sidewalks and faux saloons.
It was pretty much a dump.
George spahn, the old owner, was nearly blind.
The old man was the boss.
Whatever the old man said, we did, you dig?
He let us stay there free rent, you dig?
It didn't hurt to have girls tending to George
on a regular basis, you know, cleaning his house,
giving him some sex.
Guinn: Lynette fromme was assigned by manson
to live with George and to fulfill his every whim.
And George liked to pinch her a lot, and she would squeal.
And George is the one that nicknamed her "squeaky."
Fast forward to 1975, the world will know
Lynette fromme as "squeaky" fromme,
who tried to assassinate
then-president Gerald Ford with a gun.
♪♪
Charles manson knew that somehow
he was destined to enter the recording industry,
and it's just going to come down to,
can he get one break, one random act,
one introduction?
And he does.
Guinn: When he and his family first came to Los Angeles,
he sent all the women out to troll for a famous musician.
As it happened, pat krenwinkel
and another woman called "yeller" were walking
along the road, and here comes Dennis Wilson in his car.
He was the beach boys' drummer.
And not surprising, he took these two girls
back to his house.
They were telling Dennis all about, you know,
this cool little guy, Charlie, and got him intrigued.
Back then, a lot of musicians had gurus.
You know, cat Stevens, the Beatles.
That was, like, the in thing, was to have a guru.
But a lot of lives were destroyed
because of that insane nonsense that Charlie was trying to sell.
♪♪
Guinn: Dennis Wilson goes to a recording session.
He comes back home that night to find that there's this tribe
of weird-looking people in his house,
making themselves at home.
You know, inviting him in.
And he walks up to the leader, Charlie.
Dennis said, "you're not gonna kill me, are you?"
Guinn: And Charlie drops down on his knees,
kisses Dennis' feet, and said,
"do I look like I'm gonna hurt you, man?"
It was shortly thereafter that there just
a small group of us that moved into Dennis'.
And the girls are taking off their clothes,
ready to do anything Dennis wants.
Jakobson: Dennis said, "hey, gregg, you got to come down, man.
You got to meet this guy.
He's here with a bunch of girls."
Love: Bruce Johnson and I,
we were invited to dinner at Dennis' house.
And we got there, and Bruce and I were the only people
with clothing on at dinner,
so I thought that was kind of unusual.
[ Laughter ]
Shelley: Endless orgies and endless drug parties.
It was just all there with Charlie manson orchestrating it.
♪♪
Lake: Dennis was having, you know,
issues with his ex-wife and custody of the kids.
Manson played on Dennis' insecurities.
Rick: People like Charlie manson can smell it.
I mean, he's like a heat-seeking missile.
He could look at someone, he could size them up,
and gain undue influence over them.
Lake: Dennis had been with the maharishi,
the same maharishi that the Beatles were with.
Dennis Wilson moved from the maharishi to the manson.
Dennis was a celebrity that was available for using and abusing.
Kay: Dennis paid for the numerous sexually transmitted diseases
that these girls had and paying for medical treatment
for his friends who partook in these girls.
Dennis Wilson said that he ended up spending
over $100,000 correcting the damage
manson and the family had done to his house.
♪♪
Manson, at Dennis Wilson's house, met Terry Melcher.
He was a famous record producer at the time.
Jakobson: You know, Paul revere and the raiders,
the byrds, a number of successful acts.
Terry's mom is Doris day.
You know, he's very high-profile.
His girlfriend is Candice Bergen.
So Terry's a real star,
and Charlie was like, "ooh, this is my guy."
Guinn: Here's the top of the food chain.
Terry Melcher, the kid-star producer for Columbia,
he can sign Charlie.
Shelley: At the time, he was living with his girlfriend,
Candice Bergen, at 10050 cielo drive.
Sidner: This is about a year before the home
is rented by the new tenants... Roman polanski and Sharon Tate.
