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Once he had his own TV series, but now Rick Dalton's a washed-up villain-of-the week drowning his sorrows in whiskey sours. Will a phone call from Rome save his fate or seal it? Cliff Booth is Rick's stunt double, and the most infamous man on any movie set because he's the only one there who might have gotten away with murder. Sharon Tate left Texas to chase a movie-star dream, and found it. Sharon's salad days are now spent on Cielo Drive, high in...
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Chronicles the 1969 Los Angeles area murders committed by Charles Manson and his cult of followers known as the Family. Relays how he recruited members of his cult, how he and family members were arrested, and details of their life in prison. Includes photographs, a map, sidebars, a timeline, a glossary, an index, and resources for further reading.
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Provides decades of research and reporting that offers previously unknown details about the Manson Family murders in 1969, which celebrities may or may not have been involved, the role the CIA played in the investigation, and the reasons Manson was not more closely monitored by law enforcement. Contains a selection of photographs.
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""Creepy crawling" was the Manson Family's practice of secretly entering someone's home and, without harming anyone, leaving only a trace of evidence that they had been there, some reminder that the sanctity of the private home had been breached. Now, author Jeffrey Melnick reveals just how much the Family creepy crawled their way through Los Angeles in the sixties and then on through American social, political, and cultural life for close to fifty...
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"Charles Manson was perhaps the most infamous criminal of the twentieth century. Convicted for orchestrating the shocking Tate-LaBianca murders in 1969, and for two other killings, there has been much written about him. But not many people knew him as well as Edward George, who over years of conversations with Manson as his prison administrator, counselor, unofficial "press agent," and confidant, gained deep insight into Manson's mind-set. In this...