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I Wish You Were Here

America's Most Dangerous Cult Leader: Charles Manson

I Wish You Were Here

Michelle Cuervo

True Crime

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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🎙️ America's Most Dangerous Cult Leader: Charles Manson In this episode: Charles Manson never murdered anyone himself — but he didn't have to. In this episode, we're breaking down the full story of one of the most dangerous cults in American history. This is the Manson Family — and nothing about it is what you think.  #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #Podcast #CrimeStory #CharlesManson #CultLeader #Convicted #TrueStory #IWishYouWereHerePod #UnsolvedMystery #TrueCrimeStoryteller 🎧 Listen to the Podcast Apple Podcasts:I Wish You Were Here on Apple Podcast Spotify:I Wish You Were Here on Spotify All Platforms: https://hoo.be/mshellllly 🤝 This Episode Is Sponsored By QUINCE Go to QUINCE.COM/WISH for free shipping and 365-day returns! 🔗 Link: quince.com/wish   🤝 This Episode Is Sponsored By MINT MOBILE If you like your money, Mint Mobile is for you. Shop plans at MintMobile.com/WISH 🔗 Link:  MintMobile.com/WISH  🌐 Follow Me TikTok: TikTok Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mshellllly/ YouTube: I Wish You Were Here on YouTube 🖤 Disclaimer This episode discusses real events involving real people. Information is presented based on publicly available sources at the time of recording. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

It was a warm August night in Los Angeles. The year is 1969. Sharon Tate was 26 years old,

0:07.9

eight and a half months pregnant, and relaxing at home. She was very tired, as you can imagine,

0:13.6

preparing herself and her home to welcome a new baby into this world. She had very recently

0:19.3

told friends that she could feel her baby moving.

0:21.6

She was so excited. She had already picked out a name. She was looking forward to becoming a mom.

0:27.3

Her husband, film director Roman Polonski, was in London away on business. He was working on a film.

0:32.5

And at the time, Sharon herself was one of Hollywood's most promising young actresses and she had every reason

0:40.0

to believe that the best years of her life were just beginning. But Sharon Tate would be dead before

0:46.6

sunrise, as would every single other person in or around that house making the total number of

0:53.4

victims that night five. Her killers had

0:56.9

never met her. They did not hate her. They did not know her name before they knocked on her front

1:02.1

door. The reason they showed up at her doorstep in the first place with intentions to make her

1:07.8

their victim was because they were ordered to. They were sent to that address by a 34-year-old man who had spent more than half of his life in prison, a man that those people would have done anything for. His specific instructions had been something along the lines of, quote, totally destroy everything in that

1:28.9

house as gruesome as you can, end quote. His name was Charles Manson. And what he built in the hills

1:36.9

outside of Los Angeles in that summer of 1969 was no sort of murder conspiracy. It was something far more disturbing than that. It was a family.

1:48.9

A family that created absolute chaos and installed fear in every single person in Hollywood living there at that time.

1:58.5

If you guys don't know the name Charles Manson, I think you're lying.

2:01.7

There's no way that you have not heard his name. He is one of the most infamous killers ever,

2:08.0

I would say. And I was honestly, to be super honest with you, kind of avoiding doing this video

2:12.6

because it's heavy stuff. Okay, it's not easy to listen to to there's a lot of brainwashing manipulation and also

2:20.9

just the crime scenes themselves are so incredibly brutal i made the mistake of looking up the

2:26.9

crime scenes why guess not mistake because i have to for researching purposes i'm scarred yeah

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