♪♪
In the summer of 1968,
Dennis tries to start Charlie's music career
with a session at the beach boys' studio.
Dennis took us over to his brother's house, Brian.
And Charlie was gonna do, like, a recording session.
Rick: Charles manson, of course, was obsessive about his music,
about his lyrics, about his artistic talent.
Lake: I think they wanted Charlie to change some of the words,
change some of the music.
People who were there say Charlie
pulls a knife on the engineer.
Next thing you know, Charlie came,
you know, storming out of the recording studio.
I think things started to go south after that.
Jakobson: Dennis knew that he was never gonna get rid of him,
so he had to just leave.
He just abandoned the house.
He just left. It was a rental house.
Still, manson clings to the hope that his dream
of becoming a rock star isn't dead.
It seems Dennis might still be willing to help him
with one of his songs in particular.
♪ Cease to exist ♪
♪ just come and say you love me ♪
"Cease to exist."
♪ You walk on, walk on ♪
♪ I love you, pretty girl ♪
Guinn: Cease to exist was considered good enough
to put on a beach boys album.
Jakobson: Dennis and Charlie reached an agreement.
Now, god only knows what it was,
because this shouldn't really happen,
but Dennis got permission from Charlie to use the song.
Or, anyway, Dennis thought he had permission
from Charlie to use the song.
Manson called his song "cease to exist,"
and then Dennis Wilson changed it,
"never learn not to love."
The beach boys actually perform the new version
of "cease to exist" on "the Mike Douglas show."
♪ Submission is a gift, a gift to your lover ♪
Having that song, "cease to exist," reworked,
repackaged by the beach boys
and put out under a different title
without any credit given to Charles manson angered him.
And he felt betrayed by Dennis Wilson.
♪♪
It came down to Charlie saying,
he says, "you know, I know where you live.
I know where your kids live."
Sidner: Manson admitted to threatening Dennis Wilson
in a 1993 interview with abc news.
I gave Dennis Wilson a bullet, didn't I?
I gave him a bullet because he changed the words to my song.
♪♪
Friday night in Los Angeles,
a movie actress and four of her friends were murdered,
and the circumstances were lurid.
The movie actress was Sharon Tate.
Charles manson is angry at the world,
and, increasingly, his thoughts are turning to deadly violence.
His rage against humanity is raised to new levels
by unfulfilled dreams of rock stardom.
Now he conjures up a sinister solution to his hate.
He tries to incite a race riot between blacks and whites
that he calls helter skelter.
Manson's mission... To spark ethnic conflict
based on his unfounded belief
that the true meaning of the Beatles song
"helter skelter" is a call to arms.
♪♪
Manson is not about to give up his dream
of a recording contract.
He now pins all his hopes on Terry Melcher.
Charlie was smart enough to know,
"okay, here's the guy that I want.
Now here's a guy who is a record producer."
♪♪
Lake: And that's when gregg jakobson and Terry Melcher
came to the spahn ranch,
and we did, like, a little recording session.
♪ Just go, go ♪
♪ don't look back, just go, go ♪
And manson played the guitar,
and all the girls sang parts
and harmonies and background stuff.
Charlie was really hopeful that this was going to end up
in some kind of an album.
But, at some point, Terry gave Charlie the classic speech,
"you know, Charlie, I mean, you really got a talent,
I really appreciate your music,
but you're just not my cup of tea."
In Charles manson's mind,
Terry Melcher had dashed his hope for a music contract.
♪♪
Lake: And Charlie was really upset about that.
I kind of remember Charlie, like, you know,
"all those," you know, "mother [bleep]" you know?
♪♪
Rick: In my opinion, that rejection
is what led to his desire to kill,
to kill the people that had wronged him,
that had basically ignored his greatness.
♪♪
Now that he wasn't gonna make a record
that was gonna then bring us money,
they resorted to criminal activity.
♪♪
Shelley: They had arms at the ranch,
but now they were really, really arming themselves.
