True Crime
Helter Skelter
Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry
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How Charles Manson directed followers to commit murder without being present, and how the prosecution proved a conspiracy built on a race-war delusion called 'Helter Skelter.'
The prosecutor's account of the 1969 Tate–LaBianca murders by the Manson Family and the investigation and trial that followed — the best-selling true-crime book ever written.
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