Guinn: What Charlie tells his followers is,
"look, we need money for guns.
Now, how are we gonna get that money?"
Wiehl: Gary hinman was a Buddhist musician
that was a friend of many of the family members.
Manson mistakenly thought that hinman
had come into a large inheritance.
On Charlie's instruction, his friend Bobby beausoleil
and manson family members Susan atkins and Mary brunner
go to Gary hinman's home.
♪♪
Martley: Gary didn't have money.
I think he had a few dollars in the house,
not much in his bank account.
Kay: Manson then came out.
Manson had a sword and told hinman
that he wanted his property, and hinman, you know,
"I don't have anything."
And so manson slashed him.
♪♪
I cut his ear off.
Kay: And manson left.
After manson left the scene,
Bobby beausoleil reportedly calls Charlie.
I said, "don't ask me what to do."
I said, "you know what to do!"
It's very clear what Charlie manson
wants them to do to Gary hinman.
Kay: Then Susan atkins held a pillow over his face
so that he couldn't breathe.
♪♪
Guinn: They murdered Gary hinman.
And, so, what they did with hinman's blood,
on Charlie's order,
was leave what supposedly was a paw-print sign
and the word "political piggy" scrawled in blood.
Sidner: It's the first time manson manipulates his followers
to kill for him, but it won't be the last.
♪♪
Lake: Charlie had been sharing with us from really early on
about what he had learned in reform school
and in prison, from the black man,
and that was that they were going to overcome whitey.
And, so, Charlie interpreted this as it was going to be,
like, a black-white race war.
A revolution that manson referred to as "helter skelter"
after one of the songs in the Beatles album.
♪ Helter skelter ♪
♪ look out! Helter skelter! ♪
To manson, it meant that the Beatles wanted
to have a worldwide revolution, blacks against whites.
Of course, it was all nonsense.
One of manson's goals was to make it appear
as though black radicals had murdered prominent white people.
He thought that would then make the police retaliate,
there would be more riots in Los Angeles,
and that would kick off the race war.
And, so, Charlie decides they're going to have another murder.
Rick: He was testing the limits of how far he could go.
Could he get people to do violence?
Could he get people to kill for him?
♪♪
I remember playing games like their creepy crawly games
where they would sneak in somebody's house.
Guinn: You would enter someone's house so silently,
they didn't know you were in there,
so that if you'd wanted to, you could kill them.
All the women were issued buck knives.
Charles manson loved knives.
His female followers,
they had to prove their love and loyalty to him
by standing against trees and letting Charlie
throw knives into the trees around their face.
♪♪
Tex Watson had been holding training classes
for how to commit murder.
When you stab somebody,
you didn't just put the knife in,
you pulled up on it after to do more damage.
Guinn: Manson, he thought,
"we've got to kill somebody important."
♪♪
And it began right here on cielo drive,
a quiet, leafy cul-de-sac overlooking Beverly Hills.
You see this security gate.
Behind it, there's a mansion.
The property where record producer Terry Melcher
and his girlfriend, Candice Bergen, lived
until January of 1969.
They moved out in January,
and the polanskis moved in in February.
Wiehl: Roman polanski was a very famous director at that time,
Sharon Tate, an up-and-coming young actress.
Sidner: Sharon Tate and Roman polanski had met three years earlier,
on polanski's film,
"the fearless vampire killers," in London.
I... I'm going to save you.
We'll go away together.
She was a stunningly beautiful young woman.
As one person said to me, she literally turned heads
when she walked down the street.
Sharon and Roman were married in London in January 1968.
The newlyweds had moved into 10050 cielo drive
just a year after they had gotten married.
One of the main reasons why they rented a house
was because they were about to have a baby.
Kay: Sharon was just so looking forward
to being a mom and having the child.
Sidner: But for his film projects, Roman often needs to travel.
Sharon has friends who stay with her at the house
so she's not alone.
Roberts: Jay sebring, who was her boyfriend
before she married polanski.
Jay sebring made his name as a hairdresser to the stars.
Roberts: Wojciech frykowski was a Polish émigré.
His girlfriend, Abigail Folger, who...
Folger, of course, was a prominent name.
She was, in fact, of the coffee family.
Now 8 1/2 months pregnant, Sharon's at her most vulnerable
to a threat she doesn't even know is coming
from Charles manson.
Kay: On Friday, August the 8th, he said,
"now is the time for helter skelter."
♪♪
Manson sends out three women,
Patricia krenwinkel, Susan atkins,
and Linda kasabian
with Tex Watson to the Tate residence.
Shelley: Manson instructs Tex that he's to go in there
and kill everyone in a gory scene.
He wanted a blood bath.
Kay: And manson told the women,
"do whatever Tex tells you to do."
Do you know why they picked Sharon Tate?
- No. - Was that purely bad luck?
I know now that it had
something to do with Terry Melcher.
Kay: Manson knew that Terry Melcher and Candice Bergen
didn't live there anymore,
but he wanted to send a message to them.
"There but for the grace of god go you."
♪♪
[ Insects chirping ]
[ Dog barks in distance ]
♪♪
Sidner: At 10050 cielo drive, Sharon Tate and her friends,
Jay sebring, Abigail Folger, and wojciech frykowski,
are settled in for the night.
♪♪
25 yards away from the main house,
in the separate guesthouse, the fill-in caretaker,
William garretson, has decided to stay in.
But late that night, garretson gets a surprise visitor.
♪♪
Steven parent, the night before,
had met the caretaker, William garretson,
and garretson invited him to come up.
♪♪
Meanwhile, the car with Tex Watson
and the other manson followers
pulls up near the gate of the Tate house.
Steven parent was on his way out.
♪♪
Tex Watson is, at that point, cutting the wires to the house.
♪♪
[ Engine starts ]
Kay: Watson saw the headlights.
♪♪
And then Watson approached parent
with his nine-inch buntline .22-caliber revolver.
Parent begged for his life, at which point,
Watson shot him four times at point-blank range
in the upper torso...
[ Gunshots ]
...killing him.
He was just a kid in the wrong place at the wrong time.
♪♪
Kay: Watson and the women proceeded to the house.
♪♪
This was a family that wanted to kill.
♪♪
I remember that I had gone so far,
and there was no turning back.
Even if I had wanted to run,
even if I had wanted to leave, I couldn't.
It was like I was caught in something
that I had no control over.
♪♪
Dr. Jordan: Sharon Tate and three house guests
have no idea what's coming up the driveway.
♪♪
Tex Watson enters the residence through a window,
and then quietly lets in two of the women
through the front door,
but he leaves the third one outside as a lookout.
Wojciech frykowski is asleep on the living-room couch,
and he suddenly awakens to find Tex Watson
standing in front of him, staring at him.
And he simply asks him,
"who are you, and what do you want?
And Tex said, "I'm the devil,
and I'm here to do the devil's business."
The people in the house were all brought
into the living room and tied up.
Susan atkins recalls that one of the victims called out,
"what are you going to do with us?"
And Tex Watson simply replied, "you are all going to die."
And Jay sebring, who's a former boyfriend
of the very pregnant Sharon Tate,
is pleading with Watson, he's saying,
"she's pregnant. Can't she just sit down?"
And for his protest,
Tex Watson shoots Jay sebring in cold blood.
♪♪
Wojciech frykowski, I tied his hands with a towel
and then was instructed to kill him.
Wojciech very easily undid the towel
that I'd tied his wrists with, and he and I began to fight.
Dr. Jordan: He bolts for the front door,
and he makes it all the way out to the front porch,
but Tex runs him down, and with that gun,
starts beating him over the head
with the butt of the gun and stabbing him 51 times.
All I can remember seeing is people
just scattering in different places.
Abigail Folger manages to escape and run for the door,
and she gets outside,
but Patricia krenwinkel runs her down,
and Tex Watson is right behind.
Together, they hold her down on the ground
and stab her repeatedly.
And I was left sitting with Sharon Tate,
and she was talking to me.
Susan atkins, she said Sharon begged for her life.
"Please let me live so I can have my baby."
Dr. Jordan: "I just want my baby to be born.
You can kill me later, but let the baby live."
I felt nothing. I felt absolutely nothing for her.
Susan atkins grabbed Sharon Tate by the hands and holds her arms,
holding her captive while Tex Watson
stabs her in the heart.
Atkins: Tex, the way he moved, the viciousness,
it was just like seeing somebody go crazy
with more power than I've ever seen anybody.
I don't think he was in control of himself.
Dr. Jordan: Charles manson may not have been there,
but he had given them very specific instructions.
"Before you leave, leave a sign."
Susan atkins picks up a towel
and dips it in the blood of Sharon Tate,
and on the front door of the house writes the word "pig."
♪♪
Wiehl: At 8:00 A.M., August 9th,
housekeeper winnie Chapman arrives at 10050 cielo drive.
♪♪
She first sees that the wires to the house have been cut.
She then goes through the back entrance,
and she looks through to the lawn.
Kay: She saw wojciech frykowski and Abigail Folger's bodies
in the front yard.
♪♪
She runs now, through the front entrance of the house,
to the driveway,
and she sees a body slumped over in a car.
She runs frantically to get help.
♪♪
Reporter: In a scene described by one investigator
as reminiscent of a weird religious rite,
five persons including actress Sharon Tate were found dead.
Manson wanted a bloodbath, and that's what he got.
♪♪
They found Sharon Tate had been stabbed to death,
16 stab wounds, and had a rope around her neck.
♪♪
And the rope went over a beam of the high-beam ceiling.
The other end had been tied around Jay sebring's neck.
You have this 8 1/2-month-pregnant woman
being hung while she was still alive.
Guinn: Abigail Folger had been wearing a white nightgown.
You couldn't tell that it was white, there was so much blood.
Wojciech frykowski's face had been swollen from the beating.
It was hard to tell his facial features at all.
Wiehl: When the police look in the driveway,
they see a car.
In the car, there is a body of a young man
who has been both shot and stabbed.
Roberts: It was inexplicable
because there was no apparent motive.
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Sidner: As LAPD investigators attempt to make sense
of all this death, they suddenly hear a sign of life.
[ Dog barks ]
They hear a dog barking.
[ Barking continues ]
So that alerts them to the guesthouse.
Incredibly, 19-year-old William garretson,
the fill-in caretaker,
had been just 25 yards away in the guesthouse
when these five people were murdered the night before.
At first they thought, well, here is this person alive.
He had to know what was going on.
Wiehl: Their first order of business
is to take William garretson into custody,
and he becomes suspect number one.
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Sidner: After killing Sharon Tate and her friends the night before,
family members Tex Watson,
Susan atkins, Patty krenwinkel,
and Linda kasabian had returned to spahn ranch.
Charles manson was waiting for them.
I said, "do you feel any remorse about your actions?"
And they says no. I said,
"do you feel that you did what you had to do,
and it was right?"
And she says, "yes."
What judgment could I make?
I had no judgment.
Charles manson has a long history
of manipulating other people to do his violence for him.
He's not finished yet acting out his rage.
Believe me, if I started murdering people,
there'd be none of you left.
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The scene of brutal butchery at the Tate residence
rattles even the most hardened homicide detectives
assigned to the case.
Hollywood celebrities are panicked that they may be next.
Throughout southern California,
people scramble to beef up their home security
and around the world, millions more watch the news
in disbelief, hoping to find out who did this and why.
But Charles manson will not be stopped.
He's already planning his next vicious killing spree.
The rampage continues in part two
of "very scary people: The devil's work."
Thanks for watching. I'm Donnie wahlberg.
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